- Recipes:
- 4,036
- Purpose:
- Bittering
- Alpha:
- High
- Origin:
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
Pacific Gem is a distinctive hop variety originating from New Zealand, developed by the New Zealand Horticultural Research Centre. This unique hop is a triploid cross between the New Zealand Smoothcone variety, a selected California Late Cluster and Fuggle hybrid. Released in 1987, Pacific Gem has quickly gained a reputation among homebrewers and professional brewers alike for its strong bittering …