Bobek
A Slovenian aroma hop — lemon, grapefruit, and herbal spice.
What it tastes like
Bobek is a Slovenian aroma hop, a daughter of Savinjski Golding. It brings bright lemon and grapefruit with green, herbal tomato-leaf and sage notes and a touch of spicy aniseed — a flavorful Styrian hop for lagers, pale ales and saisons.
Best in these styles
Beers showcasing Bobek
Specific beer examples coming soon.
Substitutes & relatives
If you can't source Bobek, these hops bring overlapping character.
Lineage & family
How Bobek 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
Bobek is a Slovenian aroma hop, a daughter of Savinjski Golding and a sister to the Styrian Savinjski Golding line, developed at the IHPS in Slovenia.
Sources
So you can see nothing here is made up — the published specifications on this page are traceable to grower / breeder data: