Perry Making tips with Tom Oliver

This week’s chat was recorded during Tom Oliver’s presentation at CiderDays 2017.

• No surprise that Tom says you are reliant upon the fruit
• Don’t work with culinary pears or apples
• All about minimum intervention
• Ferments with wild yeast – does not pitch yeast.
• Doesn’t use sulfite prior to fermentation
• No yeast nutrient
• Use a little bit of SO2 – about 80 ppm

Oliver’s favorite Pear varieties for making Perry, hopefully from old trees – 

Oldfield

And key perry pears mentioned

• Moorcroft
• Thorn
• Blakeney Red
• Hendre Huffcap
• Winnal’s Longdon

More pears mentions in this chat:

• Coppy
• Rock
• Gin
• Christmas Pear
• Cypress Pear
• Ferret Custard
• Cows slip
• Dead Boy

Go to this UK link to find out more about Perry Pears

The Challenge of Perry Pears:

• They all ripen at different times
• They don’t come off the tree
• They engage in bletting
• If the pear is brown in side is it bad or rotten – no it is not – it is fermenting.

Blet – means overripe pear…it is fermenting

Rot – is decomposing.

• And Tom does use pears that are bletting from the inside out – “It is how far you will let it go.” (blet) that is key
• Tom washes the pears beforehand and referenced Mike Beck and how he uses saline solution to wash the pears in because pears sink, unlike apples that float.
• Maceration – leaving the pears to break down the sugars before you press them
  • Tom does at least 24 hours to 48 hours for a pressing.

Contact for Oliver’s Cider and Perry

Website: https://www.oliversciderandperry.co.uk/

Address: Ocle Pychard
Herefordshire
HR1 3QZ

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