FreshieMagnum a.k.a. German Magnum
Clean, neutral bittering hop.
What it tastes like
Magnum doesn't add flavor — it adds bitterness without character. That's its whole job. Brewers use it to set a target IBU level and then layer aromatic hops on top. You'll never taste Magnum in your glass, but if you drink lager or pilsner, it's almost certainly in there.
Best in these styles
Beers showcasing Magnum
- as primary bitteringMany German pilsners
Substitutes & relatives
If you can't source Magnum, these hops bring overlapping character.
Lineage & family
How Magnum connects to the rest of the hop family — its parents, and the varieties it spawned. Trace the full pedigree in the Hop Lineage explorer →
All 3 descendants
Merkur · Newport · Mt. Rainier
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 the Hüll research center in Bavaria, released in 1980. The US version is grown in the Pacific Northwest from the same parent stock and behaves nearly identically.
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Flavor twins across Freshie
Drinks and foods across Freshie that share Magnum’s flavor fingerprint — matched on shared flavor axes via the Freshie Taste Graph.