Bullion (Hop) is an early English bittering hop selected by Ernest S. Salmon in 1919 from open-pollinated seeds collected from the wild American accession BB1. Bullion is a sister to Brewer’s Gold and was released by Professor Salmon in 1938 after extensive testing. See brewer’s gold (hop). The female parent BB1 was discovered near Morden, Manitoba, Canada, and cuttings were sent to England in 1916 by Professor W. T. Macoun, Dominion Horticulturist for Canada. In 1917, BB1 was established in a field at Wye College and pollinated by an English male hop. Bullion was selected from the resulting progeny. Bullion is similar to Brewer’s Gold in alpha acids (10%) and beta acids (5.4%), and, like Brewer’s Gold, it does not store well. It was considered a good “workhorse hop” and, starting in the 1940s, Bullion became a major bittering hop in the United States. It was replaced in the mid-1980s by higher-alpha cultivars with better storage and agronomic performance.