Hip Pop

A VERY brief growth story from our very own Graham Beales 🙌 From a farm in Dunham Massey to a big-time warehouse and global sales. Full episode of Swim Against The Tide Podcast hosted by Steve Henry, Co-Founder of the specialist marketing group Audience Collective in the comments!

It began to look a lot like Christmas a couple of weeks back when we went to the Waitrose Winter Food and Drink Festival 🎁😋 Things Alena got to nosh included treats from THIS™, Olly's, Divine Chocolate UK, Vadasz, HACKNEY GELATO, Kissabel and SO MANY MORE. It truly is the most wonderful time of the year if you love to munch. Thank you so much to everyone who came to say hello and sipped some sodas with us! #WaitroseWinterFoodandDrinkFestival

We’re NOT doing Black Friday 👀 We’re not a huge corporation with loads of excess stock we need to shift. We’re a Manny-based independent brewer of beverages, and only make the drinks we actually need. We don’t have mad margins to slash site-wide. And we stand for more than one day of over-consumption. So instead, we’ve got Fizzember, live from the 1st of December until we sell out. Our limited edition Gingerbread fizz will be available at 50% off with any case (including another case of Gingerbread if you’re so inclined). You know where we are x

WE PUT THE TEAM TO THE ULTIMATE TEST. (No, it wasn’t a gladiators-style assault course around the warehouse, HR wouldn’t sign that off). We challenged their tastebuds to see if they knew their own bevs. The result? You’ll have to watch to find out ↓ #Beverages #FMCG Adam Kenyani Ruby Monaghan

OUR CHRISTMAS FLAVOUR IS LIVE! Although it’s not the one we asked for… (And we want to give you some festive freebies 👀) To celebrate, we wanna send some lucky cookies a batch to try! It’s pretty simple: 1️⃣ Tag your company in the comments 2️⃣ Give us a follow 3️⃣ We’ll pick and DM the winner Friday to post out a box of Gingerbread Kombucha Must-have a UK office, we’ll pick at random and DM you to get the office address and an email for tracking. GOOD LUCK 🤞 If you don’t want to leave it to chance, you could just get a batch. 💌 sales@drinkhippop.com #Beverages

WHO’S COMIN’ TO THE WAITROSE FOOD N DRINK FESTIVAL? We’re all set at the stand and would love you to come for a taste of some of our sodas and a natter! We’re bringing batches of our best-sellers for you to lap up. 😋 Please make sure to go give our team a wave, a handshake, and make sure you have a sip of our Manchester-made delicacies! 🇬🇧 Will we see you there? 👋 Waitrose & Partners #WaitroseWinterFoodandDrinkFestival

From home-brews and hope → winning A GRAMMY 🤯🏆 (of the entrepreneurship world) Emma & Kenny took home the crown of Maker & Creator Entrepreneur Of The Year Award (North West) at The Great British Entrepreneur awards! This is BIG TIME. We’re talking about the ultimate gathering of entrepreneurs, innovators and change-makers. Honoured, blessed, and ridiculously impressed by the hard work and inspiring stories of British entrepreneurs and businesses. Thank you to each and every one of you for drinking our drinks, supporting our content, and helping us get here. It means the world x Allica Bank #GreatBritishEntrepreneurAwards #GBEA

Delighted to announce that Emma Thackray and I were awarded the Maker & Creator prize at The Great British Entrepreneur Awards & Community last night in London on behalf of The North West! 🎉 We've been to many awards ceremonies over the years, and they're great fun, but it always feels extra special to be recognised as a winner with Hip Pop, especially at the "Grammys of Entrepreneurship". Thanks to our dedicated team in operations who create, make & distribute these gorgeous drinks, our sales and marketing teams who get the liquid on the lips and our finance team for holding everything together. Also, a huge thank you to Graham Beales, who drives the business so we can swan around collecting awards and, of course, our mega customers and supporters. #Entrepreneurship #Entrepreneurs #GBEA

This International Men’s Day, we’ve written an ode, To our Co-Founder, a legend bestowed, Kenny Goodman, the man, the myth, the Manc, Had an uncomfortable feeling in his flank, Introduced to Kombucha by Emma T, He felt flipping great and exclaimed with glee, That everyone needed to experience this, The fermented tea benefits couldn’t only be his, They started to brew their gut lovin’ drinks, Expanding faster than you can blink, Now Kenny’s bevs are stocked worldwide, His happy little smile is impossible to hide, Kenny & Emma turned a passion for pop, Into an empire that will never stop, So if you’re in the supermarket or on your way, Buy a can of soda to make Kenny’s day. 💛 P.S. Kenny did definitely NOT ask us to write this and I’m not sorry if you’re mortified reading this back because we appreciate you x