Hop
Vista
A recent American aroma variety with a soft tropical and berry profile.
Vista was released in 2021 from the USDA public breeding programme, which matters: most modern high-profile hops are proprietary, and a public variety can be propagated freely.
Pineapple and peach lead, with a strawberry note that is unusual in American hops.
Aroma and flavour
Descriptors are impressions rather than analytical results. BeerHQ rates this characterisation as commonly reported.
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Analysis
| Alpha acid | 7–11% |
|---|---|
| Purpose | aroma |
| Origin | United States |
| Storage stability | unknown |
How it is used
- Late boil. Added in the last few minutes, retaining more aromatic oils while adding modest bitterness.
- Whirlpool / hop stand. Steeped below boiling after flameout. Extracts aroma and flavour with limited additional bitterness.
- Dry hop. Added after the boil, during or after fermentation. Contributes aroma and flavour with essentially no isomerised bitterness.
If you like Vista
Hops with comparable character. Similarity and substitutability are different questions, so each entry says which it is: a hop can smell alike and still change the beer if its alpha acid is far off.
African Queen 10–12% alpha
Shares tropical fruit, stone fruit, berry with Vista; an aroma variety though it bitters harder.
Not the same: nothing in the recorded profile separates the two, which means BeerHQ cannot tell you how they differ rather than that they are interchangeable.
Smells alike, but the alpha acid differs enough that a like-for-like swap would change the bitterness.
Harlequin 8–11% alpha
Shares tropical fruit, stone fruit with Vista; an aroma variety at a comparable alpha acid.
Not the same: brings citrus that Vista does not; lacks the berry of Vista.
Close enough in both aroma and alpha acid to swap in a recipe.
Barbe Rouge 7–10% alpha
Shares stone fruit, berry with Vista; an aroma variety at a comparable alpha acid.
Not the same: brings citrus that Vista does not; lacks the tropical fruit of Vista.
Close enough in both aroma and alpha acid to swap in a recipe.
Olicana 7–10% alpha
Shares tropical fruit, stone fruit with Vista; an aroma variety at a comparable alpha acid.
Not the same: brings citrus that Vista does not; lacks the berry of Vista.
Close enough in both aroma and alpha acid to swap in a recipe.
Superdelic 10–13% alpha
Shares tropical fruit, stone fruit, berry with Vista; an aroma variety though it bitters harder.
Not the same: nothing in the recorded profile separates the two, which means BeerHQ cannot tell you how they differ rather than that they are interchangeable.
Smells alike, but the alpha acid differs enough that a like-for-like swap would change the bitterness.
Straight substitutes
Close enough in both character and alpha acid to swap at a similar weight. Substitution is directional and imperfect — these are the nearest available options, not equivalents.
- Harlequin — Shares tropical fruit, stone fruit with Vista; an aroma variety at a comparable alpha acid.
- Barbe Rouge — Shares stone fruit, berry with Vista; an aroma variety at a comparable alpha acid.
- Olicana — Shares tropical fruit, stone fruit with Vista; an aroma variety at a comparable alpha acid.
- Triumph — Shares tropical fruit, stone fruit with Vista; an aroma variety at a comparable alpha acid.