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Award winning Wold Top Brewery is celebrating after reaching the finals of Sainsbury's Great British Beer Hunt. The Wold Newton based brewery entered its light summer beer Golden Summer 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 16 ales. Golden Summer (4.4% ABV) is a light and fruity beer that will go on sale in Sainsbury's stores nationwide for three weeks from 7th September. The shortlisted beers will be judged on 30th September and...

An award winning Yorkshire Coast micro brewery has launched a new beer for Father's Day. Wold Newton based Wold Top Brewery has brewed a special ale that they hope will be a hit with the millions of fishermen in the UK - Angler's Reward. Described by the brewery as 'the ultimate catch', Angler's Reward (4% ABV) is a golden Pale Ale that is brewed with Wold grown malts and hopped with Cascade and Goldings hops to produce a refreshing ale with a fruity bitterness and a lingering aftertaste. Commenting on the launch, brewery owner Tom Mellor said "According to research...

A Yorkshire brewery is inviting coeliacs to raise a glass to celebrate Coeliac UK's Awareness Week (16th - 22nd May.) Wold Top Brewery brews Against the Grain, an award winning, full flavoured gluten free beer, from its farm based micro brewery high on the Yorkshire Wolds but sells it nationwide via its website www.woldtopbrewery.co.uk Brewed with a lager malt and maize for head retention, Against the Grain is a bitter beer with a good head, refreshing bitterness and a citrus hop after taste. It has an ABV of 4.5% and its gluten content is certified to be well below the...

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...