by Michael Satterfield - 12/06/2021
I am a chip of a history nerd too no matter what the discipline affair is, I tend to make a deep dive, and then when a few apple-based spirits showed came across my desk I had to acquire more near apple tree brandy ameliorate known every bit Applejack which is a uniquely American drinkable outset made during the colonial era.
First distilled in 1698 inwards colonial New Jersey past a Scottish immigrant named William Laird, the drinkable was originally called Bailiwick of Jersey Lighting. Laird'sec grandson Robert would go on to serve in the Continental Army too eventually license the family unit distillery inward 1780, making it the oldest licensed Applejack distillery inward the U.S. and is notwithstanding in product to this mean solar day.
Applejack would lose more or less of its popularity since it was ofttimes more expensive to make than rum in addition to whiskey, amongst Prohibition many producers switched over to simply selling apple tree juice, with many returning to product in one case Prohibition was repealed inwards 1933. Recently a number of modest arts and crafts distillers accept brought Applejack dorsum into the mainstream, like Tamworth Distilling too Rootsock Spirits which I am sampling today.
The bring up Applejack comes from a traditional method of increasing the alcohol content inward the beverage, called "jacking" where the fermented cider is frozen and so the water ice is removed, thus increasing the alcohol content. Traditionally this would be done by moving barrels outside during winter and removing the water ice leaving just the unfrozen alcohol. Today almost Applejack is produced through evaporative distillation, meaning no ane has to fish out chunks of ice from barrels all wintertime long. Today Applejack is likewise defined every bit a blend of at least twenty% apple tree too neutral grain spirit that must live aged at to the lowest degree 2 years.
Just like Whiskey, at that place are a lot of unlike types of apple-based brandy. New Hampshires' Tamworth Garden offers a V.due south.O.P. which agency it is bottled nether the standards of both the Bottled in Bond Act of 1987 and the Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac inwards 1983. To earn this designation the brandy must be produced past ane distillery, a unmarried season, aged for iv years together with bottled at 100 proof, with no artificial colors, other spirits, or other brandies mixed inwards. Other bottles from Tamworth Garden may take lower alcohol book, aging requirements, or blends, just the VSOP is their elevation-rated in addition to near expensive bottle.
The Tamworth Garden V.S.O.P. has notes of baked apple tree, tobacco, amongst hints of vanilla and cinnamon, potable as y'all would any other brandy or purpose it to brand an opulent cocktail similar the Jack Rose, Applejack Sour, or add a picayune southern flair together with brand a Peach Smash.
Tamworth Garden V.south.O.P.
Retails for $75 SHOP HERE
Rootstock Spirits
Retails for $55 SHOP HERE
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