The pros and cons of water core

Watercore can also be desirable for making cider. The extra sorbitol is unfermentable and is supposed to leave a slight residual sweetness. I used some apples with watercore for the first time in a batch this fall. A very large, greenish yellow Pound/Pumpkin Sweet apple (my best guess) growing at the house next door. About 25% of that batch has this apple in it, so we’ll see how it turns out.

I had a handful of apples from my young Hewe’s Crab tree this year for the first time, and noticed some had watercore as well.

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