Moonshine Nation: the Art of Creating Cornbread in a Bottle

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Moonshine is corn whiskey, traditionally made in improvised stills throughout the Appalachian South. While quality varied from one producer to another, the whiskey had one thing in common: It was illegal because the distiller refused to pay taxes to the US government. Many moonshiners were descendants of Scots-Irish immigrants who had fought in the original Whiskey Rebellion in the early 1790s. They brought their knowledge of distilling with them to America along with a profound sense of independence and a refusal to submit to government authority. Today many Southern states have relaxed.;Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part 1: Legacy and Legend; Marching on Pennsylvania; General Grant's Whiskey; Robin Hood of the Dark Corner; Baptists and Bootleggers; King of the Moonshiners; Bootlegging, Inc.; Heads, Tails, and Hearts; Moonshine and the Law; Dixie Mafia; Part 2: The Modern Moonshiners; Piedmont Distillers and the Legacy of Junior Johnson; Recipes; Spencer Balentine's Silver Trail Distillery; Recipes; MB Roland; Recipes; Troy & Sons; Recipes; Howling Moon; Recipes; Popcorn Sutton: Fiction and Fact; American Moonshine Producers; About the Author.