Jeeeeed! Get tha Shotgun!!! Yeah...that's what I'd say too to justify playing with toys.
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.
Total? Ever? or in one run?
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.
Gat-dang revenoo-erz!
Probably kin (or closer) ; p
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.
My other Grandfather was a Baptist preacher and claimed to have never even tasted liquor.
I Hope they filed an enviromental impact statement before using those explosives.
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.
20 years ago me and my roommate made and drank 50 gallons of 110 proof shine in six months. Ouch! My liver just winced.