750 ml bottle Laird's Applejack 1 liter spiced apple cider (see instructions below) 1 liter of club soda Instructions: 1. Pour all ingredients into a punch bowl 2. Stir well, then add a large cake ...

Soon after, Laird started distilling Applejack for himself and his friends. Records from the Colts Neck Inn — built by one of Laird's descendants — in 1780 show 'cyder spirits', aka Applejack ...

How To Make Applejack Cornelius Applejack is smooth enough to sip straight or substitute for bourbon or rye in your favorite cocktail. Try it for a more mellow manhattan.

Applejack has come a long way from the illicit home brew that — like most moonshine — frequently contained hazardous compounds, like methanol and acetone, that can cause blindness, renal ...

Cider, converted to applejack, shrank to as little as one-tenth of its original volume, and could reach 65 proof–that is, over 30 percent alcohol. Drunk in quantity, it packed a powerful punch.

What makes the Straight Applejack 86 a “return to your roots?” This is what our product was pre and post-prohibition — it’s 100% straight apple brandy at 86 proof and aged for 3 years. In ...

Early applejack was made through a process called "jacking": during the winter, barrels of low-alcohol cider were left to freeze overnight. In the morning, the ice that formed would be chipped away.

Laird’s Applejack occupies a small but special niche in the history of American spirits. By all accounts, applejack was the first distilled spirit to be widely enjoyed in colonial America ...