Strata Hops – USA – 11–13% AA

A modern American hop packed with passion fruit, citrus and dank complexity

Strata is a highly expressive US hop known for its layered flavour profile combining passion fruit, grapefruit, strawberry, and a distinctive dank, cannabis-like character. Bold yet versatile, it delivers both intensity and complexity in hop-forward beers.

A favourite in modern craft brewing, Strata is ideal for creating beers with depth, aroma, and standout character.

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Key Features

• 🇺🇸 Origin: USA (Oregon)

• 🌿 Flavour: Passion fruit, grapefruit, strawberry, citrus, dank

• 🍺 Best For: IPAs, NEIPAs, Pale Ales, Double IPAs

• 🔬 Alpha Acid: 11–13%

• 🧪 Hop Type: Dual Purpose

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About Strata Hops

Strata was developed by Indie Hops in Oregon and released as part of a new generation of American hop varieties designed for bold, modern beer styles. It has quickly gained popularity for its ability to deliver complex, multi-layered flavour.

What sets Strata apart is its unique combination of bright fruit and deep, resinous character. Alongside passion fruit and citrus, it brings notes of strawberry and a distinctive dank quality, making it particularly appealing for brewers creating hazy and hop-forward beers.

Strata performs exceptionally well in late additions and dry hopping, where its full aromatic profile can be showcased.

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Heritage & Lineage

Strata is part of a modern US hop breeding programme developed to deliver complex, multi-dimensional flavour profiles for contemporary brewing.

It represents a new wave of hops combining fruit-forward intensity with deeper resinous and dank characteristics.

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Flavour & Aroma Profile

Expect bold, layered notes of:

• Passion fruit

• Grapefruit

• Strawberry

• Citrus zest

• Dank, resinous character

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Brewing Applications

Strata is ideal for brewers looking to create complex, hop-forward beers with both fruit and depth.

Perfect for:

• IPAs

• NEIPAs

• Pale Ales

• Double IPAs

Works particularly well for:

• Late additions to maximise flavour complexity

• Dry hopping for intense aroma

• Building layered hop profiles

Popular in:

• Modern American IPAs and Pale Ales

• New England IPAs and hazy beers

• Craft beers featuring complex hop blends

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Substitutes

If you’re looking for similar hop varieties, consider:

• Mosaic

• Simcoe

• Amarillo

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Specifications

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Freshness, Packaging & Traceability

At The Malt Miller, we take hop quality seriously. All hops are stored in our temperature-controlled cold store to maintain their freshness, aroma, and brewing performance.

Each pack is nitrogen flushed and sealed in a high-quality, resealable mylar bag. This protects the hops from light, oxygen, and moisture — preserving their essential oils and alpha acids until you’re ready to brew.

Every pack is labelled with a batch code, allowing full traceability back to the supplier. This means you can access detailed information such as alpha acid content and harvest year, giving you complete confidence and consistency in your brewing.

 

An IPA/Session-IPA/Pale Ale (and believe it or don’t, lager hop) with many layers of different fruit flavor, dried and fresh, anchored with a dried chili-cannabis-funk that does not have any diesel, machine oil, or catty ‘baggage’. Late hot side additions bring out layers of rounded-tropical plus bright-fresh fruit flavours; dry-hopping yields more grapefruit and cannabis. Nice with roasted malts too.

We contract and source our hops from the finest merchants and farms around the world, ensuring you get the chance to brew with the same high quality product that professional breweries use.

Using mylar bags which prevent light degradation of the hops, flushing the bags with nitrogen to remove oxygen and cold storage of them until ordered by you, ensures the hops are as fresh as possible.

If you want to learn more about hops and how to use them then check out our Help Centre where you will find blog posts and our Brew With Us ESSENTIALS and we also have some great content on our YouTube channel about hops too.