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The team here at Wold Top are celebrating after learning that Scarborough Fair has been shortlisted in the deliciouslyorkshire (dy for short) Taste Awards. Our top-selling English style IPA has reached the final in the Best Beer or Cider category in what is referred to as the largest and most respected food and drink awards programme in the region. Kate Balchin, director at the brewery, said: “Scarborough Fair has won many awards over the years, but it’s always nice to reach the final of a local award that champions Yorkshire food and drink.” Head Judge, BBC Broadcaster and artisan food expert Nigel Barden...

As the 2022 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 the actual grain, pictured. It’s divided into three parts:  Embryo/Germ which will eventually grow into the roots and shoots of the new plants. (stained red for visualisation) Endosperm. Which is the food reserve (insoluble starch) to be used by the germ of the grain to grow.  Husk. The grain covering, formed by two overlapping halves which protect...

We're excited to announce that the inaugural Oktoberfest will take place at Wold Top on 1st October and guests can expect a specially brewed Oktoberfest beer, German food with a Yorkshire twist and an Oompah Band.  Susie Freeman from our events team explains the rationale for Oktoberfest: “We’ve got such a great space in the brewery bar and brew shed and we’re always thinking about engaging events to put on. We had such good feedback from the Big Sky Beer Festival in July and our brewers were excited to brew something new and different, so a German beer festival with a Yorkshire twist...

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!  Our winter barley is already harvested - one of the earliest harvest starts we’ve had - thanks to the mid-July heatwave!  The wheat and spring barley will be next, so watch this space!  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...

Next year will see us celebrate 20 years of Wold Top, which is a pretty big milestone! Aside from the celebration planning, which is currently ongoing, we thought it might be nice for those who have only recently come on board to the Wold Top family to find out a bit more about us. Wold Top was founded in 2003 as a farm diversification project. Tom and Gill Mellor had been farming at Hunmanby Grange (the farm where the brewery is based) since the early eighties (taking over from Tom’s parents) but unfortunately, farming at that time was not a...