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The newest kid on the block…  Marinated is born out of our hop harvest trips to America and New Zealand and our interactions, learnings and discoveries on the farms that we visit. This new series will spotlight specific growers that we are excited about and excited to work with. E.g if a specific lot of a specific hop grabs our attention on a visit during harvest time, we will start planning a recipe and beer release around that. This will often include newer or emerging varieties or just specific growers we have never had the pleasure of working with before....

Ahhh Saturateds. An old friend. Our Saturated series is a long running Double IPA series with a fairly simple, but incredibly impactful, premise - single hopped Double IPAs in our house DIPA style.  This really allows one to experience and evaluate the individuality and beauty of a single hop.  All the base recipes are the same, and we select the best versions of the hop variety we are using to really let it shine on a big stage.  In more recent years we have played around with melding our Saturated process with similar beers from other great breweries to create...

The Something Good series is a long standing hoppy beer development series where we have sought to push ourselves and push the boundaries of hoppy beers in order to continually elevate our house style. In many ways this is all encompassing - exploring new techniques, ingredients, processes etc. to push our beer forward. Essentially we wanted a vehicle for trying new things, experimenting and continual learning… The critical thing for us is being able to then take these learnings into other beers that we release and the wider context of how we develop beers and recipes. It might be a...

This year, our Think for yourself series has really taken off… Originally designed to showcase the amazing experimental varieties being developed by the Bract Programme from NZ Hops, we have now expanded it out to showcase experimental hops from all growing regions and development programmes.  This series is dedicated to sourcing and showcasing these exciting, experimental varieties that we manage to procure.  When we say experimental hops, these are unnamed varieties that have not yet hit full commercial production.. allowing us to have a play before they hit the wider the market.  We absolutely adore this series - hit after...