Eau-de-Vie
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Beaver Pond Apricot Brandy
About the Producer Beaver Pond is a small distillery from central Massachusetts that specializes in producing brandy especially unaged eau-de-vie and aged apple, grape and peach brandies. There aren’t many details on the distillery out there and it doesn’t look like they typically allow visitors. What I did find out is that they source the…
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R Jelinek Pear Williams Brandy
About the Producer R. Jelinek is one of the most prolific eau-de-vie producers available in the US. If your local store has any plum or apricot brandy, there’s a good chance it’s from R Jelinek. Because of that and the reasonable costs, it makes sense to try their products at least once if you’re into…
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Trimbach Poire Williams Grand Reserve Pear Brandy
About the Producer This pear brandy comes from the producer Maison Trimbach from Ribeauville from the Alsace region of France right near the boarder with Germany. Trimbach is a well known winery that’s known for it’s Riesling and other white wines. Not much of a wine person myself but they have a whole range of…
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Westford Hills Framboise Raspberry Brandy
About the Producer Westford Hill Distillers was founded in 1997 in Ashford, CT. At >25 years old the distillery is ancient by craft distillery standards; the distillery claims they were the first craft distillery east of the Mississippi. They have historically made a whole range of fruit brandies including pear, cherry, raspberry, strawberry and aged…
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Kammer Kirsch Cherry Brandy
About the Producer Destillerie Kammer-Kirsch has been in operation in the black forest region of Germany since 1923 but the brand has been in around in some form since 1912. The distillery was destroyed in WW2 but was rebuilt in 1950 wit h a second distillery opening in 1955. In addition to the cherry brandy…
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Beaver Pond Golden Russet Apple Brandy
About the Producer Beaver Pond is a small distillery from central Massachusetts that specializes in producing brandy especially unaged eau-de-vie and aged apple, grape and peach brandies. There aren’t many details on the distillery out there and it doesn’t look like they typically allow visitors. What I did find out is that they source the…
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Kensatu Mulberry Gold Edition Brandy
About the PRoduce The Kensatu line of brandies is put out by the Nahapet Brandy Comparny in Yerevan, Armenia. The distillery is relatively new; founded in 2017 my Mikhail Nahapetyan and specializes in a line of unaged eau-de-vies. The company is quick to point out that they include no added sugar or other additives. There…
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Stoutridge Slivovitz Plum Brandy
About the Producer Stoutridge is an eclectic distillery and winery in the Hudson River valley region of upstate New York. The winery was founded in 2000 by Kim Wagner and Stephan Osborne and was followed by a distillery in 2017. The distillery produced a ton of different products from more common liquors like bourbon, rye…
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Clear Creek Cherry Brandy
About the Producer Clear Creek Distillery was one of the first craft distillers, founded in 1985 in by Stephen McCarthy with the goal of producing eau-de-vies. To this day their most popular product is pear eau-de-vie made from Oregon pears. Clear Creek was bought out by Hood River Distillers in 2014 and moved from their…
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Nusbaumer Tres Vieux Kirsch
About the Producer The Nusbaumer distillery is one of the more esteemed producers of eau-de-vies out there. It was established in 1947 by Joseph Nusbaumer in the Alsace region of France. Unfortunately there are very few details about the distillery itself out there but their website makes a point of the fact that they have…