bottle conditioned dry perry The UK is home to a little known natural treasure. It’s called the perry pear. They come in all shapes and sizes growing on trees which are famously long lived. Although beautiful to look at, they are rarely pleasant to eat, but their fermented juice is…
Fine Still Cider This is the fifth edition of the Cider Sessions, our series of small batch, intriguing liquids for those that like to explore the outer limits of cider! This one is a blend of our favourite apple, Egremont Russett (70%) with Dabinett and Chisel Jersey in roughly equal…
Our cidermaker Laurence Cocking joined us in the late spring of 2022. A self-confessed Yarlington Mill addict, he joyfully tasted through the many tanks and barrels we had in the cellar of this lovely apple earlier this year. Thick cut is the result, a sumptuous, bottle conditioned, single varietal cider,…
Pet Nat Perry Cherry Hybrid The brainchild of Martin Berkeley, of Pilton Cider, three producers – Martin, Little Pomona, and Simon Day, of Once Upon A Tree – have secretly been beavering away at this co-fermentation dream. Take some of the nation’s best cherries. Share with three different cider makers,…
Three Points 2020 is a special cider, crafted with special people for their special day. We were thrilled to be asked by Adam and Caroline to craft with them a cider specially for their wedding day. And “with” really was the operative word, with the pair getting involved with every…
With this bottle, thanks to our friends at Throne Farm in Weobley, Herefordshire, and their plantings of French varieties of pears, we have fulfilled a long-held ambition to make a still, dry perry. As ever simple techniques and the magic of time have made this. Beautiful fruit – Long Bois…
Tiny Dancer is the happy result of letting flying cidermaker and Neutral Cider Hotel podcast host Martyn Goodwin-Sharman, aka @cidershit on the socials, loose amongst our barrels – all 140 of them! Fortunately he has a very good nose for piecing together interesting blends and once again he hasn’t let…
To Boldly Go opens a new frontier in winemaking – or do we mean perry making? Our craziest idea yet has brought together Bacchus grapes, sourced by our lovely friend Ingrid from Dunleavy Vineyards, with mid-season Herefordshire perry pears – Green Horse and Hendre Huffcap. Throw in carbonic maceration and…
A home for our experiments in wine- and cidermaking, this is the second iteration of To Boldly Go! We brought three fruits together this time – sour Keleris cherries, perry pears and Discovery apples, all locally sourced. The cherries went through a four-week carbonic maceration, a process that deepens colour…
This edition of To Boldly Go broadens our horizons of perry making – or do we mean winemaking? Bringing together two grape varieties, Solaris and Seyval Blanc, with two pear varieties, Longbois and Antricotin, in a roughly equal blend for a wild co-fermentation before being bottle conditioned and hand disgorged,…
🎉 Little Pomona & Burum Collective collaboration 🎉 Taking advantage of the harvest internship which Burum’s co-founder, Helen Anne Smith, spent with us in 2021, we decided to make some ciders together. In documenting the process, in words, images and video, the Burum team have created a fascinating addition to…
Hear No Evil is one of a trio of beers Little Pomona have collaborated on with Deya in Cheltenham. It began life as one of Deya’s wheat beers, before being fermented and conditioned with lees from one of Little Pomona’s spontaneous fermentations and aged in oak in the cellars of…
Speak No Evil is one of a trio of beers Little Pomona have collaborated on with Deya in Cheltenham. It began life as one of Deya’s wheat beers, before being fermented and conditioned with lees from one of Little Pomona’s spontaneous fermentations and aged in oak in the cellars of…
When Nicky from The Cat in the Glass approached us about making a cider to celebrate her second anniversary as one of the leading UK online suppliers of fine cider, we jumped at the chance! On a glorious summer’s day in 2022, we welcomed Nicky to the cidery to create…
Perry saison. We aged a golden wild ale, fermented with our mother culture of wild yeasts and microbes, in an ex sherry barrel for 8 months with perry pear lees from our friends at Little Pomona cidery in Herefordshire. A beautiful marriage between pear, malt, lactic acidity, oak and funk.…