Where we share everything we learn along this journey
If you’ve followed our journey until now, you will know that we’ve always been open about how we are financing Black Hops. Building a brewery costs money and from early on, we’ve documented a range of options we’ve used to make it happen. From our very first podcast where we recorded conversations with potential investors, to our successful reward-based crowdfunding …
We are excited to announce our latest Community @ Black Hops initiative. Friend of Black Hops, Wade Curtis, is a huge part of our beginnings. Wade founded 4 Hearts Brewing in Ipswich QLD and back when we were gypsy brewing, he gave us access to his brewery to brew some of the first batches of Black Hops beers. One of …
We are excited to announce that shortly we will be running our equity crowdfunding campaign. In 2015 in an Australian first, we launched our brewery using a crowdfunding campaign to help fund the opening. After waiting a long time for equity crowdfunding to become legal in Australia, we are now aiming to launch our second brewery, in another first, via …
Recently on the blog we posted an update on how the new Black Hops brewery is progressing. We briefly discussed some of the new brewing equipment required to meet our up-scaled production targets. But that was only scratching the surface. So in this 2-part post we’ll dig into our specific equipment we are running with for BHII. In this post …
Here at Black Hops, we’ve always been conscious about giving back to the community. From the beginning, we’ve been willing to share our brewery insights and lessons via our ‘no secrets’ blog posts, podcast episodes, book, live events and more to help others get a leg up in the industry. But now we want to do more. Black Hops is …
About Black Hops Black Hops Brewing started as 3 mates making beer and sharing everything they learn along the way. In 2014, Dan, Eddie and Govs made their first beer, the Eggnog Stout, after discussing the concept at the pub. That led them to opening up a brewery and taproom in Burleigh Heads in 2016, and being awarded Australia’s Champion …
Welcome to the October edition of the Black Hops newsletter. A bunch of new beers for October!! Spring is in full swing, so we’ve bounced into the warm weather zone with FIVE new beers for October, including a Black Hops first for our limited run, Recon Series range. Covert Red – Amber Ale (available online) We decided to brew an …
About Black Hops Black Hops Brewing started as 3 mates making beer and sharing everything they learn along the way. In 2014, Dan, Eddie and Govs made their first beer, the Eggnog Stout, after discussing the concept at the pub. That led them to opening up a brewery and taproom in Burleigh Heads in 2016, and being awarded Australia’s Champion …
As you may already know, next year we’ll be opening a second brewery, on the Northern end of the Gold Coast. We found the perfect location in the original Riviera sheds on Pine Ridge Road in Arundel. You can read all about how we got there on the blog. The space is a 1,300sqm warehouse with 8m ceilings and a …
In this post, we have a close look at what equipment we started out with at Black Hops, then delve into the equipment upgrades we’ve undertaken over the past 2 years.
