CONCENTRATED
LUPULIN PELLETS
Maximise flavour, minimise waste with our concentrated flavour-packed pellets.
What is Amplifire™?
We’ve taken all the smash-hit flavour notes from our most popular hop varieties and dialled up the flavour volume to bring you Amplifire™: the noisiest range of advanced hop product innovations from New Zealand.
“The Riwaka™ Amplifire™ hop pellets we used were great. They smelt absolutely amazing, had a real nice consistency to them, the oil content was really high and they were really easy to use. 100% recommend the product. If you can get hold of it, get it into your beer!”
“We were super excited to try the new Amplifire™ hop pellets and they did not disappoint! We used Nelson Sauvin™ Amplifire™ pellets, and the intensity they gave the beer was amazing, the closest we have come to fresh hop intensity but in pellet form! Even before we dry hopped the beer, the intensity was obvious.”
What are Amplifire™ Concentrated Lupulin Pellets?
Our Amplifire™ Pellets are designed to boost flavour and aroma as well as beer yields.
Clayton Hops is the proud operator of the first and currently only cryogenic concentrated lupulin pellet processing facility in the Southern Hemisphere.
This investment is testament to Clayton Hops’ efforts to meet brewer creativity and produce cutting-edge new hop products in a more environmentally sustainable manner.
Our unique patent-pending process separates whole hop cones into lupulin and plant material at extremely low temperature in a nitrogen-rich/low oxygen environment, which limits oxidation to enhance quality. The lupulin, which contains the sought-after resins (bitterness) and oils (flavour and aroma), is then pelletized to produce a super-powerful product—up to twice as intense in resins and oils as a T-90 hop pellet.
Boost Flavour & Aroma
A higher concentration of lupulin to plant material enhances flavour and aroma.
Increase Beer Yield
Less plant material means less beer loss in your fermenters.
Increase Revenue
More beer means more revenue.
Realise Shipping & Storage Efficiencies
A concentrated product means a reduced footprint for transit and storage.
Reduce Waste
A concentrated product also means less packaging waste in your brewery.
Reduce Environmental Impact
Being grown and made in New Zealand, our product is more environmentally sustainable.
Reduce Hop Creep
Monosaccharides and enzymes found in hop bract contribute to hop creep, so reducing plant material lessens the potential.
AMPLIFIRE™ CONCENTRATED LUPULIN PELLETS RANGE
Amplifire™ Pellets are available in all our varieties.
BREWERS' GUIDE TO USING AMPLIFIRE™ CONCENTRATED LUPULIN PELLETS
Amplifire™ Pellets can be used wherever whole leaf hops and T-90 hop pellets are used:
- Late addition kettle where volatile aromas can be better preserved
- Whirlpool
- Fermentation
- Post-fermentation dry hopping
Adapt any recipe by substituting 500–600g of Amplifire™ Pellets for 1kg of T-90 hop pellets.
Amplifire™ Pellets work very well in tandem with T-90 hop pellets, giving beautiful hop character with nice body and mouthfeel.
INTERESTED IN AMPLIFIRE FRESH HOP OIL?
Our intensely lively hop oils are extracted from fresh ‘wet’ hops on the same day the hops were harvested – no drying or pelletising.
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