Was it top-shelf Moonshine, bottom-shelf Hooch, or a combination of the two?
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Posted on 11/28/2020 11:56:28 AM PST by Beowulf9
None that I am aware of. The DVDs I’ve been through are all black and white.
Color would probably spoil the atmosphere.
Some shows and movies are better in black and white.
I wouldn’t want to taste that. Most likely rot gut swill to begin with.
“Yes, two gay men are living together. It’s not really that uncommon these days.”
It seems positively wholesome now that we have boys in the girls locker room to contend with.
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"Old Smuggler" is a Scotch Whiskey. There was a brisk trade in importing legal booze illegally from Canada, Mexico, Cuba, etc. during prohibition. Not everyone was drinking bathtub gin or moonshine!
Unless there’s a label on it its a crapshoot IMO. None for me thanks 👎
I believe that is a matter of (hiccup) opinion.
In common speech “bootleg” just meant any alcohol illegally distributed and sold at the time. Plenty of “bootleg” whiskey was just smuggled in from Canada. Not all bootleg liquor was bathtub gin. I’ve drank plenty of fine moonshine and it is also considered “bootleg”.
First rule of treasure hunting is you never disclose you found it until you’ve either secured disposition of it or disposed of it...
The folks that found all the cans filled with mint state and near mint state gold coins up in CA gold country kept tight about that for something like 2 years. It was amazing the amount of jealous libtard babbling over it when it was finally disclosed...
Two years?
I never would have fessed up about it.
I would have found some way to deal with all that gold without letting on where it came from.
They needed to send it in to PCGS for grading and encapsulation. the cache included something like 15 coins that were equal or better than the finest known examples, including an 1866 “no motto” $20 (I think that one alone fetched close to $500K). Kagans over in Marin worked with them IIRC. There were a total of 1427 mostly $20’s.
You could definitely filter them out slowly as “something your great grandfather et. al.” left you which would also preserve the scarcity premium if you had a bunch of key dates but I don’t think the finders were versed in numismatics in general.
I’ve found 1 $20, mark I eyeball find (got a lotta grief for that from fellow dirt fishers lol). I got a bunch of silver scattered about on a project site that a scraper had spread around too when it went through a bunch of jars buried. it’s a crazy feeling when you find something cool, addictive ;-)
Or he might have been a person who ran a safehouse, where it could be stored until ready for transportation to its location.
Hmmm, what with the trash we’re finding on our property from the original owners, maybe we’ll find something worthwhile.
It’s amazing and disgusting how many people who live out in the country just dumped their trash on their land and let nature cover it up. They are essentially open dumps.
We’ve had to do some digging for various projects and are finding an appalling amount of trash. The people we bought the house from said they found the same thing and he must have scrapped about 5 cars worth of parts already. The number of tires on the property is unbelievable, too.
Do you think it is impossible to make good whiskey without a government stamp on it? Or that a bootlegger wouldn’t know to properly store whiskey?
Chances are that most are ruined but in the walls of a brick house might provide an adequate environment.
I read an article about the whiskey they found under the house in Antarctica and it was still potable:
Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s century-old whisky has been retrieved. LONDON, Feb. 5, 2010 — Whisky bottles belonging to the antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, kept on ice for more than 100 years, have been found and retrieved from beneath the explorer’s abandoned hut.
Interesting story though... the bottles themselves are worth something to collectors.
We had a similar incident at a house dad bought in 1956. Word was the man who formerly owned it was a bootlegger in this then dry county. When my brother sat down to eat, he pressed against a panel behind him and it moved! Inside we found lots of antiques, no booz, If we had found booz, dad would have swilled it all down in a week.
You noticed that too....couple of faggots.
How old is the place? You can bet that if it’s much older than a few years after silver removal (1965 on, 40% for halves up to 1969) there’s probably some wheats and a silver or 2, more the older!
Not really old enough to find much silver, I’m afraid.
And with our luck, all we will continue to find is trash.
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