Wold Top Brewery was founded in 2003 by arable farmers Tom and Gill Mellor. Based high on the Yorkshire Wolds where the hills roll down to the North Sea, their is a family business that is run by the third and fourth generation Mellors and they pride themselves on brewing superior quality beer from home-grown barley and water that is gently filtered by the chalk of the Yorkshire Wolds and drawn from the farm's own borehole.

The family has farmed 600 acres high on the Yorkshire Wolds for generations. With revenue from traditional income streams falling, they concluded that diversification was a necessity. They spent 12 months researching their vision to produce Yorkshire’s best real ales and in 2003 Wold Top Brewery brewed its first ale in a converted barn. Thirteen years on, they have won several awards and are proud of their range of all year round and special edition cask and bottled beers that include Wold Top Bitter, gluten-free beer Against the Grain and Golden Summer.

Wold Top Brewery use traditional methods and recipes to brew real ales with character. The character reflects the fact that the pure, chalk filtered water travels only metres from a borehole to the brewery, that the barley is exclusively Wolds grown and malted by family maltsters and that selected British grown hops impart a distinctive flavour. They surround their crops with two-metre margins to maintain wildlife biodiversity and maintain 35 acres of species-rich chalk grassland that is home to varied flora and fauna. They believe that all of these measures result in better crops and tastier ales.

The Ranges

WOLD TOP BITTER: A light amber coloured, crisp clean aromatic session bitter. Wold Top Bitter is a light amber coloured, crisp clean aromatic session bitter. Homegrown Barley malt and Northdown hops give an unusually full flavour and a long hoppy finish for its abv.

WOLD GOLD: A blonde continental style beer, with a soft, fruity flavour with a hint of spice. A heady mix of  Wold grown Barley, Wheat and Cara malt hopped with Goldings and Styrian hops give the beer, its soft, fruity flavour with a hint of spice.

AGAINST THE GRAIN: A premium Gluten Free beer, a full-flavoured bitter with a creamy head. Wold Top Against The Grain has been declared the most beer-like of all gluten free and low gluten free beers in taste tests. Made from lager malt, maize, hops and yeast, it is a premium full flavoured bitter beer with a good creamy head, refreshing bitterness and citrus aftertaste.

SCARBOROUGH FAIR IPA: Interestingly brewed and triple-hopped, this IPA is a strong and Gluten Free beer. Strong and well hopped for the voyage sending IPA from the Wolds to the World. Interestingly brewed with a pale Wold grew malt base, a triple hop blend and Maize for the head retention.

WOLDS WAY: A golden pale ale, triple hopped to give a fruity bitterness.

HEADLAND RED: A red beer to halt you in your tracks, giving you a warm red glow!  A mellow malty flavour, from Wold grown barley, dark crystal malt and roasted barley.

ANGLERS REWARD: A refreshing golden pale ale with a fruity bitterness & lingering aftertaste. The ultimate catch, a refreshing golden pale ale with a fruity bitterness and lingering aftertaste. Certainly, a beer to help create those “one that got away” stories! Brewed with homegrown malts and hopped with the fruity Cascade and Goldings hops.

SPRING FLING: An easy drinking straw coloured beer, with a crisp bitterness and hint of citrus aroma. Homegrown malts and Willamette hops give this easy drinking, straw coloured beer, a crisp bitterness with a hint of citrus aroma. A beer to put a spring in your step, just like the mad march hares that abound on their rolling Yorkshire Wolds this month!

HELLO VELO: A sparkling crisp ale with an earthy spiciness and honeyed marmalade overtones. A sparkling crisp ale with an earthy spiciness and honeyed marmalade overtones. The perfect finish to a ride through Yorkshires wolds, moors and dales.

GOLDEN SUMMER: An amber beer that is both fruity and light but still has a subtle dry finish. Homegrown malts with the triple hop mix of Styrian, Goldings and Cascade, create an amber beer that is both fruity and light but still has a subtle dry finish. A beer for relaxing, sunshine and those long days of summer. Enjoy with Spice and all things nice!

MARMALADE PORTER: A complex rich dark porter with the malty base. A Gluten Free beer with overtones of bitter orange and hints of coffee and chocolate. Wold Top Marmalade Porter, a complex rich dark porter with a sweet malty base, overtones of bitter orange and hints of coffee and chocolate. The name ‘Porter’ came about as a result of its popularity with Eighteenth Century street and river porters.

SHEPHERD'S WATCH: A rich dark ale, with an underlying maltiness, and a subtle fruit aroma. A  rich dark ale, with an underlying maltiness, and a subtle fruit aroma, ideal for keeping the chill of Winter at bay. The roasted barley and pale chocolate malt give a deep red hue, the hop combination of Progress, Styrian Goldings and Cascade create bitterness with a soft spicy yet fruity edge.

HUMBER LIGHT: A pale golden refreshing beer with a pine, lemon floral character and light thirst quenching bittering. Humber Light guides and directs a new audience to Wold Top Brewery to join their traditional cask and bottle drinkers. Humber Light is traditionally brewed at Wold Top using a locally sourced lager malt and their own pure chalk filtered water from a borehole sunk deep into the chalk below the farm.

DITTO: A doppelbock style strong ale, brewed with a blend of pale, Munich and crystal malts to give a rich, deep and malty flavour with a lightly hopped edge. A limited edition celebration ale to mark the arrival of Wold Top's 5th generation - a pair of identical twins!

15TH ANNIVERSARY: A golden beer with hints of citrus and hedgerow fruits with subtle spice notes.

BIG SKY: A tawny coloured ale with a clean hoppy finish, inspired by the amazing sky-scapes over the gently rolling countryside of wolds and coast, often called 'Big Sky Country'.

ORION'S BELT: Constellation Number 1 - A bright crisp beer, light coloured but with an inviting floral and citrus nose. One to banish the winter blues and remind you that spring is coming!