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This month's newsletter included the regular insight from directors, Kate and Alex - this time it's all about barrel-aged beer - in collaboration with sister company, Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery.  "As many of you will already know, back in February we released our very first barrel-aged beer, Swell, in collaboration with the guys over at Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery. Barrel-aged beer is beer that has been aged (sorry to state the obvious here!) for a period of time in a wooden barrel. Typically, these barrels will be ex bourbon, whisky or wine with the odd sherry, brandy and port barrel...

We get a lot of questions about the price of our beer, so we thought this month’s ‘Directors' Diary’* was a great place to chat about the what and the how behind the price of good beer! First and foremost, what matters to us is quality – we ensure that everything that goes into our beer and bottles, from the barley and hops to the glass and packaging, is of the best quality. This, naturally, has an effect on our pricing!  However, we’re often asked the very reasonable question of why our beer is sometimes cheaper to buy at a supermarket...

We've got more good news to bring you this week as we have been shortlisted in the Yorkshire Post Excellence in Business Awards. Not only have we been shortlisted, but Spirit of Yorkshire have too, so it's a double cause for celebration in the Mellor, Balchin, Thompson and Ashwood households! We have been shortlisted in the Rural Awards category that celebrates the contribution rural businesses make to the local community by creating jobs and innovating, and Spirit of Yorkshire has reached the final of the Young Business of the Year Award that rewards rapidly growing businesses in the Yorkshire region. Co-founder of...

Here at the brewery we're celebrating winning three awards at the World Beer Awards and two gold stars at the Guild of Fine Food's Great Taste Awards. Our first lager, Landmark Lager and gluten free favourite, Scarborough Fair IPA both won bronze awards at the annual worldwide beer competition, as did Swell, the barrel aged beer that we produced in conjunction with sister company, Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery. Landmark Lager won its award in the Session Lager category (UK), Scarborough Fair in the English Style IPA category (UK) and Swell in the Barrel Aged category (UK). Our Brewery Manager, Alex said: “It’s...

August for us here at Wold Top means harvest and currently that entails checking the crops daily to see how they are ripening and constantly monitoring the weather forecast!  Our wheat will be ready first, hopefully in around two weeks from now followed by the barley at the end of the month.  As you may already know, we’ve trialled a different way of drilling and growing some of our barley this year so it will be interesting to see how the two versions come out.   What we are looking for are ears of corn with lots of tightly packed grains....