How to Have an Apple Tasting
Create a fun (and easy) fall tradition by doing an apple tasting!

When I was a young mother, I had certain ideas about what our family culture and traditions would be like. Later on I discovered that some just happen to the family through the kids — like the Star Wars craze we’re in now. Others though truly do come from the mother and these are the type I envisioned years ago.
One of these traditions I started — and has stuck — is doing an apple tasting every September. Ideally, we’d go to an orchard and pick all the varieties ourselves, but that has not happened yet for one reason or another. Instead I just get a few varieties from the store. Sometimes I make a brown-sugar and peanut butter dip or sometimes I make a caramel sauce. Neither are necessary.
You just need different kinds of apples and people who will eat them. If you want to keep a record, paper is good.

How to Have an Apple Tasting: 3 simple steps
Step One – Plan
Pick a day to have your apple tasting. I like to do ours close to the first day of fall, which is around the 21st of September. To me it’s a fun fall activity to welcome fall. Plan to get your apples a day or two before you have the tasting.
Step Two – Get Apples
You can simply go to your normal grocery store and pick out three to five different kinds of apples. If you want to make it more of a fall activity, you can plan a trip the orchard first. However, that is going above and beyond. So far I’ve kept it simple and just shopped at the store. Let’s not complicate it!
Step Three – Taste Your Apples
- Cut them up and put each type on its own plate. Make sure you mark or remember what apple is what. If you use a paper plate, you could write it on the edge. I usually put the sticker of the apple on the plate.
- Pass one type of apple around, say the name, and have every one taste it. If you want you can talk about sweet or sour, soft or crisp, etc.
- Repeat step 4 with the other apples.
- Vote on which you liked best and enjoy more of it!

Bonus Activities
- If you have the time, you can create a chart of your apples and take votes for the different kinds and see which is the most popular. You can then create that into a graph.
- Leading up to the tasting, read books about apples or Johnny Appleseed.
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