Target and Challenger are two British high-alpha hops that were developed to bring bittering efficiency to English ale brewing at a time when the UK hop industry needed varieties that could compete with imported high-alpha American and German hops.
Northern Brewer and Perle are two classic dual-purpose hops that have built careers as reliable workhorses in German and American brewing — both moderate alpha, both producing clean bittering with enough late-addition character to justify their prese
Willamette and Glacier are two American hops that occupy the earthy, soft end of the US hop spectrum — both low-alpha, both producing woody-herbal-earthy character that makes them natural fits for English-style ales and American craft beers that lean
Motueka and Riwaka are New Zealand’s two most widely exported hop varieties beyond Nelson Sauvin — both bred at Plant and Food Research in Nelson, both producing the distinctive Southern Hemisphere citrus-tropical character that distinguishes New Zea
Nelson Sauvin and Hallertau Blanc are the two hops that brought white wine character to beer — both produce a distinctly vinous, gooseberry-white wine profile that no other hop category approaches.
Sabro and Talus are two of the newer American hop varieties that have generated serious excitement among craft brewers — both produce coconut and creamy tropical character that is genuinely unusual in the hop world, and both are now widely …
Sorachi Ace and Lemondrop are two of the most explicitly lemon-flavored hops in the American hop catalog — both breed genuine lemon character rather than the grapefruit-citrus of Cascade or the tropical citrus of Citra.
El Dorado and Azacca are two of the newer American hop varieties that pushed tropical fruit character in a different direction from Citra and Mosaic — both produce intense tropical stone fruit notes that are distinct from the citrus-tropical of …
Chinook and Columbus are the two dankest American hop varieties — both high-alpha, both resinous-piney, and both associated with the aggressive West Coast IPA character that defined American craft brewing in the 1990s and 2000s.
Hallertau Mittelfrüh and Hersbrucker are the two most important German lager hops — both grown in the Hallertau region of Bavaria, both essential to the Noble hop tradition, and both used in the great German lager styles that homebrewers work …