- Recipes:
- 885
- Purpose:
- Aroma
- Alpha:
- Moderate
- Origin:
- 🇬🇧 Great Britain
Whitbread Golding Variety (WGV) hops, first selected in 1911 by hop grower Edward Albert White, are a result of open pollinated Bate's Brewer. The hop's current name was coined after the Whitbread Brewing Company acquired the farm on which it was raised. Officially released for production in 1953, WGV was hailed as a savior variety by growers in Kent …