Pomona Island Brew Co
Pomona Island Brew Co has brewed in Salford since 2017, in a unit at the Waybridge Enterprise Centre near MediaCity. The founders came from the Manchester bar and brewing scene; the name refers to the former Pomona docks on the Ship Canal. A small permanent range of two pale ales and two lagers sits beside a fast-changing stream of hazy IPAs, fruited sours, pastry stouts and barrel-aged mixed-fermentation ales, most of them made once under a new name. The company also runs the North Westward Ho pub in central Manchester, opened in 2023.
Beers by Pomona Island Brew Co
3 beers
The recurring character behind the beers
Pomona Island Brew Co brew across 3 style families.
Across these 3 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
With 3 beers, only recurring notes are shown — one unusual beer moves this a lot.
Compared with 210 other breweries brewing Hazy Pale Ale, Double IPA and Helles Lager:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Factotum
Their beers place in the Top 76% of the catalogue on average, across 3 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Pomona Island Brew Co
Pomona Island Brew Co has brewed in Salford since 2017, in a unit at the Waybridge Enterprise Centre near MediaCity. The founders came from the Manchester bar and brewing scene; the name refers to the former Pomona docks on the Ship Canal. A small permanent range of two pale ales and two lagers sits beside a fast-changing stream of hazy IPAs, fruited sours, pastry stouts and barrel-aged mixed-fermentation ales, most of them made once under a new name. The company also runs the North Westward Ho pub in central Manchester, opened in 2023.
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