Strisselspalt
The classic French Alsace noble hop — delicate floral and spice.
What it tastes like
Strisselspalt is the classic French noble aroma hop, a landrace from the Alsace region near Strasbourg. Low in alpha, it offers a delicate, refined aroma of floral, spicy and herbal notes with a subtle grapefruit lift — a continental aroma hop much like Spalt and Hersbrucker.
Best in these styles
Beers showcasing Strisselspalt
Specific beer examples coming soon.
Substitutes & relatives
If you can't source Strisselspalt, these hops bring overlapping character.
Lineage & family
Strisselspalt is a landrace / founding variety — a root of the hop family tree. Trace where it leads in the Hop Lineage explorer →
Pedigree data adapted from the Rohwer (2021) hop family tree (CC0 1.0). Compilation, analysis & visualisation © 2026 Veryation · Freshie™.
For brewers — technical profile
History
Strisselspalt is a traditional landrace aroma hop from the Alsace region of France near Strasbourg, long accepted as a classic continental noble hop; its name combines 'Strissel' and 'Spalt'.
Sources
So you can see nothing here is made up — the published specifications on this page are traceable to grower / breeder data: