THE MAIDEN VOYAGE

In 2006 Great Western Brewing company was established in The Old Bakery in the village of Hambrook. In the following two years we built a brewery and brewed our first ever beer. Over the next 13 years, our passion, hard work, and love for this craft would win us multiple awards for our traditional cask beers brewed in open-top fermenters. The same pints that are still winning in todays competitions.

Time to evolve

In 2019 we made the decision to say goodbye to our much loved home of the past 13 years, The volume of sales increased and we needed to expand our operation to a new larger site. With our new home came a lot of work, a borehole to get pure Bristol water, the install of a brand new state-of-the-art brew kit, and a refresh of the name and design.

Hop Union Brewery was born.

Forever innovating

With more space and a constant desire to expand and evolve, we are always adding new kit to innovate and grow. In 2024 we installed three new 30-hectolitre fermenting vessels and some 150L fermenters for small-batch brews. In 2025 we updated our pilot kit and purchased a centrifuge to push the boundaries of craft beer and create new and exciting flavours with more clarity.

the taproom

When building the new site, we added a special space that would become our taproom. We first opened in March 2023, since then we have recieved huge support from the local community and the taproom has become a great friendly, sociable meeting HUB, which has grown more than we hoped to imagine it could. We host bi-weekly quizzes, regular live music, food & beer tasting evenings and bookable Brewery tours. We get involved with the community as much as possible, with the aim of providing a space for everyone to enjoy (including the dog!). The Taproom is currently open from Thursday to Saturday, with plans to extend this to earlier in the week. We are very excited to see what the future holds for this space.