Ever since we began brewing, we’ve always sourced our fruit locally, or by foraging for it ourselves. Back in early 2020, we were checking on our sleeping barrels of golden sour & found 2 that displayed quite clean, crisp, almost tannic notes that we decided would suit perfectly with a…
A blend of 2 oak barrel aged golden sours, married together & further enhanced by first fresh elderflowers, then gooseberries to balance the floral with tart fruit. A perfect representation of the Suffolk summertime in a bottle. 750ml. 4.9%
This is our first variation blend of Folly Road, officially our amber sour base blend, fermented 100% with our own mixed culture. In this case, we didn’t feel the blending of these 2 barrels was enough on their own & decided a further addition of fresh Amarillo hops into the…
Aged saison blended with cider (Castlings Heath Cottage). “Our family have been making cider for over 30 years & its influence is found in everything we do – right down to the cider lees we use to ferment our beers. Because of this, we’ve always toed the line between cider…
Each vintage of the Art of Darkness allows us to combine the best of our home orchard fruit with some sensitive barrel maturation. After a break in 2020, Art of Darkness returns in style with 2021. It’s a blend of four-fifth Ellis Bitter aged in cognac barrels for 12 months…
2021 was our first time working with Balls Bittersweet, an unusual Herefordshire variety descended from Medaille d’Or and our old friend Foxwhelp. Coming from the rolling hills of West Herefordshire, Balls Bittersweet produces a beautiful, naturally balanced cider, with great depth and good acids. Wild fermented, this spent some time…
sparkling dry cider Bright Lights is a new cider, released from the 2021 harvest, emerging from the dark winter like a big burst of light and warmth – it’ll definitely make you smile! Continuing our experiments with non-traditional cider apples, we took a load of very ripe Bramley apples, pressed…
Famously described by Napoleon as the champagne of England, perry really is the epitome of true English wine. This is our first traditional method perry. It brings together two French varieties of pear – Longbois and Antricotin – grown close to us on Throne farm in the village of Weobley…
This is as unique and elegant a drink as you could hope to find. This began with the picking of damsons from a 100 year old orchard on Walls Hill, site of an ancient hill fort, near by the cidery. These lovely pieces of fruit went through carbonic maceration, in…
traditional method cider Created over a period of six years, this brings together ciders from three different vintages, 2016, 2017 and 2019, and three different apples, Foxwhelp, Ellis Bitter and Ashton Bitter, all of which had been fermented – and in some cases – partly matured, in barrel. After blending…
Cider is not just for summer it’s an all year joy and Disco Nouveau 2023 exists to make that point! Discovery apples are among the first to ripen in the UK and on a beautiful sunny day at the end of August we sent them to the press, the juice…
apple & perry pear co-ferment, blended with quince & re-fermented with cryo-extracted apple juice Do it Puritan Quince 2020 began life as a co-fermentation of apples and perry pears, later blended with pure quince from barrel and bottled with a little cryo-extracted Egremont Russet, bringing about a second fermentation in bottle and a gentle sparkle. Insanely…
A collaboration between Re:Stalk and Little Pomona. The brief given to James, Susanna and Blair was “pet-nat, grapefruit pith and texture from lees ageing” and boy did they smash it! A blend of Ellis Bitter, Dabinett, perry pears and some Egremont Russet cryo-conditioned this cider sits somewhere between their Col…
When Martyn Goodwin-Sharman, cider legend and one quarter of the exuberant Neutral Cider Hotel podcast crew, joined us for a blending session, little did we know that he would arrive, just as we had, in the uniform of all cidermakers – red and black plaid! The three lumberjacks got to work tasting through the…
pet nat ciderkin with hops & blackcurrants Made from the second pressing of apples with the addition of water, this is our modern interpretation of an old historic drink, ciderkin. We also like to think of it as upcycling pomace. This version of Hot Pink brings together one of our…
Made from the second pressing of apples with the addition of water, this is our modern interpretation of an old historic drink, ciderkin. We also like to think of it as upcycling pomace. This version of Hot Pink brings together two of our favourite apples, Kingston Black from none other…
zesty refreshment, perfect for the coming months… Made from the second pressing of perry pears with the addition of water, this is our modern interpretation of an old historic drink – perrykin – or an English version of the fashionable piquettes from France. We also like to think of it…
pet nat ciderkin with hops & blackcurrants Made from the second pressing of Dabinett apples with the addition of water, and later refermented on the skins of freshly pressed Siegerrebe grapes, from our friends at stellar English winery, Astley Vineyard, in Worcestershire. This is our latest reprisal of an old…
lightly sparkling, deft barrel influence Cidermakers spend a lot of time thinking about fruit and therefore harvest. This cider was borne of that. 2019 was a difficult vintage, a cool summer and worse in the autumn, with extensive rains and serious flooding. Ruthless fruit selection on our part meant we…
From the perfect 2022 harvest, this is our first bottling of Kingston Black, farmed by our friend Robin at Hill Farm near Hereford. Kingston Black, with its natural balance of fruit, tannin, acid and sugars, is one of the few apples that can truly succeed as a single variety cider.…
sparkling dry cider This bottle is our first serious experiment with Yarlington Mill and our first release using it as a single variety. The fruit was grown and handpicked by the team at Hill Farm, south of Hereford City, from amazing orchards planted in the 1980s. Originating in Somerset, Yarlington…
Old Man & The Bee is our annual homage to our beautiful home orchard and the fruit it gives us. 2018 was an exceptional season. Perfect flowering, followed by a long hot summer and warm autumn meant for super-ripe, flavour-packed apples. Over the last two years we have been thoughtfully…
Dry, still cider Old Man & the Bee is our annual homage to our beautiful home orchard and the wonderful fruit it gives us every year. 2020 was a fine season. We escaped early frosts, and with a long warm summer and a mild autumn we harvested balanced fruit, with…