Liberty
An American noble-type aroma hop — mild, floral, and spicy.
What it tastes like
Liberty is a delicate American aroma hop in the German noble style — mild, clean, floral and spicy with a soft herbal-tea note. A relative of Hallertau, it's a go-to for American lagers, pilsners and wheat beers wanting subtle noble character.
Best in these styles
Beers showcasing Liberty
Specific beer examples coming soon.
Substitutes & relatives
If you can't source Liberty, these hops bring overlapping character.
Lineage & family
How Liberty 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
Liberty was bred in 1983 as part of the USDA program, an extension of the Hallertau hop family and a half-sister to Ultra, Mt. Hood and Crystal — developed to give US growers a German-style noble aroma hop.
Sources
So you can see nothing here is made up — the published specifications on this page are traceable to grower / breeder data: