It’s an interesting read but incase you don’t feel like spending 8 minutes reading about the differences, just know that if you’re in America, it’s pretty safe to assume that applejack = apple brandy. The Chowhound article goes waaay more in-depth about the differences between American applejack/apple brandy and Calvados. Applejack and American brandy don’t have to be aged. For an apple brandy to be considered Calvados, it has to be from the Calvados region of Normandy and must be aged. Calvados, a famous style of apple brandy, hails from Normandy. Once you go outside of the US, though, apple brandy terminology gets a little more technical. Don’t you wanna go out and buy a bottle now? Popular in the American colonial era, the drinks prevalence declined in the 19th and 20th. Abraham Lincoln sold applejack at his bar (yep, he’s the only president who was also a licensed bartender) and Franklin Roosevelt preferred to make his Manhattans with it. Applejack is a strong alcoholic drink produced from apples. The Jack Rose is an applejack drink made with grenadine and lime juice. Ingredients 2 oz Lairds bonded applejack.75 oz fresh lemon juice.5 oz demerara syrup (simple syrup made with demerara or cane sugar).Fill the shaker with ice and shake vigorously for 10-15 seconds. But Washington’s not the only American president with an affinity for the American spirit. In a cocktail shaker, combine brandy, lemon juice and grenadine. Supposedly he is the only person outside of the Laird family to have ever been given their famous applejack recipe. In fact, applejack was George Washington’s spirit of choice. The lower proof one, which says “Applejack” on the label, doesn’t have the backbone to stand up in this sour.With a good supply of apples and cold temperatures, you can see why applejack became a popular spirit for early Americans in the north. Laird’s makes the quintessential American apple brandy-be sure to stick with the 100-proof version. The boozy sour is tempered by lots of ice and brightened by tart and tender raspberry. Don’t let the hearty spirit scare you off in hot weather: This is a perfect sipper for a warm day. Louis via Kentucky had a talent for summer cocktails, often served on shaved ice-these days, we generally use crushed ice. Here we take inspiration from Bullock’s version of the Applejack Fix as well as his very similar Applejack Cocktail, where he beautifully pairs apple brandy with raspberry syrup. You can think of a fix as a bartender’s special, where each establishment or bartender or cocktail book writer would have their own little spin on the standard sour, one they’d be happy to fix right up.
Laird’s Applejack is one of the more readily available brands and is a blend of apple brandy and neutral grain spirit. Bartenders tend to agree it is a glammed-up sour, where the spirit, citrus, and sugar are dressed up with a little something extra, whether that’s fresh fruit as a garnish, fruity liqueurs, or soda water. The term ‘applejack’ is derived from the word ‘jacking’ which is a term for freeze distillation. The term dates back to before the first cocktail guide in the 19th century-by the time we see the Applejack Fix in Tom Bullock’s 1914 The Ideal Bartender, the world had seen all manner of fixes. The fix is one of those classic cocktail families that has never quite resurfaced in the modern cocktail world, partly because nobody seems to be really sure what one is.
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