Polly's Brew Co. Chinook Ekuanot Pale Ale

Through every iteration of our growth over the last demi-decade, one thing that has persisted throughout is this brewery’s love of hops, and how we’ve born an entire business that now looks after the livelihoods of fourteen team members from this love. The Hop Studio felt like a natural extension of this love - showcasing the single most complex, wonderfully diverse ingredient we use in our process bar none. Without Chinook, it could be argued that there would be no modern craft beer movement full stop. That incredibly aggressive, piney, grapefruit bite has influenced an entire landscape, and without it, modern beer as we know it may look very different all together. A cross between English variety Petham Golding, and a USDA male hop, first cultivated all the way back in 1985 - this is the grandaddy of American hops; utilised in some of the most influential beers of all time - from Stone’s landmark IPA, through BrewDog’s Punk IPA, all the way to Cloudwater’s game changing DIPA v3, this is a hop intrinsically linked through craft beer’s young but varied history, and we’re ever thankful for it. Cheers!