Founded back in 2014, and launched in February 2015, the company has its roots much earlier. Mazen Hajjar, the founder, started the Middle East’s first craft brewery back during the July 2006 war between Israel and Hizbollah. By the time he left, his old company was exporting beer to 26 different countries including Australia. After one of his trips to Australia and while hawking beers in a Sydney suburb, the decision to start a brewery in Australia was made.
The name Hawkers is inspired from the street vendors, that roamed Australia from the early days of the colony. Many early immigrants were hawkers as they needed little capital and skill to push a cart and earn a living. Their activities were critical for the health of many regional economies and they helped spread the colony further.
Hawkers is a fiercely independent company, and with our unconditional commitment to spreading flavourful beer, we keep striving to achieve our goal of converting 100% of the market to drinking better beers.
Hawkers Beer? If you are looking for a conventional brewing company, you can stop right here! On the other hand, if you are the type of person that wants more out of life, you don’t settle for cheap or easy shortcuts and simply thinks that life is too short to compromise, then you may have found some friends.
There is no wrong or right way to brew beer. There is the passionate artisanal way and the industrial way. Hawkers chose the artisanal approach. The ingredients are of the highest quality and are never artificial or chemical.
Hawkers brewing techniques were inspired by great traditions and experimental methods and we use the best equipment.
"We believe in brewing the absolute best beer we possibly can, spreading it to the 95% who still don’t drink craft beer, and having fun while doing it because life’s too short to drink bad beer."
