Hop
WGV
Spec sheet The maker publishes these figures for this exact product.
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Purpose
- aroma
- Alpha acid
- 5.0–7.5 %
- Beta acid
- 2.5–3.5 %
- Cohumulone
- 37–37 % of alpha
- Total oil
- 0.8–1.2 mL/100 g
Oil breakdown
- Myrcene
- 26 % of oil
- Humulene
- 40 % of oil
- Caryophyllene
- not published
- Farnesene
- 2 % of oil
Description
Whitbread Golding Variety, selected in a Kent garden in 1911 and planted commercially from 1953. The name promises Goldings and the farnesene says Fuggle; what arrives is sweet flowers over earth and herbal spice, with the mild clean bitterness a traditional ale wants.