USDA ACCESSION NO.: 21215

SELECTION: no information available

GENUS: Humulus

SPECIES: lupulus

CULTIVAR: Nordgaard, Nordgaard 1478

PEDIGREE: no information available

PRIMARY SITE: USDA/OSU Hop Research Farm, East Farm, Corvallis, OR

ORIGIN: Hop Research Institute Zalec, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia).

DATE RECEIVED: spring 1979

METHOD RECEIVED: rhizomes

AVAILBILITY: no restrictions

REFERENCES: Various USDA Annual Reports of Hop Research starting in 1979

Wagner, Tone. Gene Pools of Hop Countries. Institute for Hop Research, Zalec, Slovenia (Yugoslavia).1980. p. 67-82

MATURITY: early

LEAF COLOR: dark green, reddish stem color

SEX: female

DISEASES: downy mildew: moderately resistant or tolerant

Verticillium wilt: no information

Viruses: no information

VIGOR: fair to poor

YIELD: poor, ranging from 300 to 1,100 lbs/acre in Corvallis plots

SIDE ARM LENGTH: 8 to 20 inches

ALPHA ACIDS: 7.5%

BETA ACIDS: 3.4%

COHUMULONE: 29%

STORAGE STABILITY: very good, retained 79% of its original alpha acids after 6 months room temperature storage

OIL: 0.94 ml/100 g. Humulene 26.8%; caryophyllene 10.5%; myrcene 47.3%; farnesene 1.7%. H/C rastio = 2.54

MAJOR TRAITS: pleasant continental aroma

OTHER INFORMATION: This is an old Belgian (Flemish?) hop variety that is no longer grown commercially. It may be useful for aroma hop breeding.

OIL: 0.98 ml/100 g. Humulene 31.5%; caryophyllene 17.9%; myrcene 39.0%; no farnesene. H/C ratio = 2.41

MAJOR TRAITS: pleasant continenetal aroma characteristics, high humulene

OTHER INFORMATION: This hop is an old Belgian variety which probably arose as a landrace. It is no longer grown commercially but was used for aroma breeding in the 1970s by Dr. Tone Wagner, hop breeder at Zalec, Slovenia (formerly Yugoslavia).