Welcome to Tom's Foolery and thank you for stopping by.
Tom's Foolery is a micro-distillery, a part of a growing movement in America to reclaim the tradition of small batch distillation. We are a family-owned and run distillery.
We specialize in making fine applejack, a traditionally-produced American apple brandy.
Only the finest ingredients, selected by the distiller and plant manager, go into our product. No sugar, no coloring. Just apples and water.
The still house. Still on the right is the prohibition-era still, used by distillers past to produce their own applejack. Today we are using this still as a finishing still for batches of applejack too small for the alembic still. The still in the middle, the one that looks like an onion, is the classic alembic still us use for the second distillation of our applejack. The still on the left is our custom-built stripping still, specially designed and crafted by the distiller for the first distillation of the applejack. |  |
The rack room. This is where the applejack ages. Large barrels are 100 gallon barrels from france, previously used to age cognac. They are known as hogs heads, and permit the brandy to delicately age with a very slow and light oak character and color. The smaller barrels on the left are old bourbon and wine barrels, used to impart light but complex characteristics to the applejack. |  |
Whiskey barrels, which are made of charred american white oak, provide the heavier oak character typical of a finely aged bourbon. Our applejack benefits from both types of barrels, perfectly marrying the best of a fine aged apple brandy with the rough characteristics of an American bourbon barrel. |  |