Pacific Jade
A New Zealand dual-purpose hop — black pepper and citrus.
What it tastes like
Pacific Jade is a New Zealand dual-purpose hop offering soft, well-rounded bitterness with a distinctive black-pepper-and-citrus aroma and herbal spice. A Saaz-influenced variety, it suits lagers, pilsners and balanced pale ales.
Best in these styles
Beers showcasing Pacific Jade
Specific beer examples coming soon.
Substitutes & relatives
If you can't source Pacific Jade, these hops bring overlapping character.
Lineage & family
How Pacific Jade 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
Pacific Jade was developed by New Zealand's Plant & Food Research programme and released in 2002, from a cross of New Zealand First Choice (a Late Cluster relative) with a Saaz male.
Sources
So you can see nothing here is made up — the published specifications on this page are traceable to grower / breeder data: