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Ashmead’s Kernel
Type: dual
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. Peardro ...
Synonyms: Ashmead, Aschmead’s Kernel, Aschmead’s Seedling, Ashmead’s Seedling, ...
Bohnapfel
Type: cider
Summary: This wild seedling developed into a highly regarded European cider apple.
Synonyms: Grosser Rheinischer, Rheinischer Bohnapfel, Haricot, Strymka, Wax Apple, Weisser ...
Golden Delicious
Type: dessert
Characteristics: Cream coloured flesh, tender and crisp. Fragrant. Sweet, juicy, mild honey taste and floral. Slow to brown when cut open. Brix 13.9
Synonyms: Annit Apple, Arany Delicious, Mullins' Seedling, Mullins' Yellow Seedling, Stark ...
Marie Ménard
Type: cider
Origins: Found as a seedling in a bundle of produce purchased by Marie Ménard at the farmer's market at Lamballe in the Côtes d’Armor along the coast of Brittany ...
Amère de Berthecourt
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
Antoinette
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
Argile Grise
Type: cider
Characteristics: Turns brown quickly after being exposed to air.
Synonyms: Petit Doux, Veret Gris. Also called Brown Thorn in Britain.
Bédan
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 ...
Bilodeau
Type: cider
Characteristics: The flesh is yellow, fine-grained and soft, somewhat dry. Aroma and flavour of baked apple pie.
Binet Violet
Type: cider
Characteristics: The flesh is pale yellow, fine-grained and tender. Juicy, sweet and well flavoured.
Synonyms: Binet Gris
Blanc Mollet
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 ...
Bramtôt
Type: cider
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, 3 ...
Synonyms: Bramtot
Clos Renaux
Type: cider
Characteristics: The flesh is white. Firm and juicy. Moderately sweet and slightly tart.
Fillbarrel
Type: cider
Characteristics: The flesh is white.
Synonyms: Fill Barrel, Bulmer’s Fillbarrel
Golden Harvey
Type: cider
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 supp ...
Synonyms: Bradley's Golden Pippin, Brandy apple, Guernsey Pippin, Harvey, Herefordshire ...
Michelin
Type: cider
Characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured and very firm. Sweet with a tannic aftertaste and lightly tart. Moderately aromatic.
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Type: cider
931
Type: apple
Characteristics: The fle
Synonyms: Morgan Sweet. There is also a Somerset (UK) Dessert/Cider apple that uses this ...
966
Type: apple
Characteristics: Flesh is yellow, firm, very juicy and sweet. Tangy with a intense fruity flavour. Keeps for about five months in cold storage.
Synonyms: American Plat, American Plate, Balgone Golden Pippin, Balgowan, Balgowan Pippin, ...
à Côtes du Nord
Type: cider
Summary: Cider apple originating in the Brittany region of France.
Synonyms: Cotes du Nord
à la Faux
Type: cider
Characteristics: The flesh is white, fine grained and tender. Sweet and arromatic.
à Troche
Type: dessert
Summary: A multipurpose apple mostly grown in the gardens of rural France.
Synonyms: a Paquets, Sucrevert, Surre
Aargauer Herrenapfel
Type: culinary
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), ...
Aargauer Jägerapfel
Type: culinary
Summary: Found as a wild seedling in Switzerland prior to 1800.
Synonyms: Sometimes referred to as the Rheinischen Winterrambur. Also known as Kuttiger ...
Aargauer Jubiläum
Type: culinary
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, ...
Aargauer Weinapfel
Type: cider
Summary: At one time widely grown in northwestern Switzerland, primarily as a cider apple.
Abondance
Type: cider
Summary: A sharp cider apple from France.
Abraham
Type: dual
Summary: See Danziger Kantapfel
Synonyms: Abraham's Apple, Father Abraham's Apple, Calville de Danzig, Danziger Kantapfel, ...
Achimer Golden Reinette
Type: dessert
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, ...
Äckerli
Type: dessert
Summary: Originating in Switzerland, this fresh-eating apple is also used for baking and cider.
Synonyms: Äckerliapfel, Aeckerliapfel
Adam de Haute-Savoie
Type: cider
Summary: Likely the same as the Swiss variety Rose de Miex which was grown in the area of Mies (Switzerland).
Aigre de Bray
Type: cider
Origins: Originated in the Pays de Bray of northwestern France.
Aigre Jaune du Four
Type: cider
Airlie Red Flesh
Type: dessert
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
Alamaka
Type: cider
Characteristics: The flesh is white. Firm. Bittersweet.
Alatau
Type: culinary
Characteristics: Red fleshed, quite dark. Very tart
Albertswiler
Type: cider
Albion Russet
Type: cider
Characteristics: Lime flavour. Sugar content as high as Brix 21.
Alcadas
Type: cider
Identification: Small, conic.
Alexis Crab
Type: crabapple
Characteristics: Sweet.
Synonyms: Sometimes refered to as Alexis, but this is used for a sport of McIntosh
All Doer
Type: cider
Summary: Ideal for making blended cider, the British apple also makes a sauce with a sweet honey-flavoured finish.
Almata
Type: dual
Summary: This red-fleshed apple makes great apple sauce, crabapple jelly and has also caught the attention of cider makers.
Synonyms: Alma Ata
Altländer Klunsterapfel
Type: dessert
Characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained and firm. Sweet and verging on sharp, but very mild flavour.
Synonyms: Altlander Klunsterapfel, Klunster
Amanda
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 ...
Amelia
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 ...