• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Advertise
  • About Craft Brewing Business

Craft Brewing Business

Professional Insight, Unfiltered

  • News
  • Business & Marketing
  • Ingredients & Supplies
  • Packaging & Distribution
  • Equipment
  • Webinars & White Papers
  • COVID-19

Meet the next great Australian hop from HPA: Eclipse

November 10, 2020Pretty Much a Press Release

Eclipse

Hop Products Australia (HPA) has produced a new proprietary variety from its hop breeding program. Eclipse is a big-hitting, fruit-forward flavor hop bursting with sweet mandarin, zesty citrus peel and fresh pine needles. It is yet another exciting addition to their portfolio of uniquely Australian flavor hops that already includes world renowned varieties such as Galaxy, Vic Secret, Ella and Enigma.

History. Eclipse was first developed by HPA’s hop breeding program in 2004, but its ancestry can be traced as far back as 1915. The subsequent generations of cross pollination featured varieties such as Fuggle, Brewer’s Gold, Comet and Pride of Ringwood in the uniquely Australian environment.

Profile. Since Eclipse sits firmly in the fruit quadrant of HPA’s Hop Flavor Spectrum it is well suited to fruit-forward beer styles, so you can expect a bit of everything from high impact hazy NEIPAs to lighter well-balanced IPAs. Ash Hazell, Head of Brewing at Colonial Brewing Co, used Eclipse back when it was still an experimental hop called HPA-016. He says “the best
beer I ever brewed was Pioneer. It was a 7.5% IPA using a foolish amount of whole HPA016 hops in the hop-back and dry-hopping. The full spectrum of hop character we extracted was unreal.”

Availability? Eclipse is currently only available in the Australian market, but will start to reach the rest of the world in commercial quantities from crop 2021. Stock will be limited for the first few years while HPA sustainably scale up production. Forward contracts are encouraged to secure your supply.

Get a taste. To celebrate the commercialization of Eclipse, HPA is teaming up with Beer Cartel, Australia’s #1 online craft beer store, and a feast of local breweries to create a special mixed pack. It will include 12 tasty beers starring their latest creation from the likes of Deeds, Hop Nation, Moo Brew, Mountain Culture, Mr Banks and Two Birds. The Eclipse Mixed Pack will
be available to beer drinkers across Australia through Beer Cartel’s online store.

HPA-hops-Australia
Hop Products Australia commissions new processing facility ahead of the commercial hop harvest
australia hop report
Results from the 2018 Australia hop harvest
Watch: BSG Hops brings Humulus U online in 2020, now dig all these free modules on hops and brewing
YCH Solar Panel Press Release 2
Yakima Chief Hops adds solar panels atop six of its buildings

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Primary Sidebar

Latest News

  • Beer rebrands continue: Ballast Point, Fremont, New Glory and Blue Point (also, enjoy some tips for your refresh)
  • Colorado Strong launches public awareness campaign to help independent breweries
  • Here’s a video recap of 2020 from Deep Ellum Brewing, complete with dubstep score
  • Malt maker Rahr purchases all of eco energy maker Koda

Sign up for our newsletter

unsubscribe from list

Most Popular Today

Recent Features

  • Beer rebrands continue: Ballast Point, Fremont, New Glory and Blue Point (also, enjoy some tips for your refresh)
    January 21, 2021
  • virginia-beer-co-renovationHow Virginia Beer Co. used the shutdown to overhaul its facility (and keep people employed)
    January 19, 2021
  • Clean air, clean beer: New Ingersoll Rand oil-less reciprocating air compressors are ideal for breweries (aeration to canning)
    January 18, 2021
  • Non-alcoholic beer brand Athletic Brewing closes $17M+ in funding with famous backers, selects Crafted ERP, eyes big growth
    January 18, 2021
  • Watch: This awareness video on human trafficking from beer wholesaler Markstein Sales will move you to action
    January 14, 2021
  • Distribution updates: Massachusetts brewers celebrate franchise reform, Yuengling goes to Texas with Molson Coors and more from Bell’s, Stone and beyond
    January 14, 2021

Footer

  • Email Newsletter Sign Up
  • About Craft Brewing Business
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise on Craft Brewing Business
  • Media Kit Download
  • Privacy and Terms

© 2021 · CBB Media LLC

Continue ...

sponsored by