NEW ZEALAND'S
FINEST HOPS
Your partners in craft
We are New Zealand's largest hop grower, producing flavourful aromatic hops that we process in our world-class hop processing, packaging and cool store facility. We supply our hop products to brewers around the globe.
We have an impressive innovation line up, with brewers in mind. This includes the Southern Hemisphere’s first and only cryogenic processing line to make concentrated hop pellets. We also produce concentrated fresh hop oil products here in New Zealand.
It's not just products, there are new and exciting hop varieties that we are bringing to the market, thanks to our partnership with Plant & Food Research, our country’s leading hop breeder.
Clayton Hops has brought real scale, sophistication and innovation to the New Zealand hops industry, being key pillars to producing a reliable supply of premium quality hop products and continually improving environmental outcomes.
Our Amplifire™ products were awarded the coveted Morton Coutts Award for Innovation at the 2024 NZ Beer Awards.
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.
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 PELLETSROCKY 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
NEW PRODUCT
YEAST NOW AVAILABLE!
We are excited to be bringing new yeast products to the New Zealand and Australian markets.
YEASTSUSTAINABILITY
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.
AUTHENTICITY
We are very proud to grow and make all of our hop products here in New Zealand. This includes our hop pellets and Amplifire™ advanced hop product range. Not only does this improve product quality but it also minimises carbon footprint.
The New Zealand government has formally recognised our hop products as being strongly connected to New Zealand, by granting us a licence to bear the FernMark. Customers can rest assured that they are buying New Zealand grown and made hop products.
