Hopacabana Brewing – Make Bierstadt Great Again

Hopacabana Brewing is one of the freshest craft beer projects to emerge from Germany's historic beer capital, Dortmund. Behind the name – a playful mashup of Copacabana and Hop – stand two Dortmund locals, Tobias and Christoph, who have made it their mission to spark a renaissance of their hometown as a beer city. Their motto: „Make Bierstadt Great Again."

The story begins in late 2019, when Tobias started home brewing. During the Corona lockdown, Christoph joined in – and roughly two to three years and countless test brews later, the hobby became a serious beer project. Their focus: bringing the new wave of hop-forward craft beer into a city where Pale Ales and IPAs long remained unfamiliar concepts for many.

Key facts at a glance

• Location: Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)
• Founders: Tobias and Christoph
• Origin: home brewing since late 2019, commercial craft beer project since 2022
• Name origin: Copacabana + Hop = Hopacabana
• Motto: „Hoppy Craft Beers From Dortmund – Make Bierstadt Great Again"
• Focus: hop-forward modern craft beer styles
• Scene: part of the „Prost Dortmund" initiative – a collective of Dortmund's new-wave beer scene

The range at a glance

• Hazy IPAs & NEIPAs – juicy, tropical-fruity brews using modern US hop varieties like Citra, Mosaic, Strata, and Idaho-7
• West Coast IPAs – crisp, bitter old-school classics with hop staples like Simcoe, Amarillo, and Herkules
• Hazy Pale Ales & Session IPAs – lighter, easy-drinking, yet aromatic – often double dry-hopped
• Rotating specials – new brews at a regular pace, usually as small-batch runs

Hopacabana stands for an honest, hop-driven take on craft beer that's putting Dortmund back on the German craft beer map. If you're after modern, hop-forward brews from the Ruhr region, Hopacabana is hard to miss. In our shop, you'll find rotating releases straight from Dortmund – typically as small-batch runs and always freshly bottled.