Have you heard of it before? Seen someone order it? Had a bartender regale you with its history? If not, allow me. The Applejack Rabbit dates back to the dark days of Prohibition and highlights apple ...

Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel, and food writer; event host and speaker; and drinks educator. He regularly contributes to Food & Wine, and his first book, Crushed: How A Changing Climate Is ...

HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, MI — A Michigan distiller is going to market this fall with what’s believed to be the state’s first distributed variety of applejack, a type of apple brandy once favored by George ...

Have you ever found yourself in the middle of an overcrowded New Jersey apple orchard, picking fruit with the kids, swatting at bees and wishing you could sip something a little stronger than the ...

It may come from an apple. But this is not apple juice. "It smells apple-y; it also smells very strong," said correspondent Mo Rocca. "It's 100% proof. So, it's a bit strong," said Lisa Laird Dunn, ...

From the Blue Ridge Mountains to Vermont, new distillers are reviving a drink that vanished during Prohibition, giving it the age and polish of a fine brandy. Becky Harris, a founder and the head ...

Long before there was such a thing as American whiskey, the Laird family started producing Applejack in New Jersey in 1698. Their first bill of sale dates from 1780, and legend has it one of their ...

While the American colonists drank hard cider like their modern-day counterparts swill Pepsi and Coca-Cola, for some, cider’s relatively mild 4 to 6 percent alcohol concentration just wasn’t alcoholic ...