I wonder if he still sells that Mead with juniper berries mixed in.

Granny did not call it "white lightning" she called it "rhumtiz medcine".

I wouldn't mind a few sips of the apple about right now.

No peach? WTF does he think this is, West Virginia?

NOW where will the locals go on a date for 'shine and seafood?!

I'll bet he screamed something about how this was "Free Speech" as he was being arrested.

I've always felt that flavored vodkas were pretty awful - the taste, the "convenience" for people too lazy to mix with real fruit juice, and the limitation on what you can mix with something that already has a strong flavor.

I can only imagine his shine as being even worse and targeted to even stupider people.

Why do they hate job creators?

Sounds delicious, though peach is always my preference.

My ex was from North Carolina and her gramma ran white lightening during the prohibition. The old gal still had kin in Wilkesboro in the 80's and she would go see them once or twice a year and bring back a few jars. I still have a bit left that I brought home in a Mountain Dew bottle. It was some damn fine hooch as I recall but I'm not into it any more.

A friend of mine went to a crawfish festival in Slidell LA last weekend.
There was a booth that sold apple pie moonshine.
He said it was mighty fine.

150 proof? It must take 20 seconds for it to cause you to go blind.

...selling strawberry, blackberry and apple-flavored moonshine...

Now why didn't I think of that?

I've only had 'shine a couple of times, it was pretty tasty. Kicked pretty hard, but I enjoyed it. I don't get why you can brew beer, make wine, and not distill. Sure it can be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. So can a lot of legal things. Damn nanny state....

The Andy Griffith Show 2012 just doesn't have the same charm as the original...

0x1a4: I've only had 'shine a couple of times, it was pretty tasty. Kicked pretty hard, but I enjoyed it. I don't get why you can brew beer, make wine, and not distill. Sure it can be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. So can a lot of legal things. Damn nanny state....

Because beer and wine are taxable commodities and moonshine is not. Same reason why tobacco is legal and weed is not.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: The Andy Griffith Show 2012 just doesn't have the same charm as the original...

So instead of Otis the drunk, do they have Harriet the Hooker?

Trance750: So instead of Otis the drunk, do they have Harriet the Hooker?

Not only that, but Ernest T. Bass is a telemarketer who just won't respect the Do Not Call list.

FTA: "These folks also tried to resurrect the lost art of mountain moonshine in the Sunshine state."

Resurrect?? Hell, when have they ever stopped? I had to read the article just to make sure it wasn't one of the extended in-laws. The grandfather-in-law and I do not get along very well, but the man knows how to make wine and booze, I'll give him that. He's one of the most aggravating, ignorant sons-of-biatches with the "SAWTH SHALL RHAIZE AGAIN!" mentalities you have ever seen, but we put up with him to some extent because the Grandmother-in-law is sweet, and he has tons of Pecan trees, and again, good hooch. Seriously, the stuff is everywhere, you just have to know how and where to look; it's all about certain circles and who you can trust. However, there's the occasionally risky person who will actually show up at the flea market or produce market, give a knowing wink if you don't look like the po'po, and point you over to a truck in a parking lot where a cousin will gladly trade you some awesome deer meat for a small "handling fee", among other things. They do tend to get skittish around new faces though.

This guy gets bonus "dumbass" points for thinking he could sell anything at the side of the road without a permit, much less flaunting the "In yo' face BATF!" mentality. Hell, I find it hard to move a few quarts of fruit preserves without having to look over my shoulder, waiting for the inevitable tap from someone thinking I owe them some kind of tax or another. Just having a plain, old fruitstand isn't safe anymore.

I'd be afraid of any lunatic on a corner selling home-made hooch. God only knows what kind of old Chevy radiator or other kind of lead-soldered condenser they were using. If I don't get a look at the still, I'm not drinking it, unless word is that it's legit, or the customer can describe the science behind the unseen still to my satisfaction. (I use grain neutral spirits for extracts and whatnot-- Elder blossoms & fruit makes an awesome cough syrup if done correctly.)

skinink "150 proof? It must take 20 seconds for it to cause you to go blind."

Not if they did it correctly. Anyone with experience knows that depending on still size, you throw away the first 10th of production, carefully inspect the middle batches, and toss the last 10th or so. Even if there were traces of wood alcohol left behind, the actual cure for methyl poisoning is in fact ethyl alcohol; the liver is forced to break down the grain alcohol first, and the poisons are sent to the kidneys. It'll spare your eyes and liver, but isn't very healthy for the renal life... if I ever drank hooch that made my kidneys hurt, I'd never trust the producer again.

