Hopstock 2024 lineup
Hopstock 2024 is over! Thank you to everyone that collected freshies over the month of April.
See you for Hopstock 2025! In the meantime, do the year-round Craft Beer Capital Trail!
8 Wired
Mt. Arthur Farm Fresh Pilsner
Was Pouring Now at:
Moon
Style: NZ Pilsner
Fresh Hops: Motueka
ABV: 5.5%
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This year we teamed up with our friends at Clayton Hops again to produce a unique Farm Fresh Pilsner. Juicy 100% Motueka hop cones were harvested from Mt Arthur Hop Farm, which is nested in the shadow of the mighty Mt Arthur and overlooking the scenic Motueka River, gently dried at the farm, air freighted to the brewery the same day and put straight into a batch of New Zealand Pilsner. A maximum dose of cones in our hop back, once on the hot and again on the cold side ensures tasty and refreshing juiciness for all to enjoy.
Pork fresh!
Was Pouring NOW at:
Abandoned Pito-one &
Abandoned Porirua
Style: NZ Pilsner
Fresh Hops: Motueka
ABV: 5.0%
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Packed to the brim with all the Fresh Motueka Hops we could get our filthy little hands on courtesy of Freestyle Hops. Pale gold, citrus, herbal hop character and a crispy dry finish. Can design vandalised in collaboration with the infamous PORKSTA*.
*No actual pigs were harmed in the creation of this beer...only tested on you ANIMALS
Baylands
Fresh Outta Riwaka
Was Pouring now at:
Baylands Taproom
Style: IPA
Fresh Hops: Riwaka
ABV: 6.0%
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This beer features the finest Riwaka hops from Clayton Hops in Nelson. Grassiness, cat pee, diesel and tropical fruits will smother your palate and quench your thirst for fresh hop glory. Brewed to be enjoyed fresh!
Baylands Waifly 10
Was Pouring now at:
Baylands Taproom
Style: IPA
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin
ABV: 6.5%
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The 10th edition of our famous fresh hop IPA. Waifly 10 is a showcase of Nelson Sauvin hops flown direct from Clayton hops.
Beer Baroness
Witches Brew Volume 3
Was Pouring now at:
The Beer Engine
Style: Hazy IPA
Fresh Hops: Motueka
ABV: 6.4%
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Volume 3 is a Hazy IPA loaded up with Oats and Wheat and fermented with our expressive English ale yeast. Showcasing freshly harvested “wet” Motueka hops from our friends at Freestyle Hop Farms. Softy and juicy with a bright, zesty lime punch upfront with floral and white fruit aroma in the background and Sticky Green fresh hop goodness. And we have been lucky enough to dry hop this beer with pallets from the same pick of wet hops.
Beer Baroness
Witches Brew Volume 4
Was Pouring now at:
The Beer Engine
Style: Hazy IPA
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin
ABV: 6.4%
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Volume 4 is a Hazy IPA loaded up with Oats and Wheat and fermented with our expressive English ale yeast. Showcasing freshly harvested “wet” Nelson Sauvin hops from our friends at Freestyle Hop Farms. Softy and juicy with a potent concoction of Grapefruit, White Wine and Sticky Green fresh hop goodness. And we have been lucky enough to dry hop this beer with pallets from the same pick of wet hops.
Choice Bros PHLEx
Was Pouring now at:
Choice Bros Ghuznee St
Style: Hazy IPA
Fresh Hops: Nectaron
ABV: 5.5%
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Bringing back a Choice classic. But this time we've pulled back the Motueka and pumped the Nectaron to get that hard hitting tropical and stone fruit. Things will never be the same, the same.
Double Vision
The Undead
Was Pouring now at:
Double Vision Brewery Taproom
Style: Hazy IPA
Fresh Hops: NZ Cascade & Riwaka
ABV: 6.2%
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It's hard to know who has 'The Thirst' as they may look like normal civilians... There is no going back though for the slaves to the hop vines, but they can be kept at bay with a pint or can of The Undead.
This Fresh Hop Drop contains the moreish cones from Freestyle Hops that progress Hop Heads to the next stage of the DVB Fresh Hop transformation featuring Riwaka and NZ Cascade.
These hops bring more fruity delicious goodness to BITE off when you tuck into them.
Go ahead, lean into your Hazy indulgence... It's no longer a craze... It's they live!
