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Hunmanby micro brewery Wold Top Brewery is lending its support to the popular Scarborough Cricket Festival that starts next week (15th August). The Welcome to Yorkshire Scarborough Cricket Festival gets underway on with a President's XI taking on a David Byas XI which will include various players who appeared in the Championship winning side of 2001. The President's XI will include England Ladies stars Danielle Wyatt and Arran Brindle and Yorkshire's young-guns Adam Lyth and Gary Ballance. Also in the team, which will be captained by Scarborough's 1st XI captain, Piet Rinke, are former Zimbabwean International Henry Olonga and fellow...

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A Yorkshire brewery has lent its support to the first charity cycle ride to take place around the new 146 mile Yorkshire Wolds route. Wold Top Brewery, along with sponsors Vion and supporters including Visit Hull and East Yorkshire, Dawes cycles and Ryedale District Council, helped Ryedale Special Families to raise over £8,000 from the two day Vion Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Challenge. Organised by Scoot Cycling Holidays, the challenge was completed by 65 riders who braved one of the wettest weekends this year to complete the challenging route that takes in the ever changing scenery of the Wolds, from the...

A Wold Newton farm diversification business is celebrating after gaining more prestigious national awards for three of its ales. For the second time, the Guild of Fine Food has deemed three of Wold Top Brewery's real ales worthy of an award, with Wold Top Bitter, Wold Gold and Wold Top Against the Grain gluten free beer all earning gold stars. Of Wold Top Against the Grain, the brewery's first gluten free beer, the judges said; "Good light flavour. Clean and refreshing. Bright. Some lemon zest. Really a good beer considering it's gluten-free." and commended Wold Gold on its "Good clarity...

An epic cycling challenge involving an East Yorkshire brewing couple has raised over £9,000 for charity. On 29th April, a team of eight, including Wold Newton based Wold Top Brewery directors Tom and Gill Mellor arrived at John O'Groats having ridden 1,100 miles from Lands End to raise money for Prostate UK and Breast Cancer Campaign. The team, which completed the challenging ride in only 14 days, comprised Tom and Gill, Dave and Sue Morgan from Kilham, George and Karen Hamilton from Driffield, Robin and Colette Freeman from Hutton Cranswick. The average age of the team was mid 50s. Gill,...