Welcome to the world's most extensive apples (pommes) database.
Information on over 7,000 apples is available here, all carefully researched and provided in a way that is easy to navigate.
Welcome to the world's most extensive apples (pommes) database.
Information on over 7,000 apples is available here, all carefully researched and provided in a way that is easy to navigate.
summary: A sweet-tart, refreshing apple that also makes excellent apple sauce and provides tartness and sugars for cider blends.
Synonyms: Ashmead, Aschmead’s Kernel, Aschmead’s Seedling, Ashmead’s Seedling, ...
summary: This wild seedling developed into a highly regarded European cider apple.
Synonyms: Grosser Rheinischer, Rheinischer Bohnapfel, Haricot, Strymka, Wax Apple, Weisser ...
brix: 11.7
sg: 1.0471
summary: A hardy, vigorous crabapple with many uses that range from a tasty fresh treat to delicious apple jelly. A good source of pollen. But, if you just want an ...
Synonyms: Chestnut Crab
brix: 12.8
sg: 1.0517
characteristics: Cream-coloured flesh, tender and crisp. Fragrant. Sweet, juicy, mild honey taste and floral. Slow to brown when cut open.
Synonyms: Annit Apple, Arany Delicious, Mullins' Seedling, Mullins' Yellow Seedling, Stark ...
brix: 13.9
sg: 1.0564
summary: This apple is an essential ingredient in the brewing of robust Brittany-style cider.
brix: 13.5
summary: This bittersweet cider apple orginated in the 1800s in France and is valued for blending when additional bitterness is called for in hard cider.
Synonyms: Amer de Berthecourt, Berthcourt
brix: 13
characteristics: The flesh is white, firm and juicy. Sweet with a somewhat bitter aftertaste. Aromatic.
Synonyms: Muscadet de la Seine-Maritime, Muscadet de la Seine-inférieure, Petit Muscadet
brix: 12
characteristics: Turns brown quickly after being exposed to air.
Synonyms: Petit Doux, Veret Gris. Also called Brown Thorn in Britain.
brix: 12
tannins: 2.4
summary: A popular Normandy bitter sweet cider apple in use since the Middle Ages. Can be used for a single varietal cider or blended.
Synonyms: Ameret, Bec d’oie (this is also used for a variety of dessert apple), Bédan ...
brix: 18
sg: 1.0741
summary: Primarily a cider apple, but also makes excellent jelly. Great snacking apple too, though somewhat small as a fresh-eating apple.
brix: 12.4
sg: 1.05
characteristics: The flesh is pale yellow, fine-grained and tender. Juicy, sweet and well flavoured.
Synonyms: Binet Gris
brix: 12.4
sg: 1.05
summary: A French cider apple, medium body with a mild, bitter flavour. Classed as being very good.
Synonyms: Amer Blanc, Blanc Doux, Blanche Hâtive, la Blanche de la Somme, Bonne Race, ...
brix: 11.2
sg: 1.045
tannins: 2
characteristics: The flesh is white tending slightly to yellowish. Firm and very juicy. Sweet with a mild bitter flavour. Aromatic with notes of ripe banana. High juice yield, ...
Synonyms: Bramtot
brix: 13
sg: 1.053
tannins: 5
characteristics: The flesh is white. Firm and juicy. Moderately sweet and slightly tart.
brix: 12.8
sg: 1.0517
tannins: 2.2
characteristics: The pale-green flesh is firm, crisp. Sweet and aromatic.
Synonyms: Dabinette (incorrect)
brix: 13.5
characteristics: The flesh is white.
Synonyms: Fill Barrel, Bulmer’s Fillbarrel
brix: 12
tannins: 3
characteristics: The flesh is remarkably yellow, so much so that the apple derives its adjective from the colour of the flesh rather than the colour of the skin as might be ...
Synonyms: Bradley's Golden Pippin, Brandy apple, Guernsey Pippin, Harvey, Herefordshire ...
