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Types of Beer and how (best) to drink them! As we are sure you are all aware, the world of beer is full and varied. In style, flavour, look and colour. Here’s a brief run through of  some of the most popular beer styles available in the UK market - and how they should be served! Bitter: (Wold Top Bitter) The original and most recognisable UK pint. A low strength (3.6% to 4% abv), easy drinking, lightly hopped beer. A sessionable beer in which the flavour from the hops and malt is highlighted, not the alcohol content. The name bitter...

We're big fans of cycling here at Wold Top and so we're really pleased to be partnering with the Cycling Podcast for their inaugural 'Piccolo Fondo' ride, which will take place on the Thursday of the week of the World Championships in Yorkshire (26th September).  Join The Cycling Podcast team on a ride through the Yorkshire Moors followed by an evening of food, beer and cycling chat here at Wold Top Brewery.  For more information and to sign up (limited numbers), head to The Cycling Podcast's event website. Chapeau! 

We're delighted to announce that last week we won a Chairman's Business Award in the East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Chairman’s Awards. Our directors, Kate and Alex Balchin were presented with the award for the Under 50 Employees Category at an Awards Dinner at Bridlington Spa on Tuesday, 14th May. The awards were presented by the Chairman of the Council, Margaret Chadwick and Clare Frisby from BBC Look North. Kate was very pleased with the win: “We are so proud of the work we do and we are a really strong, tight-knit workforce so this is definitely a team award rather than an...

Our directors, Kate and Alex take a look at beer packaging in this month's newsletter. It's an interesting read, so we thought that we would share it on the website. If you'd like to receive our monthly round up of news and events from the brewery, you can sign up here. Meanwhile, onto packaging.. As you may well be aware, there are lots of opinions on how beer is packaged flying around at the moment, so we thought we’d discuss our thinking on this subject with you this month. Why do Wold Top use Brown bottles? When beer first started...

Come and join us at Hunmanby Grange for our annual charity open weekend on 1st and 2nd June and learn from our cheery brew team how we make award-winning beers using home grown barley and water from the farm’s borehole. You'll also be able to visit our fabulous garden that is opening for the National Garden Scheme for the 25th year. Children will be free to explore the wild and wooded parts of the garden and the garden’s lawns will be available for you to picnic on. If you don't fancy bringing a picnic, there will be food available, the bar...