NZ Hops is a hop-growing cooperative of master growers based in Nelson, with its listed address at 65 Korere-Tophouse Road, Motupiko, in the Tasman district. Its website describes a family-values business that grows and supplies hops for brewers. It says it has more than 25 farms across four regions, each with its own terroir, and that it offers a wide range of hop varieties. The company says its growing history in Nelson spans 150 years, and that it exports to more than 20 countries, with key markets in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Asia.
The hop varieties are described by their flavour: red fruit, candy and lolly, citrus and tropical fruit notes, intense pineapple, passion fruit and stone fruit characters, and one dual-purpose hop with New World white wine notes. The company works through a network of distributors around the world. The website describes Nelson Tasman as the only New Zealand region that grows hops for large-scale commercial and export use, and as a home of craft brewing. For a brewer looking for New Zealand hops with a wide flavour range, the cooperative offers a large choice of varieties.