applejack

There is also applejack, which is apple brandy, but named differently because it used to be made differently.

The French version of the Wikipedia article [1] actually lists calvados [2] instead of applejack.

Once you're done, making applejack is just as illegal as operating a still, so just like fight club, don't talk about it.

Now, even if it's called applejack, they use stills for healthcode reasons.

Only one bartender knew what it was (lime, applejack, and grenadine).

Maybe they'd be grown to make alcohol (more applejack or cider than apfelwein I'd think).

Yes, I've made it with Calvados and also with French pear brandy, which was pretty good, but Calvados and Applejack aren't exactly the same.

At least this is my experience with applejack.

S., producing applejack since the American Revolution.

But it's actually pretty good: applejack pretty much died out in the US with the prohibition and cheaper liquors, but if you can find cider or calvados it's worth a shot.

The side effect of that was that where people used to mostly drink cider and ale, applejack and the like, now it was cheaper and acceptable to just stay perpetually lit on whiskey.

For example, sweeter apples we enjoy now appeared in the last couple of centuries, and the US varieties in the last century alone, before that apples were mainly used to make cider or applejack.

It seems a little bit akin to implying that you can drink all the applejack you want without worrying about intoxication because it has "no alcohol added" - instead, water was removed.

Calvados is done with "cider apples" and Applejack was done with "eating apples" (from my understanding when I was reading into this), which meant Applejack was supposed to be sweeter and was often drunk straight, but it's pretty much disappeared after we learned to make Bourbon in this country.

(Damn it, Slack, don't autocomplete it to #applejack or #applebucket-feedback.) "Hey, I've got a support ticket for a messaging protocol issue, can someone help?" > Sure, we're meeting in Batman on that right now!

It's really difficult to find any decent Applejack, even though this used to be a quintessentially American drink.

Especially Chrysalis, her emotions are extremely believable, and Fluttershy/Applejack/Rise/Kyu have almost zero noise for every generation.

The first liquor readily available was Applejack, a freeze-distilled spirit made from hard cider.