Little Creatures uses whole hop flowers rather than pellets in both Little Creatures Pale ale and Rogers’ Beer to access the all important resins and oils.

Cascade and Chinook flowers are specially selected from Oregon in the U.S. for their high quality aromatic and bittering characters.

The Hops grow in valleys below the Cascade Mountains in Oregon, offering ideal climates to grow some of the best hop vines in the world.

Little Creatures Brewery holds it’s own quarantine permit, allowing the hops to be brought straight to the brewery maintaining freshness.

A little something special...
The Little CreaturesHopback

A basket full of hop flowers that is submerged into the unfermented beer. The hopback acts like a giant "tea bag", infusing the full flavours and aromas from the hop flowers into the beer.

• Perennial flowering vine that grows up to 5-6m high
• Hops were first used as a medicinal herb in Egypt
• Hops are a member of the cannabis family
• The flowers of the vine are picked and dried for the use in brewing
• Hop flowers contain essential oils which contribute aroma and flavour in beer as well as natural acids for bittering qualities
• Hops act as a natural preservative for beer
• There are many varieties of hops grown all around the world, each one offering different characters to beer
• Hops are quite often compacted into pellet form, for ease in handling and storage

• Saaz – Czech Republic, classic variety for Pilsener
• Goldings – U.K., traditionally for English ales
• Pride of Ringwood – Tasmania, commonly used in Australian lagers
• Hersbrucker – Germany, spicy dry hop for lagers
• Cascade – U.S.A., very floral aroma for US style pale ale
• Chinook - for bittering character, gives a zesty grapefruit taste
• Cascade - very aromatic hop, gives a unique floral aroma