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured and very firm. Sweet with a tannic aftertaste and lightly tart. Moderately aromatic.
brix: 12
sg: 1.0483
summary: Full bittersweet apple that makes a first class cider, sweet with some astringency. Originated in Normandy, France.
Synonyms: Nehew, Nehoe.
brix: 13.5
sg: 1.0547
summary: Once ranked as one of the four best American cider apples, this variety was thought lost until 2015.
summary: Cider apple originating in the Brittany region of France.
Synonyms: Cotes du Nord
characteristics: The flesh is white, fine grained and tender. Sweet and arromatic.
summary: A multipurpose apple mostly grown in the gardens of rural France.
Synonyms: a Paquets, Sucrevert, Surre
summary: Originating in the Swiss Canton of Aargau, this apple dates back to the 1700s.
Synonyms: Herrenapfel (the Reinette de Champagne is also known by this synonym), ...
summary: Found as a wild seedling in Switzerland prior to 1800.
Synonyms: Sometimes referred to as the Rheinischen Winterrambur. Also known as Kuttiger ...
summary: A Swiss apple from the Canton Aargau, along the German border. Used for cooking and cider.
Synonyms: Aargauer Jubilaums, Aargauer Jubiläumsapfel, Neuenhoffer, Jubilé d'Argovie, ...
summary: At one time widely grown in northwestern Switzerland, primarily as a cider apple.
summary: See Danziger Kantapfel
Synonyms: Abraham's Apple, Father Abraham's Apple, Calville de Danzig, Danziger Kantapfel, ...
summary: A German heritage cultivar from the 1800s. Excellent eating apple, as well as baking, juice and cider.
Synonyms: Achimer Goldrenette, Celler Dickstiel, Donnerhorst, Krugers Dickstiel, ...
summary: Originating in Switzerland, this fresh-eating apple is also used for baking and cider.
Synonyms: Äckerliapfel, Aeckerliapfel
summary: Likely the same as the Swiss variety Rose de Miex which was grown in the area of Mies (Switzerland).
summary: This is an excellent heritage eating apple and is also used for cider.
Synonyms: Adams (this is also the name of an ornamental crabapple), Adam's Parmane, Adam's ...
origins: Originated in the Pays de Bray of northwestern France.
brix: 11.6
sg: 1.0466
summary: A red-fleshed apple found as a chance seedling in Oregon State. See also Mountain Rose .
Synonyms: Aerlie, Airlie, Airlie's Red Flesh, Hidden Rose
characteristics: Lime flavour. Sugar content as high as Brix 21.
brix: 21
sg: 1.0874
characteristics: Sweet.
Synonyms: Sometimes refered to as Alexis, but this is used for a sport of McIntosh
summary: Ideal for making blended cider, the British apple also makes a sauce with a sweet honey-flavoured finish.
summary: This red-fleshed apple makes great apple sauce, crabapple jelly and has also caught the attention of cider makers.
Synonyms: Alma Ata
characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained and firm. Sweet and verging on sharp, but very mild flavour.
Synonyms: Altlander Klunsterapfel, Klunster
origins: Specifically bred by Liz Copas and Ray Williams at the Long Ashton Research Station in Somerset (U.K.) to provide England's commercial cider industry with a ...
origins: Specifically bred by Liz Copas and Ray Williams at the Long Ashton Research Station in Somerset (U.K.) to provide England's commercial cider industry with a ...
characteristics: Sweet with undertones of bitterness.
Synonyms: Gros Amer Doux, Roquet, Petit Chesné, Massue, Belle Mauvaise, Petit Amer Doux, ...
characteristics: The flesh is light tan coloured, fine grained, tender and sweet.
characteristics: The flesh is white, firm. Juicy and sweet.
Synonyms: Often referred to as American Forestier and American Forester in North America.
brix: 12
sg: 1.0483
tannins: 3.4