Where we share everything we learn along this journey
Last week I put out our first 6 of our Top 11 lessons building Black Hops and in today’s post I’ll go through the final 5 lessons and some thoughts on navigating the brewery valley of death. 6. Don’t Get Too Creative But Also Get Very Creative We’ve learned a few lessons when it comes to being creative with our …
Our book Operation Brewery details all of our various decisions before starting Black Hops. A lot has changed since we started and we’ve learned many valuable lessons. In this post I’ll go through 11 of the most important lessons we’ve learned in the last 6 years. We started with a home brew in 2014 and eventually our own small $400k …
In this article I’ll run through our brewery software and every other piece of software I can think of that we use at Black Hops.
In 2016 we wrote the article Craft beer prices: how much does beer cost to make?. It’s the most popular post we’ve ever put on this blog, and I’ve been meaning to get around to updating it. So here is the updated post on how much it costs us to make beer. What’s changed The cost of beer for us …
For the past few months we’ve been working on a new project here at Black Hops, building our very own barrel aged beer barrel room and taproom. Actually if you go back far enough, this project has been in the works for a few years. The AWOL Story Like Black Hops itself, AWOL started a little bit by accident. Back …
Cheers to everyone who got behind our local delivery app Supply Drop which launched in the first week of the COVID-19 shut downs. It’s been truly epic to still get beer out to people during the last few months and do it in a fun way using our existing team and delivering beers that would previously have only been available …
Thank you to all our incredible, supportive customers, thank you for still coming in to our taprooms for your takeaway beers. We are so excited to announce we are opening our doors and turning our taps on for onsite consumption from tomorrow Friday 5th June. Things will run within a few new guidelines, please see those below, and we will …
On Friday, 29 May the official judging took place for the first round of our Black Hops Reserves Brew At Home Comp. We received 75 entries for our Round 1 beer, Hornet IPA. Our judging panel had a lot of fun sampling the entries and awarding rankings, based on our true to brand guidelines. Congratulations to all our entrants, we …
Just like Sour beers, Hazy beers are all the rage right now in Aussie craft beer circles. We talked about Sours and how we brew them on the blog not so long ago. So now it’s time to delve into the juiced up, murky world of Hazy IPA’s. It’s also good timing after we recently added long time cult fan …
When the team at GABS announced that GABS wouldn’t be happening in May / June this year we, like many of you were pretty disappointed. GABS has been a big part of our story having attended the event before Black Hops existed and having submitted beers since before we had our own brewery. We also had a fun idea for …
