Applejack Brandy, Starlight Distillery [Strapped]

• Aged apple brandy produced by Starlight Distillery in Starlight, Indiana • Distilled from 100% estate-grown apples from the Huber family orchards • 7–8-day closed-top fermentation in stainless steel • Twice-distilled in an 80-gallon Christian Carl copper pot still • Aged 4 years in new, charred American oak casks • Tart, green apple, saltwater taffy, and caramel on the nose; a pleasant, rounded texture speaks to its small batch pot distillation, carrying notes of cedar, yellow apple, allspice, and galangal with limestone minerality • 41.5% ABV One of the largest growers of apples in Indiana with over 20 varieties in their 30-plus-acre orchard, this apple brandy is a blend of single variety distillates blended, aged, and bottled on the Huber family estate. While US law stipulates that applejack may contain as little as 20% apple distillate, Starlight produces their applejack from 100% estate-grown apples, lending an opulence more akin to Calvados than many domestic “jacked” blends.