past Michael Satterfield - 12/06/2021
I am a chip of a history nerd together with no matter what the bailiwick thing is, I tend to make a deep dive, and so when a few apple tree-based spirits showed came across my desk I had to larn more than most apple tree brandy improve known as Applejack which is a uniquely American potable starting time made during the colonial era.
First distilled inwards 1698 inwards colonial New Bailiwick of Jersey by a Scottish immigrant named William Laird, the beverage was originally called Jersey Lighting. Laird's grandson Robert would become on to serve inwards the Continental Army in addition to eventually license the family unit distillery inward 1780, making it the oldest licensed Applejack distillery inwards the United States too is even so in production to this twenty-four hours.
Applejack would lose or so of its popularity since it was ofttimes more than expensive to create than rum too whiskey, alongside Prohibition many producers switched over to only selling apple tree juice, with many returning to product one time Prohibition was repealed in 1933. Recently a number of minor craft distillers accept brought Applejack dorsum into the mainstream, like Tamworth Distilling too Rootsock Spirits which I am sampling today.
The name Applejack comes from a traditional method of increasing the alcohol content in the potable, called "jacking" where the fermented cider is frozen and then the ice is removed, hence increasing the alcohol content. Traditionally this would live done past moving barrels exterior during winter too removing the water ice leaving but the unfrozen alcohol. Today near Applejack is produced through evaporative distillation, meaning no one has to fish out chunks of water ice from barrels all wintertime long. Today Applejack is as well defined as a blend of at to the lowest degree twenty% apple tree and neutral grain spirit that must be aged at least 2 years.
Just similar Whiskey, in that location are a lot of unlike types of apple tree-based brandy. New Hampshires' Tamworth Garden offers a V.south.O.P. which agency it is bottled nether the standards of both the Bottled inward Bond Act of 1987 as well as the Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac in 1983. To earn this designation the brandy must be produced past 1 distillery, a unmarried flavor, aged for four years as well as bottled at 100 proof, alongside no artificial colors, other spirits, or other brandies mixed inwards. Other bottles from Tamworth Garden may take lower alcohol book, aging requirements, or blends, but the VSOP is their acme-rated in addition to virtually expensive bottle.
The Tamworth Garden V.S.O.P. has notes of baked apple tree, tobacco, with hints of vanilla in addition to cinnamon, drink every bit you lot would any other brandy or use it to make an opulent cocktail like the Jack Rose, Applejack Sour, or add a niggling southern flair too brand a Peach Smash.
Tamworth Garden V.southward.O.P.
Retails for $75 SHOP HERE
Rootstock Spirits
Retails for $55 SHOP HERE
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