Northern Monk brewery is hosting the UK’s first hop-led beer festival this weekend.
Taking place at its Sydenham Road brewery site for the first time ever, it will bring over 100 different beers down this weekend over the course of two days – kicking things off on Friday 6 August.
Local breweries confirmed to attend include Kirkstall, Northern Monk (of course), and Bundobust with a huge amount of UK breweries turning up across the weekend.
UK brews appearing over the duration of the festival will come from the likes of Bonzoko, Newtown Park, Future State, Neon Raptor, Deya, Mash Gang, Alpha Delta, Floc, North, Pipeline, Vicington, Polly’s, Wylam, Beak, Track, Buxton, Zafato, Overtone, Pomona Island, Verdant, Boxcar, Mikkeller and Amity.
Beer lovers are completely spoilt for choice – and that’s not all, as there’s going to be some great street food and music going down here too.
There’ll be four different food caterers rocking up over the weekend, including the legendary Parmogeddon and Manchester’s Kong’s Chicken Shop with their must-try fried chicken sandwiches – which incorporate an extra layer of chicken skin ‘crackling’ for extra texture and flavour.
Kong’s are also known for their tater tots and fried chicken wings, which can be ordered either wet or dry depending how you like them.
And on the music front, across two days we’ll see the likes of DJ Food, DJ Format, DJ Cheeba and FIngathing take to the decks as well as enjoying some live music from Leeds’ exciting forward-thinking jazz-punk band Vipertime on Friday.
Manchester’s Jermain Peterson, meanwhile, will be bringing the soothing soul sounds on Saturday afternoon, followed by a closing DJ set from Dave Stone of Wylam Brewery fame.
It looks set to be a mega weekend, with free-flowing beer, an eclectic music line-up and some mouthwatering food traders all lined up for the weekend.
Further breweries set to attend include Other Half, Aslin, Tripping Animals, The Answer, Vitamin Sea, Great Notion, Equilibrium, Suds and Soda, Sierra Navada.
For the full list, head to Hop City’s Instagram page here.
