Yorkshire Wolds brewery wins prestigious farming award

The team at a Yorkshire Wolds brewery is celebrating after winning a national farm business award.

Wold Newton based Wold Top Brewery was announced as the winner of the Family Business category in theFarm BusinessFood and Farming Industry Awards at an awards dinner at the House of Commons recently.

Brewery Director Gill Mellor was delighted to receive the award: "As a farm based business brewing beer from our own crops, it's very rewarding to win a farming award.

Winning the family business category award is particularly fitting given that we have recently welcomed the fifth generation with the birth of twin girls."

Caroline Whibley, organiser of 13^thFood and Farming Industry Awards,said: "Wold Top Brewery isabusiness that has engaged the family ethos and grown into a successful business which demonstrates the scope for a small arable farm to diversify."

The award was presented by Gyles Brandreth who was accompanied byToastmaster and Agronomist Sean Sparling.

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Photo: Gill and Tom Mellor with their award. Photo: Grant Pritchard
 

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Notes to editors

1. For more information about Wold Top Brewery, please visitwww.woldtopbrewery.co.uk.

2. For more information about the Farm Business awards, please visithttp://www.farmbusiness.co.uk/business/politics/congratulations-to-the-food-farming-award-winners.html

3. You can also find Wold Top Brewery onFacebook,TwitterandInstagram, and you can keep up to date with the brewery's latest newshere.

4. Wold Top Brewery was born in 2003 when the Mellor family diversified from farming into beer brewing using the malting barley they produce and the farm's own supply of water.

5. Twenty-one varieties of beer make up Wold Top Brewery's award-winning range including Wold Top Beer, Headland Red, Anglers Reward and Wold Top Against the Grain gluten free beer. More information on the range of bottled beers can be found atwww.woldtopbrewery.co.uk/beers.

6. Please call the brewery on 01723 892222 for an up-to-date list of retailers.