NEW ZEALAND'S
FINEST HOPS
Your partners in craft
If you aspire to do things differently and try new things, if your focus is on quality, efficiency and maximising every aspect of what you do, then join the journey with us.
We are New Zealand's largest hop grower, producing flavourful aromatic hops, which we then process in our country's premier hop processing, packaging and cool store facility, delivering them to the most discerning brewers all over the world.
We have an impressive innovation line up, with you, the brewer in mind. This includes the Southern Hemisphere’s first and only cryogenic processing line to make super-concentrated lupulin pellets. Also here in New Zealand, we produce concentrated hop oil products. It's not just products, there are new and exciting hop varieties we will soon bring to the market, thanks to our partnership with Plant & Food Research, the country’s leading hop breeder.
Clayton Hops was founded by three brothers with a thirst for ingenuity and a naturally adventurous spirit. We’re driven to make our industry and your brews more sustainable, rethinking every part of the process for maximum efficiency, maximum consistency and maximum flavour.
OUR LATEST INNOVATIONS
Our hops are enhanced with bold innovations, incubated in an otherworldly place, to bring your big brew ideas to life.
ADVANCED HOP PRODUCTS
Turn up the flavour volume and brew more efficiently and sustainably with our Amplifire™ innovation range.
HOP VARIETIES
We currently have six carefully selected, globally sought-after hop varieties, with an additional three varieties available in 2024 and 2025. Hops of exceptional quality, flavour and aroma.
NZ CASCADE ™
MOTUEKA ™
NELSON SAUVIN ™
PACIFICA ™
RAKAU ™
RIWAKA ™
COMING SOON
GREEN BULLET ™
PACIFIC SUNRISE ™
SOUTHERN CROSS ™
OUR FARMS
We have four farms spread over 1,350 acres (think clean soil, fertile fields, secluded valleys and clear mountain streams) in the Tasman region of New Zealand.
LET'S GET BREWING
We’d love to be part of your crafting journey. Contact us now.
BEHEMOTH BREWING,
NEW ZEALAND
“Clayton’s Amplifire™ hop pellets add a huge amount of flavour and aroma without the harshness of the vegetal parts of the hops. Their investment here in NZ in the sophisticated technology and equipment needed to make Amplifire™ hop pellets is a game-changer for the NZ hop industry. We also really like that this is part of Clayton’s initiative to reduce product carbon footprint.”
ROCKY RIDGE BREWING, AUSTRALIA
““We’ve used Amplifire™ hop oil either as a mid-ferment addition or as a brite tank addition. We find with the mid-ferment addition it plays really, really nicely with the T90 hop pellets or enriched hop pellets that we use in there. It really adds an excellent depth of flavour. If we add it in the brite tank post-centrifuge it just gives a massive top note and it’s just like pure, liquid hop. People absolutely love it.”