Cocktail History: Using
But the spirit that first captured the hearts of colonial America came into existence a full century before bourbon: American apple brandy. America's first spirit—a nickname sadly not recognized by Congress—has been around since the 1700s.
Laird & Company, the oldest continuously operated distillery in the United States, began producing applejack in New Jersey in 1698, and handed off the family recipe to George Washington in the 1760s, when the first distillery at Mount Vernon was built.
Buffalo Trace claims to be the oldest continuously-operating distillery in the USA, though the name has changed over the years.
For almost 300 years, the art of producing Applejack has been passed down through succeeding generations of the Laird Family. Eighth generation Larrie W. Laird is now president of Laird & Company and heads America's oldest family of distillers.
Old Overholt is America's oldest continually maintained brand of whiskey, was founded in West Overton, Pennsylvania, in 1810. Old Overholt is a rye whiskey distilled by A. Overholt & Co., currently a subsidiary of Beam Suntory, which is a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings of Osaka, Japan.
Buffalo Trace is the longest continuously operating distillery in the United States with its roots going back into the early 1770s.
At Rainbow Row
Serving Charleston since 1686, The Tavern is the oldest liquor store in the country.
Bols has been extant since 1575, and claims to be the oldest distillery brand in the world. The brand is now distributed in 110 countries, and the liqueur line has over 30 different flavors.
Bushmills, technically the oldest licensed distillery in the world, is certainly making the case. Master blender Alex Thomas is on a mission to prove the brand is still an Irish whiskey innovator, even after 400 years.
Character Information
Ashley Jane Margaret McIntosh, commonly known as Applejack, is a female Earth pony and one of the main characters of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Her human adaptation appears throughout the Equestria Girls film series representing the Element of Honesty.
The colonials dubbed a term specific for the hangover that you get when you drink too much applejack. It's called apple palsy.
Applejack is a female Earth Pony and one of the main characters of My Little Pony: Pony Life.
Poitín - 6th Century CE. Poitín, pronounced “put-cheen,” is an Irish concoction thought to be the oldest spirit in the world. A spirit, or liquor, is an alcohol that has been both fermented and distilled. Popular examples include gin, whisky, and vodka.
The Sazerac is considered by many to be America's oldest cocktail! Made with rye whiskey, Peychaud's bitters, absinthe, sugar, and a lemon peel, it's a true classic.
We've also found evidence of mead being produced and stored at Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, in the 5th and 6th centuries AD for use in great feasting events. It's wonderful that this very old drink is now being discovered by a whole new generation."
But a century is nothing to the Speyer wine bottle, also known as the Römerwein aus Speyer. Its murky contents have sat undisturbed inside clear glass for 1,693 years. The 1.5 liter bottle has handles shaped like dolphins and was buried in the tomb of a Roman nobleman and noblewoman near today's city of Speyer.
While Whiskey can be an American or European liquor, Bourbon originated in America and is the only true American liquor. Bourbon is a type of whiskey made from corn, which is a New World crop. Historians trace the origins of bourbon to Kentucky in the late 18th century.
On December 18, 1917 a constitutional amendment to prohibit alcohol was proposed in the Senate, and in October 1919 Congress passed the Volstead Act (National Prohibition Act), which was the enabling legislation that set down the rules for enforcing the ban on alcohol and defined the types of alcoholic beverages to be ...
"The liquor capital of America"—New Orleans during Prohibition | The Historic New Orleans Collection.
The World's Oldest Gin Recipe
This authentic gin was based on the original 1689 recipe of the spirit made by the Dutch King William III (AKA William of Orange) after he was proclaimed King of England, Ireland and Scotland that very year.
Like many of Britain's national favourites, gin did not originate on our shores. In fact, if you don't count the Italian monks who are thought to have used juniper berries as flavourings in distilled spirits back in the 11th century, it's Holland that's credited as the birthplace of gin.
Gin (/ˈdʒɪn/) is a distilled alcoholic drink that derives its flavour from juniper berries and other botanical ingredients. Gin originated as a medicinal liquor made by monks and alchemists across Europe, particularly in Salerno, Italy, by the Schola Medica Salernitana.