Bay Hop, Colwyn Bay

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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Bay Hop

The Bay Hop is a micropub in Colwyn Bay's town centre that wasn't around the last time I visited the town.

It is a typical micropub with a single room, which is actually fairly large and a small outdoor seating area on the pavement at the front.

There are real ales, real ciders and also craft beers. The owner was friendly and knowledgeable about the beer range, whilst the customers who gradually increased in number whilst I was there, were also friendly. In no time at all, the whole pub of strangers was in full conversation with one another about multiple subjects.

Real ales on were Burning Sky Plateau, Oakham Black Magic, Chapter Parabola & Brew Foundation A Little Bitter That. Ciders were Rosie's Black Bart & Continental, Dorset Nectar Old Harry Rocks & Farmer Jim's Farmyard Perry, whilst craft beers included Full Circle x Heist Annual Service Plan, Verdant One More PSI & Fierce Beer Bourbon VBM (12.5%).

I chose the Black Magic, which I would describe as a typical Oakham beer and the Continental cider, a brand new Welsh medium cider only currently stocked on draft here and in the Grapes in Liverpool.

I really enjoyed my visit here. It is almost certainly the best pub in Colwyn Bay these days and rivalled the Albion in Conwy as the best pub in my North Wales trip.

On 29^th September 2021 - rating: 8
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