Rich, bittersweet herbal aroma with a distinctive dry-hop character — dense green, slightly resinous and spicy with tobacco-like undertones. Develops a warm, faintly leathery earthiness as it settles, with a persistent bitter-aromatic signature reminiscent of beer wort and dried herbs.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 192.
The absolute is a semi-solid, dark green mass.
The product will be soluble in water, alcohol or hydrocarbons.
The absolute has an intensely deep-herbaceous, rich and green-spicy odor with a peculiar and characteristic bitter-leafy undertone, distinct and tenacious.
Hop absolute introduces a most interesting naturalness to apple flavors, pineapple, etc., and it also lends a rich body to various types of spice- or seasoning compounds.
In perfumery, it offers a bitter-green note which is interesting in pine, fougére, hyacinth, citrus (lime in particular), and even in aldehydic perfume bases.
The normal use level would be about 0.30 mg% to 1.00 mg%, and the Minimum Perceptible is 0.05 to 0.10 mg.
Hop Absolute is produced by alcohol-extraction of the concréte and subsequent recovery of the alcohol in vacuum.