The Hop, York

The Hop is an Ossett pub with a high ceiling. There is a front bar area that was sparsely populated on my Monday evening visit, with a more open area to the rear that was much busier with an after-work crowd and quite a few people enjoying pizzas cooked from an open kitchen to the rear. With more time to spare than I'd initially planned, I decided to stop and have a pizza. I recall enjoying the food on my last visit in 2016, but for some reason it wasn't as good this time. I've seen nduja mentioned quite a lot recently in relation to pizzas and wanted to give it a go. Whether it was the nduja or the copious amount of beer I consumed during the day, I'm not sure, but my stomach wasn't the best the following day. To give the nduja the benefit of the doubt, I suspect it may have been the beer! On the subject of beer, regular beers from Ossett in here are Excelsius, White Rat & Yorkshire Blonde. In addition, they also had their Butterley & Treacle Stout. Ciders were Lilley's Mango & Weston's Rosie's Pig & Rosie's Pig Rhubarb. Craft beers were Salt Tweed, Loom, Jute, Serge, Huckaback & Ikat, Caps Off Rhys's Pieces & Turning Point Tangled Up In Blue. Still a good place to couple with the far more traditional pub experience of the Blue Bell across the road.

Continues to be a reliable place for a good pint, not to mention the excellent pizza. Swerving the Ossett ales for a change, I enjoyed a superb stout from Ainsty on this visit. Thoroughly recommended.

Good beer in an open plan large space. Nice inside opening up to large back space with small stage

An Easter Saturday afternoon visit with the wife for a couple of pints. As per previous visits, a good range of ales at this Ossett owned pub and pizzeria with 11 on, every single one from a Yorkshire based brewery. The pints of Fernandes Malt Shovel Mild @ 3.8% & Rat Breweries Verminator @ 4.8% were both excellent. Also a bonus that you are able to use your Camra card here for a discount on a pint, 15% from memory. Always busy when I visit this pub (it’s a personal fav) and on this occasion it was jam packed by 5.30pm. Mainly an older crowd in the bar area and a couple of families out the back enjoying the pizza’s. The pizza’s look good but I’ve never eaten here. As I say a personal favourite of mine that always gets a visit when I’m in the city.

Very pleasant newly opened Osset brewery pub that doubles up as a Pizzeria at the back so you can enjoy freshly baked pizza with your beer. There are a few tabels around the bar area but this is mostly used as standing room on weekends when the bar gets very busy, towards the back is long tabels with benches for drinkers to sit and enjoy pizza although pizza is not mandatory. There are many keg lines dispensing imported beer like Brooklyn and blue moon as well as local stuff from thornbridge. There is also a very good selection of real ales with the full Osset core range with a very nice drink of big Red coming inn at £3.30. the other beers are from the sister brewery Rat brewery as well as some beers from Fernandez. All beers sampled were in good nick, i just wish the rotation of guest beers was a bit more varied as the beers listed seem to not change much and steer away from pale hoppy types. a bit more variety would really improve things although the beer is still of good quality and I would defiantly return

The Hop is an Ossett brewery house. Once inside there is a fairly large room that runs to the rear,the bar is to the front left,there is a long bench seat to the front right,plus a few small tables and stools to the front,there is a lot more seating to the rear which looked more of a dining area. There was a very good choice of real ales on the bar,i had a drink of Ossett Blonde which went down very well,the other beers i noted were Ossett Big Red /Silver King and Excelsior,the only guest beer i noted was Acorn Edge. Background music was playing and the pub was quite busy with more people dining than drinking. Pub visited 23/5/2015