FreshieWillamette
American Fuggle, soft and woody.
What it tastes like
Willamette is essentially the American daughter of Fuggle, bred in the Willamette Valley. Soft, woody, mildly herbal, faintly floral. Not flashy, but it's been a staple of American amber, porter, and English-style ale brewing for nearly 50 years.
Best in these styles
Beers showcasing Willamette
Specific beer examples coming soon.
Substitutes & relatives
If you can't source Willamette, these hops bring overlapping character.
Lineage & family
How Willamette 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
Triploid Fuggle daughter, bred at the USDA program at Oregon State University, released 1976.
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Flavor twins across Freshie
Drinks and foods across Freshie that share Willamette’s flavor fingerprint — matched on shared flavor axes via the Freshie Taste Graph.