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…
Wholly riper and more luscious than its delicate, crystalline 2021 predecessor, the fruit this time around is a spectrum of yellow – mango, peach and pineapple – siting within a fabulously long and textured liquid. With a hint of ripe tannin, a touch of sweetness and balance, poised acidity, this…
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…
Hereford Applefest is an annual October time celebration of the centuries old tradition of cidermaking in our county. This cider is the celebration of cidermaking in Herefordshire today; with equal parts cider from each contributing maker. Using classic cider apple varieties, we sought to come together to layer our flavours…
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.…