Reviving Applejack
The Daily - Arts and Life - Saturday, July 23, 2011
The Americana angle was huge. Who couldn’t take a sip of what’s called America’s oldest native distilled beverage, close their eyes and imagine sharing the bench seat of Steinbeck’s camper truck Rocinante with The Man himself and his dog Charley on one side, fingers surfing the air outside the window on the other, and cap the day with a “dollop†of applejack with the boys at the campground?
At one point, the whole industry almost went to pot, nearly tarnishing the romantic literary dreams of thousands of young boys like myself. It’s a small miracle that American applejack and apple brandy survived the 20th century and are now the fetish items of craft bartenders.
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