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Wold Top Brewery will be mixing with the stars at an inaugural food festival next week. Wold Newton based Wold Top Brewery is one of several Yorkshire businesses that have been invited to take part in the first?Hull Truck Theatre Food Festival that will feature cookery demonstrations by Yorkshire celebrity chef,?James Martin. The festival, designed to showcase the best of local produce, will feature demonstrations from James and Radio Humberside?s resident celebrity chef Nigel Brown and will be supported by host of local suppliers including Elliott Eggs, the White Rabbit Chocolate Company and Gold from the Wold cold pressed rapeseed...

An East Yorkshire brewery is urging people to support local pubs to celebrate Britain?s national drink during?Cask Ale Week (29 March to 5 April). Wold Newton based Wold Top Brewery supplies its award winning cask ales to over 400 pubs, hotels and restaurants throughout Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and is backing the?Cask-Marque,?CAMRA,?SIBA and?IFBB supported initiative to encourage more people to taste the delights of locally brewed beer.? In particular, National Cask Ale Week is appealing for female drinkers to swap their regular tipple for a taste of real ale as latest stats reveal that the number of female real ale drinkers...

Visitors to the TV featured garden Hunmanby Grange Garden and Nursery in East Yorkshire will get extra value for money on 5th and 6th June when the?opening of the garden coincides with a rare open day for award winning East Coast micro-brewery, Wold Top Brewery. For just ?3.00 visitors will be able to marvel at the beautiful and interesting garden that Gill Mellor has created despite its exposure to the elements and a challenging soil.? Gill will share her stories about how the garden has evolved over a 25 year period into a series of gardens that have been developed...

A Yorkshire micro brewery has welcomed a scientific report that concludes that moderate beer drinking may benefit your health. Scientists at the?Medical Research Council Collaborative Centre for Human Nutrition Research (HNR) in Cambridge have identified that silicon promotes both bone and connective tissue health and that beer is a naturally rich source of the key nutrient. Dr Jonathan Powell, Head of the Biomineral Research Section at HNR, said; ?We have shown that silicon appears to have a beneficial effect in increasing bone mineral density. Epidemiological work has identified a positive association between drinking beer in moderation (2 units per day)...

An East Yorkshire brewery is celebrating after its gluten free beer was highly commended in a national competition for gluten free foods. Judges at the?Foods Matter Free From Food Awards considered Wold Newton based Wold Top Brewery?s Against the Grain to have a? ?Floral aroma, nice hoppy palette?, and concluded that it was ?dry and delicate.? Brewed with maize, not wheat, Against the Grain is a full flavoured 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 Codex...