2025's Apple Pie Soda. Our Baked Little Belter + His Big Boy Pants
2025's Apple Pie Soda. Our Baked Little Belter + His Big Boy Pants
PT.1
THE 101
INGREDIENT: British Apple
VARIETY: Bramley, Red Windsor, Estivale
LOCATION: UK
REGION: Herefordshire, UK
TIME OF YEAR: November onwards
NO. OF BATCHES: TBC but can confirm juiciest yet
IMMINENT RELEASE: November 2025
PT.2
BAKED LITTLE BELTER
By demand and by design, our Apple Pie Soda is back, you thirsty rascals. We listened to your feedback from 2024, tinkered, tasted, and tested until it hit that sweet (but not too sweet) spot. This soda’s earned its stripes.
Our latest recipe blends three standout apple varieties - Bramley, Red Windsor, and Estivale - layered to create crisp acidity, rich body, and that unmistakable baked apple pie depth. It’s brighter, rounder, and made for sipping, mixing, and lifting those darker days.
And this year, we’re keeping it around a little longer. With an appetite that’s grown since its conception, we’re keeping production rolling well into the darker months because flavourful sipping shouldn’t be limited, if we can avoid it. Our Apple Pie soda has cemented its place as a firm favourite, and this year's blend gives it even more reason to linger. The orchard's been kind, and we've followed where flavour leads and tastebuds talk.
We’ve grown up. A bit. The big boy pants are on and we might get more JOMO than FOMO these days, but we haven’t lost sight of what got us here and what we set out to do, change and shake up. Rapscallion’s always been about chasing raw ingredients + pure flavour, not trends. We care about what goes into our sodas and saying nah you’re alright pal to the neglectful, concerning and often adulterated modern food and drink systems. Why do wine and whisky get all the fun? Well, we’ve been doing the same with soda. We source, we blend, and we experiment with Britain’s best fruit and premium imported ingredients.
As we’ve grown, so have the demands of our drinkers. You parched, wonderful bunch. You don’t deserve frequently sold-out favourites or fleeting flavours. So we’re meeting that head-on - scaling up without selling out, capturing as many brilliant British varieties as we can, and keeping things honest, bubbly, and full of flavour.
Pt.3
JUICY FRUIT
Last year’s single-orchard approach was a beautiful romance. Heritage apples, small-batch pressing, all heart. But it also came with challenges. Each apple variety behaves differently depending on the weather, harvest, and even the mood of the Scottish sky. That meant every batch was a bit of a wild child: unique, but unpredictable.
This year, we’ve taken what we learned and evolved. Rather than pressing whole fruit ourselves, we’re working directly with blended juices from UK-grown apples. Why? Scalability, consistency, and the chance to explore even more of Britain’s incredible apple diversity. We’ve only just scratched the surface of what grows right here on our doorstep.
Our 2025 blend brings together:
- Bramley (for that sharp tannic bite)
- Red Windsor (a juicy, aromatic dessert variety)
- Estivale (for sweetness and balance)
We’re working with a Herefordshire-based producer who not only uses fruit from their own old orchards, but also partners with local growers. Ensuring consistency, variety, and sustainable practices rooted in flavour.
They’re nothing short of meticulous in their fruit growing: each site is chosen with care, guided by soil type, aspect, altitude, and surrounding ecology. Their topography sits on deep, rich loams - once home to old hop fields - providing natural moisture and nutrients through the drier summers.
Beyond the fruit, their landscape’s literally alive. Ancient woodland, thriving hedgerows, oak, ash, wild rose, wildflowers, bees and butterflies to boot. Biodiversity isn’t just encouraged, it’s celebrated. It’s apple juice made with the same respect for nature that we pour into every can.
Sounds a bit bloody lovely, doesn’t it? And while we’d happily skip through their orchards all day sipping our sodas and whispering to the butterflies sweet nothings, the real reason we’ve chosen to work with them this year is quite simple. All that care and diversity means we can keep that fresh-off-the-tree character you love, just with a little less chaos. And in turn, the flavour consistency you deserve in every can.
PT.4
HE'S A BELTER
Everything you loved about our 2024 Apple Pie Soda, finely-tuned for 2025 extended season. Expect a rich, juicy base, layers of natural spice, and a crisp, baked finish. It’s fresh, balanced, and a wee bit too drinkable if we don’t say so ourselves. Think apple strudel meets mulled cider. Refreshing, plush, and quietly moreish.
With our highest-ever juice content, this soda is our most fruit-forward yet. As always, we set out to create a pure expression of the fruit itself. Although we have added a small amount of Raw Organic Cane Sugar, without it, many of the layers of spice we slot in, won’t sing. Baked Apple aroma to begin (cinnamon + vanilla + Estivale), but swiftly followed with the Bramley bite. Soft nutmeg can be enjoyed through every sip, but the most epicurean of you will pick up the final tickle of clove. But as always, proof is in the pudding and your tastebuds are the real marker of success. Let us know your thoughts, whether good or bad!
pt.5
EXPERT EXPERIMENTATION
Starting life in our X_Series, this soda is where experimentation met pure dedication. X_Series is where we test new fruits, flavours, explore new and traditional techniques, and challenge what good + proper soda can and should be. We’ve come a long way since our Cosmic Elf creation and Rapscallion’s early days of hot toddy spiced apple juice at bar pop-ups.
Apple Pie Soda was born out of curiosity and creating something that bridged a gap. A non-alcoholic, naturally complex drink designed to comfort, refresh and reinvigorate in equal measure.
PT.6
AN APPLE A DAY
Rapscallion’s ageing in reverse. Like Benjamin Button, we’re sharper, slicker, and more polished than ever. But still carrying that same rebellious twinkle in our peepers that started it all. Maybe we’re Peter Pan with a payslip? Still full of subversion, just better at running the show. These days, the mischief’s organised, the schedule’s tight, and the standards are sky high. We’ve grown, not changed. Our sodas are proof that refinement doesn’t mean compromise. Let’s be clear and honest, though - we’re still the sassy, curious soda pioneers you know and love. Just with a bigger audience and an even sharper focus. You be the judge, but we’ve grown up and our sodas are proof of our dedication to refined sips, without the shite.
In turn, and it's true that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, our Apple Pie soda has grown up and put his big apple socks on. Confident, characterful, and just jolly juicy. He’s back with a crisp and fresh bang, and this year’s blend allows you to have your deserved slice of the pie. Whether it’s your afternoon pick-me-up or sipped whilst wearing those shockingly ugly thermals your Maw got you, our Baked Little Belter is made to ease you into the season, and beyond.
He’s baked. He’s dinky. And he’s a proper belter. Reimagined, refined, and ready for your tonsils.
Available to all from November.
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