Nelson Sauvin Hops – New Zealand – 11–13% AA

A world-renowned New Zealand hop with distinctive white wine and gooseberry character

Nelson Sauvin is one of the most iconic New Zealand hop varieties, celebrated for its unique white wine-like character and bold fruit profile. With notes of gooseberry, grape, and tropical fruit, it delivers a distinctive aroma that sets it apart from other hops.

Highly sought after by brewers, Nelson Sauvin is ideal for creating expressive, modern beers with a crisp, fruit-driven edge.

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Key Features

• 🇳🇿 Origin: New Zealand

• 🌿 Flavour: White grape, gooseberry, tropical fruit, citrus

• 🍺 Best For: IPAs, Pale Ales, Saisons, Lagers

• 🔬 Alpha Acid: 11–13%

• 🧪 Hop Type: Dual Purpose

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About Nelson Sauvin Hops

Nelson Sauvin was developed by New Zealand’s Plant & Food Research programme and released as part of a new generation of hops designed to deliver distinctive aroma profiles.

Its name reflects its similarity to Sauvignon Blanc wine, with its hallmark gooseberry and white grape character. This unique flavour profile has made it a favourite among brewers looking to create beers with a crisp, wine-like edge.

Nelson Sauvin is highly versatile, performing well in a range of styles. It is particularly effective in late additions and dry hopping, where its bold aromatics can fully develop.

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Heritage & Lineage

Nelson Sauvin is part of New Zealand’s modern hop breeding programme, developed to produce distinctive, flavour-driven varieties for contemporary brewing.

It has played a key role in shaping the global popularity of New Zealand hops, influencing the development and use of fruit-forward varieties.

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Flavour & Aroma Profile

Expect bold, distinctive notes of:

• White grape

• Gooseberry

• Tropical fruit

• Citrus zest

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Brewing Applications

Nelson Sauvin is ideal for brewers looking to create expressive, aromatic beers with a unique twist.

Perfect for:

• IPAs

• Pale Ales

• Saisons

• Lagers

Works particularly well for:

• Late additions to maximise aroma

• Dry hopping for intense fruit character

• Creating crisp, wine-like beer profiles

Popular in:

• New Zealand-style IPAs and Pale Ales

• Saisons and farmhouse beers with a wine-like edge

• Modern lagers with a fruit-forward twist

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Substitutes

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

• Hallertau Blanc

• Motueka

• Galaxy

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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.