A unique aroma hop with a powerfully fuelled tropical passion fruit character.

The creme de le crop of New Zealand's hop breeding program. Aroma hop with a low alpha acid content. Flavour characteristics of grapefruit and passionfruit. An awesome addition to NZ pilsners, Pale Ales, IPA's and hop forward beers. Riwaka is best utilised as a whirlpool or cold side addition and imparts pungent grapefruit, citrus and tropical flavours. This hop is excellent as a single hop and can absolutely stand alone white also working extremely well when paired with other new world aroma varieties. 

Breeding:

Riwaka Brand 85.6-23 is a triploid aroma type bred during the development of New Zealand Hops with a difference programme through crossing "Old Line" Saazer with specially developed New Zealand breeding selections. It was first released by New Zealand's Plant & Food Hop Research Centre in 1997.

Brewing:

If you want to say “New Zealand Hops” in your beer than this variety says it all. The pure weight of the oil character experienced during selection carries right through to the glass. A punchy addition to the new world styles of Pales Ale and  New Zealand Pilsners.

Applications:

A bold fruity hop variety suitable for big styles such as IPAs and Imperial Pilsners. This hop works well in single hopped beers and also plays nicely with other big aroma varieties. Hazy IPA, Oatcream, Kiwi Pilsners, Pale ales, and all modern hop forward beer styles suit this variety.