Brooks Groves

Hops that smell of

Black pepper

14 hops bring black pepper, by their breeders' and growers' own notes. They turn up in 118 beers on HopLove.

The hops · most brewed first

Beers that lean black pepper · the more of the bill that smells of it, the higher up

Showing the 40 that lean hardest of 118. Every hop above links to all of its beers.

Also under spice

A beer counts when any of its hops is said to smell of black pepper. That's the hop talking, not a tasting note on the beer: malt, yeast and how the brewer used the hops all move it.

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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 — free, no key, no rate limit.

Built 2026-10-02T23:50:03.060Z 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.