Hop Nation was founded in 2014 by Sam Hambour and Duncan Gibson, two friends who had worked vintages in wine regions around the world before turning to beer. After a first IPA called The Fiend, they opened their own brewery in 2016 in an 1880s brick warehouse beside the Maribyrnong River in Footscray. The range covers hoppy pales, hazy IPAs, a long-lagered pilsner and barrel-aged beers. The brewery is independent; Gibson left in 2025.
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Drawn from all 20 beers in the catalogue.
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Their signature has to hold across very different styles — which makes the notes that do recur more telling, not less.
Across 20 beers in 6 style families, one trait still carries through — a broad range makes a shared signature harder to hold.
Based on style overlap and flavor profile
Hop Nation was founded in 2014 by Sam Hambour and Duncan Gibson, two friends who had worked vintages in wine regions around the world before turning to beer. After a first IPA called The Fiend, they opened their own brewery in 2016 in an 1880s brick warehouse beside the Maribyrnong River in Footscray. The range covers hoppy pales, hazy IPAs, a long-lagered pilsner and barrel-aged beers. The brewery is independent; Gibson left in 2025.
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