Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The production of moonshine — or really any spirit — without a license is prohibited by the U.S. government and is very much ...

Moonshine–illegally produced alcohol–is on the rise around the world, and the real opportunity is that it sometimes finds a way of becoming legitimate and being legally sold. Moonshine refers to ...

On December 5, bars across the country are even more appreciative of Americans’ right to imbibe. It’s Repeal Day, honoring the end of Prohibition. But as the beer taps and bottles of vodka flow, there ...

Before I went to Nashville in 2006, I’d never had moonshine. Prohibition ended in 1933, right? You can buy liquor in stores. Outside of cartoon hillbillies swilling from jugs labeled XXX, I was ...

White lightning, mountain dew, firewater - you know it as the illicit substance made in secret by tax-dodging mountain men and drunk by people looking to alter their reality in a serious way. But ...

Since South Carolina began taxing small distilleries in 2009, allowing entrepreneurs to make legal moonshine, 28 companies have registered with the S.C. Department of Revenue – some using recipes ...

Whether you call it white lightning or the real mountain dew, there's one hooch that's been hitting the spot for over a century. READ: Celebrate National Absinthe Day: Cocktails to Make With the ...

Moonshine is having its day in the sun. Once a back-road country cousin, it is taking on a new life as a city slicker. And now that it’s out of the barn and into the bar, mixologists at tony drinking ...

Prohibition prompted a surge in illegal moonshine production across the US in the 1920s and early 1930s A growing number of Americans are thought to be getting involved in moonshining - distilling ...

After the Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted in Iceland in 2010, flight cancellations left Miranda Cheng stranded in Paris. While waiting for the ash to clear, Cheng, then a postdoctoral researcher at ...