Jeeeeed! Get tha Shotgun!!!
Posted on 03/15/2008 5:07:48 PM PDT by devane617
March 14, 2008
Echols County - A bootleg liquor operation in South Georgia has been put out of commission.
Echols County Sheriff's Office discovered two moonshine stills Wednesday.
Sheriff Randy Courson says they located the stills on the Wolf Bay Hunting Club Property just off of Highway 84.
Together the stills produce about 130 gallons of liquor. They estimate they'd get $35.00 a gallon if sold.
They say the stills are so dangerous and dirty that the best way to get rid of them is to blow them up.
The GBI, DNR, and the Department of Revenue was brought in to rig the stills with explosives, and they were destroyed Thursday night.
Yeah...that's what I'd say too to justify playing with toys.
These are low producing stills. I thought making a certain (I don;t know how much) was legal.
Just some good old boys, not meaning no harm, Beats all you ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born.
Jeeeeed! Get tha Shotgun!!!
BS! I know several old-timer moonshiners, and their stills are perfectly safe, if operated by someone who knows what they're doing.
This is all about revenue, and the fact that no alcohol taxes are going to the state from these "entrepreneurs".
That argument sounds ridiculous, unless you consider how many judges are flaming liberals and would buy that argument.
It’s hard for me to believe people are still making Shine. When I was a kid, living in this part of the country, it was a way of life. Then drugs took over.
Only if you drink it...not sell untaxed whiskey.
Per BATF (spit!) regulations, it's only legal to make ethanol if you are properly licensed by the federal and state government, OR if you are making the ethanol for fuel, at which point (at least in Pennsylvania) you are also required to file monthly returns of ethanol produced, along with a check for road usage taxes (at .21 per gallon used--not necessarily produced).
Total? Ever? or in one run?
Me Too
I grew up in Kentucky and there was always some Uncle or another breaking out a Mason Jar full of clear white homemade hooch, at family functions. Only tasted it once...yikes!
Stupid revenuer’s.....it was an ethanol refinery !.....:o)
My Uncle made pure corn liquor. Open the Mason jar and it smelled as if you were shucking fresh corn. He NEVER cut is Shine as many did, so he got the best price.
The only thing they cook in the woods around here is meth. :>(
That’s bull,ain’t nothing cleaner than a still,
A friend of mine (70 yrs. old) the other day was telling me a story about his grandaddy and how he brewed and ran shine from Opp to Elba once a month years ago,that still was almost 3 generations old.
My Uncle rand from Albany, to Newton, to Blakely, to the Dothan, AL area. Did it for years, and spent time on two occasions for it. However, at the time of his death, he had a working still. RIP>>>
LOL, and they no doubt crossed some EPA rules by not only shutting it down, but violated air standards with their splosives. Wait till the greens geta holda this!
Hey, now there's an idea = and to heck with selling it. Put it in the gas tank!
Gat-dang revenoo-erz!
Probably kin (or closer) ; p
Don’t you have to do the paperwork the feds want first?
We may know some of the same people. They did not make a dent in the supply of untaxed liquor in Echols County. They never have and never will.
vob
AFTER giving it a little test to make sure it's "gettin' just right". You don't want to put untested fire-water in your vehicle when a simple little "taste test" would allow you to properly evaluate it.
There’s still plenty of stills in Georgia. Go to any small town. I was almost lynched as a revenoor so many times it would make yer back ache. I was born a yankee, so I was the enemy from day one. Once they realised that I worked for Georgia Power, they settled down as most of these same fellas had worked on the power lines as I did. I met the men who had used mules to get to their towers. I had a Honda 350.
I must be missing something. I've tried moonshine and poteen (sp? "Po-cheen") and it has to rank as two of the worst experiences of my life.
Didn't smell nothing like corn. Wish I'd tried you Uncle's instead.
Also, ethanol can only be used in certain vehicles that 1) are designated flex-fuel (like my 2002 Chevy S-10 truck), 2) have their fuel control chips replaced with those designed to operate ethanol-based fuel systems, or 3) have modified carburetors (mainly older vehicles).
This would be a handy thing to know how to do - the way gas prices are headed.
And I have plenty of land on which to put a still -
wonder what my kids and grandkids would say if granny had a "still on the hill" and cranked out "a gallon or two?"
This fellas grandaddy was caught in Elba selling the shine and he beat the hell out of the sherrif,the sherrif told him not to come back.The next month he was back and there were about 7 cops waiting for him,story goes he almost kick all their butts ,but they got him to the ground and arrested and sent him to prison.He was dead within two weeks in a mining accident,go figure.
My grandaddy ran shine from Brewton to Andalusia,he told me he’d mix it with the gas to get that extra punch,also he poured lead in the frame of his car so he could do a 180 and stay on the road,while the cops chasing him would wind up in the ditch..Coming back around,just watch
they more probly didn't give them revenuers a cut
Well, then there now - that's a given
And those labs eventually blow themselves up so the county boys don’t get to have the fun of doing it themselves. That’s why they really throw the book that those meth guys - for ruining their fun.
My kind of testing is not all that technical and a whole lot less serious.
I was talking about a taste test, before putting that moonshine ethanol into the gas tank of your "loved one"/vehicle, you may want to give it a generous taste test.
Please note that "testing" should be limited to a few rounds or set a time limit.
However, I haven't built the still yet since my master mechanic next door neighbor convinced me to look into biodiesel and SVO/WVO fuels. I'm currently doing the research, and based upon what I'm seeing, those alternatives look like the way to go.
Gotcha! ;)
When I was a kid my gang roamed all over. The rule was, if you stumbled on a still you walked straight ahead, eyes on the ground, and kept your mouth shut, if you ever wanted to hunt that land again. The guys running the still would be watching, but you’d never see them. The freedom to ramble the woods was the most precious thing we had, no way would I have risked losing it by saying anything. I still won’t.
My other Grandfather was a Baptist preacher and claimed to have never even tasted liquor.
***It’s hard for me to believe people are still making Shine. When I was a kid, living in this part of the country, it was a way of life. Then drugs took over.****
The local law busted a still in Benton County, Arkansas not long ago. It was so rare to find one the law was unsure how to destroy it. They knew more about getting rid of meth labs than stills.
Heard that,,
Just realized I haven't seen one in maybe thirty years.
I Hope they filed an enviromental impact statement before using those explosives.
Here in South Jersey we drink “shine”. My motorcycle club has it at all our functions. One of the boys is a tin knocker and he made a beauty of a still out of stainless steel for my brother, “Cheeze”. “Cheeze” makes the finest “Apple Pie Shine” you ever tasted. It goes down as smooth as can be but sneaks up on you later. I have tried other shine from down south that we get on the way to Bike Week but most of it is better used to take the rust off your bike. Now Kentucky shine is the absolute best. Cheeze gets all his recipe’s from some Kentucky boys when we go to Daytona and he won’t give them up for women or money.
I remember a hilarious interview with a retired, bald, big galoot revenuer of the old school.
He found most stills by smell. Once he had a trainee with him, who got lost in the forest while they were approaching a still. The old guy found the still with two men working it.
He pulled his gun to make the bust, but they heard him, so took off running. One promptly tripped over a tree root and knocked himself out. So the revenuer fired a shot to attract his trainee, who was only a few yards away, but still lost.
He needed his help, because he only had one pair of handcuffs. But when the trainee came into the clearing, to see him standing over the unconscious moonshiner, pistol in hand, he quickly reached the wrong conclusion.
“I got this one, and the other went thataway. You go run him down!” The trainee took off after the other moonshiner.
Only then the old revenuer realized what the trainee might have thought. So, thinking quickly, he handcuffed and dragged the unconscious moonshiner into the bushes.
When the trainee came back with the second moonshiner, the old guy was sitting there by himself. So he told the scared trainee that he would “take care of the other moonshiner. You go back to the car.”
He happened to know the two moonshiners, so he told the one who was awake what the gag was. Almost back to the car, the trainee heard another gunshot.
And about pooped himself. Five minutes later, the revenuer walked out of the forest with both men in tow, and the trainee was so happy they were still alive that he bought lunch.
Why hasn’t one of our resident libertarians suggested that we need to rethink all of our home-brew laws here, with an eye to abolishing them?
If my pastor can brew beer, and my friend can ferment wine, why can’t I distill some corn squeezins?
DH’s great grandfather used a still to process mint oil. Revenuers came and did not believe the clear liquid was only pure unadulterated mint oil, so Grandpa K had them take a sip.
Once they could talk, they alleged they had been poisoned.
The family is still laughing about that but they have not raised mint for 60 years.
Actually, Grandpa K did make homemade wine and always dosed the kids with it when they were sick. All of them grew up to be tee-totallers.
Just reread, Ray Bradbury’s, Dandelion Wine. You should too. A great read about giving sick kids wine.
Ping for reply # 45.
Good point,
Now an interesting question for ya,
Which do you think was safer for the consumer, Drugs or shine?
Also which kind of drugs?
Pot or speed or crack or what?
Last few days I’ve been in Live Oak, Lake City area or Florida and South Georgia thinking of buying some land.Just wondering what the potential problems may be there?
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