Anybody ever drink moonshine?

[dinooch]

You can also shake it up and note the size of the bubbles. The bigger the bubble the worse the batch. Stay away from "Frog Eyed" shine!

My wife's brother in law in Kentucky had a gallon mason jar full last time we went for a visit. He spun the bottle in his hand which made a nice tornado spin inside. He explained "this has good bead" I guess the smaller the bubbles the more pure the shine. Larger bubbles means it may be watered down. Mixed with margarita mix it was quite interesting. Drinking shots (on a very limited basis) was quite an experience too. I'll stick to my Petron tiquila thank you very much.

 

[Qball]

Oh yea... me and a friend used to make it, many ears ago.
Very strong, absolutly clean and odourless.
Didn't sell a drop, just me and my friend.

Thankfully we don't do that any more.
To easy to make a habit of it

 

[mkk41]

I've had some good corn, some distilled potato wine, and I have a pint of fermented sugar base in the kitchen right now! That sugar base is some good stuff, but I think it's gonna last me a while!

Making real 'shine is an art. Gotta have a good receipe and it's gotta be made from mainly corn (with a secret amount of barley and rye) . Gotta have that taste and smell ya only get from good ground corn.

Don't like the sugar based stuff.

 

[Warhorse1]

I've only had the legal version of corn liquor. It is made by Piedmont Distillers, with the "Junior Johnson" original moonshine label.

I was surprised at how little taste, and odor. that it has.

 

[HAWKEYE10]

The movie Thunder Road was made in North Carolina so I guess that makes it the moonshine capital. They should have made it in Tennessee. Don

Thunder Road (1958) - IMDb

 

[cussedemgun]

experience

A couple of times I have been given what purported to be moonshine, but never was able to verify its provenance. I have a dirt-biking buddy in Wisconsin who is of Croatian extraction, and who makes some extremely potent plum brandy.

Then I have about half a pop bottle of lechugilla, moonshine tequila that I bought in Batopilas, a supposedly dry town at the bottom of a canyon in Chihuahua, MX. A dry town there means you can't buy off-sale, but you can drink in bars. Not only does lechugilla taste terrible, it will make any good tequila you drink that evening taste awful, too. My stepdaughter described it as "dirt on fire". If anybody wants to come by, I'll be glad to give you a taste. I have had all I'm gonna have.

I believe it was Mark Twain that said "Most good judgment comes from experience, & most experience comes from bad judgment"

When I was young & dumb, (I still gots half) I tried a similar 'tequila' as the stuff you speak. In my opinion it was better suited for paint thinner than it was for drinking. I learned early on there is a reason they call that stuff "to-kill-ya".

 

[jimmyj]

MOONSHINE/WHITE LIGHTNING??
Never heard of it!
Where I started my LEO career in 1962 the County was "DRY".
We cooperated with the State Beverage Agency in "Whiskey Raids".
We knew that there was a "Still" in the area but was unable to located it.
One night there was an explosion and fire at the local Baptist Church. The "Still" had been under the Church!
My Father preferred "Home Brew" over "Store Brought" and kept a jar in his closet. One summer two 19 year old Nieces came for a "Visit". Somehow these young ladies discovered the "Jar" and began "Nipping".
To hide Their "Crime" they filled the Jar's missing volume with water.
Dad was not a "Happy Camper".
Dad's would add pepernant candy to the "Brew" for favor.
At the Agency's annual Christmas party, the confiscated "Evidence" would be disposed of.
Jimmy

 

[lawandorder]

Unfortunately yes I have..............

my Great Uncle though spent a lot of his working hours busting up the machinery that made it.

