Where we share everything we learn along this journey
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.
*Update Friday 14 September* In the last 24 hours we have had a chance to re-gather our thoughts on yesterday’s events. Our original apology can still be found below, here we have a few things to add. First off, we are absolutely genuinely sorry for our actions. It’s been a real wake up call for us, who for the most …
Regular Black Hops drinkers would have noticed that over the past few months we’ve brought out a few colourful and highly distinctive full wrap can designs. It’s been a bit of a departure from the minimalist can designs we have for our core range of beers, which we covered in this post. We thought we’d have a bit of fun …
As a rapidly growing business, Black Hops is regularly looking for staff to help with key parts of the business. At the moment we are looking for team members in the following 3 areas. If you are interested in any of these roles, please make contact with the relevant manager. If you have any general questions about working for Black …
In this post we’ll run through our plans for building our new brewery, Black Hops II, and let you know what’s in store with this exciting phase of our growth.
Find out what went down when Black Hops founders Eddie, Govs and Dan headed down to Melbourne for the AIBA/GABS doubleheader Awards Nights recently.
We are still revelling in the high of last weeks’ results at the Australian International Beer Awards (AIBA’s) where Black Hops Brewery received the trophy for the Australian Champion Small Brewery. In this post we wanted to thank a few people and give a bit of a backstory on what our results mean to us.
