Pod&Briar

07/12/2025

07/12/2025

01/11/2025

🍫Today, on World Vegan Day - November 1st, we’re At Clevedon Vegan Market, at Clevedon Community Centre.
We love meeting you all at our markets to talk all things chocolate and offer you some samples of our products - yes, FREE CHOCOLATE! 🌾
So if you’re in the area, come along and say ‘hi’. 🤩

05/10/2025

✨The chocolate is flowing once again and today we are back to the Wi******er Craft Market at the beautiful Wi******er Guildhall! 🏛️
We’ll be there from 10:30 am to 4:30 pm with plenty of free chocolates to sample! 🍫
If you’re in the area, come along, say hi, and treat yourself to some delicious, hand-made chocolates.
As usual: vegan, soya-free, gluten-free, dairy-free and plastic-free packaging.
Online, we are restocked and ready for your orders once again!

31/07/2025

Exciting news! Our chocolate has been awarded again by the Guild of Fine Food. 🤩 We have three more Great Taste Awards to add to the three from previous years.

This time we were awarded two 2-star awards for our chocolate bon bons and a 1-star for one of our bars.

Our TIME FLIES filled chocolate is a dark chocolate ganache flavoured with roasted dandelion root. Awarding it 2-stars, the judges said “The flavour of the ganache is inspired… burnt caramel, dark coffee, nutty - lots of flavours jumping out that are well balanced with the dark chocolate. A great new flavour combination that surprised the judges!”

Our WASSAILING THE APPLES filled chocolate is comprised of layers of spiced apple flavours. White chocolate and yogurt ganache, topped with a spiced apple fruit caramel in an Oat m*lk chocolate shell. The judges awarded this 2-stars as well, saying “a lovely subtle flavour, that’s not overly sweet, with a savoury hint from the yoghurt and oat milk. Both intriguing and innovative. Creamy tasting with delicate spices that are well balanced”.

And we are very excited to win our first award for one of our bars too. A BUZZ IN THE MEADOW is a chocolate bar made with 43% oat m*lk chocolate, flavoured with foraged meadowsweet & roasted buckwheat. Awarding this a 1-star they said “The meadowsweet gives an initial strong sense of marzipan which marries well with the dark chocolate. Roasted buckwheat is a nice textural twist”.

As with all of our products these are vegan, dairy-free, soya-free and gluten-free. Plus all of our packaging is plastic-free too.

18/07/2025

WELL AND TRULY MELTED! ☀️🫠🍫

The continued hot weather has been incredibly challenging for our chocolate business. It makes the creation and storage of chocolate in our small studio difficult, but also impossible to mail out chocolates to our customers and ensure their safe arrival.

The picture on the right, above, is a box of chocolates that one of our customers received. They’d gone out on a Tracked 24 service to ensure that they were in the postal system for as short a time as possible and they arrived they morning after they were posted as planned. But when our customer opened they box she found that they had completely liquified during their journey and had the appearance that they’s been oven baked!

When she shared the picture with me, I was horrified. Not only because my customer had been let down, but because of the ruin of a product that I put so much time and passion in to create in the first place.

PAUSING OF SALES AND PRODUCTION

Due to the ongoing hot weather, we have decided to pause sales and production with immediate effect as we do not want more disappointed customers. You’ll see this on the website where all of our shop items are now listed as ‘OUT OF STOCK’. We have also cancelled all of our summer markets and changed our lineup for the winter. So if you had expected us to be at certain markets to get your chocolate fix this summer, we’re sorry to let you down but we’ll be back again soon.

WHEN WILL WE BE BACK WITH CHOCOLATE?

If you want to check out our new lineup of market dates, please visit our EVENTS page here which lists events month by month.

We expect to be back in production in September and so online sales will be back by the beginning of October at the very latest. Hopefully things will have cooled down by then and we’ll all need the comforts of chocolate.

See you all then!

20/06/2025

This Sunday we'll be at Lyndhurst, Community Centre.
If you’re in the area, come along, say hi, and treat yourself to some delicious, hand-made chocolates.
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As usual: vegan, soya-free, gluten-free, dairy-free and plastic-free packaging.
Will we see you there?
Not in Lyndhurst? Check out our event page to see markets near you and remember, we deliver across UK so you can order online directly from our website! https://www.podandbriar.co.uk

18/06/2025

On a scale of Pod & Briar Chocolates, how are you feeling today? Let us know in the comments. 😌
🍫 Calm as Afternoon Tea? Tregothnan Earl Grey tea infused ganache & candied bergamot pieces. In an Oat m*lk chocolate shell.
🍫 Energetic as Seaside Embers? Award-winning flavour - a dark chocolate dome filled with a zingy, sea buckthorn flavoured ganache.
🍫 Adventurous as Rambling on? Rosehip pâte de fruit, layered with white chocolate ganache flavoured with Buck & Birch’s ‘Amarosa - Rosehip Rum Liqueur’ and dipped in dark chocolate.
🍫 Sleepy as Nightfall? A dark chocolate dome, filled with a luscious ganache - made with single-origin, 70% dark chocolate.
🍫 Nostalgic as Time Flies? Dark chocolate and dandelion combine to create an intensely rich ganache in a dark chocolate shell.

16/06/2025

We're absolutely thrilled to receive reviews like this — thank you so much for taking the time to share your experience 🍫😌
Reviews really do make a difference to a small business like ours. They help others discover our chocolates and remind us why we do what we do.
If you’ve tried Pod & Briar and would like to leave a review, we’d love to hear from you — you can do so on Trustpilot https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/podandbriar.co.uk?
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"I am gluten intolerant (Celiac) My wife found this company on Insta. There chocolates looked great, were hand made, beautifully produced and were vegan and gluten, soya and dairy free.
what's not to like.
Working on the basis that if something seems too good to be true, then it probably is I had low expectations in the taste department.
Clearly this company is the exception to the rule. Customer service was geat, Lee advised her on the selection, the box and literature are high quality but all that pales into insigifinance when I pluck up the corage to actually bite into these beautiful "gems" as they look too good to eat. The chocolate, the fillings are fantastic (Wassailing the Apples are clearly made by magicians)
These are some of the best chocolates I've ever tasted
Highly recommended."
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12/06/2025

🍫Make your own beautiful and delicious chocolates with Pod & Briar🍫
Join our chocolate making workshops in our chocolate studio just outside Wi******er.
We have two course types available, the first is about creating and decorating chocolates. The second focuses on recipes and skills for creating different fillings for chocolates. Both courses are 4 hours in duration and have a maximum class size of 2 people. You’ll take home everything you make, plus a recipe booklet and your own chef’s jacket.
Details and tickets - on our website - link in bio.

04/06/2025

Mint chocolate: Yes or Now? 💚

03/06/2025

✨This Sunday we are back to the Wi******er Craft Market at the beautiful Wi******er Guildhall! 🏛️
We’ll be there from 10:30 am to 4:30 pm with plenty of free chocolates to sample! 🍫
If you’re in the area, come along, say hi, and treat yourself to some delicious, hand-made chocolates.
As usual: vegan, soya-free, gluten-free, dairy-free and plastic-free packaging.
We'll be back to Wi******er Craft Market on these dates this year (save the date!):
🍫 July 13th
🍫 August 3rd
🍫 September 7th
🍫 October 5th