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In late April we added a new beer to the Black Hops core range, an easy drinking 4.5% Hazy Pale Ale called East Coast Haze, a beer inspired by our hometown of the Gold Coast – the place we live and love. The story behind the beer involves an interesting journey, so in this post we’ll revisit the origins of …
Welcome to Season 4 Episode 2 of the Operation Brewery podcast. This season is all about our new Barrel-aged beer project, AWOL. In today’s episode, we sit in the AWOL barrel aged beer taproom an hour before we first open to the public and run through our first 8 AWOL beers. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or Android. …
Gold Coast, Queensland: April 2021. Award winning Gold Coast craft brewery Black Hops have unveiled the latest addition to their core range of beers, a 4.5% Hazy Pale Ale known as East Coast Haze. The eighth beer to become a Black Hops core range staple, East Coast Haze is described as: A cool coastal breeze in the golden sunshine, this …
We recently announced that we’re about to commence a three million dollar upgrade to our primary production brewery at Biggera Waters (BHII) on the Northern Gold Coast with the purchase and pending implementation of a new, state of the art packaging line solution. You can read the press release here. It’s a big step up for us, but a necessary …
The Operating Brewery podcast is back for Season 4. This season is all about our new Barrel-aged beer project, AWOL. In Episode 1 we go into the story on how AWOL came to be. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or Android. Click here to access all episodes of the Operation Brewery Podcast. Mentions AWOL taproom and tours Black …
Gold Coast, Queensland: April 2021 Award winning Gold Coast craft brewery Black Hops are opening Queensland’s first dedicated barrel aged beer taproom, known as AWOL. Barrel aged beers are made using an ancient brewing technique which results in the fermenting beers being transferred to oak barrels that have previously stored wine or spirits. They are then left to age for …
If you are like us you’ll be triggered by a great beer presented in a dirty glass. We’re always tempted to join the Facebook chorus and yell ‘Dirty Glass!’ everytime we see one. But now we don’t have to, because we offer you this post. Drinking beer from a glass should hit that magical sweet spot of how it looks …
The GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beer countdown is the biggest ‘people’s choice’ craft beer poll in the country, with 1000’s of beers from all over Australia vying for the chance to claim a place within the pantheon of the favourite craft beers in the land. This year’s countdown took place on Saturday, 23 January, and the vibe across our …
If you’ve followed our story recently you may know that Black Hops founders Govs, Eddie and myself recently went off the beaten track on an overnight, ‘not so covert’ mission to brew a wild fermented ale. With the pending launch of our AWOL barrel aged beer brand and taproom, we wanted to tap into an ancient brewing technique known as …
Back in 2018 we wrote a blog post called Water Chemistry: The Science of Brewing an Epic Beer, where we talked about the importance of water in the brewing process. Despite being plain on the eye and palate, water is actually a complex chemical beast, consisting of salts, ions and minerals, that must be analysed and tweaked during the brewing …
