Aurora

SloveniaDual

Also sold as Super Styrian: floral and lightly spicy with enough alpha to bitter. A Northern Brewer descendant.

Alpha acid

7-10%

7% - 10%

Against every variety on this site

Typical use

Dual

Enough alpha to bitter and enough character to finish the same beer.

At 60 minutes

29 IBU

For 30 g at the mid-range alpha in a 20 litre batch at 1.050, by Tinseth

Origin

Slovenia

A traditional variety with no single release date

Where it belongs

Belgian Pale Ale
Saison
Best Bitter

If you cannot get it

Ranked by how convincingly each one stands in. A substitution changes the beer; matching the alpha acid only matches the bitterness, not the aroma.

Styrian Golding

4.5-6% · Slovenia

Perle

6-9.5% · Germany

Also often suggested: Northern Brewer. Not yet in this reference.

Buying it

Hops are perishable and alpha acid falls with warm storage. Buy vacuum-packed pellets, check the crop year and the alpha figure printed on the pack, and keep them in a freezer. A pack stored in a warm cupboard for a year can have lost a third of its bitterness, which is the usual reason a repeated recipe comes out tasting flat.

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