i'm still a bit disturbed jane's addiction is being used to sell jack daniels
but hey, money

Ethyl, dear, you are disturbed. Laird's makes applejack. I'm not talking about whiskey; I'm talking about Jersey Lightning.

Jersey Lightning?
(can one love a phrase without knowing what it means. Based only on hope?)

I'll take that drink, hold the pastis, gag a maggot and so on.

i was just talking of booze, 'baby
whiskey talk

*hasn't had a drink in ages, so it seems*

Ahh, that was just drunk talk baby.

Me too

Apple Jack as in the cereal?

this drink is ahead of it's time!

Alcohol is lame. There, I said it.

Sure is lame, ice cold, bubblin taking away my problems and gettin me in the sweet sweet grave a bit quicker lameola.

The correct amount of pastis -- except in New Orleans when you're drinking a Sazerac -- is so little that nobody knows it's there unless you tell them, but enough so they miss it if it's not.

Jersey Lightning is an old colonial name for applejack, which is brandy distilled from hard cider.

The drink was a big hit and created in celebration of picking 20 crates of apples for this year's cider festival. We squeeze in two weeks after the apples have sweated and softened a bit.

The freezer method of making applejack (letting it freeze to slush and getting rid of the ice) is deadly and the hangover would stun a wino. The distilled applejack is delightful and known to drink snobs as Calvados. Applejack was a big item of commerce in colonial times.

I didn't know applejack = calvados, but I should have. I love calvados, rough. Pastis makes me flinch, but that's because I hang out with a frenchie who is always forcing pints of it down my throat.

Gotta try that freezer method. There's some winos I need to stun.

Personally I always show up pre-stunned.

Sounds good. Do you have Laird's bonded?

applejack doesn't = calvados; to be sold as applejack it has to be blended with a certain proportion of neutral spirits (except if it's sold as bonded, which is also 100 instead of 80 proof, hence my question above). Also, calvados can only be made from certain kinds of apples, which I don't believe is true of applejack, and of course it can only come from normandy.

Calvados and Applejack are kissin cousins... Better?

"...known to drink snobs as Calvados..."

My pathetic attempt to avoid the inevitable...

Ah, right. Self-convicted, I guess.