Moonshine made from grain, like corn or rye, is whiskey. However, you can make alcohol from many different ingredients. During Prohibition, profit-hungry moonshiners started using white sugar instead of cornmeal, producing a cheaper product that was technically rum, not whiskey. Some people used ...
The FBI was hot on moonshiners’ tails and constantly found new ways to catch them. One of these was by using footprints as evidence, which got many moonshiners arrested and charged. These criminals found an original way to get around this problem by using cow hoof imprints...
Even though juniper can be grown and harvested all over Europe, it's still labor-intensive to pick and dry and distill into proper genever or gin. So, London's moonshiners got creative. They started with a low-quality grain alcohol and spiked it with oil of turpentine for that piney kick...
Even though juniper can be grown and harvested all over Europe, it's still labor-intensive to pick and dry and distill into proper genever or gin. So, London's moonshiners got creative. They started with a low-quality grain alcohol and spiked it with oil of turpentine for that piney kick...
I can ask myself, “is it really important to know how the lives of illegal moonshiners work out?” If the answer is no, then I can simply delete the program from my schedule. Reply Jack Chang @ Cincinnati January 9, 2013 at 11:44 am I tried several methods. Most effective is...
about it is that people are like, “Oh, you’re an elitist!” I’m like, “My people are from Marianna, Florida. I may be in politics, but I’m descended from like 10 generations of backwoods rednecks, farmers, ranchers, orange grove people, Florida crackers and moonshiners.” (...
Moonshiners, perhaps, in the case of cane sugar. Rum is the distillation of fermented cane sugar and/or molasses (and other sugarcane byproducts); following the “beer-whiskey, wine-brandy, mead-honeyshine” pairing above, either rum is a subset of honeyshine, or the fermented plant juices...
Moonshine made from grain, like corn or rye, is whiskey. However, you can make alcohol from many different ingredients. During Prohibition, profit-hungry moonshiners started using white sugar instead of cornmeal, producing a cheaper product that was technically rum, not whiskey. Some people used ...