Hopsters Co-operative Brewery is the first brewery in Australia established under the Co-operative Principles. It is a place to meet like-minded craft beer lovers who share a similar commitment to sustainability, community, innovation, and education.
You could become an integral part of the operation of the co-operative, as members may nominate to sit on the managing Board of Directors, and comprise important committees and task forces. Best of all, we have plans for members to directly participate in the beers that carry the Hopsters name by voting on styles, submitting recipes (hello, homebrewers!), and judging our continuing series of homebrew competitions. All this, plus, as a distributing co-op, subject to sufficient profitable financial performance and cash flow, a dividend may be payable based on your share holding.
A cooperative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise.
Cooperatives are based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity. In the tradition of their founders, cooperative members believe in the ethical values of honesty, openness, social responsibility and caring for others.
The cooperative principles are guidelines by which cooperatives put their values into practice.
Because you love beer, it helps that we are fully registered with Fair Trading, but most importantly without member-owners, the Co-operative is simply just a good idea. Your membership is vital to providing funding, labor, leadership and guidance to reach our goals. Without member-owners, the progress of the Co-operative cannot continue. We need you and your membership commitment to help us move forward. Learn more about membership benefits, and sign up online, here!
“To foster a community of beer lovers to connect, learn, create and have fun through beer.”
A co-operative is a business owned and operated by the people it serves. Hopsters Co-operative Brewery is owned by you, our members.
Become a member and be a brewery owner! How cool is that? Member benefits include:
Membership is $250 for a lifetime membership
No, membership is for life. There’s lots of great beer to try.
New members must complete the Membership Application, agree to the terms and conditions and pay the Membership Fee.
Yes. Hopsters Co-operative Brewery is only going to be as successful as the membership is active. Members can run for open seats on the Board of Directors. Members can serve on Co-operative Committees and there is no shortage of things to do. We have committees in the following disciplines: membership, marketing, systems, finance, legal and more. And, as a member, you can enter our brewing contests to have your recipe on tap!
Membership is open to Australian residents who are 18 years of age or older.
Yes! Please get in touch by email: info@hopsters.coop
Hopsters was founded by a bunch of home brewers and craft beer lovers who dreamed the dream of “going pro.” We want to offer that same thrill of having your beer on tap at the Brewery. We foresee holding regular member tasting events that will double as brewing competitions with winners’ recipes being brewed and served at the tap room.
We already are! Hopsters Cooperative Brewery Taproom officially opened on March 7, 2020.
You can find Hopsters Taproom at 198 Enmore Rd, Enmore.
Along with our core range and regular limited edition collaborations, we feature a rotating selection of craft brews from some of the finest craft breweries across NSW.
We also have an impressive list of organic wines and local spirits.
We partner with a number of local restaurants who will deliver food straight to your Taproom table. When possible they will even deliver ot plated to save on waste!
You can also BYO food.
Here are just some of the items we’ve ticked off our list:
Are you old enough to buy a beer?
Always enjoy responsibly