FreshieCentennial a.k.a. CFJ-90
Cascade's bigger, brighter cousin.
What it tastes like
Centennial is what brewers reach for when they want everything Cascade does but louder. Bigger floral, bigger grapefruit, bigger citrus. It's the C in 'C-hops' and a key ingredient in most Pacific Northwest IPAs of the 2000s.
Best in these styles
Beers showcasing Centennial
- Two Hearted AleBell's
- Centennial IPAFounders
- Pliny the Elder (in the blend)Russian River
Substitutes & relatives
If you can't source Centennial, these hops bring overlapping character.
Lineage & family
How Centennial 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
Released by the USDA in 1990. Centennial was the first 'super-Cascade' — same flavor lineage but with much higher alpha acid, making it efficient for both bittering and aroma in a single beer.
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Flavor twins across Freshie
Drinks and foods across Freshie that share Centennial’s flavor fingerprint — matched on shared flavor axes via the Freshie Taste Graph.