a swift one...: The Hop Beer Festival, Leeds

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

The Hop Beer Festival, Leeds

To ensure the focus stays firmly on real ale, the second of Ossett Brewery's venue pubs is holding a beer festival next week.

The Hop in Leeds, beneath the city's railway station, has been open eight months already and continues to wow visitors with it's unique decor in this quite remarkable location. (map)

35 beers will be available and the list and further details will be published next Monday (29th).

If you've not managed a visit to the dark arches in a while and wondered what all the fuss was about, then this festival is the ideal excuse to come along and take a look at a very impressive venue.

4 comments:

Jibber said...: Winter Beer Festivals fill me with dread. Apparently in winter you have to drink strong dark malty beers. It's all to do with jolly fat ruddy cheeked Dickensian characters sitting round roaring log fires with holly and tinsel all over the place, drinking from pewter tankards. Ho ho ho!

It's interesting that Ossett, famed for their pale hoppy beers, are doing a Winter Ales festival. The ale scene in the West Riding is going mad!; 23 November 2010 20:37
Udders Orchard said...: I am with you on winter ales festivals, we don't always want strong malty beers in Winter as much as we don't necessarily want pale and hoppy in Summer.
However, read the advert and it isn't a winter ales festival, it is a winter beer festival, a beer festival in the winter months.
I have compiled the list and you needn't worry Mr/Mrsholost Jibber, only a small amount of cinnamon, fruitcake and flashy lights will be available.
Dave; 24 November 2010 12:51
Udders Orchard said...: Interesting addition of "holost" in my post, not sure how that got there!; 25 November 2010 10:38
Anonymous said...: Fear ye not...for we are taking two pale and hoppy brews over for the fest this Monday!!! I agree though that Winter Beer Fests usually either leave me cold or fill me with a sense of dread. Of course the Star Winter Beer Fest starts on Weds 1st December and may have a few dark and strong things, but lots of pale stuff too. Tara; 26 November 2010 18:30

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The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk, they’re sober.–William Butler Yeats

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You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.–Dean Martin

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Time is never wasted when you’re wasted all the time.–Catherine Zandonella

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.–Ambrose Bierce

Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol.–Anonymous

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A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.
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Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder.–Anonymous

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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.–Henry Youngman

Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life.–Michelle Mastrolacasa

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.–Tom Waits

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Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.–Winston Churchill

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I drink to make other people interesting.–George Jean Nathan

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