A FARM-BASED brewery has won the 2016 UK's Best Golden Ale title in the World Beer Awards.

Wold Top Brewery's Wold Gold blonde beer won through three rounds of blind taste-testing, before a panel of 50 international brewers, journalists and industry experts judged the final round in London.

The Hunmanby based brewery produces award-winning beers from its own and Wolds-grown barley and water from the farm's own borehole. Wold Gold is brewed using wheat and Cara malt with Goldings and Styrian hops that impart a fruity flavour with a hint of spice.

Alex Balchin, brewery manager, was delighted with the win. He said: "Wold Gold has been a firm favourite since it was first brewed 13 years ago and it's a real credit to the brew team that it should be awarded the ultimate accolade of the UK's Best Golden Ale."

Judges said the beer had a "gentle malt aroma with an almost pils-like sweetness" and noted its "subtle herbal hopping with some spice."

Meanwhile, Wold Top Brewery's Scarborough Fair IPA has won bronze medals at the Global Beer Masters and SIBA North East Beer competition and a silver medal at the International Beer Challenge.