Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Design”
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 …
“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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
Find out which Black Hops beers took out top honours at this year’s Australian International Beer Awards (AIBAS).
