“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.
The Evolution of our Beer Design and Packaging Process
Those of you who have followed the Black Hops journey from the early days would know that while our distinctive logo remains as our signature identifier, the designs of our cans and cartons have undergone a natural evolution. This came about as we locked down our core range, got our beer out into venues and retail outlets and expanded our …
Black Hops Moving to 16 Packs
We have decided to move all of our packaged beer into the 16 pack format. If you are interested in our decisions around this and how we’re going about it, feel free to read on. Background When we first put our beers into a packaged format, it was our Beach House in bottles back in 2015 for our original crowdfunding …
Designing the BHII Taproom
When we set out to build a new brewery we wanted it to be a step up from our humble Black Hops HQ. That’s not to say we don’t love HQ, but we really wanted to take things to the next level with the new brewery. We were still however on a pretty tight budget, so we weren’t in a …
Our process for designing beer cans with our hand drawn full wrap labels
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 …
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.
America Trip Wrap Up – 9 things that stood out about the U.S. Craft Beer scene
We had a ball checking out the American craft beer scene recently. Here’s 9 things that really stood out for us while we were there.
Step by Step: How we Built our Craft Beer Point of Sale Displays
A few months ago, beer sales gun Darren Kearns (Kearnsy) started working for us at Black Hops. If you aren’t familiar with the legend that is Kearnsy, please watch this video at once. Anyway once Kearnsy started, we made some serious changes to how we do sales at Black Hops (I’ll be writing about those changes soon). One of the biggest …
2017 AIBA Beer Award Results
Find out which Black Hops beers took out top honours at this year’s Australian International Beer Awards (AIBAS).
Branding Case Study – Black Hops Pale Ale
Early April sees us hitting two significant milestones in the history of Black Hops Brewing. Our very first Pale Ale will be officially available, and it will be our first beer to come in cans. In this post we run through the process for designing the cans and boxes for the new Pale Ale.