Cider Digest #1865

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Subject: Cider Digest #1865, 12 April 2014 
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Cider Digest #1865                                         12 April 2014 

                 Cider and Perry Discussion Forum 

Contents: 
  Re: Golden Russet (Ben Watson) 
  Golden Russet ("Rich Anderson") 
  GLINTCAP photos (Claude Jolicoeur) 

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Subject: Re: Golden Russet 
From: Ben Watson <BWatson@chelseagreen.com> 
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:47:51 +0000 

Dustin Hostetler asks about the differences between the English and American 
Golden Russet. 

I'm hopeful that someone with more orcharding experience than I can answer 
his questions more definitively. But from my perspective, as someone who 
works around orchards in New England and sources Golden Russet whenever 
possible for cider, I have yet to find a really hard and fast distinction, 
and am not sure at this point if there even is a readily identified (New 
York) Golden Russet and an (English) Golden Russet. 

It may be that, at this point, this is a distinction without a difference, 
or that any observed differences are more the result of seasonal weather 
variability, growing region, etc. Generally people just refer to "Golden 
Russet" as a single variety, and perhaps I should have done the same in 
my book, to avoid such confusion and head-scratching. 

Ben Watson 
Francestown, NH 

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Subject: Golden Russet 
From: "Rich Anderson" <rhanderson@centurytel.net> 
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:27:29 -0700 

I have a number of Golden Russets and they seem to have higher sugars than 
most of our bittersweets and bittersharps. One problem I had was training, 
they want to weep and should be allowed to weep.  I tried to build strong 
scaffolds and this was a disaster. Perhaps other on the digest can comment 
on how best to train them. 

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Subject: GLINTCAP photos 
From: Claude Jolicoeur <cjoliprsf@gmail.com> 
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 20:45:39 -0400 

Here are some pictures I took while at the GLINTCAP cider 
competition, St-John, Michigan, March 22 and 23, 2014. 
http://picasaweb.google.com/cjoliprsf/glintcap2014 

Claude 

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