Brooks Groves

Hops that smell of

Candy

7 hops bring candy, by their breeders' and growers' own notes. They turn up in 40 beers on HopLove.

The hops · most brewed first

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

Also under sweet aromatics

A beer counts when any of its hops is said to smell of candy. 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.