Machandel
Machandel is the name of a colorless juniper schnapps (the name Machandel is the Low German name for juniper ) - with an alcohol content of 38 percent by volume .
history
Machandel was manufactured from May 3, 1776 to 1945 by the Mennonite Stobbe family in the former West Prussian Tiegenhof (now Nowy Dwór Gdański). The company was founded by Peter Stobbe. The schnapps was sold in bottles with a capacity of 0.5 l and 0.25 l, which had a characteristic barrel shape. At the end of the Second World War , the company was confiscated after the invasion of the Red Army and its owner Bernhard Stobbe was deported to the Urals. After his release in 1949, he went to Oldenburg and started manufacturing Machandel again in 1951. The Marken-Horst company in Osnabrück then produced it. Since 2016, Stobbe Gin has been produced under the direction of the Stobbe family member Uta Stobbe, who has acquired the trademark rights to the Stobbe Gin. In 2018 this was made in the southern Black Forest by order of Uta Stobbes by the Marder distillery in Albbruck. As of the end of 2018, there are three Stobbe gin brands on the German market: Stobbe1776, Stobbe 240 Barrel Aged (barrel matured) and Stobbe Basement (barrel matured).
Pillkaller Machandel was made in Tapiau , today in Ahausen .