Spread the cost of hop dosing equipment from £5,000 to £100,000+ with flexible finance options. HP, lease, or refinance
Yes, hop dosings are financed as a standard asset purchase, usually on hire purchase or a lease, with the machine itself acting as the security. UK prices typically run £5,000 to £100,000, and most deals are written over 12–60 months with a deposit of around 10–20%. Decisions typically take 24–48 hours. Used machines are financeable too, usually with a shorter term.
Typical Cost
£5k – £100k
Approval Speed
24–48 hours
Same-day for < £20k
Rates From
5.4% APR
Your estimate
Indicative only. Not a quote and not an offer of finance.
Pre-filled with a typical hop dosing price. Indicative only, not a quote.
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For UK limited companies with 3+ months’ trading and monthly revenue.
On a purchase price of £25,000: a 10% deposit of £2,500, then 48 monthly payments of £527 at 5.9% APR representative (fixed). Total amount payable £27,796, including the deposit. The rate you are offered depends on your business and the asset.
Guide prices for sizing a finance agreement, not quotes. Manufacturers in this market mostly price on application, so where a current UK list price could not be confirmed the row describes a specification class rather than naming a model. Your supplier quote is what the agreement is written against.
| Machine or specification | Guide price | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Single-Vessel Hop Dosing Unit | £5,500 – £12,000 | Single-Tank Hop Rocket |
| Small Multi-Tank Dosing System | £14,000 – £30,000 | Multi-Tank Inline System |
| Production Dosing System | £32,000 – £65,000 | Multi-Tank Inline System |
| High-Capacity Dosing Plant | £68,000 – £95,000 | Automated Inline System |
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Hop dosing equipment qualifies for capital allowances, so most of the purchase cost can be set against taxable profits well within the Annual Investment Allowance most brewing and distilling businesses have available in a given year. Hire purchase lets you claim allowances as the owner from day one. Finance lease and operating lease payments are typically deductible in full as a trading expense, which suits businesses that would rather smooth the deduction over the term than take it all upfront. Speak to your accountant about which structure suits your current tax position.
Hop dosing equipment lets a brewery add hops to fermenters or tanks in a controlled, repeatable way, rather than opening a fermenter manually to add hops loose, which reduces the risk of oxidation and product loss and gives more consistent results batch to batch. Buyers are typically breweries with a heavily dry-hopped range, most often IPA-led, looking to standardise a process that has outgrown manual dosing as the number of dry-hopped batches per week increases. This is a newer category of brewery equipment than tanks or a brewhouse, so fewer established manufacturers dominate the market and the used market is thinner, since breweries that install a dosing system tend to keep it in long-term use rather than trade it in.
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