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Tickets for the fifth Moonbeams Wold Top Folk Festival are now on sale. Boasting the most impressive line-up in its five year history, the Moonbeams Wold Top Folk Festival takes place at Wold Top Brewery near Bridlington on 12-13th July and promises a weekend of great music, entertainment and delicious Yorkshire food and drink. Described as "A living, breathing 12 legged party waiting to happen," Headline act Skerryvore is a young Scottish band that was catapulted into the musical limelight after winning the STMA Live Act of the Year award. Other confirmed musical artists include some of the finest acts...

We were proud to welcome visitors to the brewery yesterday. They were on a Yorkshire Food Finder Wolds Wayfarer culinary visit and came to us after lunching at St Quintin Arms, Harpham and visiting St Quintin's Creamery and Burdass Lamb. Tom gave a brewery tour and we all enjoyed tastings of Bunny's Revenge and Scarborough Fair IPA, despite the building work in the bar! Then it was back to the St Quintin Arms for a dinner featuring Burdass Lamb - sounds fabulous! For more information about Yorkshire Food Finder events, visit www.yorkshirefoodfinder.org

Staff at an East Yorkshire micro brewery are celebrating after winning Best Green Business at the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) Business Awards (13th-15th March). The day after winning two bronze medals in the SIBA Brewing Awards, the Wold Newton brewery learnt that its nomination for Best Green Business had been successful and had beaten stiff competition to win the category. The successful nomination outlined the measures that the brewery is taking to safeguard the environment and included the installation of wind turbines to power the brewery and the farm, recycling the hops as garden mulch, using reed beds to...

Glasses are being raised today at Wold Top Brewery in East Yorkshire following the brewery's recent triumph in the annual Business Awards held by the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA). Following its success in the SIBA Great Northern Beer Festival, two of Wold Top Brewery's beers Wold Gold and Shepherd's Watch were entered in the national final of the prestigious competition that was held at SIBA's BeerX conference and beer festival from 13th - 15th March. The Wold Top Brewery team was delighted to win bronze medals for Shepherd's Watch in the bottled bitter (over 5%) category and Wold Gold...

A Yorkshire coast micro brewery has launched a new beer format in response to customer demand. Wold Newton based Wold Top Brewery has launched Humber Light, its first brewery conditioned beer, specifically for customers like Hull Truck Theatre who have no cellar facilities, but want to serve great tasting beer on draught. Inspired by Hull's maritime heritage, Humber Light (4.5% ABV) is a premium light, yet full flavoured beer that is brewed using lager malt and has a refreshing citrus character. Commenting on the rationale for the launch, brewery owner Tom Mellor said; "Keg beer tastes good and lasts much...