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Abandoned Brewing:
Fresh Hop Altbier
Style: Altbier
ABV: 5.2%
Fresh Hops: Southern Cross
New Zealand hopped European Amber Psuedo-Lager
Pouring At:
Abandoned Taproom
Abandoned Brewing:
Fresh Hop Kölsch
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.7%
Fresh Hops: Southern Cross
New Zealand hopped European psuedo-Lager
Pouring At:
Abandoned Taproom
Beer Baroness:
Witches Brew
Style: IPA
ABV: 6.5%
Fresh Hops: Nectaron®
Once a year we get to brew a beer like this.
Freshly harvested “wet” Nectaron hops have been plunged into the cauldron to produce this potent medley of tropical fruit and Mandarin, with grassy resinous fresh hop goodness.
Pouring At:
El Culo Del Mundo
Brave brewing:
Helping Hands
Style: IPA
ABV: 6.0%
Fresh Hops: Nectaron®
A nod to the many hands involved in the monumental task that is the annual hop harvest. This year we’ve brewed a crispy IPA with a light and lean body, to really showcase the bright tropical fruit character of fresh Nectaron hops. Raise a glass to all the hands that helped get those delicious, sticky cones into our beer.
Pouring At:
Golding’s Free Dive
Brew Union:
Turbo Juice 5
Style: Hazy NZ Pale Ale
ABV: 5.6%
Fresh Hops: Nectaron®
Turbo Juice is back!!! Throwing around copious amounts of Nectaron in the whirpool, we're sure it'll be a smasher!
Pouring At:
Little Beer Quarter
Canyon Brewing:
Wild thing
Style: Cold IPA
ABV: 5.5%
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin & Motueka
It’s that time of year to get cold, Fresh and wild. A deadly Crisp body to help show case beautiful Freestyle Nelson Sauvin & the freshest Garston Motueka. A clean lager ferment lifts layers of white grape, gooseberry and candied citrus, all rounded out with some surprising old school bitterness! That’s wild!
Pouring At:
Moon
Canyon Brewing:
Latitude 45
Style: NZ Pilsner
ABV: 5.2%
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin & Arrowtown bombers
When March rolls around it’s all about Nelson, Nelson, Nelson! Well, now it can be all about Queenstown, Queenstown, Queenstown! Come down to latitude 45 where we have the freshest Nelson Sauvin from Garston farms and our very own Arrowtown bombers! A clean hop forward NZ pilsner to showcase fresh hop terroir at its finest.
Pouring At:
Moon
Choice Bros Brewing:
Little Green Bag
Style: Cool IPA
ABV: 6.5%
Fresh Hops: Rakau
Lookin' back on the track, for a Little Green Bag. Gotta find just the kind, or I'm losin' my mind. Looking for some happiness and finding the dankest herbs and flowers in your green garden, with plums up front and a long bitter finish.
A mountain of freshly harvested hop cones, straight from Freestyle Farms in Upper Moutere, went into this crisp and clear Cold IPA. Hopped Exclusively with Rakau hops.
Pouring At:
Choice Bros Ghuznee St
Deep Creek:
Taurus
Style: Fresh Hop Nelson Sauvin IPA
ABV: 6.9%
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin
We used whole cone fresh Nelson Sauvin hops in the whirlpool, backed up with small Citra and Centennial hop additions for depth of flavour. The result is a clean, dry, incredibly fresh IPA, with a classic citrus backbone and subtle tropical passionfruit and fresh crushed gooseberries flavours.
Pouring At:
Bebemos
Double Vision Brewing:
The Count
Style: Fresh Hop NZ IPA
ABV: 6.5%
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin
Please, come in. Make yourself at home. Count Hopula will be up from the laboratory... I mean Basement.... with nothing to see in it... soon. A little bat told me that The Count has taken fresh from the vine Nelson Sauvin and transformed the flowers into a potion with some other magical ingredients to make a brew fit to have flavour from Britain to India... Or in our case, more relevantly, the hop fields in Nelson to your mouth hole! With this secret being out, keep an eye open for The Count’s old nemesis Van Hopsing who is on the hunt for him.
Pouring At:
Double Vision Brewing Taproom
Eddyline Brewery:
Hop Project #10 FRESH NECTARON
Style: Hazy IPA
ABV: 6.0%
Fresh Hops: Nectaron®
Building on the sellout success of last year's FRESH HOP Project #9, this year's Hop Project #10 is bursting with Nectaron® at double the hops, hand selected from the hop fields for max aroma and juiciness!
Eddyline Brewery is perfectly situated to get the freshest hops possible with them picked less than 50kms away from the hopyards, where they were harvested by 8:30am, picked up by the owner of Eddyline at 9am, and into the brew by lunchtime. Hop Project #10 is designed to capture as much fresh tropical juiciness from the fresh Nectaron into a beautiful golden hazy IPA! Like the first sunbeams warming the cool autumn hopyards, let this rich and delicious IPA tantalize and warm your senses!
Pouring At:
Bin44
Fork & Brewer:
Lupo Fresco
Style: Fresh Hop Unfiltered IPA
ABV: 6.2%
Fresh Hops: Motueka
Our ever popular Unfiltered Single Hop Juicy IPA series is here, this time in fresh hop form featuring Freestyle Hops Motueka.
Pouring At:
Fork & Brewer
Garage Project:
One Day in March
Style: Fresh Hopped Hazy Harvest IPA
ABV: 6.2%
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin & Southern Cross
Fresh hopped, hazy, harvest IPA. A juicy blend of Nelson Sauvin and Southern Cross hops, all picked on the same day at Freestyle hop farm, half of the harvest rushed still wet from the field to the Garage and plunged straight into this beer, the other half quickly dried and added to the fermenter. The result is a beer overflowing with bright citrus, resinous pine and just ripe tropical fruit. Just New Zealand grown hops at their harvest fresh best.
