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The team at the brewery are very excited because our first and flagship lager, Landmark, has been shortlisted in the Beer category of the deliciouslyorkshire Taste Awards 2025.  The Taste Awards are now the biggest of their kind in the north of England and attract hundreds of entries from food and drink businesses throughout Yorkshire and the Humber, so we're over the moon to have reached the final. We face some tough competition from Harrogate Brewing Co, Rudgate Brewery and Great Newsome Brewery, and will find out who has won at a glittering awards dinner at The Pavilions in Harrogate on...

Tickets have gone on sale for a Halloween event with a difference here at the brewery. Don't miss out! On 31st October, we're hosting our first ever Singo Bingo combined with a spooky seasonal quiz. “We wanted to mix things up a bit for Halloween night this year, so we decided to combine two of our most popular events to make one unforgettable evening,” said Sam Smith from our events team. “Visitors can expect a frightfully fun night of music and monstrous trivia! The legendary Shane will be spinning tunes for a live round of Singo Bingo, which will be...

As the 2025 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! The actual grain is divided into three parts: 1.    Embryo/Germ which will eventually grow into the roots and shoots of the new plants. 2.    Endosperm. Which is the food reserve (insoluble starch) to be used by the germ of the grain to grow.3.    Husk. The grain covering is formed by two overlapping halves which protect the germ and endosperm.  The job of...

Here at Wold Top, July and August mean harvest, and currently that entails checking the crops daily to see how they are ripening and constantly monitoring the weather forecast! We’ve actually managed to get all the winter barley harvested already, but the winter wheat is still waiting to be harvested, and the spring barley fields are a way off being ready yet.  For the barley harvest, (both spring and winter), what we are looking for are ears of corn with lots of tightly packed grains. These should be firm to the touch but not so dry and hard that they...

We’re kicking off a busy, beer filled summer here at Wold Top HQ with our sell out Big Sky Beer Festival and we're excited to announce the return of the wonderful Cloughton Rat Pack band to the brewery in early October too. These guys are not only great musicians, but also fabulous fundraisers for Saint Catherine’s Hospice, a local hospice that has cared for, and still does care for, a great many people in this area who need them with their wonderful facilities. Fundraising for charities like Saint Catherine’s is really important to us as a company, as not only have...