About Hopwise

Hopwise started in 2019 in the back of a small terraced shop in Sheffield, after one of us kept asking the same six questions of every homebrewer who came in — and getting six different answers. The shop side and the knowledge side grew up together.

What we stock

We carry the ingredients you actually need: a tight range of well-chosen base malts, specialty malts in 500 g packs so you're not committing to a kilo of something you'll use once, hop pellets vacuum-packed by the brewery, and dry and liquid yeasts kept refrigerated until they leave the building. Equipment from kettles to refractometers, mostly chosen because we use it ourselves.

Why the learn library

A bag of crystal malt is just a bag of malt until you understand what it does in a recipe. Every product page on Hopwise links back to the styles, recipes and learn articles that put it in context — so the difference between Crystal 60 and Crystal 120 isn't a mystery you have to solve in the brew shed. We'd rather you brew better beer than buy more malt.

Editorial policy

Our learn articles are written by working brewers and reviewed when the underlying advice changes. Older articles are kept online for context but are flagged where modern practice has moved on — you'll see a banner at the top pointing to the current version.