Applejack

How to Use Apple Brandy in Cocktails

The 411 on employing America's OG spirit in everything from sours to stirred drinks.

• story: Kara Newman
• photo: Wally’s Wine & Spirits

Newark

John Deragon and Jim Meehan's New Jersey apple brandy-based twist on the Brooklyn cocktail.

Daily News: Anthony Bourdain Doesn’t Care about Craft Beer, Debunking the Notion of Minerality

Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere: - Anthony Bourdain is unapologetic about his distaste for craft beer and wine snobs. - Condé Nast Traveler explores the "underdog status"…

Legends of the Fall

This autumnal drink captures plenty of nuttiness and spice in the glass.

Fall Monty

This punch from New York bartender Katie Stipe marries the nuttiness of amontillado sherry with Lairds Bonded Applejack and Spanish cider, to create her own boozy riff on fall.

Spirit of ’76

Garret Richard of Brooklyn's Prime Meats created this colonial style punch that blends the favorite spirits of young America—Applejack, Caribbean rum and rye whiskey.

Pink Lady

Essentially a Gin Sour colored with grenadine and fortified with applejack, the Pink Lady is thought to have originated during Prohibition.

Garden State Julep

Jared Schubert's pale pink play on the Champagne Julep.

Harvest Sour

This egg white-based sour by Sam Ross splits the base between applejack and rye whiskey.