Phoenix
An English dual-purpose hop — pine, floral, and molasses.
What it tastes like
Phoenix is an English dual-purpose hop, a seedling of Yeoman similar to Challenger. It offers balanced bitterness with a distinctive aroma of pine and floral notes over chocolate, molasses and a light spice — characterful in English ales and porters.
Best in these styles
Beers showcasing Phoenix
Specific beer examples coming soon.
Substitutes & relatives
If you can't source Phoenix, these hops bring overlapping character.
Lineage & family
How Phoenix 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
Phoenix is a seedling of Yeoman developed at Horticulture Research International (HRI), Wye College, and released in 1996 — a Challenger-like English dual-purpose hop.
Sources
So you can see nothing here is made up — the published specifications on this page are traceable to grower / breeder data: