As you may have already heard, we have recently opened a second, even larger Black Hops brewery on the Gold Coast, Black Hops II. To get us over the line we used equity crowdfunding which has recently become approved in Australia for Pty Ltd companies. Running a brewery is an expensive game, and we’ve always been transparent in how we’ve …
[PRESS RELEASE] Operation Brewery book launched: three guys’ journey from drinkers to brewery owners
This is a press release for the launch of our book Operation Brewery, which tells the story of our journey from craft beer drinkers to brewery owners.
How to make craft beer tap decals and keg collars on the cheap
Brewing beer isn’t all glamourous. There’s another side of getting your beer into bars that needs to be considered and that’s cutting out lots of circles.
In this post, we run through how to make great looking tap decals and keg collars on a shoestring budget.
How to make commercial beer (our first batch of Eggnog stout)
In this post we run through the detailed process of how we have made our first commercial beer.
We cover everything from yeast prep, to milling the grain, all the way through to kegging and choosing our launch venue.
How to get branded beer shirts and caps
While working on securing our brewery arrangement, we progressed with the merch side of things. With the labels and stickers sorted, we’ve moved onto shirts and caps. All of the detail is discussed in this post.
How to print low volume beer labels
In this post we run through how to print low volume beer labels locally on the Gold Coast for a reasonable price. We also give away our template for you to use yourself.