I miss Kentucky

It's not so bad anymore but just a few years ago you had to be careful surveying in the north Georgia mountains. Stills and booby-traps were there. Then it pretty much changed to "Pot" fields and boob-traps.

Andy

A group of us used to squirrel hunt in LBL talked about in the article. We rode horses and would get pretty far back into the hills and hollers. Occasionally we would see old rusted out barrels laying around with axed gashes in them where the revenuers had destroyed a still.

And there are still several folks making moonshine. Don't ask me how I know.

One branch of my ancestry was living in southern Kentucky about 1800. They moved to what is St. Clair County, Illinois about 25 miles from St. Louis about 1825. I have often wondered if they had skills in the moonshine business and, if so, did they pay for the Illinois farms with liquid cash.

I got three quarts of it for a wedding gift. It came from somewhere in northwest North Carolina.

A small still for some I've seen.

However I do applaud his use of a short reflux still, a superior design. Not quite tall enough of a tower to actually getting into 'fractionating', but reflux is a good way to keep the quality high. And a beer keg for a pot...love it!

I don't know anything about Kentucky moonshine, and I've only driven through the State, but I must say that Kentucky has some of the most beautiful countryside that I've ever seen.

One of the comments that follows the article:
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[INDENT=1]"A month-long investigation to confiscate 27 quarts, with a total street value in excess of... what?... maybe $125? I hope the top-secret undercover investigators are proud of their accomplishments, because I think that I can speak for the majority who think this is just simultaneously laughable and pathetic."[/INDENT]

Mark Mayer, post: 370171, member: 424 wrote: One of the comments that follows the article:
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"A month-long investigation to confiscate 27 quarts, with a total street value in excess of... what?... maybe $125? I hope the top-secret undercover investigators are proud of their accomplishments, because I think that I can speak for the majority who think this is just simultaneously laughable and pathetic."[/INDENT]

I'm sure cost is no object when Special Agents for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms catch their man. Purging our society of such an undesirable element as pure, unadulterated (spelled U-N-T-A-X-E-D) fine American Corn Liquor will surely get them a spot in Heaven near the Boss's table.

And I'm also sure these fellas are a breed all their own....