Palisade a.k.a. YCR 4
A US aroma hop — apricot and stone fruit with a floral lift.
What it tastes like
Palisade (YCR 4) is an American aroma hop with a gentle, fruity character — apricot and stone fruit with citrus, floral, herbal and woody notes. A Tettnanger-derived variety, it adds soft, fragrant complexity to pale ales and lagers.
Best in these styles
Beers showcasing Palisade
Specific beer examples coming soon.
Substitutes & relatives
If you can't source Palisade, these hops bring overlapping character.
Lineage & family
How Palisade 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
Palisade (YCR 4) was released by Yakima Chief Ranches in 2003, selected from the open pollination of Swiss Tettnanger in a Prosser, Washington breeding nursery.
Sources
So you can see nothing here is made up — the published specifications on this page are traceable to grower / breeder data: