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WE ARE AN INDEPENDENT BREWERY BASED IN HOLBECK, LEEDS. THE SPIRITUAL HEART OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.

21/10/2026

🌌🌠 NORTHUMBERLAND 🌌🌠

Our journey across the UK’s National Parks with Liam Ashurst brings us to Northumberland, home to the International Dark Sky Park and Europe’s largest area of protected night sky. The only thing darker than a Northumberland night? This stout.

And what better way to celebrate a place made for nights under the stars than with a Campfire Stout? Pack a can for your next trip up North and settle in for a night of stargazing.

Few things are more warming than a campfire, but a rich, indulgent stout comes a close second. A base of beautifully roasted chocolate and dark crystal malts bring notes of cinder toffee, dark berries and espresso, while a double-length boil concentrates all those flavours into something truly decadent.

We’ve added liquid cacao and lactose to deliver a rich, creamy dark chocolate character, finished with marshmallow for a hit of proper campfire nostalgia.

Best enjoyed under a blanket of stars.

14/10/2026

FRESH FROM HAREWOOD 🌿

Last month, Fresh From took us to the other side of the world for some of the freshest hops we could get our hands on. This month, we’re staying much closer to home, bringing back our annual green hop release with Harewood House Trust and Harewood Food & Drink Project with hops grown right here in Leeds.

With Harewood’s unique hop garden, it’s difficult to pin down the exact hop bill. Alongside classic British varieties, likely including Fuggles and Challenger, we’ve got the experimental results of a season of cross-pollination. The result is a bright, fruity character and grassy aroma that’s difficult to replicate with conventional hops.

The Harewood and Northern Monk teams picked the hops straight from the bine and drove them back to OFS, getting them into the boil as quickly as possible to capture their freshly picked character.

It’s a release we look forward to every year, an annual celebration of what our friends at Harewood are growing on our doorstep. Available online now.

07/10/2026

MILESTONE 13 🍻

Thirteen years ago, Northern Monk was just an idea, and two people with the belief that they could make some of the best b**r in the world from a damp cellar in Bradford.

A lot has changed since then. We’ve moved breweries, opened six bars, welcomed thousands of investors and 142 Monks into our community.

We’ve brewed more b**rs than we could ever count and worked with some genuinely brilliant people along the way.

But the thing that hasn’t changed is why we do it. We still love making b**r, and the community and culture that surrounds it.

Which brings us to Milestone 13. A commemorative b**r to celebrate 13 years of Northern Monk.

As ever with our birthday release, we’ve brought together several of our favourite elements from previous years and introduced some of our favourite hops we’re working with at the minute. El Dorado takes the lead, a hop that’s played an important supporting role in some of our very best IPAs over the years. Here we’ve pushed it into the foreground, backed up with Citra and Mosaic.

The result is a smooth, thick DDH IPA packed with tropical candy and mango flavours.

13 years of Northern Monk. Thank you for being part of it.

Available online now. Cheers 🍻

01/10/2026

FY25 IMPACT REPORT

Last year we published our very first impact report which gave full transparency on our environmental and community impact and ambitions. In the second year of publishing the report, we have:

🌍 Become B Corp certified, bringing to life an important long-term ambition of the business.

🌍 Completed our new climate action plan that aims to facilitate a 90% reduction of the baseline in our direct emissions by 2030.

🌍 Reduced our year-on-year direct emissions by 12%.

🌍 Reduced our pints of water used to pints of b**r packed ratio for the second year running.

🌍 Repurposed or recycled 97.6% of waste.

This is all on top of welcoming 60 new members of staff across the year, hitting our target of donating £150,000 to community causes in total, and being voted as the 2nd best company to work for in the UK food and drink sector by Best Companies.

Read the full report via the link in our bio, a huge thank you to each and every Monk for rallying behind our impact goals and ambitions, and making these results a reality 💚

24/09/2026

DARK AND WILD 🤘🖤

The main festival might not be happening this year whilst we put our energy into Hop City 10, but that doesn’t mean the annual b**r release has to stop.

Dark & Wild 2026 has landed, and it’s a big, indulgent stout brewed in collaboration with masters of the style, Florida-based Tripping Animals Brewing Co.®️.

This 8.2% Double Chocolate Mudcake Stout is thick, heavy, and packed with layer upon layer of decadent chocolate.

We couldn’t let a whole year pass without some kind of Dark & Wild celebration, so get the 5th November in your diary. We’ll be hosting free entry Dark & Wild Sessions across all six of our bar venues.

