Cascade Type 45 (Single Hop Series)
Hermitage Brewing

Cascade Type 45 Single Hop IPA is bound to be a favorite of home-brewers and craft beer connoisseurs alike. Cascade hops are widely used by craft breweries because they are a great all-around hop with nice bitterness, aroma, and a lovely floral/citrus flavor. Think of Cascade Type 45 as Cascade but doubly intense. Indeed, it’s twice as strong as regular Cascade in aroma, flavor and bitterness.

Cascade hops were developed at Oregon State University and were derived from English Fuggles, Russian Serebrianker, and an unknown male hop varietal. As a dual purpose hop, Cascade hops are prized for its flora, citrus, and grapefruit characteristics, and have found immense popularity in American Pale Ales.

The “type 45″ designation refers to how the hop is processed as opposed to a new variety. Typically, pelletized hops come in 2 forms: type 90 and type 45. Type 90 hop pellets are whole cone hops that have been ground, dried, and formed into pellets. As an example, for every 100 pounds of whole cone hops that are processed, 90 pounds of pellets are created.

Type 45 hop pellets undergo a more complicated processing that results in the removal of more unwanted parts of the whole cone hop such as the stems, stalks, and bracteoles, and leaves behind more of the valuable lupulin that brewers desire. The process also ensures a uniform content of bittering throughout all of the hop pellets regardless of the quality of the crop that year. For every 100 pounds of whole cone hops processed, 45 pounds of hop pellets are produced.

Brewmaster Peter Licht said, “There have been a lot of hops that have come out over the years claiming to be ‘super Cascade’ …this is the real super Cascade.”