That show makes me want to try the moonshine my brother got in backwoods Kentucky. Though I do not understand why anyone would buy it as anything more than a souvenir either.
Why down south do people buy moonshine, instead of going to a liquor store?
The show has already stated that they dilute it in the proofing barrel down to 80 proof, which is basically what you get even from the low shelf liquors. But it's made in the woods with swamp water. Is it really amazing tasting?
One guy was mixing it with apple juice and fruit in a mason jar and still selling them
for $50 a jar.
Also, why does the government care about busting moonshiners, it can't be that much money being lost from tax revenue, not compared to drugs that are sold nationwide. Why even bother combating it? They spend all of this time and money to bust people that make 100k a year. It doesn't make sense to me.
you can't just make a reality show that depicts supposedly-illegal on-going activity.
The Whiskey Rebellion, or Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States in 1789, during the presidency of George Washington. Farmers who sold their corn in the form of whiskey had to pay a new tax which they strongly resented. The tax was a part of treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton's program to pay off the national debt.
On the western frontier, protesters used violence and intimidation to prevent federal officials from collecting the tax. Resistance came to a climax in July 1794, when a U.S. marshal arrived in western Pennsylvania to serve writs to distillers who had not paid the excise. The alarm was raised, and more than 500 armed men attacked the fortified home of tax inspector General John Neville. Washington responded by sending peace commissioners to western Pennsylvania to negotiate with the rebels, while at the same time calling on governors to send a militia force to suppress the violence. With 15,000 militia provided by the governors of Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, Washington rode at the head of an army to suppress the insurgency. The rebels all went home before the arrival of the army, and there was no confrontation. About 20 men were arrested, but all were later acquitted or pardoned.
NASCAR. Stock car racing dates all the way back to Prohibition, when rum runners and bootleggers used modified street cars, or “stock” cars, to transport whiskey and if not to outfox, then to out run authorities. But it’s worth noting that even before then, the Belgians had been using automobiles to break land speed records. In the United States, after Prohibition, bootleggers became moonshiners, now running deliveries of home-brewed spirits that produced income that would never show up on anyone’s tax return.
Drivers were to avoid or just plain outrun Revenuers—government agents trying to enforce the tax code by uncovering illicit income, or “revenues.”
So it had to happen. Some of these drivers had so much fun outrunning the law that they began to run against each other in organized races. Throngs of fans began to congregate. But there was a problem: tracks ranged from the makeshift to the adequate and the rules of racing changed from venue to venue. So in December, 1947, Bill France Sr. and others formed the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing. Today NASCAR represents one of the most popular, if not the most popular, spectator sports in the world.
You certainly can make a documentary of illegal activities. If they script anything illegal, that would probably net them a conspiracy rap, but filming is perfectly fine. But that's not to say the people on this show are doing anything illegal or that they're showing anything illegal. I've only watched like 10 minutes of one show and only saw them putting jugs in a SUV for transport, and I have no idea what the law is regarding anything regarding liquor.
I want to actually try making it, a small batch if it's possible. I have a lot of the equipment already, and could probably build the rest. I need to make sure I'm monitoring those hydrometer readings closely, don't want to go blind
It's just like brew masters got me back into brewing, this show might actually get me into moonshinin' lol.
You're gonna have to love moonshiners.
I'm into this show, but I don't understand a couple of things.
Why down south do people buy moonshine, instead of going to a liquor store? The show has already stated that they dilute it in the proofing barrel down to 80 proof, which is basically what you get even from the low shelf liquors. But it's made in the woods with swamp water. Is it really amazing tasting? One guy was mixing it with apple juice and fruit in a mason jar and still selling them
for $50 a jar.
Also, why does the government care about busting moonshiners, it can't be that much money being lost from tax revenue, not compared to drugs that are sold nationwide. Why even bother combating it? They spend all of this time and money to bust people that make 100k a year. It doesn't make sense to me.
You're gonna have to love moonshiners.
I'm into this show, but I don't understand a couple of things.
Why down south do people buy moonshine, instead of going to a liquor store? The show has already stated that they dilute it in the proofing barrel down to 80 proof, which is basically what you get even from the low shelf liquors. But it's made in the woods with swamp water. Is it really amazing tasting? One guy was mixing it with apple juice and fruit in a mason jar and still selling them
for $50 a jar.
Also, why does the government care about busting moonshiners, it can't be that much money being lost from tax revenue, not compared to drugs that are sold nationwide. Why even bother combating it? They spend all of this time and money to bust people that make 100k a year. It doesn't make sense to me.
If someone wants to distill their own alcohol for personal usage, let them do it. If they want want to sell it to make money they should be regulated and taxed. Chances are quite high that if you drink that shit on regular basis you might die of alcohol poisoning if methyl alcohol gets mixed in the liquor. Decent quality booze is already cheap for weekend occasional drinker. Not talking about having drinks in the bar. But if someone is a drunkard then its a problem.
...and I'm from GA. Never heard of anyone that drinks or produces it.
Federal law allows each household to distill or brew an annual maximum of liquor, beer, wine. I believe you can even sell within that limit.
You only have to be licensed when you distill, sell, and distribute beyond that limit.
Federal law allows each household to distill or brew an annual maximum of liquor, beer, wine. I believe you can even sell within that limit.
You only have to be licensed when you distill, sell, and distribute beyond that limit.
weird.
I only know a few people back home that don't have a mason jar of hooch stashed somewhere.
You go blind from adulterated product, not distilling in general. Ethyl alcohol was cut with industrial methanol back in the day to increase yield, and the result was blindness. You gotta wonder about the logic behind that. Killing, and blinding your customers is crappy for future business. I guess if it's a one-off sale by a foreigner you can get away with it, but it's still lame.
On the show they do look for flowing water, but some the water they pour into the still is basically brown/green. I guess it really doesn't matter much, since it gets filtered later with a pillow cover lol.swamp water? are you serious?
the only real moonshine comes from pure mountain springs.
Oh, I don't know much about the process other than what they explained on the show, which basically said that the first vapor to come out of the still is the stuff that can kill you, and that the best product comes from the middle of the batch, I don't know how they determine that.