Soon to be falling down again

Dead for Tax Reasons: Soon to be falling down again

And driving into trees.

Love me some squeezins'

Unfortunately, it's a Federal law and the feds will want their tax money. You can produce beer and wine legally but not distill it. BTW, the whiskey tax was instituted by that well known liberal George Washington, who was the largest producer at the time.

Hope they remember to add just the right amount of radiator fluid to the batch. That's what gives it zing.

I don't know but I've been told - you never come back from copperhead road.

For those about to Bock, we salute you!

Macinfarker: Oh great, between that and allowing guns into bars, TN should definitely improve its cultural reputation over the next couple years.

Darwin will have a field day

This site is worth it just for the pictures Link (new window)

Here's a sampler

Whoop-tee-doo.

Distilleries have been selling white-dog for decades. I just prefer the product after it has been aged for a few years in charred oak barrels.


/Tennessee whiskey sucks

stampylives: if its legal, isn't it just corn whiskey?

I think a lot of moonshines are made from a corn mash. but, they're usually not aged as long (if at all).

a friend of mine made some moonshine recently and aged it in an oak barrel for a year. the stuff was delicious.

/ he bottled the batch in mayonnaise jars and labeled them all XXX.
// the traditional part about moonshine is that it is distilled illegally. but, legal moonshines have been on the rise in bars and restaurants around new orleans. usually pretty fancy places. I don't know if other places are jumping on the moonshine bandwagon. new orleans is usually a test city for cocktails and booze.

That coward David Lopan: The best stuff comes from Hazzard County.

You've had Jessie's hooch?

I thought that was regulated at the federal level to protect Jack Daniels and their contemporaries?

Moonshine is still just unaged corn whiskey, right?

juvandy: They've been selling "moonshine" in booze stores for a while now, but it's all "fake" moonshine that is 80-100 proof, instead of the real ~190 or so stuff.

Any indication that they'll be able to sell the real stuff? TFA doesn't say...

You are wrong. I don't even want to get into it, but 180-190 proof stuff nobody wants to buy. Most moonshine (good moonshine) is between 100-130 proof. Moonshine is any untaxed, un-aged corn whiskey. Nothing super special or magical to it. Distillers aren't going to make the ultra proof stuff, because nobody really wants it. If you want to get that blind drunk, buy Everclear

juvandy: I don't doubt that, but all the stuff I've ever seen that was called "real" moonshine was much more than 130 proof. I agree that its not particularly enjoyable stuff, but I disagree that it isn't made or sold, and doesn't represent a sizable fraction of the booze commonly known as "moonshine".

What are you saying is real moonshine? I don't get what you're saying. All moonshine is is illegally made corn whiskey. That's all, there's no proof requirement.