applejack
noun
ap·ple·jack
ˈa-pəl-ˌjak 
: brandy distilled from hard cider
also
: an alcoholic beverage traditionally made by freezing hard cider and siphoning off the concentrated liquor
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In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman aims to become North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 July 2024
The Blue Ridge Mountains aren’t the only region with a crush of new applejack makers in the last decade.
—New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
The Laird Family of New Jersey has been producing applejack, or apple brandy, for nine generations.
—CBS News, 19 Nov. 2020
Combine pink grapefruit juice, applejack, rosewater, lavender bitters, fresh lime juice, elderflower liqueur, and honey simple syrup in a cocktail shaker.
—Kate Richards, Country Living, 19 Mar. 2019
Historically applejack was a Colonial-era winter spirit made by freeze distilling: leaving hard cider outside and removing the ice to concentrate the alcohol in a process called jacking.
—Francine Maroukian, Popular Mechanics, 24 Nov. 2016
The ingredients are as follows: 1 ½ ounces of rye whiskey, ¾ ounce applejack and ¾ ounce Yellow Chartreuse.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 4 June 2018
The Careless Whisper echoes a Sazerac with its rye and absinthe lethality camouflaged by chokecherry liqueur, while the Delicious #7 is the requisite mezcal proffer, its vegetal bite softened by applejack and herbal Benedictine.
—Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 20 Apr. 2018
While Beskow routinely reaches for applejack, apple brandy or Calvados would be fine, too.
—Anne Brockhoff, kansascity, 20 Feb. 2018
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 July 2024
The Blue Ridge Mountains aren’t the only region with a crush of new applejack makers in the last decade.
—New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
The Laird Family of New Jersey has been producing applejack, or apple brandy, for nine generations.
—CBS News, 19 Nov. 2020
Combine pink grapefruit juice, applejack, rosewater, lavender bitters, fresh lime juice, elderflower liqueur, and honey simple syrup in a cocktail shaker.
—Kate Richards, Country Living, 19 Mar. 2019
Historically applejack was a Colonial-era winter spirit made by freeze distilling: leaving hard cider outside and removing the ice to concentrate the alcohol in a process called jacking.
—Francine Maroukian, Popular Mechanics, 24 Nov. 2016
The ingredients are as follows: 1 ½ ounces of rye whiskey, ¾ ounce applejack and ¾ ounce Yellow Chartreuse.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 4 June 2018
The Careless Whisper echoes a Sazerac with its rye and absinthe lethality camouflaged by chokecherry liqueur, while the Delicious #7 is the requisite mezcal proffer, its vegetal bite softened by applejack and herbal Benedictine.
—Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 20 Apr. 2018
While Beskow routinely reaches for applejack, apple brandy or Calvados would be fine, too.
—Anne Brockhoff, kansascity, 20 Feb. 2018
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“Applejack.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/applejack. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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