Break the bottle. The pear was not put in by some magical means and will not come out that way unless you let time and decomp take their toll. The pear grew inside the bottle off of a blossoming bough. The bough fit through the bottle neck which was affixed to the tree.
Break the bottle
The classic French pear brandy is the Williams Pear Brandy, which contains -- you guessed it! -- a Williams Pear. The pear isn't put into the bottle; it grows inside it. When the fruit is small, the bottle is affixed to the tree branch, and the pear grows to maturity inside the bottle. Brandy made from Williams Pears is added, and voila! The magic is complete.Having once purchased a bottle out of curiosity (and having enjoyed the brandy immensely), I sought out the answer to this very question. And yes, if you live in a climate that is conducive to growing pears -- and a former neighbor of mine in Lake Arrowhead, CA, is a candidate for doing this, since she grows terricif pears! -- please do try it!
When the pear is growing they hang a bottle over the small growing pear. At this time the pear is small enough to put a bottle over it. As the pear ripens, its grows inside the bottle. When the pear is ready to be harvested they take the bottle with the pear "trapped" inside. Then it is off to the distillery where they fill the bottle.
The bottle is attached to a branch and the pear grows inside the bottle.
While the pear is small it is placed in the bottle, and the bottle is supported in the tree. Pear reaches full size in the bottle.
Once the pear gets to a certain size they will place the bottle on the branch of the pear and allow it to grow to fit the bottle.
The pear grew in the bottle.
A bottle is attached to the end of a pear tree branch and the pear grows inside the bottle.
Bottles are suspended over the pear buds (upside down) before they get too big (the buds not the bottle), and the pear grows in the bottle. I have been very successful in doing that for the last ten years or so.
The bottles are put onto the tree when the flower has died. The fruit grows into the bottle and the bottle is removed when the product is to be bottled.
To make pear-in-the-bottle they actually grow the pear inside of the bottle in their orchards, and then fill it with their pear eau de vie. This practice of growing pears in the bottle is traditional in Alsace where pear brandy has been made for hundreds of years. Pear-in-the-bottle is highly labor intensive, requiring weeks of work putting the bottles on the trees in late May when the small pear will still fit in the neck of the bottle, tending them all summer, and picking them in late August. Since they use no preservatives or artificial cleaning solutions, each pear and each bottle must be painstakingly scrubbed by hand before they fill it with their pear eau de vie for which they are known worldwide. Due to the unpredictable nature of pear growth from year to year the pear in the bottle is only available certain years.
Possibility 1) They hang a bottle in a pear tree with the fruit bud inside the bottle. It grows in there - not common anymore. Possibility 2) The Glass Bottle consists of a threaded bottom part. The pear is put into the bottle, then the bottom is "screwed" onto the rest of the bottle which will eventually seal the two parts together as well.
If you mean the "pear in the bottle" brandy, the bottles are placed on the trees before the pears start to grow and they just grow right into the bottle.