6 In many liquor stores you can buy pear brandy with a real pear inside the bottle The pear is whole and ripe and the bottle is genuine it hasn't been cut in any way How did the pear get inside?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

They place the bottles over the newly developing pears while they are still on the tree. The pears develop inside the bottle. When the pear is ready, they remove the bottle and the pear. and send it along for whatever else they want to put in the bottle. Works for many different types of fruits.

Answer 3

Someone told me that there is some way that they leave the bottle around the pear as it grows, then put the schnapps in and let the pear soak it up. Don't know how much truth there is to it, but I can't figure out any other way.

Answer 4

They put the bottles over the pears just as they begin to grow. The pears then grow inside the bottle.

Answer 5

The bottle is blown around the pear.