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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...

As the 2024 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:It’s divided into three parts: 1. Embryo/Germ which will eventually grow into the roots and shoots of the new plants. (stained red for visualisation)2. Endosperm. Which is the food reserve (insoluble starch) to be used by the germ of the grain to grow3. Husk. The grain covering is formed by two overlapping halves which protect...

The teams at the brewery and sister company Spirit of Yorkshire are celebrating after reaching the final in five categories of a prestigious tourism awards competition. We have been shortlisted in the Remarkable Ethical, Responsible and Sustainable Tourism and the Remarkable Local Producer categories of the 14th annual Remarkable East Yorkshire Tourism Awards (REYTAs) which celebrate the quality of businesses and individuals working within the tourism industry. Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery has been shortlisted for the Remarkable Cuppa, the Remarkable Local Producer and the Remarkable Taste Awards. Spirit of Yorkshire’s marketing director, Jenni Ashwood, is delighted with the news: “Tourism is an important...