
Its flavor is clean and not cloyingly sweet. Organic cranberry juice cocktail is crafted with real sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. Although based in New Jersey, all of Laird’s beverages are distilled in Virginia with local apples. This is one brandy you’d be happy to sip. It’s less sweet than applejack and boasts a rich, smoky flavor and golden hue. Laird’s apple brandy is made by one of America’s first distillers.

There’s a subtle hint of pure apple cider vinegar for a shrub-like libation. In contrast, my dream cocktail is of the apple-cranberry-maple variety.

Most of us associate pumpkin spice drinks with the holiday season. This Cranberry Apple Brandy Cocktail hits all the right notes and goes with everything. Here’s a refreshing beverage to accompany your homemade appetizers. The company is led by its eighth and ninth generation father/daughter team of Larrie Laird and Lisa Laird Dunn.Holiday entertaining season begins this week. The company is now once again releasing its famed Laird’s Bottled in Bond Straight Apple Brandy, a darling of craft bartenders, as well as Laird’s Straight Applejack 86, which revives the company’s pre-Prohibition Apple Brandy.

It holds the first recorded date for a commercial transaction for cider spirits, 1780, and proudly produces Laird’s Blended Applejack, Laird’s Apple Brandies and Laird’s Jersey Lightning. Headquartered in Scobeyville, N.J., Laird & Company is America’s oldest family-owned, licensed distillery. As a result, there will be plenty of Laird’s Bonded for all 50 states, as well as our export markets.” “To address this, we ramped up inventory by doubling our production in the Fall and adding a Spring distillation. “Simply put, we could not produce enough Apple Brandy in a single season to fulfill the Federal requirement for the designation,” adds Laird Dunn. Bottled at no less than 50% ABV (100 proof).Department of Treasury/TTB (Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau) oversees the designation.There are four requirements for a spirit to be designated Bottled in Bond: Bonded products were a guarantee to the consumer that the spirit would be aged undiluted and unadulterated. Sip-worthy and versatile, it is unsurpassed in flavor, authenticity and quality.”Ī Quality Guarantee of a Spirit That Is Aged Undiluted and UnadulteratedĬongress passed the Bottled-in-Bond Act in 1897 to combat the increasing amount of fraudulent and sometimes dangerous Whiskey being sold in the late 19th century. We are one of only a handful of producers of a bonded Apple Brandy. “It holds such appeal for cocktail enthusiasts because it harkens back to our historical Applejack recipe that was popular during the first Golden Age of the Cocktail in the late 1800s. “We are delighted to bring back Laird’s Bonded,” said Lisa Laird Dunn, Executive Vice President and World Ambassador, Laird & Company.

It sets the category’s benchmarks for quality and integrity. Long a darling of the craft bartending community and discerning tipplers, Laird’s Bonded will again be available in bars, restaurants and retail stores beginning in Late Summer 2018 (50% ABV/SRP $31.99/750ml). Laird & Company, America’s oldest family-owned, licensed distillery, today announces the return of Laird’s Bottled in Bond 100 Proof Straight Apple Brandy (Laird’s Bonded) after a four-year hiatus.
