USDA ACCESSION No.: 68051

SELECTION: no information available

GENUS: Humulus

SPECIES: lupulus

CULTIVAR: Bramling Cross

PEDIGREE: no information available

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

ORIGIN: Hop Research Institute, Wye College, England

DATE RECEIVED: spring 1968

METHOD RECEIVED: rhizomes

AVAILBILITY: no restrictions

REFERENCES: Various Annual Reports from Wye, College, England USDA Annual Report for Hop Research, 1979, page 63.

MATURITY: medium early

LEAF COLOR: light green

SEX: female

DISEASES: non information

VIGOR: very poor

YIELD: poor in Corvallis test plots

SIDE ARM LENGTH: 12 to 15 inches, poor clustering

ALPHA ACIDS: 5 to 7%

BETA ACIDS: 3 to 4%

COHUMULONE: 25

STORAGE STABILITY: fair to good, retaiined about 68% of original alpha acids after 6 months storage at room temperature

OIL: 0.83 ml/100g. Humulene 12.8%; caryophyllene 7.3% farnesene trace; myrcene 65.7%. H/C ratio = 1.75

MAJOR TRAITS: European aroma characteristics

OTHER INFORMATION: This genotype was discarded in 1991 because of very poor growth at Corvallis test plots.