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Hops, Barley, A Full Moon and a Woodshed: Jethro’s Hooch

    Come nightfall upon the hills of Tennessee and the mountains of West
Virginia, many men would be turning in for the night while others
secretly gathered in woodsheds to brew up the forbidden concoction
known as moonshine.  When alcohol was banned in the 1920’s thirsty
folks couldn’t be expected to simply sip on iced tea and water, no they
needed that beverage they had grown to love.  Nothing has stopped the
alcoholic from enjoying his juice, not even prohibition.
     It was called moonshine, white lightening, and hooch; hillbillies
and
bootleggers would gather at night, by the light of the moon and set up
illegal distilleries to brew the forbidden concoction.  NASCAR may have
moonshine to thank for its start; the bootleggers would have to race
their brew from one dry county to another as quickly as possible to
avoid being caught.  However rarely ver
y few were ever arrested for
moonshining, many just had their distilleries taken down and their
product dumped out, causing them to start back at square one.  Those
that were prosecuted were also charged with tax evasion and money
laundering.
     Before that nationwide ban on alcohol, the moonshiners benefited
from
making their own brews by avoiding the excise taxes and travel through
dry counties to obtain their drinks.  The ban of alcohol turned out to
be a blessing, not a burden, too m
any original brew masters.
     Al Capone, famous mobster heavily invested in brewing alcohol, and
was linked to many “speakeasies” little underground taverns that
offered liquor to its patrons, without the hassle of the law.  Mobsters
and bankers, coal miners and farmers; no man was too poor or too rich
to enjoy the forbidden beverage.  Its availability and demand shot up
so significantly that it became harder and harder to keep up production.
    The grain alcohol that these mountain men would mix up had potency
higher than what had been offered and allowed when drinking was legal.
This created a greater interest and allowed these brew masters quite
profitable.  The money was a huge help to many farmers that were not
making what they needed to off of their farms.  Many continued to make
alcohol even after prohibition, these men were referred to as
“revenuers”, at least those that paid in taxes on the profits from

their business.
    Making moonshine is still illegal and could win you up in prison,
although many have been known to brew their own ales in their kitchens.
  The potency of the liquor is what makes the difference.  Brewers began
watering down the alcohol they brewed to keep up with production and
then sugar-based alcoholic beverages became the craze as prohibition
faded away.
     No, nothing has been able to stop the thirsty man from drinking. 
All
that was needed were some20grains, bottles, hoses, and some heat; then
by the light of a full moon, alcoholics would gather and share their
recopies and ideas, and then pass around a jug of the Hooch.


 

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