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Wold Top Brewery has announced plans to reduce the business?s carbon footprint with a two year tree?planting programme. Owner of the brewery Tom Mellor explains ?The effects of climate change, or global warming, are well documented and the growth rate of carbon dioxide emissions is alarming.? Between 2000 and 2005 the annual growth rate was more than 2.5 per cent, whereas in the 1990s it was less than one per cent per year. We want to do something, however small, to try to redress the balance.? The tree planting initiative will see the creation of a four acre woodland area...

Wold Top Brewery?s light beer, Wold Gold, has won a Gold Medal at the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) North awards. The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) awarded?the prize for the best premium bitter at its awards dinner in Southport on 11th January. Head brewer Tony O'Rourke-Kilburn (pictured second from right) was at the dinner and was delighted with the win ?This is the second time that Wold Gold has won an award, but it's our first SIBA gold, so we?re really pleased.?

Wold Top Brewery is working with the North York Moors Railway?to raise funds for The Sir Nigel Gresley Locomotive Preservation?Trust Ltd. The award-winning brewery will be donating 10p from the sale?of each bottle of its popular locomotive ale, A4 Amber, during the?forthcoming LNER Steam Festival and for the rest of 2008. The Spring LNER festival takes place on consecutive weekends?(28 to 30 March and 4 to 6 April) and it is expected that at least?seven engines from the former London & North Eastern Railway?(LNER) will be in operation. The festival has been designed to pay tribute to the men and?machines...

Award-winning local brewery Wold Top Brewery is celebrating after enjoying its most successful Christmas and New Year to date. Tom Mellor, who owns the Wold Newton based business with his wife, Gill, says ? Yet again we have enjoyed double digit growth, and this time many of the sales of our award-winning ales have come from customers who have tasted Wold Top Beers whilst holidaying in Yorkshire and have bought from our website once home.? Yorkshire wolds way silver anniversary celebrated with Wolds Way Pale Ale - the perfect reward after a day enjoying the rolling hills and steep dry...