Hop City 2026
Northern Monk Brew Co. in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England 🏴
Collab with: Glasshouse Beer Co / Garage Beer Co / Messorem BracitoriumIPA - New England / Hazy Special
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Score
7.09
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Welcome to Hop City! With a small army of contributing collaborators and sponsors, the neighbourhood’s on fine form. Back for another year is our annual ode to the mighty hop and all that it can do, in honour of the best weekend of the year.
For this year’s Hop City release we’ve put all our energy into just one product. Giving it the care and attention it deserves. The result is an uber juicy, unbelievably drinkable DDH IPA, with orange, sweet peach, mango, sharp passionfruit and bright lime filling all your senses. On a rich hazy base made with oats and wheat, it’s got a long lingering texture to keep the flavours flowing.
The beer showcases Indie Hops’ Luminosa and Strata, El Dorado from Crosby Hops, and Galaxy and Citra in enhanced liquid format from Barth HaasX; all of these varieties made available by our festival sponsor, Brewers Select.
As always, we’ve called on some of the best breweries around to join the fun; in the shape of Glasshouse (UK), Garage (Spain), and Messorem (Canada). It really does take a whole city.
For this year’s Hop City release we’ve put all our energy into just one product. Giving it the care and attention it deserves. The result is an uber juicy, unbelievably drinkable DDH IPA, with orange, sweet peach, mango, sharp passionfruit and bright lime filling all your senses. On a rich hazy base made with oats and wheat, it’s got a long lingering texture to keep the flavours flowing.
The beer showcases Indie Hops’ Luminosa and Strata, El Dorado from Crosby Hops, and Galaxy and Citra in enhanced liquid format from Barth HaasX; all of these varieties made available by our festival sponsor, Brewers Select.
As always, we’ve called on some of the best breweries around to join the fun; in the shape of Glasshouse (UK), Garage (Spain), and Messorem (Canada). It really does take a whole city.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
440ml can. Almost opaque yellow with a small white head. Aroma of peaches, orange and lemon, mango. Taste is intensely hoppy, lemon zest, pithy grapefruit, juicy peach, mango and passionfruit, hoppy finish. Medium bodied but on the lighter end of the scale, moderate to high carbonation.
Tried
from Can
from Raynville Superstore
on 01 Jun 2026
at 21:18
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at the Old Flax Store / NM Refectory, Leeds, 14/04/2026.
Murky orange topped with an off white cap that thins to a swirl.
Nose is grassy, bitter orange, pine needle, mandarin, mixed tropicana.
Taste comprises orange peel, guava, dank chimes, pine bite, subtle hop spice.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close punctured with grassy come lightly danko hop bitterness.
Tidy.
Murky orange topped with an off white cap that thins to a swirl.
Nose is grassy, bitter orange, pine needle, mandarin, mixed tropicana.
Taste comprises orange peel, guava, dank chimes, pine bite, subtle hop spice.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close punctured with grassy come lightly danko hop bitterness.
Tidy.
Tried
on 14 Apr 2026
at 11:04
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Three colours gold to start a colourful Northern Monk bar trio, which is the latest Hop City incarnation (or an old one if you're reading this review after 2026). Hoppy, citrus tropical fruity with oodles of depth, strength, smoothness and crispness, the sum of which gives it quite a clean feel.
Tried
from Draft
at
Northern Monk Refectory MCR
on 11 Apr 2026
at 03:35