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For the past 31 years respected business publication The Australian Financial Review (AFR) have published their Fast 100 and Fast Starters lists, in recognition of the fastest growing businesses and start ups in Australia over the previous 12 months. This was our first year of being eligible for the Fast 100 list, so we were stoked to be recognised as …
The GABS Can Design Awards, now into their second year, are held in recognition of the fine art of designing a killer craft beer can. At last year’s inaugural event we were stoked to make the list of finalists with our limited release Moondancer Hazy IPA, with can designer Troy creating a new character, affectionately dubbed ‘Hop Man’, dancing around …
After a hiatus last year, the Australian International Beer Awards (AIBA’s) were back again in 2021, with the Black Hops founders heading down to Melbourne on 20 May to represent as part of the bulging Queensland contingent of craft brewers. The AIBA’s have been going for over 25 years and are the largest annual draft and packaged beer competition in …
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 …
On 3 March a Black Hops contingent headed up to the Royal Brisbane Showgrounds for the Royal Qld Food & Wine Show (RQFWS) Beer Awards. These annual awards allow breweries from all over Australia to showcase their beers and gain valuable feedback leading into the Australian International Beer Awards (AIBAs) in May. Having performed strongly at these awards previously we …
On Wednesday, 4 September a Black Hops contingent headed down to Melbourne for the seventh annual BrewCon and Trade Expo, which culminated at The Independent Beer Awards (aka ‘The Indies’). This was our first time attending both the Expo and the Awards Night. During the day of the conference it was good to mingle with our independent brewing colleagues from …
On Thursday 16 May we joined our craft beer industry friends at the annual Australian International Beer Awards (AIBA’s). We have attended the awards for the last 4 years thanks to our generous partners Cryer Malt and HopCo who have given us seats at their tables. This year it was a real thrill for the founders to take the brew …
The Gold Coast craft beer community are a pretty tight knit fraternity, so it was great to see a bunch of us do well at the recent Royal Qld Food & Wine Show (RQFWS) Beer Awards, which took place at the Brisbane Showgrounds on 13 March. A strong Black Hops contingent went up on the day, including Black Hops founders …
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.
