Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Craft beer”
In late April we added a new beer to the Black Hops core range, an easy drinking 4.5% Hazy Pale Ale called East Coast Haze, a beer inspired by our hometown of the Gold Coast – the place we live and love. The story behind the beer involves an interesting journey, so in this post we’ll revisit the origins of …
If you are like us you’ll be triggered by a great beer presented in a dirty glass. We’re always tempted to join the Facebook chorus and yell ‘Dirty Glass!’ everytime we see one. But now we don’t have to, because we offer you this post. Drinking beer from a glass should hit that magical sweet spot of how it looks …
If you’ve followed our story recently you may know that Black Hops founders Govs, Eddie and myself recently went off the beaten track on an overnight, ‘not so covert’ mission to brew a wild fermented ale. With the pending launch of our AWOL barrel aged beer brand and taproom, we wanted to tap into an ancient brewing technique known as …
“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.
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. …
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. 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
