Black Hops Brewing
Independent brewery on the Gold Coast, started by three friends, Dan, Eddie and Govs, whose first beer in 2014 was an Eggnog Stout. The Burleigh Heads brewery and taproom opened in 2016, and in 2018 Black Hops was named Champion Small Brewery at the Australian International Beer Awards. A much larger second site in Biggera Waters followed in 2019 and now carries most production. In 2024 a new ownership group took over and saved the business from liquidation. The range covers a hop-led core, the lighter East Coast beers and quarterly limited releases.
Beers by Black Hops Brewing
12 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Black Hops Brewing brew across 3 style families.
Across these 12 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Black Hops Pale Ale
Their beers place in the Top 37% of the catalogue on average, across 12 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
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hopIQ exclusiveBased on style overlap and flavor profile
About Black Hops Brewing
Independent brewery on the Gold Coast, started by three friends, Dan, Eddie and Govs, whose first beer in 2014 was an Eggnog Stout. The Burleigh Heads brewery and taproom opened in 2016, and in 2018 Black Hops was named Champion Small Brewery at the Australian International Beer Awards. A much larger second site in Biggera Waters followed in 2019 and now carries most production. In 2024 a new ownership group took over and saved the business from liquidation. The range covers a hop-led core, the lighter East Coast beers and quarterly limited releases.
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