Success for Yorkshire Wolds brewery at independent beer awards
The team at a Yorkshire coast brewery is celebrating after winning three awards in an industry wide beer competition.
Hunmanby based Wold Top Brewery's Scarborough Fair IPA and Headland Red won gold awards at the SIBA North East Regional Keg awards last week, with Headland Red going on to be awarded bronze in the national SIBA Independent Beer Awards 2020 at BeerX UK in Liverpool.
Scarborough Fair IPA, 6% ABV, is a triple hopped gluten free beer whilst Headland Red is a red beer with a mellow, malty flavour and an ABV of 4.3%. Both beers are available in cask and kegs in pubs and in bottles from independent retailers and online from the brewery website.
Wold Top's Brewery Manager, Alex Balchin is delighted with the awards: "Our team are committed to brewing great beers using Yorkshire grown cereals and water from our farm's borehole, so it's really rewarding when brewers and industry experts judge our beer as award winning.
"In these uncertain times, it's more important than ever to support our region's independent manufacturers and retailers and we're grateful to SIBA for helping to facilitate this."
"The SIBA Independent Beer Awards 2020 were our biggest ever, and with an incredibly high standard of beer across the board," said SIBA Competitions Chair, Guy Sheppard.
Wold Top Brewery was founded by in 2003 and is located on the Mellor family farm at Hunmanby Grange near Filey. The team use home grown barley and water from the farm's borehole to produce a range of cask, keg and bottled beers that are available throughout Yorkshire and nationwide.
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Photo: Alex Balchin with the award winning beers Alex Balchin with SIBA award winning beers
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Notes to editors
- SIBA, the Society of Independent Brewers, was established in 1980 to represent the interests of the growing number of independent breweries in Britain. For more information about SIBA awards, please visit www.siba.co.uk
- Please call the brewery on 01723 892222 for an up-to-date list of stockists.