Wakatu a.k.a. Hallertau Aroma
A New Zealand aroma hop — zesty lime and clean citrus.
What it tastes like
Wakatu (once called Hallertau Aroma) is a New Zealand triploid aroma hop with two-thirds Hallertau Mittelfrüh heritage. It pairs clean, zesty lime and citrus with a soft floral-woody base, bridging old-world noble and new-world zest.
Best in these styles
Beers showcasing Wakatu
Specific beer examples coming soon.
Substitutes & relatives
If you can't source Wakatu, these hops bring overlapping character.
Lineage & family
How Wakatu 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
Wakatu was developed by New Zealand's Plant & Food Research hop programme and released in 1988 as Hallertau Aroma, then renamed Wakatu in 2011. A triploid with about two-thirds Hallertau Mittelfrüh parentage, it offers noble character with a New Zealand citrus lift.
Sources
So you can see nothing here is made up — the published specifications on this page are traceable to grower / breeder data: