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Hop Back Brewery

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Industry
  
Alcoholic beverage

Products
  
Beer

Founded
  
1986

Founder
  
John Gilbert

Headquarters
  
Salisbury

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Production output
  
16000 UK barrels (in 2005)

Website
  
http://www.hopback.co.uk/

Hop Back, one of England's small breweries, brewers of Summer Lightning, Crop Circle, G.F.B. and other beers was founded by John and Julie Gilbert. Beer was first brewed in 1986 at the Wyndham Arms in Salisbury, and moved to larger premises in Downton six years later. As of 2010, Hop Back own eleven public houses around the south of England.

Contents

Beers

  • Summer Lightning 5.0% ABV
  • G.F.B. (Gilbert's First Brew) 3.5% ABV
  • Crop Circle 4.2% ABV
  • Entire Stout 4.5% ABV
    • CAMRA Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2011
  • Odyssey 4.0% ABV
  • Taiphoon 4.2% ABV

    • Pubs

  • The Dolphin
  • The Duck
  • The First and Last
  • The Gluepot
  • The Hopleaf
  • The New Smithy
  • The Southgate
  • The Sultan
  • The Waterloo Arms
  • The Wyndham Arms

    • References

    Hop Back Brewery Wikipedia
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