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The Hop, Leeds
Leeds
LS1 4BR
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The Hop
Let’s get the drinks flowing, its FriYAY!
5:36 PM Oct 15th 2021 from Twitter for iPhone
Reviews of The Hop (Average Rating: 7 of 10) see review guidelines
Graham Coombs left this review about The Hop
One of the three Ossett/Salt bars in the Granary Wharf development. This is the Ossett Brewery attempt at an atmospheric railway arch pub and certainly feels more traditional than the other two. It is mostly brick and woodwork, with some historic touches including old street names, but they couldn't resist a few arty touches. The beer range is by far the best of the three, with a wide selection of cask from Ossett and guests, plus a few craft IPAs on keg. Even the music seemed better!
On 29th June 2023
- rating: 7
[User has posted 3339 recommendations about 3276 pubs]
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Hop
With the nearby Salt Granary Wharf having already closed before 11pm on our weekday visit, we did manage to find the Hop still open. So, we chose to finish our evening here.
Whilst situated in the railway arches for the nearby Leeds station, you soon forget that your in an arch when inside, apart from the occasional rumble of a train overhead. The pub has two floors and feels quite spacious too, where many of the warehouse/brewery type bars often feel cramped.
The bar itself for this pub can be found deep in the arch and around a corner. Being owned by Ossett, there is a good selection of their cask ales. Regulars are Silver King, Butterley, Yorkshire Blonde, Voodoo & Excelsius. The White Rat clip was turned round. Guests were Ossett Strawberry Fields, Rat Rata Nui & Brass Castle Bad Kitty. There was also a good selection of ciders - Lilley's Tropical Cider & Weston's Family Reserve & Old Rosie.
Voodoo is normally a very palatable orange stout, but we could instantly tell that this was way past its best. The barman said that it must be near the end of barrel and offered to replace it. We chose the Bad Kitty instead, which was far better. I have to say that the Strawberry Fields was also very nice indeed and all 3 ciders were in good condition, having been fetched directly from the cellar. A friend had the Rata Nui, which was as bad as the Voodoo. That was replaced by Excelsius, which was worse still. He ended up with one of their keg beers instead, which was fine. But it is beyond me how so many of the cask ales could be in such poor condition. It is also really bad practice to leave all 3 dodgy beers on. Whilst the White Rat clip was already turned when we arrived, none of the others were turned despite us returning a total of 3½ pints to the bar.
This pub is useful to know about, as it seems to be one of the few to stay open until 11pm around here. It did in fact stay open until almost midnight. But the beer quality and shoddy cellarmanship would deter me from heading back here.
On 1st September 2022
- rating: 5
[User has posted 2452 recommendations about 2451 pubs]
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Will Larter left this review about The Hop
I've been to this Hop before, but probably before I started reviewing pubs, and the Hop that used to be in Sheffield (a couple of times) and the one in Wakefield (several times), and I can't say I've been impressed with any of them. Partly this is because I find Ossett beers a bit samey and mostly not to my taste, but my recent visit here brought it home to me that it's just not my type of pub. It occupies an interesting space near where the River Aire plunges down through a channel beneath Leeds City station and out into the Aire & Calder Navigation. But there's little sense of this once in the pub, which is impersonal and noisy, but not with the invigorating rush of white water. OK, I seem to have been here at a quiet time, but you've got to ask yourself, why is North Brewery Tap busy, why are people going in to Whitelocks and the Duck & Drake, why was I almost the only customer here at 8:30 of a Wednesday evening in high summer. It may seem a bit harsh, but to me this pub is a waste of what should be an interesting space.
On 21st June 2022
- rating: 4
[User has posted 3746 recommendations about 3483 pubs]
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- Accommodation : No last updated 12 October 2013 by Pub SignMan
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 12 October 2013 by Pub SignMan
- Beer Festivals : Yes - June - last updated 29 July 2013 by Dave McNally
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 12 October 2013 by Pub SignMan
- Car Park : No last updated 12 October 2013 by Pub SignMan
- Darts : No last updated 12 October 2013 by Pub SignMan
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 12 October 2013 by Pub SignMan
- Live Music : Yes last updated 12 October 2013 by Pub SignMan
- Pinball : No last updated 12 October 2013 by Pub SignMan
- Pool Table : No last updated 12 October 2013 by Pub SignMan
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 29 July 2013 by Dave McNally
- Real Cider : Yes last updated 01 September 2022 by Blue Scrumpy
