Hop City

Hop City is back once again in 2024 at the OG home of Northern Monk, The Old Flax Store! As ever, we’ll be serving the best hoppy beers from all the world, from hazy pales to light, fruity IPAs, and sour IPAs to big DIPAs & TIPAs. Once you’re through the doors, you can sample as many beers as you like from around 35 different breweries, enjoy food from our food vendors and kick back and enjoy the entertainment we’ve got planned for you. We brought back token purchases for last year due to the cost-of-living crisis and all other uncertainties we were all faced with. We love the all-in ticket method, so this year we’ve decided to give you an option. While most tickets will head back to the all-in method, we will also have a small allocation of tokened tickets available for those that are still sadly feeling the pinch. Now for the important details: All breweries will finish pouring 15 minutes before the end of each session and we ask that all festival attendees leave the site at the end of the session. Please be aware that ‘last orders’ is between 30 minutes and 15 minutes of the session ending. This applies to people attending more than one session so we can carry out the appropriate cleaning measures. This also applies to token purchases, and we will not be offering any refunds to token purchases, so please be wary of overpurchasing Our experienced security staff are fully briefed on all safety measures and reserve the right to ask people to leave if they are acting in a way that compromises the safety of others.Our Everyone Welcome initiative plays out across all our sites and highlights the steps we take to maintain the safety of staff, brewers, volunteers, and attendees. This initiative will be accessible throughout the festival as a reminder of our zero-tolerance approach to discrimination and that, at Northern Monk, everyone is welcome to share a drink at our table. We run our Everyone Welcome initiative and all breweries invited, through our Diversity and Inclusion forum.