More news on this dropping very soon, and there might just be some exciting b**rs from Tripping Animals on their way over to us…

Keep a look out for the next HOP CITY 27 brewery announcement tomorrow ⚡️

16/09/2026

FRESH FROM NZ 🌏

This month’s release is as fresh as it can possibly get.

When former Monk Dani, now at Brew Moon Brewing Co in Amberley, New Zealand, landed back in Leeds recently, they brought some locally grown Riwaka, Nelson and Motueka from Bold River Hops by Okuora Farms with them.

Rather than planning the recipe in advance, the team at OFS opened the bags when they arrived, got the hops on the table and came up with the recipe on the spot.

Probably the most spontaneous b**r we’ve ever made, this 5.6% pale ale is a showcase of some of the best hops coming out of New Zealand right now, with punchy lemon-lime aromas, passionfruit undertones, a silky smooth mouthfeel and a deep yellow haze.

You really need to try this one for yourself. Available online now.

09/09/2026

🍺 PIZZA 🤝 B**R 🍕

The U.K. has been recognised recently as home to some of the best pizza in the world, and our venues are home to two examples that deserve to be right up there with the best of them.

Introducing our latest Patrons Project, a Limoncello IPA infused with actual Limoncello, with Cashmere and Citra hops adding even more lemon balm, lime and sweet citrus flavour.

This b**r brings together Northern Monk Refectory York which hosts Slice Culture. Slice Culture was founded by Mike - a project which began in his garden during lockdown before going on to find its first home at Track Brewing in Manchester. Mike has travelled the world and spent the last 6 years in the quest to master the ultimate slice to accompany a b**r. Whilst NORTHERN MONK REFECTORY AND GARDEN 🌸 is home to Fratello’s, founded by Leno who’s family restaurant Mamma Mia’s has been serving some of the best Italian food in Yorkshire for 35 years. If you’re there whilst Leno is on shift, expect him to ply you with Limoncello to round out the perfect meal. Alongside his time at Mamma Mia’s Leno has honed his pizza craft in pizzerias in Naples and New York. Fratello’s brings together the best of global pizza culture - served up in our orginal tap room.

Raising a glass of Limoncello IPA to pizza, to b**r and to two of the finest in the game - Leno & Mike.

Alla nostra!

07/09/2026

The biggest month in the b**r calendar is here, prost! 🍻

As a brewery we’ve always embraced tradition, history and community. There’s nothing that exemplifies that much more than the world’s largest b**r festival, Oktoberfest.

This year’s release is an evolution of tradition; a classic Märzen at its core but softened to 4.6% and brightened with Solero hops. A perfectly pintable take on the festival favourite.

You may have spotted it on tap in a few places already but it’ll take centre stage in the Oktoberfest celebrations happening in our bars across the UK!

Kicking off on the 19th September at both NORTHERN MONK REFECTORY AND GARDEN 🌸 and NORTHERN MONK REFECTORY // MCR with all the traditional festbier options and a sneaky Sierra Nevada appearance. The Hanging Bat and Northern Monk Refectory York will follow up the week after, with a load of Masterclasses in York’s Tasting Room. The team at Northern Monk at Darley Street Market will be teaming up with the local CAMRA branch and THE NORTHERN MARKET will be rounding things out on October 2nd for the final weekend of festivities!

So wherever you are across the north, we’ll see you for a stein!

04/09/2026

✊ A charity making a huge difference in Yorkshire needs our help!

For over 35 years, Pyramid Of Arts has supported people with learning disabilities and autism to discover the arts and grow as artists.
The charity has been supported by the Northern Monk Foundation since 2024. As part of this partnership, we’ve hosted a brewery tour for the artists, and they were commissioned to redesign old b**r tap handles. They also developed their own can designs and imagined what their perfect pubs might look like.

Now, after funding cuts and rising costs, Pyramid is at a turning point. They are in the final push to raise £20,000 to protect their future programme and continue providing life-changing creative opportunities.
Your donation, no matter the size, will make a difference.
🔗Head to the link in the Pyramid Of Arts bio to donate.
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28/08/2026

As a great British wordsmith once said:

“Feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you.” - Natasha Bedingfield, 2004

We enter the bank holiday weekend, and the last weekend of the school holidays for those with kids, ready to dance, hike, picnic and Keep the Faith in the rain.

We need it after all. 🌧️🎉🌦️

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Northern Monk, Unit 7, Sydenham Road
Leeds
LS119RU

Telephone

+441132436430

Website

http://www.northernmonk.com/

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