ANNUAL TASTING OF ALASKA-GROWN APPLES 2006

ANNUAL TASTING OF ALASKA-GROWN APPLES By Dwight Bradley   2006 Results   The annual apple tasting was held at Bradley’s in Peters Creek on Sept. 23, 2007.  About 30 people were there and 19 rated the apples.  Fifty-five different apple varieties were tasted along with nineteen duplicates.  Another dozen or so varieties were brought for…

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Annual Tasting Of Alaska-Grown Apples – 2002

  By D. BRADLEY   2002 Results   The annual Alaska-grown apple tasting was held in late September at Bradley’s in Peters Creek.  About 30 people were there and 20 people rated the apples.  We rated 63 different varieties, and 26 repeats.  The top five apples this year were Oriole (grown by Tom Marshall), Carroll…

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Annual Tasting Of Alaska-Grown Apples 2001

By DWIGHT BRADLEY The annual Alaska-grown apple tasting was held in late September at Bradley’s in Peters Creek.  About 25 people attended and 12 people rated the apples.  We rated 52 different varieties, plus 22 repeats, or 74 apples altogether.  Bob Boyer also sneaked in his usual ringer—a Ginger Gold bought at Fred Meyers which…

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ANNUAL TASTING OF ALASKA- GROWN APPLES

  — D. Bradley   1999 Results   The annual Alaskan-grown apple tasting was held at Bradley’s in Peters Creek on Sept. 25, 1999. About 30 people were there, and 19 rated the apples. We tasted 31 varieties of apples, a dozen repeats of these same varieties, two varieties of pear, and one each apricot…

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ANNUAL ALASKAN-GROWN APPLE TASTING

 —Dwight Bradley   1998 Results   The annual Alaskan-grown apple tasting was held at Bradley’s in Peters Creek on Sept. 26, 1998. About 25 people were there, and 17 rated the apples. We tasted 31 varieties of apples, a dozen repeats of these same varieties, two varieties of pear, and one each apricot and plum.…

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Southeast Apple Tasting 1997

    by Joe Orsi   During the first week in October, Ed Buyarski, myself, and portions of our families participated in an apple tasting session from apples grown at our test orchards located north of Auke Bay, We collectively tasted 36 varieties of apples and recorded many of their attributes (Table 1). Although the…

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RESULTS OF THE SEPTEMBER 1997 ALASKAN APPLE-TASTING

    —by Dwight Bradley   The annual tasting of Alaska-grown apples was held at Bradleys in Peters Creek in late September. About 30 people attended, and 23 turned in scoresheets. Bob Boyer contributed three of the top four apples this year: the winner, Ginger Gold, plus runner-up September Ruby and Sunrise. Tom Marshall’s Oriole…

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FOUR-YEAR SUMMARY OF ALASKAN APPLE-TASTING RESULTS

    — by Dwight Bradley   The following table summarizes the results of four consecutive years of apple tastings of apples grown in the Anchorage-Matanuska Valley region. This is a partial list of all the varieties that have been brought at one time or another to the tastings. For this table, I took only…

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SUGAR CONTENT OF ALASKAN APPLES AT THE SEPTEMBER 1996 APPLE-TASTING

  by Dwight Bradley   In the last Newsletter I reported on the September 1996 apple tasting, but forgot to include data on the sugar content. Bob Beyer took a slice of each apple that we tasted and squeezed a bit of juice into an refractometer, which measures sugar content in brix (I don’t find…

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RESULTS OF 1996 ALASKA-GROWN APPLE-TASTING

  by Dwight Bradley   The Annual tasting of Alaska-Grown apples was held at Bradley’s in Peters Creek on September 26. About 30-35 people attended, and 26 turned in scoresheets. In all, we tasted 50 apples, including 40 different varieties and 10 repeats. Almost everyone agreed that this was an excellent group of apples —…

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Results of Fall Apple Tasting 1995

  by Dwight Bradley   The Club’s annual tasting of Alaskan-grown apples was held on September 28, 1995 at the Bradleys in Peters Creek. Twenty-six different varieties were tasted, along with several duplicates. The clear favorite was Tom Marshall’s Oriole apple, followed by Parkland, Norland, Lodi, and Whitney Crab. Twenty tasters rated the apples for…

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RESULTS OF APPLE TASTING AT SEPTEMBER MEETING 1994

— by Dwight Bradley The annual apple tasting was held at Bradley’s on September 22. About 30 people attended, perhaps a third of them non-members. We sampled 34 Alaska-grown apple varieties, which were contributed by about half that many different growers. People also brought a variety of excellent apple pies, apple- and raspberry crisp, apple…

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1993 APPLE TASTING RESULTS

By Pam Neiswanger Warner   Many thanks to Jay Dearborn and Dearborn Farms for their bountiful support of our 1993 Anchorage-area apple tasting!!   And thanks also to Tom Marshall, Elmer Jeske, Hugh Harris, Erik Simpson, Don Cox, Arvid Miller, and Bob Boyer for sharing their summer harvest with everyone! Once again, the weather was…

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1992 APPLE-TASTING RESULTS (Southcentral)

This was a strange year for growing apples ….. the beautiful early weather, the cool later weather, volcanic ash. Ripening dates in the Mat-Su Valley were two (2) weeks ahead of schedule, Anchorage was two (2) weeks behind. And although there were some excellent-tasting apples at this years apple tasting, the general consensus was that…

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1991 APPLE TASTING RESULTS

ANCHORAGE – Dimond Greenhouses was the scene of our annual Apple Tasting Event last September 19, 1991—and what a scene it was! Apples everywhere! Jay Dearborn acted as our special guest host and brought several apple varieties from the Valley for our tasting pleasure. Other members brought different varieties from their own crops and we…

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