Hop Back Brewery

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Hop Back Brewery Plc
Industry Alcoholic beverage
Founded1986
FounderJohn Gilbert
Headquarters
Downton, Salisbury, Wiltshire
,
United Kingdom
Products Beer
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.

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