USDA ACCESSION No.: 21682

SELECTION: No information

GENUS: Humulus

SPECIES: lupulus

CULTIVAR: Wuerttemberger

PEDIGREE: no information

PRIMARY SITE: USDA/OSU Hop Research Farm, Corvallis, OR.

ORIGIN: Hop Union USA, Yakima WA (Dr. Greg Lewis) who had obtained it from Germany

DATE RECEIVED: Spring 1993

METHOD RECEIVED: rhizomes

AVAILBILITY: no restrictions

REFERENCES: Annual Repoprt of Hop Research, USDA/ARS 1993 and later years

MATURITY: medium early

LEAF COLOR: light green

SEX: female

DISEASES: Downy mildew: moderately resdistant

Powdery mildew: No information

Verticillium wilt. Tolerant

Viruses: No information

VIGOR: fair to good

YIELD: poor

SIDE ARM LENGTH: 12 to 30 inches

ALPHA ACIDS: 5 %

BETA ACIDS: 4 %

COHUMULONE: 28 %

STORAGE STABILITY: good, retained about 72% of its original alpha acids after 6 months room temperature storage

OIL: 1.25 ml/ 100 g. Humulene18%; caryophyllene 6%; farnesene 4%; myrcene 59%. H/C ratio = 3.00

MAJOR TRAITS: pleasant continental aroma characteristics

OTHER INFORMATION: This is an old German hop which no longer is grown commercially. It may be related to Tettnanger of Saazer.