20/05/2026
The garden blooms again🌸
A paired DDH Pale Ale combo, exploring exciting hop varieties from the USA and New Zealand (alongside Eternal Bird Sings).
The Garden Blooms Again is a study on using a combination of classic and modern American hops, with Strata and Centennial alongside the addition of Nugget CGX, blending orange citrus and bergamot with sweet dankness and savoury floral notes.
Centennial is now a staple in modern brewing, strongly associated with intense citrus, floral, and pine notes, whilst Nugget is the oldest of the featured hops in this brew, it provides a savoury and herbal backbone to the beer. As a relatively new hop, Strata leads the way with its modern fruity aromas alongside dank qualities.
To complement the citrus, savoury and and floral notes of the US hops in The Garden Blooms Again, we opted to use Kveik yeast rather than our usual house yeast. Due to the unique fermentation properties of this yeast strain, it converts more of the available sugars into alcohol, resulting in this DDH Pale with a cleaner finish and producing tropical fruit esters, including tangerine, pineapple, and mango flavours that will leave your brews bursting with vibrant and exotic fruit notes.
Eternal bird sings🦜
A paired DDH Pale Ale combo, exploring hop varieties from the USA and New Zealand (alongside The Garden Blooms Again).
For Eternal Bird Sings we explore the complex and intense nature of New Zealand hops by layering Nelson, Motueka and NZ Cascade, crafting an experience of tropical juice and fruity dankness.
We’ve then amped up this brew with the addition of Fresh Nelson, Fresh Wai-iti and Fresh Waimea Hopkiefs from Freestyle hops. These liquid hops are added to the dry hopping process to further amplify and lock in as much flavour in the liquid as possible.
