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...
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...