Fossgate Tap, York

Corner bar with a fairly impressive solection of cask ales and craft beers. Entering from Fossgate, there are a couple of steps up to the bar area. I did see some stairs heading up to at least one other level, but similar to Graham below, did not explore, as there was sufficient seating on the ground level. Cask ales on were Cameron's Road Crew, Strongarm & Lion's Pride, Brass Castle Bad Kitty, Tooth and Claw Barley-Quin & Brew York Fennec Blonde. Craft beers were Northern Monk Faith, Holy Faith, Patron's Project Amy Hastings/The Magician/Pastore/Cherry Sour & Patron's Project 7 Deadly Sins/Adrian Baxter/Pinta Wrath/Chocolate Chilli Stout (why they have such complicated names is beyond me!), Brew York Juice Forsyth, Tooth and Claw Cat Amongst, Vault City Tasty Rainbow Orange & Yeastie Boys Bigmouth. More crafty than the Blue Bell and the Hop, but still an interesting place for a beer.

I seemed to have overlooked this pub each time visiting York, maybe as it's so close to the Bluebell. Anyway made it through the doors on this visit and found they had four ales on handpump. These were Brass Castle Bad Kitty, Turning Point Drones in the City, Rudgate Ruby Mild and Rudgate Dinga Dinga. Various seating to be found here, some small tables and chairs outside, a largish lounge area, seating opposite the bar and a small front area near the corner entrance.

Official site of Fossgate Tap - www.fossgatetap.co.uk

Official site of Fossgate Tap - www.fossgatetap.co.uk

Long narrow bar on several levels , lots of craft beer taps and six handpulls , four on during our visit with three from Turning Point and Mcolls Suma which was in good nick , barman was friendly , fairly quiet on a Thursday night with just a few drinking in the entrance and half a dozen eating on the lower level.

This bar used to be popular as Sutlers, and is now Fossgate Tap and will still be popular with it's good range of both cask and craft beers. We enjoyed our Turning Point Milk Foley last month.