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We've got more good news to bring you this week as we have been shortlisted in the Yorkshire Post Excellence in Business Awards. Not only have we been shortlisted, but Spirit of Yorkshire have too, so it's a double cause for celebration in the Mellor, Balchin, Thompson and Ashwood households! We have been shortlisted in the Rural Awards category that celebrates the contribution rural businesses make to the local community by creating jobs and innovating, and Spirit of Yorkshire has reached the final of the Young Business of the Year Award that rewards rapidly growing businesses in the Yorkshire region. Co-founder of...

Here at the brewery we're celebrating winning three awards at the World Beer Awards and two gold stars at the Guild of Fine Food's Great Taste Awards. Our first lager, Landmark Lager and gluten free favourite, Scarborough Fair IPA both won bronze awards at the annual worldwide beer competition, as did Swell, the barrel aged beer that we produced in conjunction with sister company, Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery. Landmark Lager won its award in the Session Lager category (UK), Scarborough Fair in the English Style IPA category (UK) and Swell in the Barrel Aged category (UK). Our Brewery Manager, Alex said: “It’s...

August for us here at Wold Top means harvest and currently that entails checking the crops daily to see how they are ripening and constantly monitoring the weather forecast!  Our wheat will be ready first, hopefully in around two weeks from now followed by the barley at the end of the month.  As you may already know, we’ve trialled a different way of drilling and growing some of our barley this year so it will be interesting to see how the two versions come out.   What we are looking for are ears of corn with lots of tightly packed grains....

The team here are celebrating after we won two awards in the North East division of an industry wide beer competition. Our blonde beer, Wold Gold, and our first lager, Landmark Lager both won awards at the first SIBA Regional Digital Beer Awards 2020. Wold Gold, 4.8% ABV won the gold award in the Premium Bitters (4.5 to 6.4%) category and gluten free Landmark Lager, 4.2% ABV won silver in the Lagers and Pilsners category in its first competition since we launched it earlier this year. Our Brewery Manager, Alex (pictured) is delighted with the awards: “Our team are committed to brewing great...

This weekend should have been the 26th consecutive year that we have opened the brewery garden for the National Garden Scheme charities. Whilst this isn't possible this year, the garden's looking so beautiful that we'd like to take you on a virtual tour, both with images and drone footage. At the moment the alliums are looking spectacular, splashes of purple all through the garden creating little pockets of colour everywhere you go. Each year we wait anxiously to see whether visitors will get to see the Laburnum tunnel in all its flowering glory. Some years the timing is spot on, sometimes...