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NEW ZEALAND'S
FINEST HOPS

Your partners in craft

We are New Zealand's largest and most advanced hops grower and processor — family owned, globally trusted and setting the standard with premium and innovative New Zealand hop products.

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HOP VARIETY HIGHLIGHTS

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CIP 014
Coming in 2026
Clayton Innovation Project

CIP 014

A hop with a sweet peach, juicy orange, ripe passionfruit and sticky mango character, all layered with a resinous pine and a lingering perfumy floral aroma.
  • Alpha acids % 12.0-14.0
  • Beta acids % 4.5-6.0
  • Cohumulone % 25-35
  • Total oil (ml/100g) 0.8-1.3
CIP 076
Coming in 2026
Clayton Innovation Project

CIP 076

A hop with an intense ripe orange, peach, nectarine and mango character along with a nice earthy aroma.
  • Alpha acids % 8.5-10.0
  • Beta acids % 5.0-6.0
  • Cohumulone % 34-37
  • Total oil (ml/100g) 1.4-1.8
Motueka™

Motueka™

A hop with a distinctive fresh crushed citrus 'mojito' lime character.
  • Alpha acids % 6.0-9.5
  • Beta acids % 5.0-6.0
  • Cohumulone % 28-32
  • Total oil (ml/100g) 0.6-1.0
Nelson Sauvin™

Nelson Sauvin™

A hop with a distinctive fresh crushed gooseberry and 'new world' white wine character.
  • Alpha acids % 9.0-13.0
  • Beta acids % 5.0-8.0
  • Cohumulone % 20-30
  • Total oil (ml/100g) 0.8-1.5
Riwaka™

Riwaka™

A hop with a powerful passionfruit 'citrussy' character.
  • Alpha acids % 4.5-6.5
  • Beta acids % 3.5-6.0
  • Cohumulone % 32-36
  • Total oil (ml/100g) 0.8-1.0

LATEST INNOVATIONS

Our hops are enhanced with bold innovations, incubated in an otherworldly place, to bring your big brew ideas to life.

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ADVANCED HOP PRODUCTS

Turn up the flavour volume and brew more efficiently and sustainably with our Amplifire™ innovation range.

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Amplifire Hop Pellets

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."

AMPLIFIRE™ CONCENTRATED PELLETS

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."

AMPLIFIRE™ FRESH HOP OIL
Amplifire Oil

FASTER, FRESHER, BETTER HOP PELLETS

Our modern and high-capacity farm harvest systems together with our cutting-edge hops processing facility ensure our hops go from field to package at peak freshness — setting a new industry benchmark. Why settle for anything less?

Faster Fresher Better

FASTER - Swift conversion of cones to pellets using our state-of-the-art facilities.

FRESHER - Hops are converted at their peak condition.

BETTER - Superior quality product.

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AUTHENTICITY

We are very proud to both grow and make all of our products in New Zealand. These products carry the New Zealand government's FernMark seal of approval, verifying their New Zealand authenticity.

 

  

Fernmark

High Voltage Yeast

YEAST AVAILABLE TOO!

We are excited to be bringing new yeast products to the New Zealand and Australian markets.

YEAST

SUSTAINABILITY

We are working closely with BX to measure and improve the sustainability of our farms, processing and hop products.

 

As well as being important to us as farmers and land custodians, we recognise that supply chain carbon footprint is becoming increasingly important to many brewers not only due to their own values but the values of the people who consume their beer.

  

BX