Pacifica
A dual-purpose hop with fresh tropical fruit characteristics and excellent finish and bitterness.
Finds application where a higher oil concentration and proportion of Linalool are required to impact on how the hop character integrates into the final product. Ideally suited to traditional German lager styles and finding wider application to a new generation through the international craft market’s insatiable thirst for Pale Ale.
Flavour profile
Spicy dried fruit, orange marmalade
Ancestry
A triploid aroma type developed through by New Zealand’s Plant & Food Research. Pacifica Brand 77-01 was bred through the open pollination of the highly regarded hallertauer mittelfrih variety. Pacifica was released on completion of successful brewing trials in 1994.
Recommended beer styles
Analytical data
Cultivation Area
New Zealand
Ancestry
A triploid aroma type developed through by New Zealand’s Plant & Food Research. Pacifica Brand 77-01 was bred through the open pollination of the highly regarded hallertauer mittelfrih variety. Pacifica was released on completion of successful brewing trials in 1994.
Alpha Acids (%)
4.0 – 6.0%
Beta Acids (%)
6%
Alpha/Beta Ratio
Cuhomulone (% of alpha acids)
Total Oils (ml/100g)
0.5ml – 2.0ml/100g
Oil Concentration (microlitres of oil/g alpha)
196
Myrcene (% of whole oil)
12.5%
Linalool (% of whole oil)
Caryophyllene (% of whole oil)
16.7%
Farnesene (% of whole oil)
0.2%
Humulene (% of whole oil)
50.9%
Selinene (% of whole oil)
Humulene/Caryophllene Ratio
Nelson Sauvin
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Characteristics
An aroma and dual-purpose flavour hop with distinctive ‘New World’ white wine characters.
Very much at home in the new-world styles such as American Pale Ale and IPA. This hop is considered by some as being extreme and it certainly makes its presence felt in speciality craft and seasonal beers while having gained a considerable international reputation in recent times.