Skip to main content
Pairing

Gin + Hops

Not a natural pairing: they share little aroma and few recipes use both, which puts them in the bottom 45% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikelow
Cooked together0 recipes
Rankbottom 45% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Gin Hops
50gin only 6shared 109hops only Gin · 56 Hops · 115
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do gin and hops go together?

Not really. No recipe in our pairing index uses both, and they share 6 flavor molecules. That places them in the bottom 45% of every ingredient pair we score.

What they have in common

They overlap on 6 flavor molecules: 11% of gin's 56. Among the shared key aromas are myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous) and beta-pinene (pine, resin). Most of what they share is background chemistry many foods carry, so the overlap does little for the smell.

What each one brings

gin

The tartness. Sour notes make up 20% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 6% for hops. It carries 50 molecules hops doesn't have.

hops

The fruit. Fruity notes make up 35% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 7% for gin. It carries 109 molecules gin doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Ginger: the best fit for both, top 20% of pairs with gin, top 24% with hops.
  • Syrup: top 6% of pairs with gin, bottom 18% with hops.
  • Cucumber: top 16% of pairs with gin, top 39% with hops.
  • Clove: top 24% of pairs with gin, top 33% with hops.

Ranked by the average of its two pairing scores. Only foods used in at least 100 recipes are suggested.

Recipes with gin and hops

We have no browsable recipe that lists both gin and hops.

Can you swap one for the other?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: gin has 50 molecules hops doesn't, and hops has 109 that gin doesn't. Treat them as partners, not stand-ins. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 6 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 50 only in gin and the 109 only in hops.

See the full list with Pro Sign in

Gin and hops questions

Do gin and hops go together?

Not a natural pairing: they share little aroma and few recipes use both, which puts them in the bottom 45% of all ingredient pairs.

What do gin and hops have in common?

They overlap on 6 flavor molecules: 11% of gin's 56. Among the shared key aromas are myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous) and beta-pinene (pine, resin). Most of what they share is background chemistry many foods carry, so the overlap does little for the smell.

What goes with gin and hops?

Ginger is the best third ingredient: top 20% of pairs with gin and top 24% with hops. Syrup and cucumber also fit both.

Can I use hops instead of gin?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: gin has 50 molecules hops doesn't, and hops has 109 that gin doesn't. Treat them as partners, not stand-ins. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

Compare other ingredients

1
2

Two ingredients gives the full side-by-side breakdown; add a third to see a similarity matrix across all of them (up to 6).

Ranks compare this pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. Molecule counts are what the studies and databases we aggregate have reported for each ingredient: a measure of coverage, not a full census. How we score pairs

Cite this analysis
Plain text
Compound Kitchen (2026). Compound similarity analysis: Gin vs Hops. https://compkitchen.com/compare/gin-vs-hops. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_gin_vs_hops_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Gin vs Hops},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/gin-vs-hops},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

Methodology DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19719459 · CC BY 4.0 · Citations are a request, not a requirement.