[DogByte6RER]

A common folk test for the quality of moonshine was to pour a small quantity and set it on fire. The theory was that a safe distillate burns with a blue flame.

[Wiggins]

My grandfather used to make Grappa during prohibition.

[Vigilantcitizen]

My ancestors..the Carsons...left a lot of rubber on the old Atlanta road.

[duckman]

Back in the day when I first got married some of my wife’s relatives came up from Ashville NC to Northern NJ, where I lived, for the wedding. They brought a quart of moonshine they had made. I had been a drinker so I was used to alcohol. The moon shine was the worst thing I ever tasted, could not drink it. After they left I tried to use it to clean paint brushes, it worked somewhat. My first thought was what does their insides look like after drinking this stuff?

[bgill]

Too bad Popcorn Sutton didn’t live in GA. But he did leave a message for the revenuers on his tombstone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Sutton

[freekitty]

Back in the 60’s when I went to school in GA, I was told of this Sheriff who had a still near his home in one of these small towns.

[Theoria]

Funny.

Right down the road from Dawsonville is Dawson Forest WMA[Wildlife Management Area]. The City of Atlanta owns the property but you can hunt on it and hike. I've done plenty of hiking and hunting there and in the depression they used to run moonshine operations in that area. You can still come across some of the ol' torn up stills in the woods.

Throw in the NASCAR museum and the original creation for fast cars in the area.

[ExCTCitizen]

Outside city hall are old, abandoned cars from the days when Ford Coupes and other models from the 1930s and '40s hauled moonshine down Georgia Highway 9. The windy mountain highway became known as Thunder Road, because it was filled with the screaming sounds of car engines as bootleggers hauled their moonshine to Atlanta. The young drivers were sometimes pursued by "revenue men" from the federal government, and the chases sometimes led to overturned cars and deadly wrecks. Townspeople are proud of how young Dawsonville men raced their cars at places like Lakewood Speedway in Atlanta after moonshine deliveries, which helped stock-car racing gain a following in its early days.

Dawsonville, the home of 'Awesome Bill from Dawsonville', Bill Elliott.(Beside 'The King' and 'The Intimidator' one of my favorite drivers growing up.)

[BwanaNdege]

“Corn used by the distillery is also grown locally, and the distillery sticks to authentic recipes and doesn’t use any sugar, Wood said.”

When I was a kid of about 11 back in the 1950’s, my grandfather, “Pa”, and I picked several bushels of corn from his field. When we got back to town, he sent me up to Lunceford’s store for “10 pounds of sugar and three cakes of yeast”.

Cranston, the clerk, grins at me and says, “Looks suspicious, don’t it?”

The next day we went out to drop off the laundry with old Rene, the washer woman. Pa leaves the corn, sugar & yeast.

The following week when we collected the laundry, Pa also got two 1 gallon Coca-Cola syrup jugs of a clear liquid, “for medicinal purposes, only”. One sat on the floor in the corner of the kitchen for ages, with the level in the jug going down very slowly. I guess Pa really did use it “for medicinal purposes, only”.

[clearcarbon]

[Fresh Wind]