“How do you come up with beer ideas”? This is by far the most common question we get asked, and to be honest we haven’t done the best job at answering it. Until now.
How We Brew The Classic Styles At Black Hops
As part of an ongoing series of posts on the Black Hops Blog, we’ve gone into the nitty-gritty of how we brew particular styles of beer. So far we’ve talked about how we brew: Hazy IPA’s Low Gluten Beers Sour Beers Now it’s time to get back to basics and talk about brewing so-called ‘classic’ beer styles, in particular Lagers. …
Hazy Beers And How We Brew Them At Black Hops
Just like Sour beers, Hazy beers are all the rage right now in Aussie craft beer circles. We talked about Sours and how we brew them on the blog not so long ago. So now it’s time to delve into the juiced up, murky world of Hazy IPA’s. It’s also good timing after we recently added long time cult fan …
G.O.A.T. Hazy IPA Now Part Of Our Core Range Beers
G.O.A.T. is a Hazy IPA that has gotten a lot of love, ever since we brewed it for the 2018 AIBA Awards as a small batch beer (to coincide with the introduction of the ‘hazy’ beer category for the first time). We brewed it with high expectations and named it accordingly and the beer delivered, taking out a Gold Medal …
A Wrap Up Of Our Limited Release Beers for 2019
At the start of 2019 we committed to doing a limited release for bars and bottle shops in every month of the year. Previously we’d done quarterly releases and a few one-offs but we wanted to make them more consistent and have something unique to give drinkers for every month. We’ve just released our December limited so we’re pleased to …
How We Brew Low Gluten Beers At Black Hops
Did you know most of the beer brewed by Black Hops is low in gluten and have been for a few years? This is also the case for a lot of other craft breweries. Read on for an article that goes into depth on the topic. Low gluten or gluten free beer…now there’s a concept that regular beer drinkers would …
Sour Beers And How We Brew Them
Although they’ve been around for centuries, one of the newer (and very different) styles of beer currently gaining popularity among Australian craft beer drinkers are what’s known as Sours. As the name implies, these beers are brewed intentionally acidic, tart or sour due to the use of wild yeast and/or bacteria strains. Some Sour styles, such as Gose are also …
Things to watch out for when canning beer
Things to watch out for when canning When it comes to canning, there are a number of potential risk factors and quality compromisers that can mean your beer doesn’t live up to standard. The good news is, that by having some smart and sensible checks and balances in place, as well as having a switched on and diligent canning and …
Oysters, Aeroplane Jelly & Sponge Cake – Sounds like a fun beer event!
What do oysters, Aeroplane Jelly and sponge cake have in common? They are all great ingredients for beer! Well at least Gold Coast brewery Black Hops think so and are willing to prove it this Saturday 25 May. The Great Australasian Beer SpecTAPular (GABS) is an annual festival (taking place in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney), for craft brewers from all …
Black Hops II: How we plan to build a second brewery on the Gold Coast
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.