Wold Top News

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...

The teams at the brewery and sister company Spirit of Yorkshire are celebrating after reaching the final in five categories of a prestigious tourism awards competition. We have been shortlisted in the Remarkable Ethic...

Don't miss out! The third Wold Top Oktoberfest takes place on 28th September and will feature a specially brewed Oktoberfest beer, German food with a Yorkshire twist from award-winning street food company Shoot the Bu...

The teams at the brewery and Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery are celebrating after being shortlisted for a second prestigious farming award.  We have reached the final of the Diversification of the Year (Large) categor...

July and August for us here at Wold Top mean harvest and currently that entails checking the crops daily to see how they are ripening and constantly monitoring the weather forecast! Despite the rain we’ve actually man...