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Ashton Bitter
type: Cider
synonyms: Ashton Bittersweet
summary: A British, early-season bittersweet cider apple.
identification: Medium size, round. Yellow washed red and marked with fine darker red stripes. The calyx is small and partly open, set in a shallow basin. The stem is medium long and medium stout, set in a shallow and narrow, russetted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured. Rather dry. Sweet and somewhat bitter, but mild acidity. Fruity aromas.
uses: Primarily used as a cider apple.
origins: Originated from a seedling of a Dabinett crossed with Stoke’s Red , raised by George Spinks in 1947 at the Long Ashton Research Station in Bristol, England.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright compact tree, biennial, precocious.
cold storage: Keeps less than a month.
harvest: Late in the fourth period. The apples tend to drop as soon as they are ripe.
juice character: The must has a high sugar content as well as significant tannin, a touch of acidity. Aromatic. Does well when blended with sharp musts.
juice_classification: Full bittersweet
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 15
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 4
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 4
sg: 1.061
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