Skip to main content

Brown Snout Apple on G.41 (Spring 2025)

You are viewing a tree that will ship in Spring 2025. You can also find trees for Spring 2024.

A traditional English bittersweet cider apple.

This is a medium-sized tree that has a distinctly upright habit; care should be taken to avoid splitting under heavy crop loads. It is highly susceptible to fireblight and somewhat susceptible to scab. Brown Snout is a productive variety, but like many cider apples it tends to biennialism and needs to be thinned to maintain regular production. It is very late blooming, and a pollination partner should be chosen carefully. Brown Snout is an apple that is used predominanly for cider; it is not typically esteemed for fresh eating.

Brown Snout produces a late-season bittersweet cider apple. It is a smallish fruit with a greenish yellow base that is heavily russeted around a shallow calyx, whence its name. The juice is a mellow, dark cider with high tannins. Eve's Cidery writes of Brown Snout: "It is one of the best. Bittersweet with soft, warming tannins that are never bitter." This apple does not store well and should be pressed soon after harvest. From WSU: Tannin (percent tannic acid): 0.16; Acid (percent malic acid): 0.31; pH: 3.64; SG: 1.051; oBrix 12.9.

Thought to have been discovered on a farm in Yorkhill, Herefordshire, Brown Snout was eventually propagated by the H. P. Bulmer Company and planted across the west Midlands.

Order Your Trees

Select a shipping year

Select a grade

$36.75

5 in stock
Quantity
Best Pricing

Log in to your account to access the best pricing based on your past purchases; also see wholesale information

Tree Grading

Grade is a measure of tree size at time of sale, with Grade 0 being the biggest; see pricing & grading

Custom Trees

For large orders to be delivered in future years, or for trees from your cuttings, you can order custom trees

Need Help?

Contact us


This is a medium-sized tree that has a distinctly upright habit; care should be taken to avoid splitting under heavy crop loads. It is highly susceptible to fireblight and somewhat susceptible to scab. Brown Snout is a productive variety, but like many cider apples it tends to biennialism and needs to be thinned to maintain regular production. It is very late blooming, and a pollination partner should be chosen carefully. Brown Snout is an apple that is used predominanly for cider; it is not typically esteemed for fresh eating.

Brown Snout produces a late-season bittersweet cider apple. It is a smallish fruit with a greenish yellow base that is heavily russeted around a shallow calyx, whence its name. The juice is a mellow, dark cider with high tannins. Eve's Cidery writes of Brown Snout: "It is one of the best. Bittersweet with soft, warming tannins that are never bitter." This apple does not store well and should be pressed soon after harvest. From WSU: Tannin (percent tannic acid): 0.16; Acid (percent malic acid): 0.31; pH: 3.64; SG: 1.051; oBrix 12.9.

Thought to have been discovered on a farm in Yorkhill, Herefordshire, Brown Snout was eventually propagated by the H. P. Bulmer Company and planted across the west Midlands.


The Fruit

Fruit Type

Category: Apple
Subcategory: Heirloom, Cider, Cold-Hardy, Hot-Climate

Fruit Uses & Storage

Uses: cider
Cider classification: bittersweet
Storage duration: less than one month (approximate, depending on storage conditions)

Fruit Appearance

Skin color: green
Flesh color: white

Fruit Origins

Parentage: unknown
Origin: Herefordshire, England
Introduced in: 1850s
Introduced by: H. P. Bulmer Company

The Environment

Calendar & Geography

USDA zones: 4 - 8
Chill hours: Not yet determined
Ripening date: Oct 13 (approximate, in New York State) + 28 days after McIntosh

Tree Height & Spacing

Rootstock: G.41 Rootstock
Rootstock size class: Dwarf (30% of Standard)
Tree spacing (natural spread of tree): 8'
Good for wildlife planting? N

Diseases & Pests

Fireblight: Very Susceptible
Apple Scab: Susceptible

Pollination

Pollination Factors

Bloom group: 5
Is it self-fertile? N
Is it fertile? Y
Ploidy: Diploid
Rootstock size class: Dwarf (30% of Standard)

Pollination Partners

This table shows the first few results from a full search for pollenizers of Brown Snout Apple on G.41. Please see our Pollenizer Search to run other queries and read how the application uses various factors. Also read more about fruit tree pollination.

Tree Ships Currently in Stock
Enterprise Apple on G.41 2024 256
Crimson® Topaz CV. Apple on G.11 2024 124
Brown's Apple Apple on G.11 2024 122
Gala Apple on B.9 2024 97
Newtown Pippin Apple on G.11 2024 91
Harry Masters Jersey Apple on G.11 2024 82
Ellis Bitter Apple on G.11 2024 59
Binet Rouge Apple on G.41 2024 57
Empire Apple on G.41 2024 52
CrimsonCrisp™ Apple on G.11 2024 43
Fortune Apple Apple on G.11 2024 43

See all pollination matches for Brown Snout Apple on G.41






Featured Products

A few things we're loving right now...

Honeycrisp Apple on G.935

The rock-star, cold-hardy apple from Minnesota.

Intrepid Peach on BY520-9. Nematode Resistant Peach/nectarine

A late-blooming, extremely cold-hardy, freestone peach.

Porter's Perfection Apple on G.969

A bittersharp English cider variety.

Danube™ Cherry on Mahaleb

A sweet-tart Morello-type cherry from Hungary.