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 ...

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 ...

No story about “Jersey Lightning’’ would be complete with a history of America’s oldest native distillery, Laird’s Applejack of Monmouth County. 1698: Alexander Laird, a County Fife Scotsman, ...

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 ...

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 ...