Yorkshire Coast brewery celebrates shortlist success

Directors and staff at Wold Top Brewery are celebrating after the Hunmanby business's export achievements has earned them a place in the final of theHull Daily MailBusiness Awards.

The farm based brewery faces stiff competition from Driffield business, Blue Keld in the final of the Exporter of the Year award that is sponsored by Associated British Ports.

TheHull Daily MailBusiness Awardscelebrate theregion's best companies and employers, from start-ups and entrepreneurs, to the area's biggest businesses.

The winners of the awards will be announced on 19^thNovember at a Celebration Dinner at theMercure Hull Grange Park Hotel in Willerby.

Wold Top Brewery director Gill Mellor said: "We're very proud of the fact that we have built a thriving export division in a relatively short space of time and it's a real credit to the team headed up by Kate Balchin."

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Notes to editors

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

2. The Mellor family have farmed 600 acres high on the Wolds for generations and the farm diversification brewery project began in 2003 when they required another form of income from the farm.

3. The Wold Top Brewery range includes Wold Top Beer, Wold Gold blonde beer, Headland Red, Anglers Reward, Scarborough Fair IPA, Wold Top Against the Grain and Scarborough Fair gluten free beer. More information on the range of beers can be found herehttp://www.woldtopbrewery.co.uk/beers/

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