Motueka Hops – New Zealand – 6–8% AA

A vibrant New Zealand hop with zesty lime and fresh citrus character

Motueka is a distinctive New Zealand hop known for its bright lime zest, fresh citrus notes, and subtle tropical character. Clean, lively, and highly versatile, it brings a unique twist to both traditional and modern beer styles.

Ideal for brewers looking to add crisp citrus freshness with a smooth, balanced bitterness.

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Key Features

• 🇳🇿 Origin: New Zealand

• 🌿 Flavour: Lime, citrus, tropical fruit, herbal

• 🍺 Best For: Lagers, Pilsners, IPAs, Saisons

• 🔬 Alpha Acid: 6–8%

• 🧪 Hop Type: Dual Purpose

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About Motueka Hops

Motueka hops were developed by New Zealand’s Plant & Food Research programme and released as part of a new generation of hops designed to deliver distinctive flavour while maintaining excellent brewing performance.

Formerly known as B Saaz, Motueka combines traditional European hop heritage with a vibrant New World citrus profile. Its standout characteristic is its fresh lime aroma, which sets it apart from other citrus-forward varieties.

Motueka is highly versatile, performing well across a range of styles. It can be used throughout the brewing process, delivering smooth bitterness early on and bright, zesty character in late additions and dry hopping.

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Heritage & Lineage

Motueka is derived from Saaz, one of the classic noble hop varieties.

This heritage contributes to its clean, balanced bitterness, while its New Zealand breeding introduces the vibrant citrus and lime character that defines the hop.

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Flavour & Aroma Profile

Expect bright, refreshing notes of:

• Lime zest

• Citrus

• Subtle tropical fruit

• Light herbal character

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Brewing Applications

Motueka is ideal for brewers looking to create fresh, citrus-forward beers with a clean finish.

Perfect for:

• Lagers

• Pilsners

• IPAs

• Saisons

Works particularly well for:

• Late additions to highlight lime and citrus notes

• Dry hopping for bright, zesty aroma

• Adding a fresh twist to traditional styles

Popular in:

• New Zealand-style Pilsners

• Modern Pale Ales and IPAs

• Saisons and farmhouse ales with citrus character

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Substitutes

If you’re looking for similar hop varieties, consider:

• Saaz

• Riwaka

• Nelson Sauvin

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Specifications

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Freshness, Packaging & Traceability

At The Malt Miller, we take hop quality seriously. All hops are stored in our temperature-controlled cold store to maintain their freshness, aroma, and brewing performance.

Each pack is nitrogen flushed and sealed in a high-quality, resealable mylar bag. This protects the hops from light, oxygen, and moisture — preserving their essential oils and alpha acids until you’re ready to brew.

Every pack is labelled with a batch code, allowing full traceability back to the supplier. This means you can access detailed information such as alpha acid content and harvest year, giving you complete confidence and consistency in your brewing.

Sold in 100g mylar bags, nitrogen flushed, and cold stored to ensure you get ingredients of the same quality that professional brewer would receive.

Also available by the gram to create your own bespoke recipes using our Recipe Generator

Hop Revolution is committed to growing high-health hops, developing new and exciting varietals and trialling growing techniques to produce the unique flavours our brewers are seeking.

We are partnering with others and have our own inhouse science programme and nursery to ensure the best plants are growing on our gardens.

We have installed two brand new Wolf 1000 Pickers and Wolf Kilns to ensure our hops are dried and conditioned to the highest quality.

Our hops are grown, dried and baled onsite before being transported in cold storage in a bale form to the USA where they are pelletised and distributed directly to Brewers in USA and Canada.

Our model is to partner with leading pelletisation and cold storage facilities in-market, to utilise the best facilities available and to provide fast and reliable delivery timeframes to our brewers.

Back in 1980, a feisty South Island craft brewer named Terry McCashin came out of the hills of Nelson and single-handedly took on the two big breweries that controlled almost every aspect of beer production and distribution in New Zealand.

An ex-All Black rugby player with a reputation for hard-tackling, McCashin simply wasn’t born to follow.

Driven by his own passion for the potential of New Zealand hops, he took on the big boys by establishing his own craft brewery and his own craft beer brand, (Mac’s).

Fast forward to 2014. Dr Wheeler and Kerry Skilton, inspired and encouraged by McCashin, collaborate to create what is now New Zealand’s largest single site hop garden (116ha).

Today the hops produced on the gardens of Hop Revolution reflect not only the vision we have to bring New Zealand’s most flavoursome hops to the world but also who we are as a close-knit family of brewers, plant scientists, farmers, nurserymen and kiwis who just love a great challenge!

Now UK home brewers have their first chance to use the finest quality New Zealand hops direct from one of the worlds leading growers thanks to a new partnership with The Malt Miller where are are going direct to the farms to source the finest hops around the world.

We contract and source our hops from the finest merchants and farms around the world, ensuring you get the chance to brew with the same high quality product that professional breweries use.

Using mylar bags which prevent light degradation of the hops, flushing the bags with nitrogen to remove oxygen and cold storage of them until ordered by you, ensures the hops are as fresh as possible.

If you want to learn more about hops and how to use them then check out our Help Centre where you will find blog posts and our Brew With Us ESSENTIALS and we also have some great content on our YouTube channel about hops too.