Pouring At:
Garage Project Taproom 91 aro
Heyday Beer Co:
Breathe Easy
Style: Fresh Hop Hazy IPA
ABV: 5.8%
Fresh Hops: Wai-iti & Nelson Sauvin
Breathe Easy is a true expression of hops selected from the historic Holmdale Farm in the Tasman region. Wai-iti and Nelson Sauvin combine to rest on a soft and pillowy malt base.
Pouring At:
Heyday Beer Co
Hop Federation Brewery:
Green Limousine
Style: Fresh Hop Hazy IPA
ABV: 6.9%
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin
It’s been said that nature’s first green is gold, and we tend to agree. The green in this brew comes from our Awamate Hop Garden, and the colour in the glass, a beautiful golden hue. Full of flavours that ooze long hot summers; think peaches, nectarines, and other stone fruits. With a side serving of mandarins and grapefruit, this is a Kiwi summer in a glass.
Pouring At:
D4 on Featherston
JuiceHead Beer:
Ruthless
Style: Fresh Hop Red IPA
ABV: 7%
Fresh Hops: Moutere
Pouring At:
The Beer Engine
Kereru Brewing Co:
Fresh Moose!
Style: Red Hazy IPA
ABV: 6.0%
Fresh Hops: Nectaron®
Fresh Moose! Fresh Hop Hazy Red IPA is a juicy, hoppy, unfiltered beer. Bursting with a solo performance of Nectaron hops with a complex malty backbone of red malts, wheat and oats.
Pouring At:
The Malthouse
Martinborough Brewery:
Fresh Hop Fiend
Style: New England IPA
ABV: 6.3%
Fresh Hops: Nectaron®
Our wet hopped beer for 2022 is a dank and juicy New England or Hazy IPA made with Nectaron hops. Full bodied but not sweet, with a pillowy head and tropical and stone fruit aromas.
Pouring At:
Mockingbird
Mean Doses Brewery:
Mean Wai-iti Wheat
Style: Fresh Hop NZ Wheat
ABV: 5.5%
Fresh Hops: Wai-iti
Holmdale sounds like a location on a map at the front of an old fantasy novel, but nah. That's where we sent Dean to get the fresh hops. I would say he went down to Nelson and back in a single day but he passed out in a hot tub while he was there (Nelson, not Holmdale), so it was two days this time. Whatever, he works hard. Let him have his moments.
Wheat sounds like a resource you need to collect in a computer game. Kveik sounds like a Scandinavian metal band. Wai-iti sounds like a local comedian turned Disney director. But again: nah, nah and nah. Those are just the style, the yeast and the hops we used.
So here it is: our new beer. It's really good. Tastes like citrus and stone fruit.
Pouring At:
Golding’s Free Dive &
The Beer Engine
Panhead Custom Ales:
Fresh Hop Vandal
Style: Fresh Hop NZ IPA
ABV: 8.0%
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin
Pouring At:
Panhead Tory St
Parrotdog:
L.B. Fresh Hop Pilsner (Riwaka)
Style: Fresh Hop Pilsner
ABV: 5.2%
Fresh Hops: Riwaka
Pouring At:
Parrotdog Bar
Parrotdog:
L.B. Fresh Hop Pale Ale (Nectaron)
Style: Fresh Hop Pale Ale
ABV: 5.4%
Fresh Hops: Nectaron®
Pouring At:
Parrotdog Bar
Sawmill Brewery:
Fresh Hop Nectaron Hazy IPA
Style: Fresh Hop Hazy IPA
ABV: 6.0%
Fresh Hops: Nectaron®
So fresh, so juicy! Maximum impact from the freshly harvested Nectaron hops. This hazy gives huge tropical fruit, grape and spice notes.
Pouring At:
The Hudson
Sawmill Brewery:
Fresh Hop Riwaka Hazy IPA
Style: Fresh Hop Hazy IPA
ABV: 6.0%
Fresh Hops: Riwaka
Nothing better than a fresh hopped IPA! Big punchy grapefruit, passionfruit and tropical aroma from freshly harvested Riwaka hops.
Pouring At:
The Hudson
Shining Peak Brewing:
Gung Ho! Fresh Hop IPA
Style: Fresh Hop Hazy IPA
ABV: 7.0%
Fresh Hops: Nelson Sauvin
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 less than 24 hours.
Pouring At:
Rogue & Vagabond
Sprig + Fern Brewing Co:
Necta XPA
Style: Fresh Hop XPA
ABV: 4.8%
Fresh Hops: Nectaron®
Pouring At:
Sprig + Fern Taverns
Three Sisters Brewery:
Is It Reddy Yet?
Style: Fresh Hop Red IPA
ABV: 5.5%
Fresh Hops: Motueka, Fuggles, Tropadelic
A Red IPA with fresh Motueka in the whirlpool and fresh Fuggles and Tropadelic in the dry hop.
Pouring At:
The Hop Garden
Tuatara:
Greener Pastures
Style: Fresh Hop Hazy
ABV: 6.3%
Fresh Hops: Nectaron®
Dip hopped fresh hop hazy using 250Kg of Nectaron Hops.
Pouring At:
Kelburn Village Pub
Waitoa Beer:
Limelight
Style: Fresh Hop Hazy IPA
ABV: 7.0%
Fresh Hops: Motueka
It’s fresh hop season! Time to celebrate the best Aotearoa has to offer. This year we are shining the light on the Motueka Hops from Freestyle Farms in Nelson, bursting with juicy tropical flavours and a dash of zesty lime. Available during harvest only, this is one not to miss.
