Wold Top News

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,...

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’.  Tr...

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 ou...

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 delighte...

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 a...

We hope that you can join us for one of the events that we have organised for the run-up to Christmas.The events start this Friday, 15th November, and include a Friends Round Friday session, live music and podcast rec...

History:Today, the words beer and ale mean much the same, but the word ‘ale’ was originally reserved for brews produced from malt without hops. This was the original drink of the Anglo-Saxons and English, whereas ‘bee...

The team at Wold Top is celebrating two of our beers being shortlisted in the Deliciously Yorkshire Taste Awards and reaching the final of the York Press Business Awards. Our award-winning low-alcohol beer, Intuition,...

As the 2024 barley harvest is now safely gathered in, we thought it might be nice to share a bit about what will happen to it next. As it goes through the malting process so it can become beer! Firstly let’s look at t...