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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That stuff was LIT. Wow-wee!!! Felt that likker hit my blood stream and I was on fire all day. It was a hella way to get introduced to the world of real alcohol LOL
He got 18 months because I think the Feds found a batch Popcorn forgot about and I think he had cancer or something so he just couldn’t face it. The whole thing was very sad.
This is the Last Dam Run of Likker I’ll Ever Make | full movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glQjCKAI4gA
“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.”
Nope.
Ole Smoky Mountain Blue Flame - 128 Proof
https://olesmoky.com/products/blue-flame
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