Apollo
A super-high-alpha bittering hop with pungent citrus and pine.
What it tastes like
Apollo is one of the strongest bittering hops in commercial use — a super-high-alpha variety from Hopsteiner with pungent lime, grapefruit and pine character. Brewers reach for it when they want maximum, efficient bitterness, sometimes with a resinous citrus edge in late additions.
Best in these styles
Beers showcasing Apollo
Specific beer examples coming soon.
Substitutes & relatives
If you can't source Apollo, these hops bring overlapping character.
Lineage & family
How Apollo 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
History
Apollo was bred by the Hopsteiner breeding program in the United States, with a pedigree of Zeus crossed with a Hopsteiner experimental line (98001 × USDA 19058m). It is a super-high-alpha bittering variety noted for low cohumulone and good storage stability.
Sources
So you can see nothing here is made up — the published specifications on this page are traceable to grower / breeder data: