USDA ACCESSION NO.: 21531

SELECTION: Unknown, probably clonal selection from Saazer, USDA 21077

GENUS: Humulus

SPECIES: lupulus

CULTIVAR: Universal

PEDIGREE: Unknown, probably clonal selection from Saazer

PRIMARY SITE: USDA-ARS World Hop Cultivar Collection, OSU East Farm, Corvallis

ORIGIN: Hop Research Institute Zatec, Czechoslovakia

DATE RECEIVED: Spring 1988

METHOD RECEIVED: Rhizomes

AVAILABILITY: No restrictions

REFERENCES: USDA Annual Report of Hop Investigations for 1988, pp. 33, 36.

MATURITY: Early

LEAF COLOR: Dark green

SEX: Female

DISEASES: Downy Mildew: moderately susceptible viruses

VIGOR: Poor, plants failed to reach the top of the trellis (18 ft.)

YIELD: Very poor (under 200 lbs/acre in Corvallis test plots)

SIDEARM LENGTH: 6-10 inches

ALPHA ACIDS: 5.2%

BETA ACIDS: 3.7%

COHUMULONE: 23%; colupulone 43%

STORAGE STABILITY: Unknown, probably similar to Saazer

OIL: Unknown, probably similar to Saazer

MAJOR TRAITS: Pleasant noble aroma, suitable for production of premium beers, mild bitterness; reddish stems.

OTHER INFORMATION: Universal apparently is no longerg rown commercially in Czechoslovakia since it is not