From the Jan. 16, 2013, Yahoo! Finance "My Family Business, Oldest family distillery still making apple brandy served by Abraham Lincoln" by Tory Johnson.
Laird & Co. started in New Jersey 352 years ago (now 354) and is the 14th oldest family business in the United States with the ninth generation running it.
The fourth great grandfather was a Revolutionary War soldier under Washington and his uncle served Laird's Applejack in his home. Abraham Lincoln served Laird's Applejack in his Springfield, Illinois, tavern (I didn't know Lincoln owned a tavern). Laird's Applejack was on the bill of fare there in 1832. (Perhaps in New Salem, Illinois).
It takes 100 pounds of apples to make one 750 ml of Applejack and they process over 3 million pounds a year. It was shut down during Prohibition, but two years into it, received a license to continue distilling for the federal government. That part of the government was mostly the military.
Drinkin' 'Jack, Spo-De-Do. --CooterHic
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