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Hunmanby micro-brewery Wold Top Brewery has been invited to a Meet the Brewer evening at Scarborough?s Glass House Bistro next week. During the evening, one in a series of themed events that include jazz, wine tasting and murder mystery nights, Wold Top Brewery?s head brewer, Tony O-Rourke-Kilburn will talk to the guests about how beer is brewed and will have a selection of the micro-brewery?s award-winning real ales for them to try. Tony, who has been with the brewery since its launch in 2003, is looking forward to the event; ?The Glass House?s themed evenings are really popular and we...

A Yorkshire Coast brewery?s massive charity drive in memory of a Hunmanby youngster is on track to hit its target by the end of the year. Wold Top Brewery embarked on an ambitious campaign to raise ?10,000 for?Candlelighters after Dan Bayes, son of the Wold Newton brewery?s cellarman Geoff lost his battle to a rare form of aggressive bone cancer, osteosarcoma, in April this year, aged just 25. Brewery staff, suppliers, friends, family and customers have already helped to raise over ?6,000 through sales of the limited edition ale, Candlelight and by sponsoring a Wold Top team that included Dan?s...

Award winning Wold Top Brewery is making it easy for people to enjoy cask conditioned ales at home by producing a range of popular seasonal mini casks. The five litre (approx.9 pint) mini casks can be filled with your choice of Wold Top Brewery Ales, including the seasonal ales Merry Christmas (6% ABV) and 5 Wold Rings (5%) plus flagship Wold Top Bitter (3.7% ABV), ruby red Mars Magic (4.6% ) and award winning Falling Stone (4.2%) and Wold Gold (4.8%).? They?re a cost effective way to enjoy real ale without venturing out and make a great present for a...

Award-winning East Coast brewery Wold Top Brewery is celebrating after enjoying its most successful Christmas and New Year to date. Tom Mellor, who owns the Wold Newton, Driffield based business with his wife, Gill, says ?For the third year running we have enjoyed double digit growth, with sales of bottled beer and mini casks through local shops and Farmer?s Markets showing the strongest growth. ?We?re delighted with the figures.? It goes to show that, even when people are feeling the squeeze financially, they are not prepared to compromise on beer, but they are choosing to enjoy it at home instead...

Award-winning Wold Top Brewery will be one of a number of North Yorkshire businesses to support Scarborough?s second farmers? market next month. The market, which launched in November, will be held at Scarborough College on Filey Road between 10am and 1pm on Sunday 1st February. Brewery owner Gill Mellor is pleased that a local producers market has been established in Scarborough; ?Figures revealed this week show that sales of local produce are up 6% and initiatives like this can only help to support our rural economy.? The brewery?s Sales Office Manager, Vicky Skinn, will be running the market and is...