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8 Wired brewing:
Blue Rock Farm Fresh Pilsner
Style: NZ Pilsner
ABV: 5.5%
Fresh Hops: Riwaka
This year we teamed up with our friends at Clayton Hops again to produce a unique farm fresh pilsner. Juicy 100% Riwaka cones were harvested from Blue Rock Hop Farm, which is named after the "blue" rock cliff formation that overlooks the farm. A maximum dose of cones in our hop back, once on the hot and again on the cold side to ensures tasty and refreshing juiciness for all to enjoy.
Pouring At:
D4 on Featherston
Abandoned Brewing:
Fresh Hop Cold IPA
Style: Cold IPA
ABV: 6%
Fresh Hops: Nectaron
Pouring At:
Abandoned Taproom
Baylands Brewery:
Waifly 9 Fresh Hop IPA
Style: West Coast IPA
ABV: 6.5%
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin
The ninth iteration of Baylands’ annual Waifly fresh hop West Coast IPA featuring fresh Nelson Sauvin hops.
Pouring At:
Baylands Taproom
Beer Baroness:
Witches Brew Volume 1 Hazy IPA
Style: Hazy IPA
ABV: 6.4%
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin
Usually we only get to brew a beer like this once a year, but lucky for you this time we have made two!!
Volume 1 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. Make sure you try alongside Volume 2 NZIPA.
Pouring At:
Rogue & Vagabond
Beer Baroness:
Witches Brew Volume 2 NZIPA
Style: NZIPA
ABV: 6.4%
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin
Volume 2 is a NZIPA with a clean malt base and fermented with our American ale yeast. Showcasing freshly harvested “wet” Nelson Sauvin hops from our friends at Freestyle Hop Farms. Clean, crisp and loaded with pungent dank tropical fruit hoppiness. Make sure you try alongside Volume 1 Hazy IPA.
Pouring At:
Rogue & Vagabond
Boneface Brewing Co:
Gardenia Cold IPA
Style: Cold IPA
ABV: 6%
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin
Gardenia is a fresh hop Cold IPA crammed with lots of freshly picked Nelson Sauvin hops from our mates at Clayton Hops.
This defiantly crisp beer, smacks of Grapefruit and Gooseberries. So explosively fresh, it’s a beer to be truly worshipped.
Pouring At: Boneface Tavern
Brew Union:
Turbo Juice Fresh Hop 2023
Style: Hazy IPA
ABV: 6%
Fresh Hops: Nectaron®
2023 sees the return of Turbo Juice, the fresh-hopped riff on our ever popular Swamp Juice Hazy IPA. Featuring Nectaron™ fresh hop cones in the whirlpool and a secret dry hop addition to amplify the goodness, this 6.0% Hazy IPA is all about stonefruit, pineapple and passionfruit with the classic fresh flavour only buckets and buckets of Fresh Hops can deliver.
Pouring At:
Bin 44
Choice Bros Brewing:
Good Green Shirt
Style: Hazy Pale Ale
ABV: 5%
Fresh Hops: Waimea
Filled to the brim with fresh Waimea hop cones straight from Freestyle Hops.
Good Green Shirt is packed with fresh grass clippings, grapefruit and papaya, with a thick oiliness you can only get from using hops fresh off the bine.
Pouring At:
Choice Bros Ghuznee St
Double Vision Brewing:
The Cauldron
Style: Hazy IPA
ABV: 6.2%
Fresh Hops: Motueka & NZ Cascade
Motueka Valley's Hoppiest Witch has sent her secrets across the Ditch. No eye of newt, toe of frog, wool of bat or tongue of dog. This first brew, one of two, from Clayton Hops, through us to you! If you want clear, 'tis not the beer. The hoppy hazy brings most cheer. But please be careful if you must, this witch loves brews but lacks for trust. Ask the man on the other can to see where his story began.
Pouring At:
Double Vision Brewing Taproom
Fork & Brewer:
Dr. Bre - The Chronic 2023
Style: Session Hazy Pale Ale
ABV: 4.20%
Fresh Hops: Motueka
A fresh-hopped version of our crowd favourite Hazy Train - first brewed for Beervana 2021.
Pouring At:
Fork & Brewer
Fortune Favours:
Bract to the Future
Style: West Coast IPA
ABV: 6.5%
Fresh Hops: NZH-104
A West Coaster using some exciting fresh hops from the NZ Hops development program. NZH-104 is described as having strong Citrus and Pine flavours and aromas.
