Mt. Hood a.k.a. Mount Hood
A German-style American aroma hop — mild, herbal, and clean.
What it tastes like
Mt. Hood is a clean American aroma hop with a German accent — mild, herbal and spicy with a woody, hay-like note. A triploid relative of Hallertau and Hersbrucker, it adds refined, lager-friendly aroma without aggressive bitterness.
Best in these styles
Beers showcasing Mt. Hood
Specific beer examples coming soon.
Substitutes & relatives
If you can't source Mt. Hood, these hops bring overlapping character.
Lineage & family
How Mt. Hood 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
Mt. Hood was bred in 1983 and released in 1989 from the USDA breeding program in Oregon. A triploid aroma cultivar derived from Hallertau Mittelfrüh, it resembles German Hallertau and Hersbrucker.
Sources
So you can see nothing here is made up — the published specifications on this page are traceable to grower / breeder data: