Our Mission
To offer products and service of the highest quality and to enjoy crafting this unique product while ensuring your experience is ‘worth it’.
Our Vision
To support the craft and our local community, and to grow and prosper together.
The First Canadian Craft Brewer
The main innovator behind Rocket Hop™ is Jim Brickman, founder of Brick Brewing Company established in 1984. As the first craft brewer in Canada, Brickman is credited with pioneering the popular present-day beer renaissance.
How Did 'Rocket Hop' Happen?
In the late 90s, Brickman and his Brewmaster, Steven Smith, experimented with a unique process converting a brewed, high alcohol beer base extract, that could then be fortified and aged with pure grain alcohol. In Europe, this would be considered a schnapps.
Timing and other priorities sidelined the concept at the time, but in 2020 the idea was revived by an enthusiastic friend and investor who wanted Brickman back in the business.
About Rocket Hop
Rocket Hop™ is a unique product that is difficult to define and place into one specific alcohol-based category. This makes it an anomaly in its own right, a one of a kind. The process is unique and proprietary. It starts as a highly concentrated beer-based formula, which is then infused with the addition of distilled selected aromamatic hops. Then the product is fortified with an all-natural grain alcohol bringing it up to 40% alc/vol.
The product is aged followed by a sophisticated crossflow ceramic filtration process prior to packaging. The colour is clear amber, and can be served at room temperature, chilled or tossed into a cold beer. As would be expected, Rocket Hop™ pairs exceptionally well with any style of beer.