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 Last Drop, York  The last Ouse Boozer of 1999 reported that York Brewery was applying for a licence to open a pub on Colliergate. By March 2000 they had obtained planning permission to convert an office building, which eventually became the Last Drop Inn. The decision to open a pub was prompted by the difficulties they had encountered selling their beers in the city, where big breweries or pub companies severely restricted access to market. It set out its stall with a firm no children, darts, pool or jukebox policy, an ethos it shared with Tynemill who became partners in a joint venture, the Mildly Mad Pub Company. (They eventually owned three further pubs – the Three-Legged Mare, the Yorkshire Terrier and the Rook & Gaskill. The partnership was amicably dissolved in 2005; the Rook stayed with Tynemill while the others were incorporated into the York Brewery Company). The Last Drop opened in August 2000 on the very same day that Yorkshire Terrier won a Bronze medal in the Champion Beer of Britain competition at the Great British Beer Festival. Managing Director Tony Thomson recalls dashing back from London to open the pub after the festival; on the train the trolley came along, laden with bottles of Yorkshire Terrier – “It was one of those moments that made everything we had gone through over the years seem worthwhile”. The room at the front has wood flooring and is very light, with clear glass to the whole front wall to see out onto the street (and in). You can’t sit here for very long without seeing someone you know pass by! Four steps up take you to the bar area with stone flag floors and to a further flagged floor drinking area and a tiny outside beer garden - or is it drinking yard? The pub is furnished with a variety of stools, chairs and tables including many made from wooden casks, with Dick Turpin featured on many of the walls. The LocAles here come from York Brewery, of course, so you will often find Yorkshire Terrier, Guzzler and Centurion's Ghost Ale, award winners all. |
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