Funny now that it’s chic among the “in” crowd to buy corn liquor in mason jars.
Seen it at BevMo and elsewhere. Had a sip of it and it’s about as terrible as imagined - those folks with illegal stills did anything to get their hands on liquor, no matter how foul, it appears.
I found it amusing that back in 2020, during the Scamdemic, liquor distillers were making alcohol for hand sanitizers................
We were visiting Beau’s family in Alabama a number of years ago. I had my first sip of REAL Moonshine and I can attest! It tastes like Paint Thinner! Ugh!
“Funny now that it’s chic among the “in” crowd to buy corn liquor in mason jars.”
At the Thanksgiving gathering last year at my wife’s relatives a guy brought a jar of ‘moonshine’ in a Mason jar. It was brown and I heard him say it had been aged in oak barrels. It wasn’t moonshine of course. This was in the NE GA mountains and I’m sure it was made mostly for the tourists, of which there are many.
At a Christmas gathering years back I saw a nephew of my wife, a deputy sheriff, bring in a pint Mason jar of real moonshine. He gave it to an old guy as a Christmas present. He kind of just slipped it from under his coat and the old guy just quietly tucked it away.
Moonshiners make it.
Bootleggers deliver it.
Real moonshine varies greatly in taste and “kick”. If you got some that tasted bad you got a bad batch. About 60 years ago the stuff coming out of Izard County Arkansas (a dry county) went down as smooth as silk and would knock your legs out from under you in a short time. Best liquor legal or illegal that I’ve ever had.