Duncan’s Cone Dip
Was Pouring now at:
Malthouse
Style: NZ IPA
Fresh Hops: Riwaka
ABV: 6.0%
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A smashable single hop Riwaka NZIPA, brewed with our buddies, Eggers Hops Farm. On harvest day, we chartered a plane to collect our green bounty from Eggers in the Upper Moutere Valley in Nelson, before winging its way to Kāpiti. Packing a big tropical burst of passionfruit and citrus flavour. From hop farm to brewery in one day, it’s super fresh!
Fork & Brewer
Cold As Love
Was Pouring Now at:
Fork & Brewer
Style: Cold IPA
Fresh Hops: Superdelic
ABV: 7.0%
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Superdelic is a playful number, with bold red fruit, candy, citrus and tropical fruit characteristics that explode in an almost psychedelic fresh hop experience!
Fortune Favours The Reaping
Was Pouring now at:
Fortune Favours
Style: Pale Ale
Fresh Hops: Motueka
ABV: 4.4%
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he Hop growers are saying it’s a great year for the Motueka crop, with bigger flavours and aromas. We put loads in our mash tun/hop back as our only hop addition so you can really experience all that fresh hop goodness.
Was Pouring now at:
Heyday Beer Co.
Heyday Son of a Gun
Style: Imperial Pilsner
Fresh Hops: Waimea
ABV: 6.7%
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Son of a Gun Fresh Hop Imperial Pilsner showcases Waimea hops from Freestyle Farms, embodying craft brewing artistry and the essence of the hop harvest. With fresh, aromatic notes and a crisp malt backbone, it invites enthusiasts to savor the harvest experience in every sip, reflecting innovation and quality dedication.
Hop Federation
Green Limousine
Was Pouring now at:
Golding’s Free Dive
Style: IPA
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin
ABV: 6.0%
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The Green Limousine delivers fresh Nelson Sauvin hops to us once a year. Coming from just down the road, they're as fresh as it gets.
In fact, they're off the bine and into the brew in as quick as thirty minutes. The result - this beautiful golden brew. Super fresh and super delicious.
Kereru Oat Kuiture
Was Pouring now at:
Bebemos
Style: Dutch Kuit
Fresh Hops: Waimea
ABV: 5.8%
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A malty, and mildly hopped golden beer made predominately with oats, barley and wheat, and a clean fermenting yeast. Waimea hop cones were used in the hop back.
Martinborough
Fresh Hop Bright IPA
Was Pouring now at:
Kelburn Village Pub
Style: Bright IPA
Fresh Hops: Motueka
ABV: 5.9%
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Bright IPA made with Fresh Motueka Hops in the whirlpool and lightly dry hopped with Nelson Sauvin. Clean and crisp malt profile, with classic Motueka lemon/lime citrus, and notes of fresh passionfruit.
Mean Cerveza Extra
Was Pouring now at:
Mean Doses Taproom
Style: Mexican Lager
Fresh Hops: Motueka
ABV: 4.6%
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The Tarahumara people of North Western Mexico are famed for their running ability. You've probably heard of these guys, yeah? They stay up all night drinking corn beer, then come morning they're off, running as far as 320 km in a single session. Imagine that: 320 km in one go.
Yeesh! I like to think about the Tarahumara as I kick back and drink this smooth Mexican lager. It's made from corn, just like their beer, except it's got **FRESH MOTUEKA HOPS** too so it's **DEFINITELY** nicer.
Settling deeper into my bean bag, luxuriating in the lime and tobacco flavours of this cerveza's hop profile, I picture those guys jogging out across the peaks and valleys of the Sierra Madre. Then later I get up and make nachos.
Mean Doses
Sauvin Freshie
Was Pouring now at:
Mean Doses Taproom
Style: Pale Ale
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin
ABV: 5.5%
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Description coming soon!
North End zeal
Was Pouring now at:
Little Beer Quarter
Style: NZ IPA
Fresh Hops: Motueka
ABV: 6.0%
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We have a Zeal for the autumn harvest. As the summer burns itself out the pungent green buds of the hop bines ripen to a heady exotic fruit salad. This harvest IPA utilises the fresh pungency of green unkilned hops to give an intense fruity tropical character. The beer with which to raise a toast to the farmers who keep us fed.
Panhead
Fresh Hop Vandal
Was Pouring now at:
Panhead Tory St.
Style: NZ IPA
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin, Riwaka & Motueka
ABV: 8.0%
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The Vandal rides again. NZ's sickest bucket has had a few facelifts since John Reid built it in the 60s, and we like to put our tribute brew back up on the hoist too.
