Brewing ingredients supplier Bintani has acquired family-owned and operated company Hopco. Bintani, which recently announced the launch of its new Melbourne warehouse, has bought the Tasmanian hop sup...
While the industry battles the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, suppliers are thinking ahead. Following our update earlier this week detailing the strategies of Bintani, Cryer Malt, East Coast Cannin...
Tasmania-based hop supplier Hopco is experimenting with a new hop product designed to minimise hop wastage while packing a punch. The product, knows as hophash, has high concentrations of Alpha and Be...
Fifteen hours after announcing the arrival of two new hop varieties onto the Australian market, Tasmania-based hop broker Hopco put up the ‘sold out’ sign. The two new Kiwi hop varieties, ...
Mountain Goat Beer has released an IPA brewed exclusively with Hop Hash, a new product on the Australian market. A highly resinous by-product of the hop pelletising process, Hop Hash used to be discar...
Craft brewers may not like the idea of hop extracts, but the global hop shortage may mean they are forced to embrace them, according to Hopco managing director Sandy Ross. Ross told Radio Brews News t...
This week we play a chat Matt had with Sandy Ross from Hopco at the recent Institute of Brewing and Distilling Conference in Sydney. Sandy grew up in and around Tasmania’s hop fields but left th...