Pouring At:
Fortune Favours - Leeds St
Garage Project:
String Theory
Style: Hazy IPA
ABV: 6.2%
Fresh Hops: Motueka & Riwaka
Harvest is over and the strings that held the hop bines are down. It’s an exciting time for our brewers, a chance to sample and select the best lots of our favourite New Zealand hop varieties. Here in String Theory, the finest, freshest lots of Motueka, Riwaka, Nelson Sauvin and Rakau from Freestyle’s Sunrise Valley farm are combined in a smooth base of plump barley malt and oats to create a beer showcasing the pick of the crop - no strings attached.
Pouring At:
Garage Project Taproom 91 aro
Heyday Beer Co:
Better Yeti Cold IPA
Style: Cold IPA
ABV: 5.8%
Fresh Hops: Southern Cross
A clean and crisp grain bill plus the cold fermentation typically reserved for lagers allows the fresh hops to shine. Better Yeti is a true expression of Southern Cross hops from Freestyle Farms!
Pouring At:
Heyday Beer Co
Hop Federation Brewery:
Green Limousine
Style: Hazy IPA
ABV: 6%
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin
The Green Limousine delivers fresh Nelson Sauvin hops to us once a year. Coming from our hop gardens 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.
This year, we’ve dialled up the freshness, using only hops from our 2023 harvest. With Nelson Sauvin, Taiheke & Southern Cross hops freshly harvested, dried and pelletised, the aroma and flavour stays intact throughout the entire brew. And, of course, it’s also fresh-hopped with Nelson Sauvin.
The result is this beautiful golden brew. Super fresh and super delicious.
Pouring At:
Moon
Kereru Brewing Co:
California Steaming
Style: California Common
ABV: 5.5%
Fresh Hops: Riwaka
California Steaming is a 'California Common Beer', inspired by the old style goldrush beers when they brewed with lager yeasts at ale temperatures. It is refreshing with notes of marmalade & orange from the hops and caramel from the malt. Perfect for hot people on a hot day.
NOTE: The Hudson will be closed for a private event from 5pm on Saturday April 22nd
Pouring At:
The HUDSON
Martinborough Brewery : West Coast Fresh
Style: West Coast IPA
ABV: 6.7%
Fresh Hops: Taiheke
A tribute the original West Coast IPA hop, Cascade - now grown in NZ as Taiheke.
This beer delivers grapefuit and kumquat on the nose, a lean malt body, and an assertively bitter finish. Cheers to the West Coast pioneers!
Pouring At:
Golding’s Free Dive
Mean Doses Brewery:
The Touch
Style: Hazy IPA
ABV: 6.5%
Fresh Hops: Motueka
Hazy IPA containing fresh Motueka from Holmdale Farm.
Combine responsible amounts with your personal nervous system. Await beneficial effects.
Pouring At:
Little Beer Quarter
Panhead Custom Ales:
Wild Bunch Fresh Hop IPA
Style: NZIPA
ABV: 8%
Fresh Hops: NZ-101, Rakau & Moutere
Drag racing’s renegades are revived. In it to spin it, they burn out for bragging rights, throwing holy smoke, then floor it ASAP backwards. Tanks are slapped, walls are tagged, lanes are crossed and spectators get an old fashioned spectacle. This bunch was absolutely born to be.
Packing big blocks and beasty feet into factory cars is a recipe for volatility. So is brewing with fresh hop cones from an experimental hop variety for the first time. The late-flowering NZ101 hop brings delicious risk to the mix, bouncing off Moutere and Rakau to deliver a wild, fruity, resinous ride.
Pouring At:
Panhead Tory St
Parrotdog:
L.B. Fresh Hop Hazy IPA (Riwaka)
Style: Hazy IPA
ABV: 6%
Fresh Hops: Riwaka
Hazy IPA brewed with fresh, wet, whole Riwaka cones. Flown across the Cook Strait from Mac Hops in Motueka to us here in Lyall Bay, and steeped in the brew within hours of picking.
Pouring At:
Parrotdog Bar
rHYME X rEASON Brewery:
Bowl Rippers IPA
Style: Hazy IPA
ABV: 5.4%
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin and NZ Cascade
Brewed hazy and cold-conditioned with fresh Nelson Sauvin and Cascade Hops from our friends at Garston Hops for extra juice. This 5.4% session hazy is a dank hop popsicle of gooseberry, lime, and overripe fruit, fresh from the farm. Have a rip.
