Cascade hop: Difference between revisions

Cascade is a cultivar of hops developed in the [[United States Department of Agriculture|USDA]] breeding program at [[Oregon State University]] by Dr. Stanley Nelson Brooks and Jack Horner. Developed during the 1960s, it was released as an American aroma variety in 1971. It originated from an open seed collection in 1956, including English Fuggle, Russian SerebriankerSerebrianka, and an unspecified male hop variety.<ref name="Oliver">{{cite book|author= Garrett Oliver|title=The Oxford Companion to Beer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oWQdjnVo2B0C&dq=The+Oxford+Companion+to+Beer+cascade&pg=PA227|access-date=2017-06-04 |year=2011 |publisher= Oxford University Press |location= London |isbn= 9780199912100|pages= 226–227 }}</ref> In addition to appealing flavor qualities, researchers were looking for resistance to [[downy mildew]], a threat to hop yards. Cascade was named after the [[Cascade Range|Cascade mountain range]] that runs through the states of [[Washington (state)|Washington]], Oregon, California and the Canadian province of [[British Columbia]]. The hop variety was first used commercially in 1975 by the [[Anchor Brewing Company]], which established it as a signature hop for [[Pale ale#American pale ale|American pale ale]]. The plant is now grown in various places around the [[United States]]; [[British Columbia]] and [[Alberta]], [[Canada]]; [[Argentina]]; and in [[Tasmania]]; [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] and [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]].

A variety of Cascade is also bred in New Zealand. Similarities exist between the US and New Zealand varieties with the NZ version described as citrus moving more toward grapefruit characteristics. [[Agronomic]] and [[terroir]] impact has been described as positive for the New Zealand type.<ref name=nzcascade>{{cite web |title=Cascade |url=http://www.nzhops.co.nz/varieties/pdf/new_zealand_cascade.pdf |publisher=New Zealand Hops |access-date=2014-04-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829040149/http://www.nzhops.co.nz/varieties/pdf/new_zealand_cascade.pdf |archive-date=2013-08-29 }}</ref> As of August 2016 Cascade grown in New Zealand is now referred to as Taiheke.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nzhops.co.nz/variety/taiheke|title=Taiheke {{!}} New Zealand Hops Limited|website=www.nzhops.co.nz|access-date=2020-02-04}}</ref>