FreshieBramling Cross
Blackcurrant and stone fruit, English style.
What it tastes like
Bramling Cross is the English answer to fruit-forward New World hops — but understated. Blackcurrant, plum, lemon, and a soft floral edge. Increasingly used in modern English IPAs and pales as a heritage alternative to American C-hops.
Best in these styles
Beers showcasing Bramling Cross
Specific beer examples coming soon.
Substitutes & relatives
If you can't source Bramling Cross, these hops bring overlapping character.
Lineage & family
How Bramling Cross 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 14 descendants
Endeavour · Sovereign · Boadicea · Pilgrim · Pilot · Phoenix · First Gold · Pioneer · Super Pride · Herald · Yeoman · Wye Viking · Wye Saxon · Zenith
One of the most influential hops in the family tree — #10 by number of descendants (28).
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
Bred from Bramling (a Goldings variety) crossed with a Manitoban hop in 1927. Recently revived as a flavor-forward English heritage option.
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Flavor twins across Freshie
Drinks and foods across Freshie that share Bramling Cross’s flavor fingerprint — matched on shared flavor axes via the Freshie Taste Graph.