The teams at Yorkshire’s first whisky distillery and a Yorkshire coast brewery are celebrating after being shortlisted for a prestigious farming award.

Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery and sister company Wold Top Brewery have reached the final of the Diversification of the Year (Large) category in the 12th annual British Farming Awards.

Co-founder of both Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery and Wold Top, Tom Mellor, said: “We’re proud that Hunmanby Grange farm sustains the two businesses with home-grown barley and provides employment for over 40 local people. We’re naturally delighted to have been shortlisted for a second prestigious farming award.”

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Wold Top is run by Mellor’s daughter, Kate and husband Alex Balchin, and his other daughter, Jenni Ashwood, is the marketing director at Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery. Both businesses have also been shortlisted for Diversification Farmer of the Year at the Farmers’ Weekly Awards.

The winners will be announced at a dinner at The Vox, Birmingham on October 17th. The teams from the brewery and distillery face competition from Scottish businesses The Rhynd and Marshall’s Farm Shop and Kitchen, Otter Tarn in the Lake District and Staffordshire business Play at Lower Drayton Farm.