Pilgrim has a deeply fruity, spicy, yet unusually pleasant lemon/grapefruit aroma with flavour characteristics including verdant berries and pears.
Flavour and Aroma
Characteristics
Spicy, citrus, pears.
Bittering Characteristics
As a bittering hop it provides a refreshing, full bodied and rounded bitterness.
Flavour Intensity
6
/10About this Hop
With a much hoppier aroma due to its higher levels of Humulene and Challenger-like Selinene, it works well as a bittering or late aroma hop.
Breeding
Bred at Horticulture Research International (HRI), Wye College in the UK, Pilgrim was a new variety released in 2001. With its plump and oval cone structure, it is highly tolerant to wilt and has a good resistance to both powdery and downy mildews. It has excellent storage stability of the resins.
Analysis
Alpha acid
9-13%
Beta acid
4-5%
Co-Humulone
35%
Total Oils
1-1.8%
Myrcene
30-35%
Humulene
21-25%
Farnesene
0.3%