Hops are where it starts for the born-again craft head and Super Charger APA is where Panhead delivers. This is an all-American show with Centennial, Citra and Simcoe overwhelming your nose, kicking you in the taste buds and departing with more bitterness than a Palm Springs divorce. It's a seriously addictive combination.

New Zealand's first American style IPA, released in 2008, has gone on to be New Zealand's most awarded beer. In recent years, it has won six back to back Best in Class trophies around the world including New Zealand, Australia and Sweden.

Hops have taken over the world. Permeated the senses of the minions. Hop Zombies now roam the streets. Lupulin ichor oozing from ravaged legions. Gorging, gouging, masticating. Salivating over insane hop flavours and aromas. The time is nigh. No more festering away in hopless oblivion. Join the Hop Zombie Revolution.

Vegan, unfiltered. Hazy pale gold, dangerously drinkable, and oveflowing with juicy hop fruit.

This year, the Emerson's Brew Crew went to Clayton Hop Farm on an important mission to harvest a bounty of the freshest Nelson Sauvin hops. And when you pick fresh hops, you get Sticky Digits. Resinous, lupulin covered hands, and a rich, smooth, fresh hop hazy IPA, with grapey, gooseberry, limey flavours. They've got sticky, now it's time for you to get stuck in.

A New Zealand interpretation, Cassels Double Cream Milk Stout is intensely rich, strong and malty with a creamy, almost velvet texture. A full bodied stout with dark mocha and chocolate aromatics. This Double Cream Milk Stout contains a non-fermentable lactose sugar derived from 100% pure New Zealand milk.

We all must sort life's necessities at some point but let's not gift them. Let's live a little and give the gifts we would like to receive. Lakeman Brewery Co. promise this is not a can of sweat and must but a can of sweet scents. Brimming with papaya, citrus and stone fruit which is guaranteed to impress and not depress.

Bach Brewing have been on the hops again... worshipping the cryogenic hop process that delivers concentrated lupulin, which is jammed with the magical resin and aromatic oils. Cryo Genius is brewed with an intense combo of hops including Nectaron, Nelson Sauvin, Superdelic, El Dorado, Citra, and Mosaic.

Pale Straw in colour with aromas of tropical grapefruit and pineapple. A thick oily hoppy base with a smooth bitterness and deep juicy hoppy flavours.

This hazy IPA champions quality and independence with Victory Knives, nearly 100 years of knife making in New Zealand.

If you hanker for a vibrant, clean IPA low on bitterness but big on flavour jump on the Flying Circus. It will barrel roll you with popping sweet navel and tropical delights leaving a trace of low altitude bitterness.

Harking back to maltier and less bitter IPA styles; a slight nuttiness balanced by refreshing bitterness; supercharged floral, citrus and tropical aromatics from the heavy dose of American hops.