Randolph County, Arkansas, circa 1926

 

[mball]

The movie Thunder Road was made in North Carolina so I guess that makes it the moonshine capital. They should have made it in Tennessee. Don

Thunder Road (1958) - IMDb

Western North Carolina and east Tennessee can both lay claim to Popcorn. He started here in Maggie Valley but moved to Tennessee and made whiskey there in his later years. I would say a lot of likker got made in the Smokies over the years. I have met a lot of shiners in my life in both states.
Mike

 

[HAWKEYE10]

In 1960 I was a senior in high school. I had a good friend that ran bonded whiskey into dry counties. I remember one place he would go was around Chattanogga Tennessee. He made a lot of money doing that and I guess I was a little jealous. He had a 1957 Chevorlet sedan that was a drag car and it was fast enough to win in it's class quite often. He also had a 1957 Chevorlet hard top that he drove when making his runs. I remember one night he came back from a run to Chattanogga and the back glass was shot out of his car. The law had got too close and it was his last run. Don

 

[LoadedRound]

Anybody ever drink moonshine?

You're asking THIS crowd? Oh and......well yes I've had a little too.

 

[PatAz]

Tried it once, not bad.

 

[woodsltc]

Yep.....keep a couple qt jars "cooling" in the basement fridge.

 

[amazingflapjack]

Even though I was raised in an area where a river of shine flowed, I never knowingly drank it. I say knowingly because evidently the bars in D.C. used it from drink # 2 on, and I visited them many times. The only "shine" I did drink was made in the Me Cong Delta, out of rice, and who knows what else, with a little Opium thrown in.

 

[Ironhand]

Steve Earle - Copperhead Road - YouTube


I used to get some very good 'shine from a guy I worked with. JHis stuff was high quality enough for the vice-president of the company to keep in his office. Fred would give visiting business-people and military folks(we were a DoD contractor)a snort during their tour.

My father grew up in moonshine country in western NC, and actually learned to drive a stick shift from the local hot-rodder/moonshine runner in a cornfield. He has a friend who retired from a local university and now makes very, very high quality moonshine. There's a big jar full of cherries and 'shine in his liquor cabinet, which comes out every now and then.

 

[kritter]

Ex father in law, He's passed away now, use to have a still, made his own "homemade" as he called it....
everything from corn, peaches, pears, plums, cherries, anything that could be made into "shine" was.....
My first expearance with it was. Walking in after putting up hay he handed me a tall glass with ice in it. I thought it was water ( Honest)
tried to down the whole thing in one gulp....

Still have the scar from when I fell down the stairs..

 

[CALREB]

BACK when I was 14-15, when my folks were out, a buddy and I got into my Dad's, shine he kept under the sink. Needless to say we got bombed (probably had 2-3 sips) I remember running around the yard and thats about it. The next morning early, I woke up in the front yard, next to the house, crawled inside and went to my bedroom in the basement. I had gotten away with it.!!!!!
Being sunday, my two grown brothers and their families came over for breakfast. About 9:00 or so I was woke up, my Dad and bro's around my bed laughing. Man, I felt bad , Dad handed me something to drink, (hair of the dog mixture) and said ,your Mom will have breakfast ready in a few minutes, wash your face, he leaned down smiling and said "that sleeping in the yard is kinda rough".
A few minutes later I was up eating, Mom never knew, or at least acted like she never knew, probably learned how to do that with my older brother's antics.
Dad rest his soul, provided us alot of advise,let life teach us most lessons, and then kinda gave us the " I told you so look". You USUALLY didnt make the same mistake more than a couple times after that.
Thanks,Hawkeye, this has made me grin alot remembering. Bob

 

[therevjay]

In the mid sixties I was stationed at Ft. Storey VA. A guy in my platoon went home on leave (TN) and brought back some he said a relative made. Smelled awful but tasted good, quite smooth.

 

[labworm]

My Uncle had a small copper still and made the home made juice in his cellar.

He passed on and I was at the house with my Aunt. She brought up a gallon with the year 1932 marked on a tag.

Asked me if I would like to try it, me of course answered yes.

She poured me a double shot, I drank it straight down, and as some have said, like no liquid went down my throat.

I was not able to talk for about 15 minutes and never had any since.

The hooch was amber in color and had these huge buds floating around at the bottom. Must be something like white lightning made by the Polish crowd.

 

[don95sml]

I live in the Blue Ridge mountains of southwest Virginia, two counties west of Patrick County, Virginia, which is known as the Moonshine Capital of the World.

Nuff said.

I beg to differ with you, sir. I live in Franklin County, VA, the TRUE Moonshine Capital of the World.