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Hope Tap

99-105 Friar Street
Reading
RG1 1EP
Telephone(0118) 958 2266
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Opening times: 8am-Midnight Mon-Thu; 8am-1am Fri & Sat; 8am-Midnight Sun

Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic this pub is currently offering additional services:

Re-opens on the 4th of July. See website for details.

Regular beers: Greene King IPA, Greene King Abbot, Sharp's Doom Bar

See more about this pub on WhatPub, CAMRA's national pub guide.

Now the only Reading town centre Wetherspoons. Evening customers can suffer extended waiting times at the bar. Four bag in box real ciders rotating, around three standards. The site of this Wetherspoon pub was once occupied by the Hope Brewery, which had its own pub, the Hope Tap but by 1860 the brewery had gone. Alcohol available from 9am.