Hopstock 2026 is over!

Thank you for doing the trail!

Next Hopstock starts in April 2027

The Hopstock 2026 Lineup was:

Abandoned Brewery

Fresh Hop XPA

Pouring At:
Abandoned Petone &
Abandoned Porirua

Available: April 8

Style: XPA

Fresh Hops: Riwaka

ABV: 4.2%

  • Coming soon!

Boneface Brewing co.

Ruthless

Pouring at:
Golding’s Free Dive

Available: April 11

Style: West Coast IPA

Fresh Hops: Riwaka

ABV: 7.0%

  • Coming soon!

Brave Brewing co.

Helping Hands 2026

Pouring at:
Monkfish

Available: April 20

Style: West Coast IPA

Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin & Nectaron

ABV: 6.8%

  • Built on late-harvest Nelson Sauvin and Nectaron from Freestyle Hops, this year’s release goes bigger than ever. Freshly harvested cones in the brew, followed by a generous dry hop of rapidly pelletised hops from the same pick. Bursting with passionfruit, nectarine, pineapple and white grape, layered with late-harvest dankness. Vibrant, bold and full of just-picked hop intensity. Drink fresh!

Choice Bros. Brewing

Canned Heat: Fresh Hop

Pouring at:
The Junction

Available: April 8

Style: NZ Pilsner

Fresh Hops: Motueka

ABV: 5.0%

  • Coming soon!

DNA Brewing

Holmdale Farm Pale Ale

Pouring at:
Rogue and Vagabond

Available: April 20

Style: Pale Ale

Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin

ABV: 5.0%

  • Brewed with Nelson Sauvin harvested direct from Cam and Laura Elam’s Holmdale farm at Wakefield. We have been good mates since they set up their hop farm in 2017. Their family has farmed Holmdale since 1856, the second oldest farm to be continuously run by the same family in the Tasman area. From cutting of the bine to hitting the brew, it is less than two hours so fresh hop intensity is fantastic.

Double Vision Brewing

Kai Juice Fresh Hop

Pouring at:
Double Vision Taproom &
DubHub Island Bay

Available: April 8

Style: Hazy IPA

Fresh Hops: Motueka & Riwaka

ABV: 6.5%

  • Coming soon!

Double Vision Brewing

Jaegar Fresh Hop

Pouring at:
Double Vision Taproom &
DubHub Island Bay

Available: April 8

Style: Bright IPA

Fresh Hops: Motueka & Cascade

ABV: 6.5%

  • Coming soon!

Double Vision Brewing

Monarch Fresh Hop

Pouring at:
Double Vision Taproom &
DubHub Island Bay

Available: April 25

Style: Triple Hazy IPA

Fresh Hops: Nectaron & Superdelic

ABV: 10.2%

  • Coming soon!

Fork & BRewer

Wellington Better

Pouring at:
Fork & Brewer

Available: April 8

Style: Best Bitter

Fresh Hops: Wakatū

ABV: 4.6%

  • A flavorful yet balanced and highly drinkable take on the classic English session beer style. This interpretation is much hoppier than the what is outlined in the 2021 BJCP style guidelines - this is due to the generous addition of 2026 Freestyle Hops WAKATU variety used in the whirlpool/steep.

Garage Project

Bine Mind IPA

Pouring at:
Garage Project Aro Taproom

Available: April 21

Style: Unfiltered IPA

Fresh Hops: Nectaron & Southern Cross

ABV: 7.0%

  • Can’t get your mind off hops? It’s a fresh harvest hit for the hop obsessed. Bine Mind, punchy West Coast Style IPA, brewed with absurd quantities of freshly picked Nectaron and Southern Cross cones for a complex blend of pine resin, stonefruits and bright citrus lemon kush. Get your head in the hop field.

    Brewed in Collaboration with Catalonia's DosKiwis - Great minds think alike.

Heyday Beer Co.

Frosted Tips Sub-Zero IPA

Pouring at:
Heyday Beer Co

Available: April 14

Style: Cold IPA

Fresh Hops: Rakau

ABV: 6.0%

  • Fresh Rakau hop cones frozen with liquid nitrogen & smashed to reveal lupulin and then dry-hopped.

Hop Federation

Green Limousine

Pouring at:
Bebemos

Available: April 16

Style: IPA

Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin

ABV: 6.0%

  • 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. The result – this beautiful golden brew. Fresh and delicious.

Kereru Brewing

Fresh Hop Moonless Stout

Pouring at:
Golding’s Free Dive

Available: April 8

Style: Oatmeal Stout

Fresh Hops: NZ Cascade

ABV: 4.1%

  • A mildly bitter, roasty dry stout well dry-hopped with fresh cones.

Martinborough Brewery

Pacific Nectar

Pouring at:
Bin44

Available: April 13

Style: Pacific Pale Ale

Fresh Hops: Nectaron

ABV: 5.3%

  • Coming Soon

North End

Lord of the Cones

Pouring at:
Otto Champagneria & Beer Hall

Available: April 15

Style: IPA

Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin

ABV: 7.0%

  • Forged in the greenlands of Waikanae, Lord of the Cones is a quest into the heart of our most precious hops. Fresh Nelson Sauvin are gathered at dawn and rushed straight into the kettle, unleashing bursts of citrus, grape, and gooseberry. One Cone to Refresh Them All.

PAnhead Custom Ales

Hop Chop IPA

Pouring at:
Panhead Tory St. &
Panhead Taproom (Brewtown)

Available: April 13

Style: IPA

Fresh Hops: Riwaka

ABV: 6.0%

  • Fresh hops don’t muck about, and neither do we. Riwaka, chopped at harvest and brewed at peak freshness, powers this shed-born custom - raw, intense, and bursting with flavourful energy. Grapefruit, citrus peel and pine up front, tropical notes underneath, clean finish.
    Hop Chop. Built once. Drink it fresh.

