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. Of all the newer school hops that exist in our day to day brewing here at Polly’s HQ today, there may not be one quite as fun to work with as El Dorado. A product of Moxee Farms in the Yakima valley and first cultivated in 2008, this Stateside variety displays exceptional characteristics across the board; from its high oil content that make it a wonderful bittering hop, all the way up to its aromatic profile that exhibits flavours of mango, pear, watermelon and (in our minds anyway) jelly tot sweets. All hail the hop as valuable to us here at Polly’s as its mythical namesake.