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!
pear brandy is called 'eau-de-vie de poire', often simply shortened in 'poire' in French.
The bottle is attached to a branch and the pear grows inside the bottle.
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.
Many makers of pear brandy bottle it with a pear in the bottle. Ironworks Distillery in Nova Scotia is one. Most large liquor stores in the US that I have been in have had at least one variety of pear brandy that included a pear in 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.
They place empty bottles directly on the fruit trees where the fruit bud is made to grow inside each bottle.
France, among others.
Yes, but not for 5 years plus.
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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.
no because you cannot really get it back to a whole pear.