Through every iteration of our growth over the last demi-decade, one thing that has persisted throughout is this brewery’s love of hops, and how we’ve born an entire business that now looks after the livelihoods of fourteen team members from this love. The Hop Studio felt like a natural extension of this love - showcasing the single most complex, wonderfully diverse ingredient we use in our process bar none. A world renowned, but new to Polly’s varietal, we wanted to kick things off with a classic from New Zealand for our first single hop NZ showcase in Wai-iti. First released in 2011 as a granddaughter of the USDA-developed Liberty, and a triploid hop derived from Hallertau Mittelfruh, we were expecting a bombastic explosion of aroma and flavour when we used it in this beer, but were blown away by how potent this hop is; picking up heavy notes of freshly squeezed limes, ripe apricots and peaches with cream. Incredible.