Pomiferous

Type: Cider, Eating, Sauce

characteristics: Mouth-puckering when first picked but, once it has aged, the yellowish flesh is crisp and firm, juicy with a good balance between sweetness and acidity. ...

Synonyms: Ashmead, Aschmead’s Kernel, Aschmead’s Seedling, Ashmead’s Seedling, ...

Type: Cider, Eating, Sauce

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

Type: Cider, Eating, Ornamental

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

Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Sauce

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

Type: Cider

summary: This apple is an essential ingredient in the brewing of robust Brittany style cider.

Type: Cider

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

Type: Cider

characteristics: The flesh is white, firm and juicy. Sweet with a bitter aftertaste. Aromatic.

Synonyms: Muscadet de la Seine-Maritime, Muscadet de la Seine-inférieure, Petit Muscadet

Type: Cider

characteristics: Turns brown quickly after being exposed to air.

Synonyms: Petit Doux, Veret Gris. Also called Brown Thorn in Britain.

tannins: 2.4

Type: Cider

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

Type: Cider, Eating, Jelly

characteristics: The flesh is yellow, fine-grained and soft, somewhat dry. Aroma and flavour of baked apple pie.

brix: 12.4

sg: 1.05

Type: Cider

characteristics: The flesh is pale yellow, fine-grained and tender. Juicy, sweet and well flavoured.

Synonyms: Binet Gris

brix: 12.4

sg: 1.05

Type: Cider

summary: A French cider apple, medium body with a mild, bitter flavour. Classed as being very good.

Synonyms: Petit-Jaunet, Amer Blanc. Listed as LeBlanc, Grand Vallée de la Manche, Morelle ...

brix: 11.2

sg: 1.045

tannins: 2

Type: Culinary, Cider, Eating, Jelly

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

Type: Cider

characteristics: The flesh is white. Firm and juicy. Moderately sweet and slightly tart.

brix: 12.8

sg: 1.0517

tannins: 2.2

Type: Cider

characteristics: The pale-green flesh is firm, crisp. Sweet and aromatic.

Synonyms: Dabinette (incorrect)

brix: 12

Type: Cider

characteristics: The flesh is white.

Synonyms: Fill Barrel, Bulmer’s Fillbarrel

brix: 15.2

sg: 1.0619

tannins: 3

Type: Cider, Dessert, Juice

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 ...

Type: Cider

characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured and very firm. Sweet with a tannic aftertaste and lightly tart. Moderately aromatic.

brix: 12

sg: 1.0483

Type: Cider

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

Type: Cider

summary: Once ranked as one of the four best American cider apples, this variety was thought lost until 2015.

Type: Dessert

summary: A mutation of James Grieve

Type: Cider

summary: Cider apple originating in the Brittany region of France.

Synonyms: Cotes du Nord

Type: Cider

characteristics: The flesh is white, fine grained and tender. Sweet and arromatic.

Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Juice, Sauce

summary: A multipurpose apple mostly grown in the gardens of rural France.

Synonyms: a Paquets, Sucrevert, Surre

Type: Cooking, Culinary, Cider, Eating

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), ...

Type: Cooking, Culinary, Cider

summary: Found as a wild seedling in Switzerland prior to 1800.

Synonyms: Sometimes referred to as the Rheinischen Winterrambur. Also known as Kuttiger ...

Type: Cooking, Culinary, Cider, Juice

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, ...

Type: Cider, Dessert

summary: At one time widely grown in northwestern Switzerland, primarily as a cider apple.

Type: Cider

summary: A sharp cider apple from France.

Type: Cooking, Cider, Eating

summary: See Danziger Kantapfel

Synonyms: Abraham's Apple, Father Abraham's Apple, Calville de Danzig, Danziger Kantapfel, ...

Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating

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, ...

Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert

summary: Originating in Switzerland, this fresh-eating apple is also used for baking and cider.

Synonyms: Äckerliapfel, Aeckerliapfel

Type: Cider

summary: Likely the same as the Swiss variety Rose de Miex which was grown in the area of Mies (Switzerland).

Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating

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 ...

Type: Cider

origins: Originated in the Pays de Bray of northwestern France.

brix: 11.6

sg: 1.0466

Type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Jelly, Pie, Sauce

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

Type: Cooking, Culinary, Cider

characteristics: Red fleshed, quite dark. Very tart

Type: Cider, Eating

characteristics: Lime flavour. Sugar content as high as Brix 21.

brix: 21

sg: 1.0874

Type: Cider

identification: Small, conic.

Type: Cider, Jelly

characteristics: Sweet.

Synonyms: Sometimes refered to as Alexis, but this is used for a sport of McIntosh

Type: Cooking, Cider

summary: Ideal for making blended cider, the British apple also makes a sauce with a sweet honey-flavoured finish.

Type: Culinary, Cider, Jelly, Sauce

summary: This red-fleshed apple makes great apple sauce, crabapple jelly and has also caught the attention of cider makers.

Synonyms: Alma Ata

Type: Cooking, Cider, Dessert

characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained and firm. Sweet and verging on sharp, but very mild flavour.

Synonyms: Altlander Klunsterapfel, Klunster

Type: Cider

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 ...

Type: Cider

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 ...

Type: Cider

summary: Please see Amelia

Synonyms: Ameli

Type: Cider

characteristics: Sweet with undertones of bitterness.

Synonyms: Gros Amer Doux, Roquet, Petit Chesné, Massue, Belle Mauvaise, Petit Amer Doux, ...

Type: Cider

origins: France

Type: Cider

characteristics: The flesh is light tan coloured, fine grained, tender and sweet.

Type: Cider

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

Type: Cider

origins: France

Synonyms: Amer Gautier