News

Here's the latest Directors' Diary from the newsletter.  It seems to have flown by but we’ve reached a great milestone in the brewery these last weeks - our 4000th brew! Each batch of beer we produce is given a batch number (often referred to as a gyle number in the brewing industry) which is used to trace, track and monitor the beer as it passes through the brewhouse and out to trade. As a celebration, our brewers decided it would be nice to brew a special beer for this momentous occasion and so Mild Stone was born! As the name...

Popular Scarborough swing bands Cloughton Rat Pack and King Willy’s Big Band will perform here on 27th April. “The fabulous and ever-popular Cloughton Rat Pack and King Willy's Big Band are swinging their way to the Brewery for what promises to be an immense night of live music, dancing, great beer, and fundraising for Saint Catherine's Hospice. Tickets are selling fast, so we’re encouraging people not to delay booking,” said Michelle Savage from our events team. Tickets for the evening of live music, which starts at 7pm on Saturday, 27th April, cost £15 per person and include a pint or a...

We're pleased to share the news that we're hosting a second trail race with Bridlington Road Runners. The success of last year's event has prompted a repeat running of the all-terrain race around the brewery’s farm and the Yorkshire Wolds. The Wold Top 10k run takes place at Hunmanby Grange on 14th September and also features a children’s 1k fun run, a hog roast and an option to camp at the award-winning brewery on the top of the Wolds. Brewery director and keen runner, Alex Balchin is looking forward to the event: “Starting from the brewery, we'll run the 10k trail race...

Scarborough’s Books by the Beach festival programme (Friday 7 - Sunday 9 June) is a heady mix of nautical adventure, powerful politics, and fascinating history. There’s sparkling performance poetry from Scottish National Poet JACKIE KAY, revelatory memoirs from prize-winning journalist POLLY TOYNBEE and comedian HELEN LEDERER, plus high hopes for sea conservation from marine biologist DR HELEN SCALES. Headliners include ‘Prince of Fashion’ PATRICK GRANT, BBC’s Security Correspondent FRANK GARDNER OBE and bestselling novelist DAVID NICHOLLS - author of recent Netflix huge hit One Day. Patrick Grant is best known as a judge on the BBC’s Great British Sewing Bee...

Here at Hunmanby Grange Farm, the home of Wold Top, we are currently preparing for one of the most important parts of our farming year – spring drilling. There are two types of crop plantings available to farmers: winter and spring. Winter barley and winter wheat varieties are sown shortly after harvest, late September through October, whilst spring barley and spring wheat are sown as the weather turns warmer and is more ‘springlike’. This can be anywhere from late February to late March/early April. For spring planting, we look for soil temperatures to be around 6C and rising to enable...