I’ve heard that NC is the moonshine capital of the world. Back in the day I had a buddy bring by a case from there every Christmas when he came home to see his momma. Popcorn Sutton recipe. 2 bubble shake test. Yowee!
I've been to a few of these before and it's always been fun. Lots of good stuff like music and demonstrations. I may go again this year.
My daughter’s fiancée’s dad had taken up home distilling. We’re supposed to go meet them soon. I’m sure to get a sample.
It was all in the swamps around Panama City in the fifties and there were still a couple in the sixties when I was a teenager. I left home in summer of ̉4 and set out to hitch hoke to Virginia. The first ride I got was a ten year old chevy with a twentyish driver. He was going to Virginia so I had a ride all the way. He drove fast and several times in Georgia we picked up a county or town cop and he just gunned it and we left them. In those days county police were not allowed to cross county lines and most did not yet have radios in their cars. At a gas stop I went into the back seat to get something out of my bag and noticed the seat was rock hard. I asked Bud about it and he grinned and told me it was his daddy’s “produce” car and there was a fifty gallon tank under the upholstery. Up front was a breathed -on V8. Bud got to use the car because his daddy was in jail for a bit. I asked him did he ever drive on a run and he didn’t say no.