The Brown Snout is a late-flowering variety, classed as a "bittersweet" apple, with relatively high tannins and low levels of malic acid. It makes a medium-sized tree with a stiffly upright habit. The fruit are small and green, with patches of russeting, and a large patch of russeting at the calyx end, giving the variety its name.

Cider variety that produces a sweet, slightly astringent juice and a mild to medium bittersweet cider. Small fruit with green to yellow skin color with patches of russet and a brown russet eye at the calyx end of the fruit. This distinctive brown eye is how the fruit got its name. Self fertile. Susceptible to fire blight. Ripens October to November depending on location.

The Brown Snout remains a popular cultivar in traditional cider making.

Brown Snout is a 19th-century cultivar of cider apple originating in Herefordshire in the United Kingdom, though now grown in other counties and parts of the world.