Calypso
A dual-purpose hop with orchard fruit and tropical notes.
What it tastes like
Calypso is a versatile dual-purpose American hop with a distinctive fruit basket — pear, apple, melon and tropical fruit with a lemony lift. Its moderate-high alpha lets it bitter cleanly while bringing a fresh, fruity aroma to pale ales and IPAs.
Best in these styles
Beers showcasing Calypso
Specific beer examples coming soon.
Substitutes & relatives
If you can't source Calypso, these hops bring overlapping character.
Lineage & family
How Calypso 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
Calypso is a diploid aroma-type hop from the Hopsteiner breeding program, from a cross of a Hopsteiner female (98005) with a male derived from Nugget and a USDA line.
Sources
So you can see nothing here is made up — the published specifications on this page are traceable to grower / breeder data: