Warrior
A clean high-alpha bittering hop with herbal-citrus edges.
What it tastes like
Warrior is a high-alpha bittering hop valued for smooth, clean bitterness with a relatively neutral, herbal-citrus character. Brewers reach for it as a dependable kettle hop in IPAs and pale ales where they want efficient bitterness without a loud aroma signature.
Best in these styles
Beers showcasing Warrior
Specific beer examples coming soon.
Substitutes & relatives
If you can't source Warrior, these hops bring overlapping character.
Lineage & family
Warrior is a landrace / founding variety — a root of the hop family tree. Trace where it leads in the Hop Lineage explorer →
All 1 descendants
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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
Warrior is a high-alpha bittering variety grown in the US Pacific Northwest. Its parentage has not been publicly disclosed.
Sources
So you can see nothing here is made up — the published specifications on this page are traceable to grower / breeder data: