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Wolf River Apple Review

"The Midwestern Sledgehammer"

40
Horse Food
Wolf River Apple

🏅 #3 RANKED BAKING APPLE

This puke-stained Wisconsin bowling ball of an apple could hammer a rusty nail into a slab of frozen concrete. Disturbingly solid like a northern lake in the dead of winter, it would be entirely justified to eat this fruit while wearing a helmet. If a power auger is on hand to penetrate the Wolf River’s unforgiving surface, rugged eaters will be rewarded for their toil with a lakebed of barely dampened, quickly-browning undergirth contaminated by deceptively tart agricultural runoff. Only to be used as a robust baking or drying fruit, the Wolf River Apple feels more at home in a frontier cabin’s tool shed than a grocery store shelf.

BONUS POINTS: +1 Self-Pollinating (grows true to seed), +1 Baking, +1 Apple Butter

Taste
Crispness
Skin
Flesh
Juiciness
Density
Beauty
Branding / CONSISTENCY
Cost / Availability

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SWEETNESS

0.5/5

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0.5/5

TARTNESS

2.5/5

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2.5/5

INTENSITY

2.5/5

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2.5/5
WOLF RIVER BIO

PARENTAGE

Russian Alexander x Unknown

ORIGIN

Fremont, Wisconsin

Near Wolf River

YEAR

1856

AVAILABILITY

Early Fall

BEST USES

Baking, Dried Apples, Apple Butter

Zestar! Apple Review

"The Failed Magician"

53
Not Worth Eating
Zestar! Apple

Unworthy of the exclamation point that follows this failed magician’s catchphrase of an apple, the Zestar! delivers an underwhelming performance featuring an array of disillusioning tricks that would make a lowly pear seem magical. Be amazed as its leathery skin sloughs off like a sheet covering a tacky stage prop. Let your imagination run wild as its ill-constructed flesh turns to brown mush before your eyes! Sit back in awe as a snappy torrent of juiciness is accompanied by a flavor that disappears in an instant! Did the heretofore promised hint of brown sugar even exist? Who cares? It’s gone now. And all sales are final! But despite conjuring a litany of disappointment, the Zestar! preserved enough redeemable qualities to pull at least one impressive trick out of its sleeve: It sired the otherworldly SweeTango Apple – an astounding feat that justifies a life of sub-optimal wizardry.

BONUS POINTS: +2 Lineage

Taste
Crispness
Skin
Flesh
Juiciness
Density
Beauty
Branding / CONSISTENCY
Cost/Availability

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SWEETNESS

2/5

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2/5

TARTNESS

0.5/5

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0.5/5

INTENSITY

0.5/5

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0.5/5
ZESTAR! BIO

PARENTAGE

State Fair x MN1691

ORIGIN

University of Minnesota

YEAR

1999

AVAILABILITY

Late Summer

BEST USES

Munching

OTHER NAMES

Minnewashta