[heterosupremacist]

[TexasGator]

“. If marked XXX, the moonshine is pure alcohol. “

Not quite pure ...

[Timocrat]

Distilling skills first came to the United States during the 1830s with the Scotch-Irish as they settled in Virginia.

I think those skills were here quite a while before that. George Washington was one of the largest distillers in the colonies.

These days, moonshine in the legal sense has a following.

There are even some wild rumors that illegal distilling is still going on here in Virginia. The alcoholic beverage laws are still archaic.

[steveo]

I visit Bali Indonesia every year for two months. You are allowed to bring one liter of alcohol each time one enters the country. Otherwise if you want to buy in grocery stores for instance a bottle of Jose Cuervo is about $75 USD. So I will buy a local spirit called arak which is distilled from a product called tuak which is fermented palm sugar. A 2 liter bottle of arak is about $7.50 USD. Good when mixed with Sprite or some honey.

Where I stay it's very safe to drink but in some other areas there have been occasions where people are poisoned by the addition of methanol to fortify weak distillations. Mostly in heavy tourist areas serving cheap drinks.

[treetopsandroofs]

[Spok]

Doesn’t it make you want to take a drink out of a Mason jar?

[dfwgator]

Sing it, George...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE5pM1HXxlI

[Huskrrrr]

And now corn don’t grow at all on rocky top
Dirt’s too rocky by far
And that’s why all the folks on rocky top
Drink their corn from a jar

[NobleFree]

Prohibition lasted 13 years. It created a demand for moonshine unlike any that may have existed before. Moonshine became big business overnight.

Just like illegal marijuana is big business today.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

"Golly That's Good"
By Jim Tom Hedricks

Back in 1955, I met a man, his name was Clyde.
If you're fixin' to find out, what moonshine is all about.

In 1962, I was runnin' 180-proof, too.
Non-tax paid alcohol. I was a-runnin' from the law.

Golly that's good, keeps you slicked up.
A little bit'll do ya, man it's good stuff.
They call it white lightnin', fire water, too.
A jar full of frog-eyes lookin' at you.
You need to drink ya some, son, if you can.

Lord have mercy, I'm a moonshinin' man.
Oh, Lord have mercy, I'm a moonshinin' man!

Pure alcohol, you people.

[SC DOC]

I’ll have to have a toast to Popcorn Sutton tonight from whose recipe my ‘shine was made.

[WKUHilltopper]

You could go blind drinking it...but after a while, you don’t give a damn.

[bk1000]

Where I came from there were two kinds of moonshine: loving liquor, and fighting liquor. You just never were sure which you had until it was too late.

[BBB333]

The only moonshine I’ve ever had was offered to me by a friends Uncle when I was 20.

I was not really sure if I should imbibe due to it being ‘moonshine’ (I was bartending from age 14 so I really was well versed on spirits by age 20).

My friends Uncle, whom offered me the ‘shine, said it was really good stuff. He confiscated it from a bootlegger. He was the Sheriff in the county we were visiting.

Got to say, damn good stuff!

[Chode]

God Bless Popcorn Sutton...

[Retvet]

1830? I thought there was a whiskey rebellion much earlier.

[Rappini]

Grappa would probably be in the same category.

[stellaluna]

My great uncle was a moonshiner. One day my mother when she was a teenager decided to taste some to see why people came from miles around to get it. She poured herself a big glass and drank it down. When she woke up sometime later she’d torn down the living room curtains and was lying in the floor. She never touched a drop again.