Hop City 2023

We’re so excited to welcome everyone back into the original home of Northern Monk by hosting Hop City 2023 at The Old Flax Store once again. While we loved holding Hop City at our Sydenham Road site, we’ve decided to return to The Old Flax Store for 2023, the home of our Refectory LDS. Serving the best hoppy beers from all the world, from hazy pales to light, fruity IPAs, and sour IPAs to big DIPAs.

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 can’t wait to raise a glass to all things Hoppy again this coming May.

We’re also bringing back token purchases for next year. We love the all-in ticket method, but we, like many others, are feeling the inflation pains and uncertainty, so we want you to be in control of your purchases while at Hop City 2023.

Included in the ticket price:

• Access to the festival site
• Your first 5 drink tokens.
• A Hop City branded glass to enjoy your beers in.

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. This applies to people attending more than one session so we can carry out the appropriate cleaning measures.

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.