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An epic cycling challenge involving an East Yorkshire brewing couple got underway at the weekend. On 16th April, a team of eight, including Wold Newton based Wold Top Brewery directors Tom and Gill Mellor embarked on the famous Lands End to John O'Groats cycle ride and hope to raise a considerable amount for Prostate UK and Breast Cancer Campaign along the way. The team, comprising four men and four women whose average age is 50, plans to ride 80 miles a day and complete the challenging 1100 mile ride in only 14 days. Gill, who will celebrate her 51st birthday...

An award winning micro brewery is embracing the social media revolution with the launch of a new interactive website. East Yorkshire based Wold Top Brewery has created a new look website that incorporates a blog for all its latest news and links to its twitter feed and popular networking site facebook. The move to embrace new technology was prompted when Kate Mellor, 24 joined the family brewing business when she left university last year. Conversant with all forms of social media and recognising the commercial opportunites that direct communications with the brewery's substantial fan base could open up, Kate set...

If the lack of a gold leaf invitation to the wedding of the year has left you heartbroken, then an East Yorkshire brewery has just the thing to raise your spirits. To celebrate the nuptials of the second in line to the throne and his beautiful bride to be, Wold Newton based Wold Top Brewery has created a special wedding ale with a very apt name I Will! A golden fruity beer made with Yorkshire Wold grown Barley, Wheat and Wolds Water. The slightly spicy, long hoppy finish from the addition of English Golding hops create a right Royal English...

An East Yorkshire micro brewery is encouraging people to support local shops and markets when buying their Valentine's Day gifts this year. Wold Top Brewery sells one third of its award-winning bottled ales through farmers' markets, farm shops and independent off licences and retailers within a 40 mile radius of its Wold Newton based brewery and is keen to promote the great work of the small businesses that support local economies. Wold Top's Gill Mellor said; "Each year in Britain, we spend around £503m on cards, flowers, chocolates and other gifts for Valentine's Day. It would be good if some...

Award-winning Wold Top Brewery will once again be providing refreshment for the hundreds of visitors at this year?s Burton Agnes Jazz and Blues Festival from 6th to 8th August. 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...