Highraven
Utrecht · Hoograven
Est. MMXXIII
In the cellar 2025 · I
2025 · No. I Apple–Pear

Common Ground

Neither apple nor pear, but a third thing.

In Highraven, the ravens keep what the world forgets.

Far out where the Beemster lies below the sea, they found an older standard: high trees on land won back from water, kept by hands that share their bread. The Bramley, English-born and grafted deep, gave its bitter spine. Conference and a stranger pear, name long since lost, gave softness in return. What grew between them was neither apple nor pear, but a third thing, brewed in strange company. Tall bones, long roots, slow work. Pour, and drink to those who tend what time forgot.

Tasting
A bitter English spine softened by two pears. Tall, dry, faintly tannic, with a long quiet finish.
Pressed from
  • Bramley (English)
  • Conference
  • A stranger pear, name lost
Origin
The Beemster — high trees on land won back from the sea
Strength
4% vol · 50 cl
Method
Hand-pressed · wild-fermented · bottle-conditioned. No sulfite, never pasteurised.
Availability
In the cellar