Brooks Groves

Wakatu

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Dual purpose
Origin New Zealand
Bred by Unrecorded
One source
Bitterness
Moderate (6.5–8.5% alpha)
In the glass
14 beers here
Usually paired with
Chinook, Nugget, Liberty
Swap it for
Taiheke Β· compare them β†’

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

6.5–8.5% typical 7.5

1 source, spread of 2%
  • New Zealand Hops Ltd6.5–8.5

Beta acid

8–9% typical 8.5

1 source, spread of 1%
  • New Zealand Hops Ltd8–9

Total oil

0.5–1 mL/100g typical 0.8

1 source, spread of 0.5 mL/100g
  • New Zealand Hops Ltd0.5–1

Alpha to beta runs about 0.9:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.

Oil composition

  • Myrcene61.2%
  • Humulene18.4%
  • Caryophyllene9.5%
  • Farnesene8.2%
  • Geraniol1.7%
  • Linalool1%

Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 73.5% of total oil in the source data.

In the glass Β· 14 beers from 4 breweries

All 14 beers with Wakatu β†’

Brewed alongside Β· in 13 beers that use Wakatu with other hops

  1. Chinook 754%
  2. Nugget 754%
  3. Liberty 18%
  4. Mount Hood 18%
  5. Enigma 18%
  6. Waimea 18%
  7. Mosaic 18%
  8. Loral 18%

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

What to swap it for

  • Taiheke 49
    aroma β€” Β· oils 93 Β· chemistry 71 partial data
  • aroma β€” Β· oils 76 Β· chemistry 83 Β· shifts dual to aroma partial data
  • Dolcita 48
    aroma β€” Β· oils 84 Β· chemistry 74 partial data
  • aroma β€” Β· oils 59 Β· chemistry 92 Β· shifts dual to aroma partial data
  • Ahtanum 45
    aroma β€” Β· oils 78 Β· chemistry 72 partial data
  • Galena 45
    aroma β€” Β· oils 72 Β· chemistry 79 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 β€” 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.

HopLove is an open dataset first and a website second. Every figure on this site is rolled up from cited observations in data/hops/, and the same build that made this page wrote ../../api/v1/hops.json β€” free, no key, no rate limit.

Built 2026-09-30T05:41:31.791Z from 232 cultivar records. Data under CC BY 4.0, code under MIT. Source and corrections on GitHub. Not affiliated with any hop breeder, farm or merchant; variety names are the marks of their owners.