I just know it.
Posted on 12/21/2020 6:51:12 AM PST by Rebelbase
RAINSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Sheriff's officials say they've busted an illegal winery that was operating at a municipal sewage plant in a small north Alabama town.
The DeKalb County Sheriff's Office said in a statement it received an anonymous tip about an alcohol operation at a municipal building in the town of Rainsville on Thursday. Investigators then uncovered what's described as a large illegal winery inside the Rainsville Waste Water Treatment Plant.
Photos released by investigators show glass containers, buckets, a fermenting rack and other equipment often used by people who make wine at home.
The agency says officers seized a lot of illegal alcohol and arrested Allen Maurice Stiefel, 62, of Fyffe. He faces a felony charge of use of official position for personal gain and a misdemeanor charge of unlawful possession of an illegally manufactured alcoholic beverage.
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Again? They just busted that place two weeks ago.
Only in Alabama would folks use sewage to create “wine”.
“. . . where you’d least expect it.”
Dammit!
I searched for Wine instead of winery. Here’s the thread from a couple of days ago.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3916818/posts
I just know it.
Ain’t that the chits!
How the hell is this illegal?
It’s legal to make wine in all 50 states.
Pairs nicely with corn speckled brown trout.
Of course, the do gooders in AL made it illegal to make, or be in possession of more than 15 gallons of home brew or wine.
Downright silly.
Oh, there are MULTIPLE sterile environments in a sewage treatment plant.
I worked at a company that tested underwater equipment and procedures in a huge circular “pool”. The pool simulated a nuclear power plant cavity which is flooded during outage refuelings. You could see a dime 70 feet down on the bottom the water was so clear. The water was “wastewater” that was filtered and deionized. Almost pure distilled water.
When the building was closed, we wanted to dump the water outside. The EPA said no, it was too clean to dump into the environment. Had to be pumped into tankers and taken to a (wastewater) processing plant for “safe” disposal.
The official title of the guy in charge was “sewmellier”.
“This wine tastes like $chet!”
Not only illegal, but a felony?
It makes you wonder about the person who turned them in.
A Super Do Gooder, pining for prohibition.
First there was Jenkem. Now Jenkem wine. How soon to Jenkem brandy?
That’s the good $#!*
On another note, how do people from Alabama deal with all the incest jokes on the internet.
all the incest jokes on the internet......”MA, what’s incest on the internet?” “What you F’ing around on the incest again? I’ma gonna pull the plug!”
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