Fresh Hop IPA Launch

It’s that time of year again where our brewers start to get excited. The New Zealand hop harvest has begun and we’ve gone back to one of our favourite hops – Nelson Sauvin. After being picked from the vines of the hop farms of Nelson the hops are lightly dried, bundled into a van and they’re on the way up to Hamilton.

Once the brewers got the all clear they mashed in. This year the timing was perfect. As soon as the hops were through the door they were into the hopback were soon drowned with sticky sweet wort and left to extract all of the oils and resins from the fresh hop flowers. This results in a beer with the most unique and pungent hop aroma.

This beer is one we’re very proud of. Get it quick and drink it fresh, because it won’t be around for long.