applejack
noun
ap·ple·jack ˈa-pəl-ˌjak 
: brandy distilled from hard cider
also : an alcoholic beverage traditionally made by freezing hard cider and siphoning off the concentrated liquor
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Else joins a growing Fandor catalog which also features the breakout picture Hundreds of Beaver about a drunken applejack salesman who morphs into North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers. —
Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2025 The film follows applejack salesman Jean Kayak who, after beavers destroy his orchard and brewery, leave him wandering the wilderness fighting for his survival. —Brian Welk, IndieWire, 25 Nov. 2024 In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman aims to become North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers. —Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 July 2024 The 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 Johnny Appleseed did not give out seeds for the planting of edible apples, but rather for the growth of apples in order to produce liquor from their juice, otherwise known as applejack. —Susan Cheever, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2016
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2025 The film follows applejack salesman Jean Kayak who, after beavers destroy his orchard and brewery, leave him wandering the wilderness fighting for his survival. —Brian Welk, IndieWire, 25 Nov. 2024 In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman aims to become North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers. —Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 July 2024 The 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 Johnny Appleseed did not give out seeds for the planting of edible apples, but rather for the growth of apples in order to produce liquor from their juice, otherwise known as applejack. —Susan Cheever, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2016
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