Pouring At:
tHE mALTHOUSE
Sawmill Brewery:
Fresh Hop Riwaka Hazy IPA
Style: Hazy IPA
ABV: 6%
Fresh Hops: Riwaka
Nothing better than a fresh hopped IPA! Big punchy grapefruit and passionfruit aroma from freshly harvested Riwaka hops.
Pouring At:
BEBEMOS
Sawmill Brewery:
Fresh Hop Superdelic Hazy IPA
Style: Hazy IPA
ABV: 6%
Fresh Hops: Superdelic™
Big and bold! This hazy IPA is full of freshly harvested Superdelic™ hops. Think tropical, ripe mango and sweet berries.
Pouring At:
BEBEMOS
Shining Peak Brewing:
Oapui Road Pilsner
Style: NZ Pilsner
ABV: 4.5%
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin
This 4.5% Pilsner is lightly hopped with freshly picked Nelson Sauvin from Wayward Hops in Tarata, Taranaki, grown by our friends, Tim and Maggie Verry at their Oapui Road farm.
We decided to brew a lighter beer style with these fresh hops to showcase the delicate nuances of these locally grown hops. The beer itself is a crisp and sessionable lager with a rounded character of gooseberry and passionfruit over a lean malt base.
Pouring At:
Golding’s Free Dive
Sprig + Fern Brewing Co:
Superdelic Fresh Hop Pale Ale
Style: NZ Pale Ale
ABV: 5.8%
Fresh Hops: Superdelic™
The annual hop harvest is always an exciting time for brewers and beer lovers - and when NZ Hops Ltd announced the official launch of Superdelic™ (previously Trial Hop NZH-102), the hype reached a new level.
Superdelic™ packs juicy berry and tropical fruit flavours and aromas, as well as tangy citrus and delectably sweet, candy-like characteristics. As one of only a few fortunate enough to brew with this new varietal, we’re letting the full flavour shine by only using 100% fresh Superdelic™ hops, harvested from the bine just before brewing. Rest assured, this Fresh Hop Pale Ale really is something Super!
Pouring At:
Sprig + Fern Taverns
Tuatara:
Gondwana Green
Style: Hazy IPA
ABV: 6.1%
Fresh Hops: Nectaron®
Gondwana Green is an exploration of what the land has best to offer, an attempt to celebrate hops in their natural form. It’s a once-a-year experience to enjoy the more organic, earthy and lush nature of what fresh hops bring to beer.
The mouthfeel is oily and resinous while there is a pleasing grassy/ vegetal tannic note, soft and smooth – just like that fresh mint tea. It’s a synaesthetic experience that gives you the chance to finally taste the colour Green.
Pouring At:
The Beer Engine
Urbanaut:
Fresh Hop Nelson Sauvin Cold IPA
Style: Cold IPA
ABV: 6%
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin
This year we chose Cold IPA as the beer style to best showcase fresh Nelson Sauvin hops. For a unique twist on the cold IPA style we added champagne yeast during late stage fermentation to create a beer with an extra dry finish.
We start the fermentation with a lager yeast, fermented at a slightly higher temperature than usual for a lager yeast. This minimises the presence of fruity esters more typical of IPAs and produces a crisp, clean IPA with the hops being centre stage and dominant through the palate. During late fermentation we added champagne yeast to finish the fermentation. Nelson Sauvin hops are known for having low cohumulone levels which create a beer that drinks with a smooth bitterness.
Pouring At:
Kelburn Village Pub
Urbanaut:
Fresh Hop Riwaka Dip Hopped Hazy IPA
Style: Hazy IPA
ABV: 6%
Fresh Hops: Riwaka
For this beer we chose to showcase another iconic New Zealand Hop by using fresh Riwaka hops in a Hazy IPA using the dip hopped brewing method. Dip hopping differs from traditional hopping techniques whereby the fresh hops and hot water are added to a separate fermenter and left to steep to produce a hoppy tea like solution, that is then added to the fermenter with the wort prior to the traditional fermentation process. The benefit of using this technique is it accentuates the flavours and aromas contributed by the hops without adding astringency or harsh bitterness.
Pouring At:
Kelburn Village Pub
Whistling Sisters Beer Co:
Fresh Nectaron 2023
Style: Hazy IPA
ABV: 6%
Fresh Hops: Nectaron®
For our 2023 Fresh Hop release we've packed our brewery full of Fresh Nectaron® hops from NZ Hops. A newcomer to the hop world, Nectaron® bring loads of peach, nectarine, pineapple and papaya. A fine white head tops a beautiful thick hazy orange.
