Warrior
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- Bitterness
- Very high (15–18% alpha)
- In the glass
- 14 beers here · Brooks has had 1
- Swap it for
- Millennium · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
15–18% typical 16.5
1 source, spread of 3%
- Yakima Chief Ranches15–18
Beta acid
4.3–5.3% typical 4.8
1 source, spread of 1%
- Yakima Chief Ranches4.3–5.3
Cohumulone
22–26% of alpha typical 24
1 source, spread of 4% of alpha
- Yakima Chief Ranches22–26
Total oil
1.3–1.7 mL/100g typical 1.5
1 source, spread of 0.4 mL/100g
- Yakima Chief Ranches1.3–1.7
Alpha retained, 6 months at 20°C
76%
1 source
- Yakima Chief Ranches76–76
Alpha to beta runs about 3.4:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.
Oil composition
- Myrcene62.5%
- Humulene23.6%
- Caryophyllene13.9%
Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 72% of total oil in the source data.
Where it's grown
In 2025: withheld in Washington (NASS withholds a figure when it would identify a single farm).
Acres by year
| Year | Washington |
|---|---|
| 2015 | — |
| 2016 | — |
| 2017 | — |
| 2018 | withheld |
| 2019 | withheld |
| 2020 | 283 |
| 2021 | 128 |
| 2022 | 147 |
| 2023 | 148 |
| 2024 | 147 |
| 2025 | withheld |
Acres harvested, from the USDA NASS National Hop Report. Where America's hops grow →
In the glass · 14 beers from 5 breweries
Brooks has had one of them · 3.75 average
- Fresh Hop Topcutter IPA Bale Breaker Brewing · 3.75
- Double Cone Cloudburst Brewing
- Kevin!!! Cloudburst Brewing
- Not My Problem IPA Cloudburst Brewing
- Pretty Flowers IPA Cloudburst Brewing
- Writing On The Wall Cloudburst Brewing
- Yeah But Why Tho? Cloudburst Brewing
- Eliot Ex Novo Brewing
- Fresh Hop Eliot Ex Novo Brewing
- Was and Always Is Ex Novo Brewing
- Pastry Stout pFriem Family Brewers
- pFriem + Beachwood IPL pFriem Family Brewers
Brewed alongside · in 14 beers that use Warrior with other hops
Counted from the hop lists of every beer in What's in the can: what Pacific Northwest brewers actually put next to Warrior.
What to swap it for
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Millennium 55
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Summit 52
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Ella 50
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Idaho 7 50
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Nugget 49
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Pacific Jade 49
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 · where America's hops grow