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The team at the brewery is celebrating after winning two York Press BusinessiQ Awards, one of them for the second time in a decade! On Friday night Kate headed to York Racecourse for the awards dinner and was delighted to be presented with firstly the Sustainable Award for our commitment to the environment and then the overall Business of the Year award. Kate said: "We're delighted and proud to have been awarded the overall business of the year. Our fabulous team work hard to produce great-tasting beer in the most sustainable way, and it means a lot to us all to win this prestigious...

Water is crucial to brewing - it's 90% of the product and helps the flavour profile of the beer. Brewing water affects the beer in three ways: it influences the pH of the beer, which can change how the beer flavours are expressed to your palate; it provides “seasoning” from the sulphate-to-chloride ratio; and it can cause off-flavours from chlorine or contaminants.In general, brewing water should be clean and free of any odours, such as chlorine or pond smells. Usually, good brewing water for conducting the mash and creating the wort should be moderately hard and have low-to-moderate alkalinity. But it...

We hope that you can join us for one of the events that we have organised for the run-up to Christmas.The events start this Friday, 15th November, and include a Friends Round Friday session, live music and podcast recording featuring famous roots musician Boss Caine, a games night and will conclude with a Christmas quiz on 22nd December. “Hosted in our cosy brewery tap room, these events have been designed to bring people together for informal, inexpensive gatherings before we all get busy with Christmas,” said Sam Smith who has organised the events. The lineup of events includes Friends Round Friday on 15th...

History:Today, the words beer and ale mean much the same, but the word ‘ale’ was originally reserved for brews produced from malt without hops. This was the original drink of the Anglo-Saxons and English, whereas ‘beer’, a brew using hops, probably originated in Germany. The cultivation of hops was probably introduced from Europe to Kent at the end of the 15th century. Our national drink until then had been ale, unhopped and sometimes flavoured with herbs such as wormwood. In those early days, the sole reason for using hops was to preserve the beer in good condition: the bittering effect...

The team at Wold Top is celebrating two of our beers being shortlisted in the Deliciously Yorkshire Taste Awards and reaching the final of the York Press Business Awards. Our award-winning low-alcohol beer, Intuition, has been shortlisted for the Best Beer award, and Scarborough Fair has reached the final in the Best Sustainable Product category in what is referred to as the largest and most respected food and drink awards programme in the region. We're also over the moon to have been shortlisted for the Sustainable Award at the York Press Business iQ Awards.  Brewery director, Alex Balchin, said: “We’re proud of our...