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New 'Shine Distillery in Gatlinburg
Hillbilly:
--- Quote from: Dane on June 10, 2010, 11:10:12 am ---
BTW, can someone describe moonshine? How does it taste? Does it make a good mixer? Or is it best served neat?
Dane
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Dane, the commercial liquor that is closest to white corn likker in taste is single-malt highland Scotch. That's good corn likker I'm talking about, not rotgut stuff. And yes, you drink it straight, right out of the jar-you'd be looked at as very strange, deviant, and worthy of suspicion if you mixed anything with it (that would be an insult to the maker, not to mention bringing your manhood into question :) ) or poured it into a glass (bad manners). There's a huge difference in quality in moonshine. Nothing better than good moonshine-smooth, good flavor, and won't give you a hangover. And there's nothing worse than bad white likker. Some of that stuff made in galvanized stills and condensed in old skidder radiators will kill you (if you're lucky.) The old-timers around here that made it the right way for their own consumption made the best stuff, but it's getting really hard to find. Making likker is hard work, and most of the younger generations won't do it. And it's always been legal to make and sell moonshine as long as you pay the gummint their extortion money. There's a brand in the liquor stores here that's been around as long as I can remember called "Georgia Moon." It's sold in pint mason jars with brown paper-bag labels that say "guaranteed to be less than thirty days old." ;D It's decent, but not really good.
El Destructo:
Everclear comes really close too....
stickbender:
Dane, like Gopher said the peaches are for flavor. For the wussys, and ladies. If it is good well made shine, and smooth, like the stuff I had from North Carolina, on a certain farm......I like to just sip it from the jar. I like it as is, or refrigerated. I am almost tempted to ask my light weight drinker neighbor to give me back what is left of the jar I gave him. ;D But if you get well made shine, it is very good, and has a good taste. Like I said before, this is absolutely hands down the best I ever tasted. I have been trying to get a gallon of it, but like I said, I doubt I will be getting any more. :'( :'( I'm not a big drinker. I have several bottles of whiskey, scotch, rum and gin, etc., and I seldom drink it. Once in a while, I might have a small glass, after, or before dinner. Sometimes when I go out to dinner, I will get a glass of Crown Royal on the rocks. But I do like a good shine now and then also. And it is like giving a raspberry to the cesspool, in the east. Sip, mmmmmm, hey, Washington...... :P PPLLLLBBBBTTTTTZZSSSTT!!!
N'yah, N'yah, N'yah ! I guess that might be what makes it better than store bought, just a freedom to drink what you want, without the elected mafia wanting money for something that they had nothing to do with, sort of their protection money. Like if you find a treasure off the coast of the US, the state and Feds want part of it. I say, if they want part of it, then let them help finance, and look for it! Hey, Washington, :P PPLLLLBBBBBTTTTZZSSTTTT !! Also the universal Italian salute! Anyway Dane, if you like peaches, it is okay, to put them in the shine. I would suggest putting in the pickled peaches, or as they are also known as , spiced peaches. Now that would be good! Some like cherries in it. I just like it straight up. Not that I would refuse an offer of the fru fru, wussy stuff . ::)
Wayne
cracker:
Good points I prefer it straight myself that was an attempt to save a jug that was ruined by bad artificial flavoring worked out pretty good made a bunch of my buddies real real happy.
stickbender:
I don't know how many of you have seen the History channel's show on Moon shine, or not, but it featured a Man in North Carolina, called Pop Corn Sutton, who was a convicted Moonshiner. Well he passed away, the first of this year, Jan 13th . That is a man I would have loved to talk to ! ;)
Wayne
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