Anybody ever drink moonshine?

[HAWKEYE10]

Me being from the south and more especially from Tennessee moonshine was pretty common years ago. I remember the first shine I drank was about in 1960. I new a guy that was a revenuer and he said it was made the right way, that is the still had copper tubing so there was no lead poisoning. He poured me about a half glass full with some ice in it and I had a few sips. I thought there is nothing to this stuff. It was so smooth it was like drinking water. Well I sat there and drank the rest of it and was going to get up. That is when the trouble began. I couldn't get up I was drunk and never new it till I tried to get up. I have drank shine several times since and the first time was the best. Don

 

[doublesharp]

I come from a dry county in Kentucky. Nuff said.

My dad kept a qt jar of white lightning in the basement frig. My out of town uncle slipped down stairs to take a nip of bourbon and figured the qt jar was water so he took a big gulp as a chaser. I think Roger Miller wrote that song about Uncle Glen.

 

[nawilson]

I might have tasted it a time or two...

You can buy "moonshine" at the liquor store now, but the taxed stuff isn't as smooth or as potent as the untaxed.

 

[Black_Sheep]

I've tried shine a few times, moderation is the key...

 

[m1gunner]

Have had some really good stuff and some not so. Being somewhat removed from the source, it is just easier to go to the store and buy some taxed hooch.

The last place I lived had the remains of 9 stills on it. Well destroyed by those in authority long before I moved there. I did find a like new axe (as far as never sharpened, but weathered by 20 years exposure) in the rubble of one, and still use it today to split wood.

If I just had to get some shine, I could make several calls and get some of the good stuff in about a week.

 

[Kelly Green]

My granddad made shine. It was right good stuff. Rumor had it that during prohibition the local sheriff used to visit every so often and come away with a jug.

I think that parts of his still are in one of the out building. Now if I was a doomsdayer, that would be the first thing I would get up and running again.

 

[bgrafsr]

When I was in the Air Force, one of the guys was from Tenn. or Kentucky, and he brought some back to the Base, after his leave. He invited me over to his home at the time, and gave me a glassful, with the warning to "sit down and sip it easy". I did, and it was the smoothest tasting alcohol I have ever had. I too had a difficult time trying to stand up.

 

[michael thornton]

yea i drank some, one time! had to go home and get in the bed i was d r u n k!

 

[jws1006]

Yea like drinking water,till it hits your stomach.
be careful or walking can be problematic.

 

[red14]

Yes, Apple tasting, and it was smooooooth.

 

[trapper704]

I may have imbibed once or twice. During the depresion. my dad and uncles, made moonshine, sold wood and broke horses, they were makeing a liveing for their familys.nuff said

 

[Stevens]

I've had it a few times, but always prefered the store bought stuff.
Steve W

 

[deanodog]

I live in moonshine country (KY) but it was always too tough for me. I had a few sips but could not go much of it. I guess I was a wuss.

 

[m657]

I was doing especially poorly in a Physical Chemistry lab class about 40 years ago. The prof was concerned about my basic understanding of a couple lab procedures and trouble in trying to write down the lengthy equation in the process.

Part of the unit we were studying had to do with the nuances between 'fermentation' and 'distilling' as regards to the Krebs cycle in the human gut, in the conversion process of digestion and energy storage in a chemical form.

A buddy had been brewing up homemade peach wine that wasn't half bad. I managed to parlay a bottle of that, through an intricate (observed) process with notes, temperature of liquids/gases etc, and build a still from which I produced A-grade peach brandy....so said the Prof.....but I knew it was 'Nearly White Lightening'.

And it WAS smooth. IIRC, it proofed about at something around 93% or so. In any case, it proved he had taught me enough to understand the process and pass the course....with 'flying colors'....HAR!!!

Cheers, gents.

 

[medxam]

A friend of mine went to the bootlegger to buy some shine, of which we drank an abundance when I was in college. He asked the distiller "Has this stuff got any age on it?" to which the seller said "its cool isn't it!"

medxam

 

[gregintenn]

I don't think you acn be from Tennessee and not have tried moonshine. I'm sort of out of the loop anymore on where to get any of "the good stuff". Has anyone tried the Popcorn Sutton stuff they sell in the stores now?

 

[65kaiser]

A friend of mine from Kentucky brought down some of the real stuff a couple of weeks ago, apple pie was the best!! I have some in the fridge now!

 

[David LaPell]

I only ever had it once, and it was what I first got drunk on when I was 12 years old. (yep, 12). My father made it, not sure of everything that was in it though. It was left in a half gallon milk jug and then left to ferment in an old Coleman cooler on my parents deck. Then after a while it was put in the fridge and cooled off. I drank it and don't recall the first 6 hours afterwards. The first thing I recall is standing at the top of the basement stairs, taking the first and missing the rest. I had the worst headache of my life. I stayed in the basement, which was finished off like an apartment. While I tried to recoup on the couch my mom was upstairs vacuuming and then the guys had to come and fix the woodstove in the basement, and they kept pounding on that stovepipe. I have never touched it again.

 

[mstuhr]

Howdy

Hi,
My brother in law has an old still. He is a pretty talented wine maker and when ever he gets a batch that does not agree with his standards he "Cooks" it.
Most of what he makes may have a hint of sweet but is otherwise flavorless
and it is Mike Tyson like stuff... it will knock you on your bottom.
Every now and then he will cook the real stuff, corn mash. Same thing just different.
The best of his is as good as a bad store bought blended whiskey.
Thanks
Mike

 

[sheepdawg]

I'm from Tennessee so no doubt I have. The good stuff is smooth as silk and has a delayed reaction fuse to it. The bad stuff is worse than the stomach flu. The old reliable test is set it on fire in a tablespoon. If it burns with a blue flame it's good stuff.