Hop Substitutions

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What do you do when you are unable to find a #hop variety online or at your local homebrew shop? Hopefully you’re not throwing in the proverbial towel!

Many hop varieties can be used instead of hard to obtain hops with great success.

All of the hop substitutions suggested below were provided by YCH Hops. All hop varieties are domestic (USA) unless labeled otherwise.

Use the following key to help identify hop variety origins:

• AUS – Australia
• CZE – Czech
• DEU – Germany
• FRA – France

• GBR – Great Britain
• NZL – New Zealand
• POL – Poland
• SVN – Slovenia

Visit YCH Hop’s hop variety section of their website for more in depth descriptions off all the hops listed below!

Hop Variety	Possible Hop Substitution
Admiral (GBR)	Northdown (GBR) Target (GBR) Challenger (GBR)
Ahtanum	Cascade
Amarillo	Cascade Centennial Simcoe
Aramis (FRA)	Centennial Chinook Hallertau Tettnang
Bitter Gold	Galena Nugget
Bramling Cross (GBR)	East Kent Golding (GBR) Progress (GBR)
Bravo	Columbus Magnum Nugget
Brewer’s Gold	Chinook Galena Nugget
Brewer’s Gold (DEU)	Galena Northern Brewer Northdown (GBR)
Bullion	Brewer’s Gold Chinook Columbus Galena Northern Brewer
Cascade	Ahtanum Amarillo Centennial
Centennial	Cascade Chinook Columbus
Challenger (GBR)	Northern Brewer Perle (DEU)
Chelan	Galena Nugget
Chinook	Columbus Northern Brewer Nugget
Citra	Galaxy (AUS) Taurus (DEU)
Cluster	Galena
Columbia	Fuggle
Columbus	Chinook Galena Millennium Nugget
Comet	Galena Summit
Crystal	Hallertau Liberty Mt. Hood Strisselpalt (FRA) Hersbruker (DEU)
East Kent Golding (GBR)	Golding Progress (GBR)
Eroica	Brewer’s Gold Galena Glacier Bullion
First Gold (GBR)	Crystal East Kent Golding (GBR)
Fuggle	Willamette Fuggle (GBR) Styrian Savinjski Golding (SVN)
Fuggle (GBR)	Fuggle Wilamette Styrian Savinjski Golding (SVN)
Galaxy (AUS)	Citra
Galena	Brewer’s Gold Columbus Nugget
Glacier	Fuggle Willamette Styrian Savinjski Golding (SVN)
Golding	Fuggle Willamette East Kent Golding (GBR) Styrian Savinjski Golding (SVN)
Green Bullet (NZL)	Fuggle Willamette
Hallertau	Liberty Mt. Hood Hallertau Mittelfruh (DEU) Magnum (DEU) Merkur (DEU) Taurus (DEU) Tradition (DEU)
Hallertau Mittelfruh (DEU)	Liberty Vanguard Tradition (DEU)
Helga (AUS)	Hallertau
Hersbruker (DEU)	Mt. Hood Strisselpalt (FRA)
Horizon	Magnum
Liberty	Hallertau Mt. Hood Tradition (DEU)
Magnum	Columbus Horizon Nugget Magnum (DEU)
Magnum (DEU)	Columbus Nugget
Merkur (DEU)	Magnum Taurus (DEU) Tradition (DEU)
Millennium	Columbus Nugget Summit
Motueka (NZL)	Saaz Sterling
Mt. Hood	Strisselpalt (FRA) Hallertau Mittelfruh (DEU) Hersbruker (DEU)
Mt. Rainier	Brewer’s Gold Fuggle Hallertau
Newport	Brewer’s Gold Fuggle Galena Magnum Nugget
Northdown (GBR)	Northern Brewer Challenger (GBR)
Northern Brewer	Chinook Galena Northern Brewer (DEU)
Northern Brewer (DEU)	Chinook Columbus Galena Magnum Northern Brewer Brewer’s Gold (DEU)
Nugget	Columbus Galena Magnum
Olympic	Chinook
Opal	Tettnang East Kent Golding (GBR) Styrian Savinjski Golding (SVN)
Pacific Gem (NZL)	Galena
Pacifica (NZL)	Hallertau
Palisade	Willamette
Perle	Northern Brewer Northern Brewer (DEU) Perle (DEU)
Perle (DEU)	Northern Brewer Perle
Phoenix (GBR)	Northdown (GBR) Challenger (GBR)
Pilgrim (GBR)	Target (GBR) Challenger (GBR)
Pioneer (GBR)	East Kent Golding (GBR)
Progress (GBR)	Fuggle East Kent Golding (GBR)
Rakau (NZL)	Amarillo Summit
Saaz	Sterling Saaz (CZE) Lublin (POL)
Saaz (CZE)	Saaz Sterling Lublin (POL)
Santiam	Spalt (DEU) Tettnang (DEU) Select (DEU)
Saphir (DEU)	Hallertau
Select (DEU)	Saaz Tettnang Hersbruker (DEU) Spalt (DEU) Tettnang (DEU)
Simcoe	Magnum Summit
Spalt (DEU)	Saaz Tettnang
Sterling	Saaz (CZE) Lublin (POL)
Sticklebract (NZL)	Northern Brewer (DEU)
Strisselpalt (FRA)	Crystal Liberty Mt. Hood Hersbruker (GBR)
Styrian Aurora (SVN)	Styrian Bobek (SVN) Styrian Savinjski Golding (SVN)
Styrian Celeia (SVN)	Saaz, Styrian Bobek (SVN) Styrian Savinjski Golding (SVN)
Styrian Savinjski Golding (SVN)	Fuggle Fuggle (GBR) Styrian Bobek (SVN)
Sylva (AUS)	Saaz (CZE)
Summit	Columbus Millennium Simcoe Warrior
Target (GBR)	Fuggle Willamette
Taurus (DEU)	Citra Magnum Tradition (DEU)
Tettnang	Fuggle Santiam Spalt (DEU)
Tettnang (DEU)	Saaz Hersbruker (DEU) Spalt (DEU) Select (DEU)
Tradition (DEU)	Liberty Hallertau Mittelfruh (DEU)
Tripleperle	Perle
Triskel (FRA)	Ahtanum Centennial Chinook Simcoe
Ultra	Hallertau
Vanguard	Hallertau Liberty Mt. Hood Hersbruker (DEU)
Warrior	Columbus Magnum Nugget
WGV (GBR)	East Kent Golding (GBR) Progress (GBR)
Willamette	Fuggle Glacier Tettnang Styrian Savinjski Golding (SVN)

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