Moonshine, when done correctly, is every bit as safe and fun as any expensive store-bought commodity. If you don't live in a community with specific punitive laws, then you can make up to a gallon at a time for personal use, but after that, the ATF would like to have a word. At that point, they just assume you have intentions to sell and prosecute accordingly, so it's best not to push your luck or let word get out. You can even buy up to one-gallon pot stills legally, but anything larger and expect a knock on the door; without the right tax stamps and permits, it just isn't worth the risk.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Trance750: So instead of Otis the drunk, do they have Harriet the Hooker?

Not only that, but Ernest T. Bass is a telemarketer who just won't respect the Do Not Call list.

CSB:

I got a call from a Telemarketer and told them I was on the Do Not Call List and was told, rather rudely, they were based in Canada and the Do Not Call does not apply to them

Trance750: I got a call from a Telemarketer and told them I was on the Do Not Call List and was told, rather rudely, they were based in Canada and the Do Not Call does not apply to them


There is no rational way for me to respond to this.

Cripes.

skinink: 150 proof? It must take 20 seconds for it to cause you to go blind.

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Slow Loris: skinink: 150 proof? It must take 20 seconds for it to cause you to go blind.

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Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Trance750: I got a call from a Telemarketer and told them I was on the Do Not Call List and was told, rather rudely, they were based in Canada and the Do Not Call does not apply to them

There is no rational way for me to respond to this.

Cripes.

How about "Fark off you poutine-eating, yellow-snow-guzzling, Eskimo-raping, worthless-currency-carrying (yes I know that's a myth now, just saying-- they hate that), American-wannabe, hockeystick-humping retards!"

It has been my experience that if you can curse out a telemarketer creatively for twenty minutes, they will in fact never call you again. Also, screwing with their heads works too.

I figgered it would be some guy named Junior.

thespindrifter: It has been my experience that if you can curse out a telemarketer creatively for twenty minutes, they will in fact never call you again. Also, screwing with their heads works too.

And THAT'S why I try to keep them on the line as long as possible, and ask them to repeat the same information over and over and over and over and over again.

It's a battle of wills, and I refuse to budge.

Quick survey: Would you buy it?

What's the worst that could happen?

Need_MindBleach: Quick survey: Would you buy it?

I don't drink, so... probably not.


Need_MindBleach: What's the worst that could happen?

Blindness, liver failure, the nagging feeling that I could have had a V8.

Raleigh NC just increased the price of a beggar's licence you required to have to panhandle.

skinink: 150 proof? It must take 20 seconds for it to cause you to go blind.

Probably wasn't even 150 proof, people just like to say that. I was given some "genuine 150 proof NC moonshine" once. Put it in the freezer and it froze into a slushy. 150 proof my ass.

Hmm, my Sams Club sells seafood and I saw today that they were selling little jars of 'moonshine', I think from Jack Daniels or something. 20 proof, which means its neither moonshine nor worth drinking.

That seems okay with everyone. Is it a florida thing or does involving the truck cause the problem? I only say that because there were a lot of trucks in the parking lot, quite close to both the seafood and the moonshine. Is there a proximity limit, or is it that the outdoors was a factor. Because there are some skylights and stuff in there, and a lot of windows so the outside is fairly accessible. I guess if someone drove one of those trucks through one of the windows and ended up in the back of the store, they'd all be within about 20'.

I understand that these are a lot of questions, but should a truck every fly into a sams club while I'm in there, I'd like to know how far from the seafood and moonshine I need to be.

HairBolus: I've always felt that flavored vodkas were pretty awful - the taste, the "convenience" for people too lazy to mix with real fruit juice, and the limitation on what you can mix with something that already has a strong flavor.

I can only imagine his shine as being even worse and targeted to even stupider people.

On the off chance that you're not a troll...

You're terribly misinformed. Apple pie is amazing shiat.

Also, how in the hell did you equate vodka with moonshine? Flavored schnapps is incredible, too.

SweetSilverBlues: Also, how in the hell did you equate vodka with moonshine?

I don't know about them, but to me the cheap shiat tastes about equal with crappy home-distilled; needs about ten trips through a Pure water filter to be even remotely drinkable or safe.

thespindrifter: SweetSilverBlues: Also, how in the hell did you equate vodka with moonshine?

I don't know about them, but to me the cheap shiat tastes about equal with crappy home-distilled; needs about ten trips through a Pure water filter to be even remotely drinkable or safe.

That I agree with; crappy stuff is baaaaaaaad juju, be it cheap vodak or bathtub gin.

UseUrHeadFred: I wonder if he still sells that Mead with juniper berries mixed in.

A Flord's last thoughts should be of home.

Apple please..that sounds wonderful.

More job-killing government regulation! I demand my right and freedom to be blinded and poisoned, and his right to be killed in a horrible fiery explosion!

You have to admit, that was pretty enterprising.

