Admiral
An English high-alpha bittering hop with a citrus-herbal edge.
What it tastes like
Admiral is an English high-alpha bittering hop bred from Challenger and Northdown. It delivers clean, firm bitterness with grassy, fruit-tea, citrus and herbal-earthy notes — a dependable English kettle hop with more character than most bitterers.
Best in these styles
Beers showcasing Admiral
Specific beer examples coming soon.
Substitutes & relatives
If you can't source Admiral, these hops bring overlapping character.
Lineage & family
How Admiral connects to the rest of the hop family — its parents, and the varieties it spawned. Trace the full pedigree in the Hop Lineage explorer →
Blood relatives
Genetically closest in the pedigree (may taste different):
Pedigree data adapted from the Rohwer (2021) hop family tree (CC0 1.0). Compilation, analysis & visualisation © 2026 Veryation · Freshie™.
For brewers — technical profile
Oil composition
History
Admiral is an English high-alpha variety bred from Challenger and Northdown, developed to give English brewers efficient, characterful bitterness.
Sources
So you can see nothing here is made up — the published specifications on this page are traceable to grower / breeder data: