2025 Australian Hop Crop Report
Hop Products Australia (HPA) has released their 2025 Hop Crop Report.
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Hop Products Australia (HPA) have completed this year’s harvest. They picked 566 hectares across Victoria and Tasmania, which resulted in 1,468 tonnes of hops. This was a 128 tonne (9.5%) increase despite a 104 hectare (15.5%) decrease across six proprietary hops – Eclipse®, Ella™, Enigma®, Galaxy®, Topaz™ and Vic Secret™ – as well as Australian Cascade. The bumper crop is thanks to some near-perfect weather conditions that allowed farm operations to run as planned, resulting in a great foundation for HPA Hop Central’s first year of production.
Global demand for hops remains soft in the current oversupply situation, with many brewers still working through a backlog of previous crop years. This led HPA to idle 32% of their gardens. HPA used this production decrease as an opportunity to focus on soil remediation, cover cropping, cycling rootstock, and scaling up leading experimental hops in their breeding program.
Impact in beer is expected to remain strong, with this year’s average oil content coming in slightly below or equal to the 5-year average for most proprietary hops. The star performer this year was Ella, with both oils and alphas above the 5-year average, which should deliver a real depth of flavor and complexity when paired with other new world hops. Eclipse, Galaxy and Vic Secret all experienced a slight decrease in alphas, and are expected to produce some well-balanced beers with true-to-type flavors and aromas.
HPA’s mission is to deliver the highest possible quality, with the lowest possible flavor variability. For the past two crop years they have worked alongside us at John I. Haas to exclude material that is not true-to-type from our blends, which are based on the whole-crop averages for oils, alphas, moisture and HSI.
Commissioning Hop Central has set an even higher standard, harnessing cold chain bale storage, temperature-controlled production rooms, and modern pelleting and packaging equipment. It is a highly efficient operation that has reduced processing time, retained a higher percentage of oils in the finished product, and minimized residual oxygen in the final packaging.
Our entire industry, from growers and suppliers to brewers, is facing countless challenges because of unfavorable bureaucratic, economic and environmental conditions. It is more important than ever for Haas and HPA to work in partnership with our brewing customers. Communicating early and often is the best way to ensure we have your needs covered, whether that be availability of proprietary hops for core range beers, commercializing experimental hops for flavor diversity, or innovative hop products for more sustainable beverages. We are here to help our brewing customers create awesome flavors that bring hoppiness to beer lovers everywhere.
