Correlation between Alpha Acids and flavor?

[Shift]

Pretty straight forward question, does an ounce of hops impart the same amount of flavor regardless of AA%?
Excluding the extra bitterness from higher AA hops that is.

Assuming that's true, which my gut tells me, switching to lower AA hops and upping the amounts would give more hop flavor while keeping the bitterness the same?

Edit: Similar Threads are wonderful:

Going back to the original question: year-to-year AA% varies a great deal more than aromatic oil levels.

I'll interpret that as each strain having a more or less fixed level or aromatics.
Is this the about the same for all hops or can you expect some hops to have higher levels?
If there is a higher level of AA's present, there should/could be more aromatics?

 

[Nateo]

Alpha and beta acids only contribute bitterness. Oils like myrcene, humulene, etc are what contribute flavor and aroma. Here is a guide with general stats for all the hops grown in America.

http://usahops.org/userfiles/file/H...ety Manual - English (updated March 2011).pdf

 

[Nateo]

Also, the wiki here has a great guide:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/wiki/index.php/Hop_chemistry

 

[ArcaneXor]

This is a great resouce for hops grown in the Hallertau.

 

[Shift]

I read through the material posted above and plotted the average alpha acid content and average total oil content.

At first glance it seems that oil content increases with alpha acid content.

 

[weirdboy]

I read through the material posted above and plotted the average alpha acid content and average total oil content.

At first glance it seems that oil content increases with alpha acid content.

I think that is only true as a rule of thumb, and there are an increasing number of hop varieties and variants of existing varieties which are being bred to produce more hop oil content as a ratio to alpha acid content. Matt Bryndilson from Firestone talked about this in his presentations at NHC this year. There are variants of Cascade (maybe it was CTZ?) out there that have something like 3-4x the normal amount of hop oils.