I’ve written before about home-fermented beverages, and how I’m especially partial to apple-fermented drinks, because they are entirely local and use the tons of otherwise unharvested apples around here. Pictured here is a bottle of applejack (“Jersey Lightning”) made by my sister’s father-in-law. She was quite willing to part with some of hers, due to the noticeable “dirty socks” aftertaste – details, details, say I. The stuff definitely gets the stomach rumbling, and appears to merit the traditional name “rotgut.” But nothing could be more soporific: after a day of hard labor in the cold autumn rain, I come home, heat up some fresh cider on the stove, then add a shot of this moonshine, some honey, and squeeze a third of a lemon into it. I wake nine hours later.
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