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Award-winning Wold Top Brewery will once again be providing refreshment for the hundreds of people visiting this year's Burton Agnes Jazz and Blues Festival from 6th to 8th July. Billed by a critic for The Independent as "Possibly the most enjoyable jazz concert I've ever attended", the annual festival is held in the beautiful, award-winning grounds of Burton Agnes Hall near Driffield and visitors will be able to relax to the sounds of summer blues and jazz whilst enjoying hand pulled real ales and fine Yorkshire food. Tom Mellor, who owns Wold Newton based Wold Top Brewery with his wife...

An award winning East Yorkshire brewery is celebrating after learning that it has been shortlisted for two prestigious awards. Hot on the heels of securing a final place in the Sainsbury's Great British Beer Hunt, Wold Top Brewery's Scarborough Fair IPA has been shortlisted in the Local Brew category of the Yorkshire Post Taste Awards and will be evaluated at tasting session carried out by several judges on Tuesday 21st August. Meanwhile, the Wold Newton based business has also reached the final of the York Press Family Business of the Year award. One of only 37 businesses and individuals that...

As the summer music festival scene gets into full swing, organisers of a Scarborough Family Music Festival are anticipating that their fourth festival will be another sell out success. The Staxtonbury Family Music Festival takes place at Manor Farm, Staxton from Friday 6th to Sunday 8th July and will showcase the finest groups including headline acts Grand Urge, Shamrockers, Blue Alibi, Soul Rida, Shamrockers plus local artists including Jessie Hutchinson from Staxton. Scarborough musicians Tom Townsend and Paul Tilley will also be hosting free music workshops in the Acoustics Marquee. There is free camping and plenty to do for all...

An award winning Yorkshire Coast brewery is celebrating after reaching the finals of Sainsbury's Great British Beer Hunt for the second consecutive year. Wold Newton based Wold Top Brewery entered its new beer Scarborough Fair IPA into the national competition that guarantees a listing with the supermarket for the ultimate winners and was delighted to beat stiff competition to become the only Yorkshire beer to make the final shortlist of 20 ales. Scarborough Fair IPA (6% ABV) is a golden amber ale that is triple hopped with a malty sweetness and will go on sale in Sainsbury's stores for its...

Award-winning Wold Top Brewery will be one of a number of rural Yorkshire businesses to support the first Open Farm Sunday at a Flixton luxury holiday location later this month. The Hunmanby based microbrewery will be showcasing its award winning beers at the nationwide Open Farm Sunday event at Humble Bee Farm on 17th June. Humble Bee Farm is hosting a combined Open Farm Sunday and Father's Day Celebration event that includes a Farmers' Market, a Feathered Friends Ramble with Steve Race between 9.30am to 11.30am and Wonders of Wildlife Nature Games with Richard Baines from 2.30 to 4.30pm. There...