Posted on 11/07/2023 9:36:37 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain
In the final years of his legendary life, Popcorn Sutton put his wife up on a pedestal – and on the catwalk above the 2,500-gallon pots where his moonshine was being distilled.
It’s only fitting the woman the notorious moonshiner was sweet on learned to stir the sugar.
“He made the best moonshine this side of the Mississippi, and I don’t care what anybody else says,” Pam Sutton told Knox News. “A lot of these so-called moonshiners would come and buy it from Popcorn and take it back home and sell it as their own and tell people they made it. And it wasn’t just one. It was several.”
Even if they could make liquor (“likker,” as Popcorn spelled it), his process and quality couldn’t be replicated … until now.
With Pam’s blessing, Popcorn products are returning to the market – legally, this time – through a partnership with Joe Baker, the founder of East Tennessee’s own Ole Smoky Moonshine.
Later this month, two beverages will hit shelves bearing Popcorn Sutton’s name and image: a “master blend” bourbon whiskey and his likker, a sugar- and corn-based product.
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Likker?
I don’t even know her!
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That Popcorn is also One Bad Dude.
Hank Williams, Jr. marketed Popcorns recipe for quite a time- until Jack Daniels slapped him down for having a rectangular bottle with a black label
Making one’s own properly is a popular hobby, discretely- as most do not know that making distilled spirits (not wine or beer for personal consumption to 80 gallons) of any kind is still a federal crime. It assumes one would be selling it- which is also a federal crime without a license to do so.
Example: “Can’t Catch” Call’s family in Wilkesboro, NC now has a licensed spirits distillery making the family recipe, and tours of the facility.
Everyone knows the feds killed Popcorn (he killed himself vs a ridiculous late in life sentence to FedPen). Hopefully this Sutton isn’t ripping off from a fake recipe. It is impossible to prove it’s his, though.
And on the opposite end, we have CornPop who was a bad dude and wanted to take Brave Joe down from his pedestal and rub the blond hair on his legs.
Old joke from way back— so and so’s joint “likker in the front, poker in the back”. Like 50 years ago.
Likker? Likker yourself, you brought her.
No, Joe. Popcorn, not Cornpop.
Your Cornpop fantasy figure did not create this special
Likker, so stop lying.
I know people who are friends of Pam Sutton. This is as legit a Popcorn Sutton product as there’s ever apt to be. Shes a really fine lady. Really appreciates all the fans that her late husband has gained.
“Well, the G-men, T-men, revenoers too
Searchin’ for the place where he made his brew
They were lookin’, tryin’ to book him
But my pappy kept on cookin’ (whew, white lightnin)”
Yep— the Man! Whose wife forgot all about his John Deere lawnmower’s keys-— true story from Lakeland, FL back in the day!
I believe that bust was caught on dashcam.
Don’t have time to look for it though.
It was fascinating watching the program where he put everything together to make the moonshine. You could tell he had made it for years as he made it look so easy.
All liquor is alcohol and water or flavored alcohol and water.
Yep. I remember him.
If it’s legal, it ain’t moonshine. Moonshine is 120+ proof. This will be watered down to 80 proof. Just another run of the mill liquor.
Kinda feel like Popcorn would be pi$$ed. I just cannot call this a Popcorn Sutton product. It has his name, but that's it.
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