It read, “Laird’s Applejack.” To earn pocket money as a teenager, I worked as a busboy at a Jersey Shore restaurant, and can still hear the high-pitched voices of the waitresses calling out ...

So, it's a bit strong," said Lisa Laird Dunn, who runs Laird & Company in New Jersey, the oldest family of distillers in the country For nine generations Lairds has been making applejack ...

The solution to this pressing pioneer problem was applejack. Cider, circa 1775, was routinely transmogrified into the stunningly stronger applejack simply by setting a pan of it on the back porch ...

Becky Harris, a founder and the head distiller of Catoctin Creek, in Virginia, raises a shot glass filled with aged applejack.Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times Supported by By Julia ...