A Hoppy Place’s code of conduct for employees and staff Intro Welcome to A Hoppy Place. As we grow, it’s essential we formalise proceduresregarding team interaction, policies on look and feel of the premises, expectations of appropriate customer behaviour and expectations regarding the behaviours of our staff when on shift Read more…
It was at about 11 pm at The Grapes in Liverpool, on Tuesday night, the night before Beer X, that I started to give myself the smallest of opportunities to ponder an important question. “What would we do if we won?” This was brought about by what I can only Read more…
How to crowdfund your craft beer business In June 2022, A Hoppy Place successfully completed an equity crowdfunder using the Seedrs platform and raised £149,000 in exchange for circa 12% of our business. This money was directly used to pay for the costs of opening our second outlet in Maidenhead. Read more…
Inbetweenland. … on how things are now, why we should be doing more about it, what we should be doing – and to be nice whilst we try and get there. This August Bank Holiday just gone has helped us to finish off the summer school holiday period of trading. Read more…
A Hoppy Place’s Beery Relaunch With it now confirmed that July the 19th will be, whatever you make of it, the ‘great unlocking’ – we can now tease out the rest of our plans for this month! Plus tell you a little bit more about how we’re planning to handle Read more…
Escape The Block Today it’s not about the beer sales. It’s about you. And us… And a mountain. Hello All, Today – I am not here to talk to you into buying beer from us. Although, there’s a good bit of party planning at the end – a lot of Read more…
Cloudwater-19 Cloudwater were one of the breweries I considered a consistent force for good, with a cold-chain ethos derived from it’s (outwardly apparent) symbiotic partnership with distributors such as Jolly Good Beer, and a real mission statement to prescribe, not describe, beer quality. Of the second wave of British Craft Read more…
Hey! Thanks for clicking! Yes, 20% off EVERYTHING. We’ve never done this before. We’ll never do it again! That statement is likely to evoke one of two responses from you, depending on if you’re a consumer, or in the trade. I’ll answer from both angles … SHORT VERSION: There is Read more…
#hoppyplaceontour. A Hoppy Day out in London Yesterday, Naomi and I got our first day truly both off at the same time, and not working in any capacity, of year. ps, this is long, so get a coffee or a beer or something. Sometimes it’s just nice to get away… Read more…
INTRODUCING… Dolphin Brewery. Reading’s newest, and certainly Berkshire’s most exciting, Nanobrewery. As our followers will know, we’re always very keen to work with exciting small breweries, to show people something they may not otherwise be aware of, and to excite. Luckily, the breadth of Berkshire brewing talent at our disposal Read more…