Moonshine

Distilling alcohol without a license is illegal everywhere, at any volume, at a federal level.

 

In gatlinburg Tennessee theres an ol smokey store and also another store that both give out sample of there brand of moonshine and other liquor.

Its not to exciting though because 5 sample = 1 shot

 

This was our 'legal and licensed' family still in TN. That's my great great grandad 4th from left.
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I may have to try an apple pie recipe with everclear. I make limoncello 2 gallons at a time with lemon peels, simple sugar and everclear. It's completely sip able straight, and it's 80 proof!

 

DAMN STRAIGHT!!!! And to that previous "recipe"... That's a good knock-off version that tastes similar to the real stuff but there IS a difference between the taste of "grain alcohol" or everclear and moonshine... The stuff I've *cough* had *cough* tastes about like smoky water with a slight bite if that makes sense... Imagine water that smells and tastes like a good campfire but that has the bite of a decent vodka... And then kicks you in the ass about a minute later, you're about there.. Lol

 

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Are you a Kennedy? That's pretty cool.

 

That's a very cool picture. My wife and I are doing some genealogy research and found out that my mother's grandma's mom's side of the family used to run shine in Tennessee. Also my wife's dad's mother's family is from Arkansas, but used to cross the Mississippi river and run shine from Tennessee into Arkansas. They were probably enemies. hahaha

 

Nope...Sells! If anyone is around Byrdstown, TN they have heard the name. Our family has been there since the 1600s (no sh-t) and tons of the roads, coves etc are Sells this and that. And a long history of moonshine! My 99 year old grandad (son of 4th from left) is living with my folks in CO and has been helping me with the old family recipe for the last 5-6 years.

 

Great now you guys have me thinking of the faked show on discovery lol but I have kinda wanted to try moonshine but oh well I will wait.

 

born and raised in VA. I actually enjoy the store bought stuff, but it's nothing like true shine.

 

See now that is awesome! I'd love to have our families recipe that is rumored to have existed but long sense gone extinct... Good 'ol Nelson county Va and parts of WVa

 

Thanks! Our family is spread all over now but still very close. My grandad just sold his farm in Byrdstown, TN and moved to CO to be with my folks...he turns 100 in February. I'm sure he knows your family name, no kidding he literally seems to know everything that happened in TN the last 9 decades.

 

Absolutely right... I've bought it before but it's usually a WAY lower proof and yet somehow much harsher than the real stuff

 

Virginia: Where northerners think we're southerners, and southerners think we're northerners..........but we all know what we really are

 

and that would be.....

 

I don't know what he's talkin about but I was born and bread southern... I unfortunately got some northern influence with the amount of northerners in my college but I can live with that...

 

probably just cheaper ingredients and a quicker distilling process to crank out more bottles.

 

more awesome than both!

 

The Southern TW Moonshine Meet....hmmm.