My Moonshining Kin

[Gypsy Heart]

Guess whats In the Bottles !!!!!

 

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[jeff of pa]

They must be the Ones who Invented

Bottled Spring Water

 

[Gypsy Heart]

yep Madison County Arkansas......Finest Spring water ever brewed!

 

[Kentucky Kache]

Lemonade?

 

[EDDE]

LIQUID GOLD MY LASSE ,THE NECTOR OF THE GODS!!A SIDE NOTE HAD THE OPERTUNITTY AT A PARTY BACK FEW MONTHS BACK TO "SAMPLE" SOME HOME BREW!!!HOLY CRAP DONT SMOKE AFTER DRINKING IT YOU MAY SPONTANEOUSLLY COMBUST BY THE WAY COOL PIC!!!

 

[warsawdaddy]

Nothin' wrong with 'good' shine.It's still being cooked in the Ozarks and in Ala.The last I was presented with was in Okla.'Bout half- way between Ft Smith,AR and Muskogee.Corn liquor ranks right up there with the best of treats.

 

[beeper]

GEEEEZE- GH--------------- LOTTA HEADACHES IN THERE!

 

[jbow]

A friend of mine...

actually, my employee... well, his grand-dad used to make "old Grand-dad"... if you know what I mean... the same stuff. Well, they were digging out at the old house and found several gallons he had buried about 15 years ago. Well, the word got around and they sold those gallons for 300.00 a piece. I was astounded! That must have been some really good stuff or maybe it was the collectability, beat's me...

300.00 go figure...

Julien

 

[southbound]

My daddy used to have a still with his father in Georgia. Pretty cool. Vern

 

[EDDE]

300 thats it?

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Hey ?!.....................I 'll sell some for 300.00 ........305.00 if you dont bring your own jug......should be ready in about a month...nice and aged LOL....

And for any revenuers out there.....I was just kidding

 

[grizzly bare]

Can't remember the volume number right offhand, but The Foxfire Books had a good diagram and instructions for building a small old-timey still and had the recipe for making the fixins. As far as revenuers go, a householder can get permission to make a bit for snakebites and such.
beeper, no such thing! good shine doesn't cause headaches. only problem is you have to drink it quick or it will eat the bottom out of metal, glass, or plastic containers.

grizzly bare

(This is ALL based on stories my daddy told me when he was able to talk after 2or 3 little drinks...you know, the pint sized jiggers)

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Its the first volume of Foxfire. Whiich is so funny that you brought this up, because I have been reading the Foxfire books all afternoon.

 

[grizzly bare]

gypsy,
sittin here thinkin bout you dear and I got a rush on looove.

Oh, wait...actually been sitting here watching it snow and reading back issues of TH magazines. Now about 5 inches of snow and it's starting to slow way down.
Love those books. Had them all at one time but they went South in the divorce, right now can't remember if it was first divorce or second.
Do remember one special night when me and an old drinking buddy were sitting around drinking some smooth shine his granddaddy had made and we were chasing it with Jack Daniels. One thing that made the night real special was the we finished off a half gallon of shine and I remembered it.
grizzly bare
(now you know why I'm so grizzly)

 

[Jeffro]

Love the Foxfire books- especially the stories about how things used to be. The one about Aunt Arie ranks right up there, as you really have to slow down to read it, even if it is about hog curing, lol!


I pulled a couple fellahs out one time. they were stuck up in the woods after a rain. Had an old flatbed truck with a load on it, all tarped up. After we were done getting them unstuck, the older fellah says "Here, have a swig of this" and hands me a little jigger of joy juice... musta been about two full shots. Went down like the sweetest water I ever tasted. It wasn't til I felt that warm glow that I realized what it was, and what they were doing up there!

(I'm a bit slow on the draw sometimes!)

 

[suwannee pirate]

Corn's good but don't forget about the rye, and don't forget to put a thumper down line from the cooker that way you will get a double run without havin to actually run it through twice and she will burn blue for ya . And last but not least through a little carmel in it so it don't look like white liquor in case you want to share it with the boys with the big hats. You know come to think of it , it never gave me a headache the next morning- I just woke up drunk as I was before I went to sleep. Now they call it gasohol or something like that and the govt. will sell you a licence to make it legally. And you must do a quality control test daily on it you know what I mean ...hic.. ya you guessed it I'm an old billhilly from WEST BY GOD VIRGINIA ...hic

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Here in the swamps they use.. . uh...I mean... they used to use sugar cane. It was a big thing in Everglades City during prohibition. Al Capone ran some casinos and some smuggling operations out of the Big Cypress Swamp. They made a tourist attraction out of one of the old stills. I would like to use a MD on that old casino site some day.
Neat picture Gypsy. Back then people didn't care about designer clothes.

 

[jon43]

can,t you cook up a batch of moon on the stove? i heard of this but don't know if its true

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Never tried it on the stove. The picture is of my great uncles and was on the front of a Museum brochure....all my Ozark kinfolk made shine...and they still do....oh no thats not true...they all go to church...yah thats what I meant :P :P

 

[jon43]

Never tried it on the stove. The picture is of my great uncles and was on the front of a Museum brochure....all my Ozark kinfolk made shine...and they still do....oh no thats not true...they all go to church...yah thats what I meant :P :P

a old land lord , hes dead now but he gave me a drink of shine years ago. wow, i really like,ed it. i cant drink any whiskey any more because of my wife and health but love beer.. nice pix,s gypsy