Hop Nation Brewing Co.
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.
Beers by Hop Nation Brewing Co.
20 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Hop Nation Brewing Co. brew a broad range across 6 style families.
Across these 20 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.
The Heart
Their beers place in the Top 53% of the catalogue on average, across 15 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
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About Hop Nation Brewing Co.
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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