Illicit "craft" moonshine
The latest wrinkle in the American drinks world is illicit "craft" moonshine. For a very few details, see here.
Posted by David Fahey on September 27, 2009 at 09:06 AM in Moonshine, United States | Permalink
White Liquor and Red Clay (moonshine and NASCAR)
For a discussion of the forthcoming (February 2010) book by Dr. Dan Pierce, White Liquor and Red Clay: NASCAR in the Time of Big Bill Franz, see here. The article does not mention the publisher; the book's title may be inexact.
Posted by David Fahey on May 31, 2009 at 07:39 PM in Alcohol (general), Moonshine, United States, Whiskey | Permalink
"Hoochland": memories of Dubuque-area bootleggers and moonshiners
For memories of resistance to Prohibition in Dubuque-area, Iowa (and East Dubuque, Illinois), see here.
Posted by David Fahey on July 7, 2008 at 11:07 AM in Alcohol (general), Moonshine, United States, Whiskey | Permalink
Moonshine in Georgia (web article)
For a web article on moonshine in Georgia, with bibliography, by University of Georgia historian Bruce E. Stewart, see here.
Posted by David Fahey on March 1, 2008 at 05:17 PM in Moonshine, United States | Permalink
Tennessee moonshiner (book)
Bruce E. Stewart, King of the moonshiners: Lewis R. Redmond in fact and fiction (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008). Redmond lived 1854-1906.
Posted by David Fahey on March 1, 2008 at 03:57 PM in Moonshine, United States | Permalink
Prohibition home distilling in Minnesota
this article is based on an interview with a 98-year-old woman who made and sold home distilled whiskey. The article has an appendix giving other information about drink in the state, in part based on an unpublished paper (1977) by Margaret Murray, available at the Minnesota Historical Society.
Posted by David Fahey on October 30, 2007 at 05:41 PM in Moonshine, United States, Whiskey | Permalink
Moonshine-style liquor in North Carolina
USA Today, 24 May 2007, reports that at age 76 former moonshine bootlegger Junior Johnson is prormoting moonshine-style whiskey called "Junior Johnson's Midnight Moon Carolina Moonshine." Johnson also is famous as an early NASCAR race driver. Many southern bootleggers, familar with driving fast cars during the Prohibition era, went on to be pioneer drivers for NASCAR.
Posted by David Fahey on May 24, 2007 at 09:39 PM in Moonshine, Prohibition, United States, Whiskey | Permalink
Illicit booze kills 10 in Iran holy city
Ten people have died after drinking homemade hooch in a holy city in Iran, where the consumption of all alcohol is banned, the Kayhan newspaper reported on Sunday. Read more here.
Posted by Matthew McKean on April 9, 2007 at 11:12 PM in Iran, Moonshine, Religion | Permalink
Moonshine whiskey and NASCAR stock car racing (book)
Neal Thompson, Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR (Crown, 2006). NASCAR stock car racing had its origins during the 1930s (and earlier during state and national Prohibition) when moonshine runners in their fast Ford V-8s transported untaxed corn whiskey to market from southern Appalachian stills. For instance, Lloyd Seay, who was NASCAR race champion in 1941, was killed in a quarrel among rival bootleggers.
Posted by David Fahey on November 26, 2006 at 01:23 PM in Moonshine, United States, Whiskey | Permalink
Moonshiners in Western North Carolina, 1865-76 (Article)
Bruce E. Stewart, "Attacking 'Red-Legged Grasshoppers': Moonshiners, Violence, and the Politics of Federal Liquor Taxation in Western North Carolina, 1865-1876," Appalachian Journal 32/1 (2004): 26-48.
Posted by David Fahey on March 11, 2006 at 06:26 PM in Alcohol (miscellaneous), Moonshine, United States | Permalink
