Yorkshire Wolds brewery wins prestigious farming award

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

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 the Farm Business Food 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 13th Food and Farming Industry Awards, said: "Wold Top Brewery is a business 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 by Toastmaster and Agronomist Sean Sparling.