MJF Hop Blend
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MJF Hop Blend
2025 Michael James Jackson Foundation Hop Blend Profile
This exclusive blend was created by the MJF board members at an event hosted by Brooklyn Brewery. 16 different varieties were evaluated, blended, and narrowed down to the winning blend of select lots. The MJF blend is fruit-forward and perfect for hop-centric styles like pale ales, IPAs, and hazies. This blend also features a select lot of Citra® from our friends at Loza Farms here in the valley, the only Latino-owned hop farm in the nation.
“Quality of course takes precedent when selecting hops, but it was also important to us to include hops from a farm owned by people of color,” said Garrett Oliver, President of the MJF. “The Citra we blind-selected turned out to be from Loza, which is great. It integrates complex citrus and tropical notes to this blend, and we’re incredibly pleased with its inclusion.”
Every pound includes a $5 donation that John I. Haas made to the Michael James Jackson Foundation that will go towards scholarships for people of color who are continuing their education in the brewing industry.
The MJF was named the 2024 nonprofit of the year by Vinepair.
If you attending CBC this year in Indianapolis, stop by booth #2505 to try a collaboration beer from Two Locals Brewing in Philadelphia and MJF scholarship awardee Richard Koilor that features the MJF hop blend.
Try it for yourself today and brew up something amazing!
2025 MJF Hop Blend Brewing Values
Selected Varieties (25% of each): Citra®, Citra LUPOMAX®, Elani™, El Dorado®
Aroma: Citrus, Melon, Sweet Fruit, Tropical, Grassy
| ALPHA ACIDS: | 12.4% |
| BETA ACIDS: | 5.7% |
| TOTAL OILS: | 2.0mL/100g |
| MYRCENE | 47.8% |
| HUMULENE | 14.8% |
| CARYOPHYLLENE | 8.9% |
| CITRONELLOL | 1.3% |
| FARNESENE | 1.1% |
| LINALOOL | 0.9% |
| GERANIOL | 0.8% |
| LIMONENE | 0.3% |
| NEROL | 0.1% |
| HSI | 0.355 |
Why was this blend created?
One of Haas’ primary goals is to grow the future of brewing. This growth includes sustainable hop farming and processing practices, identifying ways to increase efficiency in brewing, and researching ways to make hop products more effective and sharing that knowledge with our peers.
Collaborating with the MJF is one way we can provide monetary support to an organization that is actively working to develop the next generation of brewers and diversify the brewing industry by engaging traditionally underrepresented groups and removing barriers to access and opportunity in brewing.
Read more about the collaboration and cooperation between the organizations here.
About the MJF:
Founded in 2020, the Michael James Jackson Foundation is a grant-making organization that funds scholarship awards to people of color within the brewing and distilling trades. The program is open to candidates at the beginning of their careers, as well as those looking to continue their education. The MJF awards present an opportunity for members and patrons of the brewing and distilling industries to directly fund a more just, equitable, and dynamic future.
“We are helping literally change the face of American brewing,” said Garrett Oliver, Founder & Chair of MJF, and Brewmaster of The Brooklyn Brewery. “We sent more people of color to Siebel Institute of Technology last year (2022), than had attended the entire previous decade – the MJF is about genuine and lasting change.”
Haas developed a collaboration logo using the MJF logo shape—derived from the ukhamba, the traditional brewing pot of the Zulu people of South Africa and the surrounding region—inside of a circle, to be used as an identifying mark on both the hop foils and the case box stickers.
Photo credit to our friends at John I. Haas.
MJF Hop Blend
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