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Hops Used In Extra Special/Strong Bitter (ESB) (BJCP 2008) Recipes

Name Recipes Avg. Usage Usage Range
East Kent Goldings 518 29% 3% - 100%
Fuggles 349 26% 3% - 100%
Challenger 219 29% 3% - 100%
Cascade 135 27% 5% - 87%
Willamette 125 26% 6% - 75%
Target 114 30% 7% - 78%
Northern Brewer 86 27% 6% - 80%
Goldings 65 24% 3% - 67%
Kent Goldings 60 33% 9% - 100%
Magnum 54 27% 1% - 100%
Styrian Goldings 50 28% 6% - 100%
Northdown 40 20% 3% - 100%
Citra 37 24% 0% - 89%
Chinook 35 23% 5% - 72%
Centennial 29 19% 3% - 50%
First Gold 27 27% 7% - 56%
Amarillo 26 24% 4% - 75%
Tettnanger 25 27% 10% - 57%
Columbus 25 30% 4% - 100%
Nugget 25 29% 9% - 100%
Bramling Cross 25 27% 7% - 50%
Perle 22 24% 4% - 60%
Simcoe 21 19% 2% - 50%
Mosaic 18 24% 9% - 50%
Saaz 17 33% 17% - 71%
Galena 17 26% 5% - 50%
Warrior 14 26% 2% - 50%
Yakima Valley Hops - East Kent Golding 14 31% 6% - 79%
Progress 13 31% 8% - 67%
Admiral 13 20% 4% - 40%
Nelson Sauvin 12 30% 6% - 75%
Whitbread Golding 11 27% 9% - 45%
Hallertau Hersbrucker 11 21% 4% - 57%
Crystal 10 29% 14% - 45%
Galaxy 9 21% 11% - 50%
Summit 8 19% 7% - 45%
Yakima Valley Hops - Fuggle 8 22% 10% - 38%
Horizon 6 29% 13% - 50%
Phoenix 6 31% 13% - 100%
B. C. Goldings 6 29% 14% - 67%
Pacific Gem 6 16% 7% - 30%
Zeus 6 27% 3% - 58%
Cluster 6 44% 25% - 60%
Pilgrim 5 20% 7% - 43%
BSG - East Kent Goldings 5 27% 16% - 50%
Barth-Haas - Fuggles 5 26% 7% - 52%
Sorachi Ace 5 44% 17% - 78%
El Dorado 5 27% 10% - 44%
Artisan - Fuggle (UK) 4 27% 14% - 49%
Yakima Chief Hops - Fuggle UK 4 38% 19% - 50%
Yakima Valley Hops - Willamette 4 22% 7% - 50%
Sterling 4 31% 17% - 47%
Wakatu 4 32% 19% - 57%
Mount Hood 4 46% 14% - 80%
Motueka 4 25% 12% - 32%
CTZ 4 16% 2% - 46%
Domestic Hallertau 4 25% 14% - 38%
Glacier 4 31% 19% - 75%
Hallertau Mittelfruh 4 43% 32% - 50%
BSG - Challenger 3 36% 26% - 43%
Artisan - Willamette 3 26% 10% - 60%
Bravo 3 17% 5% - 25%
Wye Target 3 16% 6% - 33%
Azacca 3 22% 18% - 25%
Hersbrucker 3 36% 28% - 50%
Apollo 3 26% 9% - 67%
Huell Melon 3 33% 9% - 70%
Jarrylo 3 36% 24% - 50%
Liberty 3 26% 20% - 50%
Northern Brewer - Fuggle 3 18% 10% - 50%
Charles Faram - Fuggles 2 27% 13% - 42%
Northern Brewer - UK Fuggle 2 30% 25% - 33%
Northern Brewer - Williamette 2 25% 10% - 60%
Ahtanum 2 24% 9% - 36%
Yakima Chief Hops - Cascade 2 35% 20% - 50%
Yakima Chief Hops - Centennial 2 19% 18% - 20%
Yakima Chief Hops - US Golding 2 22% 12% - 41%
Yakima Valley Hops - El Dorado 2 14% 7% - 21%
Yakima Valley Hops - Warrior 2 8% 4% - 11%
Pioneer 2 24% 17% - 31%
Charles Faram - East Kent Goldings 2 34% 13% - 46%
Brewer's Gold 2 38% 29% - 46%
Barth-Haas - Northern Brewer 2 30% 24% - 36%
Bullion 2 18% 6% - 29%
Barth-Haas - Columbus 2 18% 17% - 19%
Calypso 2 32% 20% - 44%
Zythos 2 16% 15% - 17%
Yeoman 2 26% 20% - 36%
Ekuanot 2 49% 21% - 100%
Hallertau Tradition (Germany) 2 35% 15% - 66%
Super Styrians 2 24% 23% - 25%
Newport 2 24% 6% - 33%
Palisade 2 27% 20% - 30%