Where we share everything we learn along this journey
The words ‘water chemistry’ are probably not the first thing that most people associate with brewing great beer. But without the correct water chemistry balance of salts, ions and minerals during the brewing process, your beer won’t be what it should be.
Black Hops has always prided itself on pushing the boundaries when it comes to creative beers. In this article we’ll go through how we are approaching brewing some of our more interesting beers.
Situation: Black Hops is seeking to acquire a brewer to join their special operations team at their Burleigh Heads base “HQ” Mission: The successful recruit will possess the ability to think quickly on their feet, adapt to new surroundings and challenges and have an insatiable love for all things beer. To be eligible you must have an understanding of the …
Black Hops Brewing is located in Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast, Queensland. We are looking for an energetic, focused and motivated person to join our beer loving team on a full time basis with the very important job of getting our beer to the people.
A few months ago, beer sales gun Darren Kearns (Kearnsy) started working for us at Black Hops. If you aren’t familiar with the legend that is Kearnsy, please watch this video at once. Anyway once Kearnsy started, we made some serious changes to how we do sales at Black Hops (I’ll be writing about those changes soon). One of the biggest …
It’s been 3 years now since the concept of Black Hops was born, off the back of Eddie’s original idea to brew an Eggnog Stout. One thing we’ve learnt over the journey so far is that operating a brewery is an expensive business. In this post we go into detail about how we raised $400,000 in our latest investment round …
India Pale Ales (aka IPA’s) are one of the most popular beer styles in craft beer circles. In this post we discuss the history of IPA’s, what gives them their unique flavour and walk you through the Black Hops range of seasonal IPA’s.
Situation: Black Hops Brewing is located in Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast and is one of the latest craft breweries to hit South East Queensland. We are looking for an energetic, focused and motivated person to join our beer loving team on a casual basis to help pour beers at our taproom. The Mission: We are looking for someone …
A question we often get asked is, WTF is the difference between a Porter and a Stout? So our head brewer, Govs, has had a shot at solving the riddle and explaining the difference between these two fine styles of ale.
Equity crowdfunding is expected to be legal in Australia for Pty Ltd companies from 2018. Since it’s been legal overseas for a while, we thought it would be useful to look at some success stories from other breweries.
