The Hop Studio – Wakatu Pale Ale 5.5%

The Hop Studio – Wakatu Pale Ale 5.5%

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. Whilst an elder statesman of the NZ hop world, Wakatu is a newer variety to us here at Polly’s. First released all the way back in 1988, predating even Polly’s stalwart Citra, this triploid hop has a whole lot going for it; with parentage of Hallertau Mittelfruher and NZ Male Hop plant, it carries all those wonderful noble characteristics, but with punchy fresh lime notes, offset with a little vanilla sweetness to boot.