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Can’t quite believe we’re in 2025 already but there you go! We hope you’ve all had a wonderfully chilled and festive Christmas time and have lots of great things planned for the coming year.  We’re raring to go here, with 12 new monthly specials and lots of other exciting plans in the pipeline.  Our limited edition beers for this year are a bit of a blast from the past and you may well recognise some of them from previous years. We wanted to revisit some of these and bring them back to the brewhouse as they were such great beers...

We're excited to share the news that we have brewed a new beer to encourage people to support independent breweries and pubs this month. The brewers have developed a fruity St. Clements ale to support ‘Tryanuary’.  Tryanuary is an initiative that was started in 2015 by a group of volunteers to support and promote the beer industry, especially small and independent beer businesses, throughout one of the hardest months of the year financially Brewery director, Kate Balchin said: “Tryanuary supports and promotes the beer industry, especially small independent beer businesses, and the aim of the initiative is to encourage people...

It’s officially December so we’re going to talk about…...Beer! (and the food you should be eating with it over the Christmas period!)Here at Wold Top, we are all about the beer (obviously!), but we also love to use our beer for cooking and pairing with food, so here are our ideas to help you have a ‘beerific’ Christmas Dinner! Canapés & Starters:Smoked salmon on some fresh bread or a blini with a squeeze of lemon and a dash of pepper, accompanied by a nice cold glass of Wold Gold or Landmark Lager is the perfect amuse bouche after a morning...

The team at the brewery is celebrating after winning two York Press BusinessiQ Awards, one of them for the second time in a decade! On Friday night Kate headed to York Racecourse for the awards dinner and was delighted to be presented with firstly the Sustainable Award for our commitment to the environment and then the overall Business of the Year award. Kate said: "We're delighted and proud to have been awarded the overall business of the year. Our fabulous team work hard to produce great-tasting beer in the most sustainable way, and it means a lot to us all to win this prestigious...

Water is crucial to brewing - it's 90% of the product and helps the flavour profile of the beer. Brewing water affects the beer in three ways: it influences the pH of the beer, which can change how the beer flavours are expressed to your palate; it provides “seasoning” from the sulphate-to-chloride ratio; and it can cause off-flavours from chlorine or contaminants.In general, brewing water should be clean and free of any odours, such as chlorine or pond smells. Usually, good brewing water for conducting the mash and creating the wort should be moderately hard and have low-to-moderate alkalinity. But it...