Comments on: Applejack: Fantastic Throughout History http://www.downtownwineandspirits.com/spirits/spirit-reviews/2009/04/22/applejack-fantastic-throughout-history/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:04:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Jim http://www.downtownwineandspirits.com/spirits/spirit-reviews/2009/04/22/applejack-fantastic-throughout-history/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Jim Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:17:27 +0000 http://www.downtownwineandspirits.com/spirits/?p=94#comment-45 Reading this with a glass of Jersey Lightnin' in my paw. Glad to see at least one other American with some sense of history. I'm also a fan of Pennsylvania rye and "Rock and Rye," when I can find 'em. Good fer what ails ya. Grandma was right! Even though the apples now come from the South, I guess we can be forgiving, considering that at least where the apples grow, corn don't. Tell ya what goes good with Applejack is 'Gansett beer from Rhode Island. Drink American! I really, really want to try the brandies, and as soon as I get me a j-o-b, Imma gonna. But for now, the Applejack is not only a neat historical alternative to bourbon (not to mention unmentionable foreign distillates) but a very reasonable (and justifiable) one. Applejack drinkers have a story, as good as anything from some far-flung crag of Scotland. Laird's only gave up the recipe once. To Gen. Washington, at his request. Everyone else? Good luck with your copper kettles and cider in a growler. Applejack braced our great grandfathers as they carved this mess out of the woods and Laird's is the only one of hundreds of Jack houses to survive. You do the math. May God (and Johnny Appleseed) bless 'em. Reading this with a glass of Jersey Lightnin’ in my paw. Glad to see at least one other American with some sense of history. I’m also a fan of Pennsylvania rye and “Rock and Rye,” when I can find ‘em. Good fer what ails ya. Grandma was right! Even though the apples now come from the South, I guess we can be forgiving, considering that at least where the apples grow, corn don’t. Tell ya what goes good with Applejack is ‘Gansett beer from Rhode Island. Drink American!

I really, really want to try the brandies, and as soon as I get me a j-o-b, Imma gonna. But for now, the Applejack is not only a neat historical alternative to bourbon (not to mention unmentionable foreign distillates) but a very reasonable (and justifiable) one. Applejack drinkers have a story, as good as anything from some far-flung crag of Scotland. Laird’s only gave up the recipe once. To Gen. Washington, at his request. Everyone else? Good luck with your copper kettles and cider in a growler. Applejack braced our great grandfathers as they carved this mess out of the woods and Laird’s is the only one of hundreds of Jack houses to survive. You do the math. May God (and Johnny Appleseed) bless ‘em.

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