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A sneak preview of our anniversary ale

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A sneak preview of our anniversary ale

Can you join us on 3rd of June to help us celebrate 20 years of brewing?   We're throwing open the doors to the brewery between 10am and 4pm for tours, demos and live music and it would be great if you could join us.  “We’re excited to reach this milestone anniversary and would like people to join in the celebrations and taste our special anniversary ale, ‘20 Ears’,” said Brewery director, Kate Balchin, who is the second generation to work in the business that was set up by her parents, Tom and Gill Mellor on the family farm at...

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2003 - 2023 - join us on 3rd June and help us celebrate 20 years of brewing amazing ales

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2003 - 2023 - join us on 3rd June and help us celebrate 20 years of brewing amazing ales

We turn 20 this year - in early June!  What a whirlwind ride these last 20 years have been! From a small, farm diversification project, employing family and a couple of staff,  to a well-established regional UK brewer employing 20 local people and generating much-needed income for the local area. Not to mention all the pints and pints of fabulous beer produced over those years too! So, to celebrate, come and join us on the 3rd June for a full brewery open day. We’ll have short tours, demonstrations, machinery on display, food stalls, cake stalls, children's entertainment, live music and...

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We're bringing Shakespeare to the brewery!

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We're bringing Shakespeare to the brewery!

We're very excited to be bringing live theatre to the Yorkshire Wolds with an alternative take on Shakespeare later this year. Join us on 28th July when touring company 440 Theatre will visit the brewery to deliver a performance of Shakespeare with a difference. As part of a double bill, the troupe of four actors will be performing Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet in one evening.  Act One sees the 440 team wrestle with a side-splitting Macbeth, followed by an outrageous take on Rot in Act Two. "We can’t wait to see two of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies transformed into comedies. 440 have...

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Spring drilling and cover crops

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Spring drilling and cover crops

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 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...

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Join our charity quiz to raise money for St. Catherine's Hospice

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Join our charity quiz to raise money for St. Catherine's Hospice

Tickets have gone on sale for a fundraising quiz to raise money for our charity of the year. Join us on 21st April for a fun-filled evening in aid of St. Catherine’s Hospice. We love a quiz night here at Wold Top, and we also love supporting great local charities, so we’re combining the two with a charity quiz night. St Catherine’s Hospice do amazing work supporting people with cancer and other long-term illnesses across the Yorkshire Coast. They also cared for our founder, Gill, in the last few weeks of her life so this really is a cause close to...

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