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We're very excited to have won two rural business awards within a fortnight of each other. T Mellor and Son won the Outstanding Rural Diversification Project category at the Amazon and CLA sponsored Rural Business Awards and the Diversification category of the inaugural Yorkshire Post Rural Awards for our Wold Top Brewery, Agricola Bottling and Muddy Souls Events businesses. The national Rural Business awards took place at Denbies Wine Estates in Surrey, whilst the Yorkshire Post event was hosted at the Pavilions in Harrogate. Of the national award, Tom Mellor said: “We’ve had a great experience participating in the Rural...

This year, we're hoping to be able to make Christmas shopping a more pleasant experience by offering late night shopping and an open bar throughout December. Extending our opening hours into the evenings before Christmas is great for people who want to be able to shop after work, try some of our beers and talk to us about our products, said Brewery Manager, Alex Balchin. “Gift ideas range from bottles of beer and membership of our exclusive Big Sky Beer Club to cycling shirts, rugby shirts, hats and caps that customers can try on for size. “There’s a cosy atmosphere in...

We're delighted to let you know that our founder, Tom Mellor been named as one of two enterprising business owners in the final of the Hull Daily Mail Business Awards’ Entrepreneur of the Year award. Tom has been shortlisted in the category that aims to find the individual who has had a profound effect on both business and the local community. Tom took over the family farm in 1981, expanded the acreage and introduced new crops before researching other ventures to increase income. Tom took his first steps into diversification at the beginning of the 2000s when he established the brewery...

We're proud to be marking our partnership with the North and East Yorkshire Poppy Appeal by producing a limited edition cask beer for the second year running. Our light beer, Remember, 4.2% ABV, will be available at selected pubs in North and East Yorkshire from late October until the 13th November, including the two week period known as Remembrancetide. For each cask of beer sold, we will donate £10 to the Poppy Appeal and we hope that this figure will be supplemented by collecting tins in the pubs that are serving Remember. The Poppy Appeal is the Royal British Legion’s biggest fundraising campaign...

We're highly delighted that our trio of Hunmanby Grange businesses, Wold Top Brewery, Agricoa Bottling and Muddy Souls Events have been been shortlisted in The Yorkshire Post Rural Awards Diversification category. Of the news, a delighted Tom Mellor said: "Our company ethos is to maximise our farming and geographical assets whilst sustaining the environment that is our home and to safeguard the farm for the fifth and subsequent generations.  Growing our rural businesses has meant providing employment for local people and we’re proud to be in the running for this award.” James Mitchinson, editor of The Yorkshire Post, said: “There is so...