also: an alcoholic beverage traditionally made by freezing hard cider and siphoning off the concentrated liquor
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Recent Examples on the WebThe 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 Roy Inman Special to The Star Take the Jack Rose, a cocktail traditionally made with applejack, lemon juice and grenadine. Anne Brockhoff, kansascity, 20 Feb. 2018 See More