Polly’s Essentials Box 12-Pack

EXTRA PALE ALE | 4.2% | AZACCA, CITRA, SIMCOE - Sometimes you just want a beer that is mega sessionable. Our Core pale ale is delicious, hazy juicebomb of a beer, balanced with enough bitterness to keep drinkers coming back for more. A baby version of our incredibly popular Spur IPA - Floret is positively bursting at the seams with peach, mango, and pineapple notes, backed up with pithy orange peel from its Citra, Simcoe and Azacca hop bill.

INDIA PALE ALE | 5.6% | CITRA, GALAXY, MOSAIC, SIMCOE - Our flagship core beer - the style we're most well known for, and what we do best. Rosebud is an IPA in the New England style - the most popular variant of the style in the world. We've hopped this beer with Citra, Galaxy, Mosaic and Simcoe to create a certified tropical punchbowl of flavour. Strong enough to retain all that incredible mouthfeel, but sessionable enough to smash pints of.

PALE ALE (GLUTEN FREE) | 5.0% | CHINOOK, IDAHO 7, MOSAIC - We never like to have to exclude anyone from enjoying the experience of a Polly’s beer. We had it in mind that bringing a gluten-free beer to our output was the sensible thing to do for what felt like an eternity, and thanks to advancements in our brewing technology we’re delighted to bring Pine to the Polly’s party. Wrapped up in the style that we know and trust best, this pale ale encapsulates everything we’ve grown our reputation to over the last six years, but safe for those with an intolerance to the products in our regular output. Not cutting any corners here, we’ve brought Mosaic Spectrum, Idaho 7 and Chinook to the dance on this beer to create a pale ale positively bursting with tropical, pineapple and clean pine notes.

LAGER BEER | 4.7% | SAAZ, HALLERTAU MITTELFRÜH - When we were looking to expand our core range, we analysed what it was that other breweries had in their arsenal and it became obvious to really do a core range well, we’d need a lager as part of our output. Stripping things entirely back to basics with our effort, Pilsner is a straight up, no frills lager; brewed in honour of those incredible German and Czech styles that we treat as a reward for ourselves after a long week at the brewkit. A very simple grist bill imparts biscuit sweetness to play off a noble hop addition of Mittelfruh and Saaz to honour those aforementioned Czech and German masters for a pilsner that is crisp, clean, and delightfully moreish.

INDIA PALE ALE | 6.5% | NECTARON - We’ve said it plenty of times before, but Nectaron landing at Polly’s HQ was an event in itself when we first got our hands on it in 2024. After what felt like an eternity of emailing and harassing our hop merchant when we finally got a bag into our hands and took a whiff upon opening it up, we knew we had a future lifeblood hop on our hands. As one of the most exciting hops to emerge from New Zealand’s world renowned hop breeding program, and taking over 17 years to perfect, the long development has paid off with possibly one of the most sought after and in demand hops on the planet today. River Season is a single hop tribute to the wonders those magicians working in the South Pacific are capable of - a big, bold IPA with a robust 19g/l dry-hop charge, creating a beer that does its heritage proud. Juicy grapefruit, ultra-ripe tropical fruits and bright, punchy pineapple notes are singing on this beer that showcases what we love about consistently discovering new hops to work with.

SOUR | 4.5% | CHERRY, SEA SALT - A love story five years in the making finally reaches its apex; our first ever sour beer has grown up and become part of our core range. A labour of love for our sour beer wizard Lally, we’d always maintained previously that we’d never attempt a style unless we worked with a brewery that knew what they were doing, or we’d bring someone on board comfortable with it. To have elevated one of our sour beers to regular brew status shows just how much faith we have in our fruit-forward output, and Cherry does exactly what it says on the tin - sweet morello cherries dance alongside gentle sourness, with a slight savoury edge.

PALE ALE | 4.7% | MEGA MOTUEKA, WAI-ITI, RAKAU - The clocks have leapt forward, the nights are drawing out, so it must mean only one thing - beer garden weather is firmly in the pipeline. Those hazy sun-soaked evenings where it’s warm enough to wear a light-jacket, or heaven forbid a tshirt, and good times are shared with pals over the course of several smashable pints. We’ve specifically designed Wavy Blue with this situation in mind, and brought in the expertise of three separate hop merchants to select their favourite cold side NZ hops to create a definitive beer garden beer. First up is an in house favourite Rakau, bringing intense fresh apricot, stonefruit and passionfruit notes to the party. Second, an infrequent visitor to Polly’s, but one we relish to work with whenever we get the opportunity in Wai-Iti, and with it a metric tonne of pithy lime citrus notes, before a final flourish of Mega Motueka - a blend born from collaboration beween Freestyle Hops and Phantasm to create the most sun-drenched, tropical burst of flavour they possibly can. The result? An easy drinking pale ale that is perfectly crushable and fully tuned into the longer evenings ahead.