It's been a LOOOOOG time, but decades ago, somewhere in the 50's, a family coming down into Florida to try and make a living, used the then incomplete Fla Turnpike. They broke down where it cut close to the ocean and decided to set up camp. They wound up staying there for decades, building and running a restaurant/ bait house/ motel/camp site. Since they were off the turnpike and on State land, they used Squatters Rights to stay. Florida wasn't real developed back then.

A book was written about them and I can't recall the darn title. I read it when I was a kid and it was a fascinating story. Florida was a lot different back then -- and better.

I learned to tell when 'shine was good by pouring out a cap full and lighting it. If it burned with a clean, blue flame, then it was safe. If the flame held colors, then the 'shiner ran it through an old radiator from a car or dumped in car batteries into the mash to make it 'cure' faster and you wouldn't want to drink it.

The good stuff could peel the skin off your tongue, clean out your sinuses, polish your teeth and sterilize your stomach when it hit, -- kinda like a nuclear bomb. Darn it was good!! Better than Wild Turkey.

I used to know an old guy who made his own wine, then would reprocess the wine to turn it into that thick, sweet liquor they serve in these tiny glasses. His packed a punch. He forgot about a pony keg of it stored away and found it some years later and said it was the best he ever had. (Pony keg: wooden cask about the size of those new, small, single use beer kegs you buy at the grocery store.)

Back through the 60's, it wasn't uncommon in Fla for folks to brew their own 'shine and wine. Around the 80's, suddenly everyone was brewing 'artesian' beer. Wild Fox Grape wine isn't bad at all. I've had some home made wine made with grapes and cinnamon -- but that was a tad chunky since the guy didn't filter it before serving.

The law allows you to brew just so much wine and beer and you used to be able to distill a few gallons of 'shine for your own use.

I prefer a moonshiner next door rather than a meth lab. Especially idiots using the new 'shake and bake' method.

well they better stay away from Copper Head Road cause John Lee Pettimore learned a thing or two from ol' Charlie don't you know..........k/dar

I know how to get to my supplier and the revenuers don't, so fark you.

Jed Clampett and Granny from The Beverly Hillbillies would have been so dang proud!

Yes, the art of making moonshine with a still is alive and well in Florida.

Granny used to call her mash 'White Lightning.'

I remember her hooch as 'Spring Tonic'

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Or, it could be her 'Rhuematiz medcine'

Trance750: Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Trance750: So instead of Otis the drunk, do they have Harriet the Hooker?

Not only that, but Ernest T. Bass is a telemarketer who just won't respect the Do Not Call list.

CSB:

I got a call from a Telemarketer and told them I was on the Do Not Call List and was told, rather rudely, they were based in Canada and the Do Not Call does not apply to them

Aha, I spotted your first mistake... you talked to them.
Your second mistake was thinking they cared about anything you said other than your credit card number.

Hey, now that the show is over, Tickle's gotta make a livin' somehow!

SweetSilverBlues: HairBolus: I've always felt that flavored vodkas were pretty awful - the taste, the "convenience" for people too lazy to mix with real fruit juice, and the limitation on what you can mix with something that already has a strong flavor.

I can only imagine his shine as being even worse and targeted to even stupider people.

On the off chance that you're not a troll...

You're terribly misinformed. Apple pie is amazing shiat.

Also, how in the hell did you equate vodka with moonshine? Flavored schnapps is incredible, too.

Hook, line, and sinker. Let's see if he can reel him in...

Rik01: If it burned with a clean, blue flame, then it was safe

This. My dad had a fishing cabin with some of his buddies who were from an "old family". I met them when I was 14, and when the bottle came out, that's the first thing they told me.: "Son, don't ever drink shine without burnin' it first."

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buckler: More job-killing government regulation! I demand my right and freedom to be blinded and poisoned, and his right to be killed in a horrible fiery explosion!

I don't think moonshine in reasonable doses will hurt you. Methyl alcohol/methanol/wood alcohol is the toxic stuff. It was a problem during prohibition simply because it was cheap and available, and was used to cut grain alcohol sometimes.

NC here, and I'll bet his stuff was garbage. I'm not a usual fan of 'shine, but after you have tried some really good stuff, the rest tastes like lighter fluid. When it is actually made from apples, rather than a simple maceration, you have amazing un-aged apple brandy, not just hooch with fruit soaked in it.

Glad to see the Sun-Sentinel is copying Fark now.....

/FloriDUH? Really?

I live in Georgia and just yesterday was enjoying some shine at my neighborhood's 18th annual crawfish boil. Good shine, good food, good friends

/I feel a huge crawdump coming on

In other news, 3 wise guys seen trying to sell free-range salmon including smoked with a nice cigar in its mouth.

Why yes I did see The Three Stooges movie