Kohatu
A New Zealand aroma hop — passionfruit and tropical fruit.
What it tastes like
Kohatu is a New Zealand aroma hop with intense fruit character — passionfruit and tropical fruit with citrus, berry and floral notes. Clean and fruit-forward, it works beautifully as a single-hop showcase in pale ales and IPAs.
Best in these styles
Beers showcasing Kohatu
Specific beer examples coming soon.
Substitutes & relatives
If you can't source Kohatu, these hops bring overlapping character.
Lineage & family
How Kohatu 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
Kohatu is a triploid aroma-type hop from New Zealand's Plant & Food Research programme, released around 2011, from Hallertau Mittelfrüh crossed with a New Zealand male of North American and European parentage.
Sources
So you can see nothing here is made up — the published specifications on this page are traceable to grower / breeder data: