White-Collar Moonshine

Urbanites flout federal law with their new favorite hobby: home distilling.

Whiskey Primer

Watch out for the revenuers.

Burns the Hairs Right Out of Your Nose

Touring bourbon distilleries in Kentucky.

Slate’s Explainer column ponders moonshine, still illegal in the age of artisan distillers.

Yeah, I made Limoncello with it. You can also get it at the liquor store next to Gerlach’s in Pasadena. BevMo was out when I was there. After calling around (recipe called for a much higher proof alcohol) and finding out...

Steak & Mushroom Quesadillas Chicken Satay Kabobs with Spicy Peanut Sauce Grilled Vegetable Kabobs with Blue Cheese Guacamole & Fresh Salsa with Chips Churros & hot chocolate” shots Moonshine: Here we’re looking at the enclosed...

it to started using it for cooking mussels, in place of white wine. It really tasted quite good, and I think they might have bought another bottle after they used up the gift. I’ve had real moonshine only once, and it was...

Prohibition and the Moonshiners. (Which developed into a cottage industry called NASCAR.)

back to the very first one) the food demonstrations had tastings, but with all the laws about food service to the public, they can’t do that any more. Why, when they had a moonshine still set up for one festival, they even...

of the solids remain (the law is apparently that it has to be filtered, otherwise it counts as “doboroku” (moonshine), but apparently the range of acceptable filtering is pretty wide). I imagine that the reason that...

I am not trying to be picky, but Jack Daniels is not Bourbon. Jack Daniels is Sour Mash Whiskey, made in Tennesee. Most [but not all] Bourbon is made in Kentucky, according to Bourbon laws of distilling whiskey. Jim Beam is...

. Honestly, this was nothing but moonshine in a big old jug. It was later turned into limoncelo by the in-laws.

go berserk. I don’t think we can blame folks who love those big styles, when in the last hundred years we’ve gone from legal to illegal to legal again, from small hometown breweries to moonshine to macros to micros....

, or someone in more semi-tropical Kagoshima yearning for their sake to be served chilled on a sweltering summer night. Another factor is that the Japanese govt had been very prone to creating laws and regs that overwhelmingly...

the soda, whiskey and rum are imported: soda pop from Georgia, whiskey from Tennessee, and rum from Cuba. Upon special request, Mac also has moonshine made by a friend inland. Mac bought the small piece of property with money...