Sweet Triumph Peated Cask

Apple Brandy aged in a Peated Cask NY dessert apples from Indian Ladder farms. Altamont, NY Just fermented fruit + distilled with no additives. only a bit of water. Aged in a Laphroaig cask 750mL 50% Alc. by Vol. Suggested Serve  2 oz Sweet Triumph + .75 oz lemon + 75oz honey ginger syrup. Shake and strain over fresh ice.   Into the Bottle We have family ties to Indian Ladder. Literal ones. So even though Matchbook received the fresh pressed juice from the farm cidery, this is a bottle that starts at home. Sweet Triumph is a nod to the fruit its made from - a blend of dessert and eating apples.The juice began its wild fermentation somewhere between the farm and the distillery, finishing out in our 600 gallon fermenter. The cider was then double pot distilled and stored in a 5 year old Laphroaig cask.  Wood aging is a much revered and little understood transformation whereby the spirit absorbs phenolics and organic volatile compounds, the later of which can react with the spir