Today we spend the first of 5 days looking at Tom's Foolery, in Chagrin Falls Ohio. This craft distiller creates an excellent and unique Applejack, and they get it right by not doing things. They don't mess with it. They don't add anything that isn't needed. They don't rush things or cut corners. And if they only have enough to fill 7 barrels, they only have enough to fill 7 barrels. This actually worries us because it is our mission to get more of this stuff, and if they run out we will have a sad.
Without recreating their entire website, we will give you what they've written about their batch #4:
Batch #4 is a blend of seven Applejack barrels that have been aging for the last 2-3 years! And we think it has been worth the wait! The proof has been increased to 90, giving all you mixologists and cocktail crafters out there lots of flavor for your cocktails.
Now it's easy to make a New York City vs Cleveland joke... so we will: People in Cleveland now have a reason to live, and it's called Tom's Foolery. Hell if we lived in Buffalo, we'd be stealing a car and driving over there right now (we don't own a car because we're too cool). And just look at all the places you can get it (link).
Here is the Wikipedia page for Chagrin Falls.
You can see more of the way they made and bottled this applejack and the people at Tom's Foolery at their Daily Fool blog.
This is based on the classic Manhattan cocktail, which you can check out here.
Here you see Antica Formula by Antonio Benedetto Carpano. Here is an English language website where you can learn more about it.
In case you were wondering, Tom's Foolery also produces both a Rye and a Bourbon which would both obviously make a great cocktail as well. Their rye or bourbon would make a very fine Bloody Derby, as well as the variant Red Dead Redemption cocktail which we have planned for February (yes it's based on the video game).
Come back tomorrow for a way to take the chill out of winter and put the chillaxing in your step.
See you then.
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