General John Stark Vodka

Notes - Flag Hill's first distilled spirit was released in December of 2004. Traditionally vodka is made from potatoes or grains but can be made with anything that produces sugars and starches.Apples are rather abundant in New Hampshire, so it wasn't such a strange choice to make vodka from them. It takes three bushels of apples to make three gallons of cider to distill into one bottle of vodka. There are approximately 100 apples in a bushel and therefore 300 apples in each bottle of General John Stark Vodka! This vodka is distilled three times to produce the highest quality spirit. It is then blended with artesian spring water and cold filtered with charcoal to remove any impurities and finally bottled by hand. The name of the vodka honuors a New Hampshire legend. "Live Free or Die" was written by General John Stark on July 31st, 1809 and it became the state motto in 1945. The words were gleaned from a toast which General Stark sent to his Revolutionary War fellow veterans after turning down an invitation, because of illness, to the 32nd anniversary reunion of the 1777 Battle of Bennington in Vermont. The toast in full was: "Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils." Most of New Hampshire's citizens are familiar with "Live free or die" but not with its historic context as a drinking toast.

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