FreshieCashmere
Soft-melon aroma cousin of Cascade.
What it tastes like
Cashmere is a Cascade descendant grown mainly in Idaho. Where Cascade is sharper and more grapefruit, Cashmere is softer — melon, lemon, peach, coconut. Increasingly common in pale ales and session IPAs aiming for a softer hop profile.
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Beers showcasing Cashmere
Specific beer examples coming soon.
Substitutes & relatives
If you can't source Cashmere, these hops bring overlapping character.
Lineage & family
How Cashmere 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
Bred at Washington State University, released in 2013. A daughter of Cascade with a softer, sweeter profile.
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Flavor twins across Freshie
Drinks and foods across Freshie that share Cashmere’s flavor fingerprint — matched on shared flavor axes via the Freshie Taste Graph.