DOUBLE IPA | 8.4% | CITRA, EKUANOT, GALAXY, MOSAIC, SIMCOE - Back for good as part of our Icons range, if Galaxy Mosaic IPA was the beer that set off some rumbles for us, then Rosa was the beer that smashed through the glass ceiling and planted us firmly on the map. Gaining near-universal praise from drinkers and industry insiders when we first brewed it in 2019 for our UK-wide Augment launch, for all the incredible places our Augment range has branched off into since then, we love coming back to what we feel is the benchmark for our DIPAs, and our brewers certainly get giddy with excitement when they know our headline beer is back on the brew plans. Featuring a five-hop mega line up of Simcoe, Galaxy, Mosaic, Citra and Ekuanot, this beer is sticky, juicy, piney and dank - 100% Polly's.

MARZEN | 5.7% | MANDARINA BAVARIA - Grab the steins, Polly's has just boarded the Oktoberfest train! It feels almost sacrelige to be a brewery in the modern day and age, and not have ourselves involved in Oktoberfest festivities. Knowing that members of our team have been over to Germany separately over the years, we wanted to bring the party squarely back to Polly's HQ, and our festbier is the result. Although we could have gone for one of the more well known styles, we're purists at heart and decided to go for the historically significant style of a Marzen for our entry this year. Traditionally brewed in March, hence the name, this bold and robust lager is a delight for the senses; rich and full of malt-driven flavour with a crisp finish.

INDIA PALE ALE | 6.0% | SUPERDELIC - It feels as though there’s a new hype hop that lands on our radars almost weekly here at Polly’s and we absolutely live for it. With hop farming as progressive as it’s ever been, there has literally never been a better time to be a hop-forward brewery and we’re honoured to be part of a community that is lucky enough to work with the products the best producers are creating year on year. Superdelic is the latest to have landed on our radar and if a hop could check every box then this would be it. From the wizards at NZ Hops, this variety was concentrated and carefully bred over the course of literally years to express only the most potent sweet fruit characteristics; specifically raspberries, sweet candy and overripe mango. What better to execute this incredible hop in then than a straight up, all out Polly’s IPA? Delicious from start to finish.

PALE ALE | 5.3% | PINK, SIMCOE, SIMCOE CRYO - We’ve got a pretty good working relationship with our hop merchants, but it certainly doesn’t harm every now and again to do a little shakedown with our reps to see what the latest experimental hops coming out of the farms are. When we learned about ID-158, dubbed “PINK” after its distinctive trial markers in the field, we were immediately curious and charmed. Bringing all the usual intense citrus and stonefruit flavours we’d expect from Jackson Farms over in Idaho, but with an undercurrent of honey, jazz apple and vanilla, we clamoured to get this incredible sounding hop into a beer, and Velvet Motion is the result. Conscious that it might lean too heavily into the overly sweet territory, we’ve dosed this beer with not only T90 Simcoe, but Cryo Simcoe to boot to bring the balance with just a whisper of pine and pithy citrus rind, but enough apricot and passionfruit to act as a compliment to this incredible experimental hop.

IRISH DRY STOUT | 4.6% | - Whilst we’re very much a tropical and fruit forward pale and hoppy brewery by trade, we do occasionally brew to the seasons here at Polly’s HQ. With it being the peak of winter, we’re yearning for something simple, to be enjoyed in front of a roaring fire in a pub with mates. Step in the aptly named Jumper Season. Taking influence from the Irish pubs we’ve independently all experienced and collectively loved, the quota on this beer was to create a purposely full bodied Irish stout; letting the malt and the malt alone do the talking on this beer. Going off the beaten track with Maris Otter malt, we’ve backed this up with roasted barley and flaked barley to create a velvety smooth, decadent stout that isn’t extreme on the strength. Perfect for this time of year.