GoldRush Apple Review
"A Goldmine of Flavor"
🏅 #1 RANKED CIDER APPLE | 🏅 #2 RANKED YELLOW APPLE
This pockmarked goiter on a prospector’s neck proves that looks aren’t everything as digging in to this juicy nugget provides a goldmine of spritely flavors ranging from tart to sweet. Searching for gold does not come without hardship however, as the GoldRush Apple has a thicker than desired skin that would require a sturdy pick-axe in the off-season. Thankfully, the lands out west (or confusingly Indiana in this case) graced the GoldRush Apple with a long growing season and an eye-popping shelf-life of seven full months. This is why any experienced mountaineer can tell you that stocking up on these precious apples to get through the harsh winter is a plan as good as gold.
BONUS POINTS: +1 Cider Apple, +2 Longevity
- FLAVOR PROFILE -
SWEETNESS
3/5
TARTNESS
2.5/5
INTENSITY
3.5/5
GOLDRUSH BIO
PARENTAGE
ORIGIN
YEAR
1993
AVAILABILITY
Late Fall – Spring
BEST USES
Munching, Dessert, Hard Cider
OTHER NAMES
Co-op38
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Hey Mr. Apple,
I’ve become a fast fan of your apple website since your set at Helium Comedy in STL last night. In fact, I work at a local apple orchard on the other side of the river. I love the depth and attention to detail you provide in your wonderful contribution to the internet. Though. I am more than fine with this rating of the Goldrush apple, but as the Illinois state fruit, and my pride over where I call home as well as my orchard, the beauty score was devastatingly low for me. The picture of the Goldrush you provided looks unripe. I did want to ask, do you make your ratings off of store-bought apples? I hate to sound posh and bougie but if I can be bougie about one thing in life it will be apples. I’m sure you already know this but if not or for any apple-seeking learners, store-bought apples are (usually) picked unripe before processing and shipping for (often) up to 10 months. While this is…fine…for most apples, the Goldrush only turns its beautiful yellow and sometimes orange-red within a week of ripening. Even if you do not buy store-bought, our competing orchard in my area decided to pick their Goldrushes around three weeks too early and they looked between green and the reference picture you have above—I would sell my soul to the devil himself before calling what I saw that day a Goldrush. When the Goldrush ripen on my orchard, due to the cone shape of the tree (differing from the usual more spherical or upside-down-snow-cone look), they sunburn easier. This causes them to have a deeper golden color with a warm orange hue on one side. Beautiful. Since I can’t provide pictures, I checked to see if this was accurately shown on Google and it was, so just look up “Goldrush apple”. Beautiful apple. Few other golden apples have the same beauty, there’s nothing like the overwhelming fragrance on the orchard when Goldrush season comes around in early October. Anyways, your contributions to the ~growing~ apple community are wonderfully substantial, and I always love finding a fellow apple fanatic such as myself! Thanks for reading.
Very cool! A GoldRush orchard sounds amazing. Many apples I get from the farm or a farmers market – but most come from the store. I have to rank based on what’s available to the public and unfortunately most that will encounter a GoldRush will get them at the store and so they suffer less than perfection. However, this is still an excellent apple – even store bought.