This incarnation is powered by 2024's dankest Nelson Sauvin flown straight from the bine to the brewery, bringing fresh harvest funk to our infamous IPA. Savour it.
Parrotdog
L.B. Fresh Hop Pilsner
Was Pouring now at:
Parrotdog Bar
Style: NZ Pilsner
Fresh Hops: NZH-106
ABV: 5.2%
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Fresh Hop Pilsner featuring Bract Brewing Programme trial hop variety NZH-106.
Sawmill
Fresh Hop NZH-106 Hazy IPA
Was Pouring now at:
Monkfish
Style: Hazy IPA
Fresh Hops: NZH-106
ABV: 6.0%
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So fresh, so hoppy! Freshly harvested NZH-106 from Mac Hops in Motueka bring big punchy citrus and tropical aroma to this hazy IPA.
Sawmill
Fresh Hop Riwaka Hazy IPA
Was Pouring now at:
Monkfish
Style: Hazy IPA
Fresh Hops: Riwaka
ABV: 6.0%
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Big punchy grapefruit, passionfruit and tropical aroma from freshly harvested Riwaka from Clayton Hops in Nelson.
Shining Peak Gung Ho!
Was Pouring now at:
Bin44
Style: West Coast IPA
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin
ABV: 7.0%
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Rewi Alley cut his teeth on hard-scrabble farming in Taranaki before moving to China in the 1920s. He fell in with the Communists, seeing the revolution through and founding the “together in harmony” movement, better known by the name Gung Ho! For this version of our beloved Gung Ho! we’ve used the finest and freshest ‘wet hops’ from our sunny valleys in Tasman - picked fresh off the bine and carted straight to the brew kettle in 24 hours.
Sprig + Fern
Harvest Pilsner™
Was Pouring now at:
Sprig Petone &
Sprig Thorndon
Style: NZ Pilsner
Fresh Hops: Riwaka & NZH-106
ABV: 5.0%
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The brew that freshly harvested hop cones dream about being a part of, the award-winning Harvest Pilsner™ is back! Our world-famous fresh hop pilsner has doubled down on a duo of Riwaka™ and NZH-106 hops; locally picked, lovingly packed, and back to the brew mere minutes after harvesting.
The combo opens with an exquisite resinous note, balanced by a tropical fruit sweetness, twists of ripe citrus peel, and set amongst the backbone of a crisp, dry, and damn-tasty pilsner. One sip and we think you'll agree, this is as fresh as the harvest gets!
Tuatara Greenback
Was Pouring now at:
Thistle Inn
Style: NZ Pilsner
Fresh Hops: Motueka
ABV: 4.9%
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Overall, a well-crafted fresh hop pilsner combining the crisp, refreshing qualities of a classic pilsner with the vibrant, nuanced flavours of freshly harvested hops, resulting in a beer that’s both refreshing and flavourful.
Brew Union
Turbo Juice Fresh Hop
Was Pouring From April 19th at:
D4 on Featherston
Style: West Coast IPA
Fresh Hops: Waimea
ABV: 6.8%
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Turbo Juice returns for 2024 as a solid West Coast IPA featuring buckets and buckets of Fresh Waimea from Freestyle Farms added into the hop back. Weighing in at a crisp 6.8% with a solid bitterness to balance the beer this is another Fresh Hop winner.
Garage Project
Green Fever
Was Pouring at:
Garage Project Taproom
Style: IPA
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin & Waimea
ABV: 6.5%
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You want it all? Green Fever, all the distinctive freshly picked ‘wet hop’ character that can only be captured at the New Zealand hop harvest, blended with hand selected American varieties.
Nelson Sauvin and Waimea ‘wet’ cones buddy up with Mosaic and Simcoe to create a synergistic fresh hopped fusion of the Kiwi harvest and West Coast IPA. You give me fever.
Urbanaut
Fresh Hop Riwaka West Coast Pilsner
Was Pouring at:
Rogue & VAgabond
Style: West Coast Pilsner
Fresh Hops: Riwaka
ABV: 6.0%
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Join us as we celebrate the larger-than-life tropical aromas of Fresh Hop Riwaka in this crystal-clear West Coast Pilsner. Aromas of fresh-crushed citrus, grapefruit and passionfruit stand tall, a tropical breeze neatly braced by a crisp and delicate body, pouring a pale gold and drinking clean as a fresh spring. Bright and bubbly with a welcome fruity hoppiness, this beer is a salute to Fresh Hop season!