I would love to know what was the basis for Congress’s power to enact such a law in the first place? After all, there’s no interstate commerce involved here. If they had levied attacks on alcohol production, that would’ve been one thing, because Congress has the power to tax things. But this is an outright ban. This should’ve been overturned as unconstitutional long ago.
This reminds me of something I first heard about 50 years ago, which is that my grandfather, who was a doctor and had a good understanding of chemistry, made some “bathtub booze“ during Prohibition in a still that he put together. Before I learned that, as a young teen, I had this illusion of my grandfather (a kindly older gentleman with a proper pot belly) being a completely upright and law-abiding citizen. He explained to me that nobody was going to tell him that he couldn’t do what his parents and grandparents or older ancestors going back thousands of years could and did do. He said he was far from alone, that literally millions of Americans were doing the same thing.