2019 Black Hops Wrap Up

2019 has been an epic year for Black Hops, and first and foremost, we would like to thank all of our customers and friends for supporting us during what has been the most challenging and rewarding year for us to date.

Although we’ve only been opening our own brewery in Burley for 3.5 years, we spent our fifth year as Black Hops this year and have been around for 2 years before other breweries did small-scale contract brewing. There were many milestones this year, and in this post we’ll cover the major ones.

January: Pale Ale #14 Gabe’s Spiciest 100

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With GABS debuting on the list in 2018 with 55 and 20 respectively, expectations are high for this year’s GABS Hottest 100 Craft Beer Countdown. 

This time around, three beers made the final list: the Pale Ale, the Hornet and the Super Hornet. We had a great day at headquarters counting down the beers, and Ellie Carter wrote each one on the wall.

The results: a pretty good 88 points for the Super Hornets, a pretty good 43 points for the Hornets (up from 55 the year before), and 14 points for the Flag Fleet Pale Ale team.

At this point, the beer hasn’t reached the interstate and only a handful have reached Sydney, so being close to the top 10 nationally is a huge result and we are all very excited.

Voting is underway and we would love to be in the top 10 this year. Click this link to vote!!!
January: Black Hops II Stock Crowdfunding – Record Breaking Results

To help fund a new brewery on the north end of the Gold Coast, we closed a record-breaking equity crowdfunding campaign, including the following highlights

First brewery in Australia to successfully complete an equity crowdfunding campaign.
It was the fastest campaign ever to reach the minimum target (8 hours and 15 minutes) in Australia.
It was the first and only campaign to reach the highest goal ($400,000 in 6 days) at that time.

It was the first Australian company to run a rewards-based marketing campaign on Pozible and a successful stock marketing campaign on its sister platform Birchal.
But more important than the record, 

we are offering our long-time customers and enthusiasts the opportunity to own a portion of the hops.
We now have an investment team of over 550 friends (Team Alpha) who are invested in the success of Black Hops and this year we were able to give them something very unique.

 Some of the event rewards included beer reservations, restaurant discounts, custom numbered key rings and shirts. But we also offered Team 

Alpha members some additional exclusive perks, such as our limited tastings and our first annual Alpha Brew Day, where we hosted a private event to brew exclusive beers just for team members.
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