Parrotdog

LR 40: Fresh Hop Pilsner

Pouring at:
Parrotdog Bar

Available: April 8

Style: NZ Pilsner

Fresh Hops: Riwaka

ABV: 5.2%

  • NZ Pilsner brewed using fresh whole cones of Riwaka from Mac Hops in Motueka.

Sprig + Fern Brewing Co.

Harvest Pilsner™

Pouring at:
Sprig + Fern Petone &
Sprig + Fern Thorndon

Available: April 8

Style: NZ Pilsner

Fresh Hops: Motueka & Pacifica

ABV: 5.0%

  • This is more than just a fresh hop beer. Now in its 16th hop harvest, Harvest Pilsner™ bursts with bright, fragrant hops and a crisp, invigorating finish that leaves you wishing fresh hop season would never end. Over the years, it has earned a legendary reputation among hop enthusiasts and craft beer lovers alike for capturing the very best the season has to offer.

    Carefully crafted with locally grown Motueka™ and Pacifica™ hops from the Tasman region, each batch is hand-selected by our Master Brewer, Tracy Banner, and added to the brew just minutes after harvest, ensuring every sip captures the true essence of the season.

Sawmill Brewery

Fresh Hop Riwaka Hazy IPA

Pouring at:
Rogue & Vagabond

Available: April 8

Style: Hazy IPA

Fresh Hops: Riwaka

ABV: 6.0%

  • Nothing better than a fresh hopped IPA! Big punchy grapefruit, passionfruit and tropical aroma from freshly harvested Riwaka from Clayton Hops in Nelson.

Tuatara Brewery

Greenback

Pouring at:
Tuatara Taproom (Brewtown)

Available: April 10

Style: NZ Pilsner

Fresh Hops: Motueka

ABV: 5.2%

  • Coming Soon

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Urbanaut Brewing Co.

Nelson Sauvin West Coast IPA

Pouring at:
Little Beer Quarter

Available: Week Beginning 13 April

Style: West Coast IPA

Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin

ABV: 6.0%

  • Using Fresh picked Nelson Sauvin hops, known for lime, gooseberry, white wine and fresh cut grass flavours; Fresh Nelson Sauvin hops layered on a classic full flavoured West Coast IPA

Urbanaut Brewing Co.

Motueka Hazy IPA

Pouring at:
Little Beer Quarter

Available: Week Beginning 13 April

Style: Hazy IPA

Fresh Hops: Motueka

ABV: 6.0%

  • Using Motueka hops, known for lemon, grapefruit, passionfruit, and tropical fruits aromas and flavours; Fresh Motueka hops from the 2026 harvest are layered on a classic Hazy IPA base with low bitterness, pillowy mouthfeel.

Mean Doses

Frischë Dösen Kölsch

Pouring at:
Mean Doses Taproom

Available: April 8

Style: NZ Kölsch

Fresh Hops: Wakatū

ABV: 5.0%

  • Kölsch, once more? Certainly. Kölsch is the most emphatic of potable European trade. Herr Trivago is enjoying Kölsch while drinking his savings.

    And yet now Kölsch is fresh with Wakatu. "Please to repeat - is what?? How goes the balance between the malt and floral-spicy? And why change?"

    Be silent, grandfather. Old systems of thought are now at retirement age.

Shining Peak

Green Gold Fresh Hop IPA

Pouring at:
The Malthouse

Available: April 10

Style: IPA

Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin

ABV: 6.0%

  • Since its first discovery in the 1800s, Crude Oil has been one of the key pillars of Taranaki’s bustling industry. Multiple discoveries of large fields - both inland and offshore - of the lucrative Black Gold has meant that the region is widely renowned as the heart of the Oil and Gas industry within New Zealand.

    Now; as the world looks toward a greener future, Taranaki’s innovators are starting to look at new ways to diversify. Our friends at Wayward Hops are pioneers at the new western frontier - the movement toward ‘Green Gold’ - growing distinctively Taranaki Hops that taste a hell of a lot better than the black stuff.

    This New Zealand IPA uses freshly picked Nelson Sauvin, delivered from hop to kettle on the same day.

Urbanaut Brewing Co.

Fresh Hop Copacabana

Pouring at:
Little Beer Quarter

Available: April 10

Style: Brut IPA

Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin

ABV: 7.1%

  • The iconic Copacabana brewed using resh picked Nelson Sauvin hops, known for lime, gooseberry, white wine and fresh cut grass flavours; Fresh Nelson Sauvin hops layered on our iconic Copacabana Brut IPA; spritzy and dry.

Urbanaut Brewing Co.

Fresh Hop Nelson SAuvin Cider

Pouring at:
Little Beer Quarter

Available: April 10

Style: Apple Cider

Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin

ABV: 6.0%

  • This delicious cider is loaded with crisp green apples and bucket loads of freshly harvested 2026 Nelson Sauvin Hops; Fruity and easy-drinking with a light dry finish with gooseberry and white wine notes.

Urbanaut Brewing Co.

Riwaka West Coast Pilsner

Pouring at:
Little Beer Quarter

Available: April 10

Style: West Coast Pilsner

Fresh Hops: Riwaka

ABV: 6.0%

  • Using Riwaka hops, known for extreme lemon, grapefruit, passionfruit, and tropical fruits aromas and flavours; Fresh Riwaka hops from the 2026 harvest layered on the classic Pilsner style malt base gives an endlessly quaffable Pilsner.