Hop
Southern Tropic
Representative The maker publishes no figures for this product, so these are class-typical values instead.
- Origin
- South Africa
- Purpose
- dual
- Alpha acid
- 17.0–18.0 %
- Beta acid
- 6.4–6.6 %
- Cohumulone
- 26–28 % of alpha
- Total oil
- 1.3–1.3 mL/100 g
Oil breakdown
- Myrcene
- not published
- Humulene
- not published
- Caryophyllene
- not published
- Farnesene
- 10 % of oil
Description
One of the highest-alpha hops South Africa grows, and it does not spend that alpha quietly: guava, mango and lychee arrive over pine, resin and lemongrass, with a coconut edge at the end. A little in the whirlpool goes a long way.