Aurora a.k.a. Super Styrian
A Slovenian dual-purpose hop — citrus, floral, and spice.
What it tastes like
Aurora (Super Styrian) is a Slovenian dual-purpose hop, a Northern Brewer hybrid with more alpha than the classic Styrian aromas. It balances citrus, floral, herbal and spicy notes with clean bitterness — versatile across lagers, pale ales and Belgian styles.
Best in these styles
Beers showcasing Aurora
Specific beer examples coming soon.
Substitutes & relatives
If you can't source Aurora, these hops bring overlapping character.
Lineage & family
How Aurora connects to the rest of the hop family — its parents, and the varieties it spawned. Trace the full pedigree in the Hop Lineage explorer →
All 1 descendants
Cicero
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
Aurora, also called Super Styrian, is a Slovenian diploid hybrid of Northern Brewer and a TG seedling, developed at the IHPS to give Styrian growers a higher-alpha dual-purpose variety.
Sources
So you can see nothing here is made up — the published specifications on this page are traceable to grower / breeder data: