Brooks Groves

Waimea

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Dual purpose
Origin New Zealand
Bred by Unrecorded
Two or more independent sources
Bitterness
Very high (15–18% alpha)
In the glass
19 beers here · Brooks has had 1
Usually paired with
Citra, Mosaic, Motueka
Swap it for
Jarrylo · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

15–18% typical 16.6

2 sources, spread of 3%
  • New Zealand Hops Ltd15–18
  • Crosby Hop Farm16.7–16.7

Beta acid

6–8% typical 7.3

2 sources, spread of 2%
  • New Zealand Hops Ltd6–8
  • Crosby Hop Farm7.7–7.7

Total oil

1.5–2.3 mL/100g typical 1.8

2 sources, and they disagree, spread of 0.8 mL/100g
  • New Zealand Hops Ltd1.6–2.3
  • Crosby Hop Farm1.5–1.5

Alpha to beta runs about 2.3:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.

Oil composition

  • Myrcene72.1%
  • Humulene13.8%
  • Farnesene8.1%
  • Caryophyllene4%
  • Geraniol1.2%
  • Linalool0.8%

Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 82.4% of total oil in the source data.

In the glass · 19 beers from 6 breweries

Brooks has had one of them · 4 average

All 19 beers with Waimea →

Brewed alongside · in 18 beers that use Waimea with other hops

  1. Citra 844%
  2. Mosaic 739%
  3. Motueka 422%
  4. Rakau 317%
  5. Nelson Sauvin 16%
  6. Comet 16%
  7. Galaxy 16%
  8. Vic Secret 16%

Counted from the hop lists of every beer in What's in the can: what Pacific Northwest brewers actually put next to Waimea.

What to swap it for

  • Jarrylo 49
    aroma — · oils 72 · chemistry 93 partial data
  • TerraFlux 49
    aroma — · oils 82 · chemistry 82 · shifts dual to bittering partial data
  • Pacific Gem 49
    aroma — · oils 75 · chemistry 89 · shifts dual to bittering partial data
  • Luna 48
    aroma — · oils 75 · chemistry 86 partial data
  • El Dorado 48
    aroma — · oils 79 · chemistry 81 partial data
  • Galena 48
    aroma — · oils 82 · chemistry 77 partial data

Scored on aroma overlap, oil composition and acid chemistry, then nudged up where a brewer has vouched for the swap by hand. An axis we haven't measured earns nothing, so a hop known only by its acid numbers caps out around 30 — the score is how much evidence there is for the swap, not just how close the numbers happen to be. Anything under 50 is a different beer, not a substitution.

Pedigree

Parentage unrecorded.

Notes on this record

purpose defaulted to dual, unconfirmed -- was not researched individually for this bulk scaffold pass. Correct before publishing.

For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file

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