The case was brought by the libertarian think tank Competitive Enterprise Institute
🎶Well, my name's John Lee Pettimore
Same as my daddy and his daddy before
You hardly ever saw grandaddy down here
He only came to town about twice a year
He'd buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line
Everybody knew that he made moonshine
Now the revenue man wanted grandaddy bad
Headed up the holler with everything he had
Before my time, but I've been told
He never come back from Copperhead Road
Steve Earle, Copperhead Road
I once thought of distilling my own liquor — it’s really quite simple — but then I remembered how cheap liquor was at the supermarket.
Why was this ever an issue? You can make home made booze all day long. Was this about resale?
One of my lifelong friends comes from an interesting family. One of his grandfathers was expert at making ‘whiskey’.
The other grandfather was a revenuer for the state.
They got along famously.
An originalist interpretation of the Commerce Clause is LONG overdue. In that day, to "regulate commerce" meant to make it usual and therefore uninhibited.
Thanks for the lyric.
A probable folk song Copper Kettle was only traced to the 1940s but had to have been older.
On Bob Dylan’s disregarded album Self-Portrait.
(”The line “We ain’t paid no whiskey tax since 1792” alludes to an unpopular tax imposed in 1791 by the fledgling U.S. federal government. The levy provoked the Whiskey Rebellion and generally had a short life, barely lasting until 1803.”
Wikipedia.
Get you a copper kettle
Get you a copper coil
Fill it with new made corn mash
And never more you’ll toil
We’ll just lay there by the juniper
While the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-filling
In the pale moonlight
Build you a fire with hickory
Hickory, ash and oak
Don’t use no green or rotten wood
They’ll get you by the smoke
We’ll just lay there by the juniper
While the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-filling
In the pale moonlight
My daddy he made whiskey
My granddaddy he did too
We ain’t paid no whiskey tax
Since 1792
We’ll just lay there by the juniper
While the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-filling
In the pale moonlight
In the pale moonlight
Good song and video.
My still produced alcohol that dissolved the paint off the condenser where it sometimes dripped.
I always thought you could make distilled spirits in small volumes at home.
My efforts to make sour mash whiskey never measured up to the products of George Dickel or Jack Daniels.
Could a challenge of Wickard v Filburn be next?
Of course this legal reasoning would apply to poppy plants, Magic mushrooms, and just about any other thing you could think of.
It is a good decision for liberty.
However, if you’re a novice you’d best pay the tax and buy a good bottle of Irish Whiskey.
MOST of what hobbyist distillers...and brewers too...make is wholly crap.
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