What Life Was Like As A Moonshiner During Prohibition
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- čas přidán 27. 11. 2020
- Hooch, Mountain Dew, Homebrew, Shiny, White Lightning. It all goes by another name - Moonshine, and it made millions for rural bootleggers during prohibition. Today on Nutty History, we’re shining the light on the illegal spirit and the people who devoted their lives to its dangerous and daring trade across the United States. Unlike Josh and Big Chuck, we're gonna show show you how moonshiners stayed out of the limelight and evaded police. Also, stay tuned to learn who the first NASCAR drivers were!
What Life Was Like As A Moonshiner During Prohibition
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Literally no one can do that. And don’t encourage it. It will kill you. No one sells moonshine @ 190 proof. It would be too expensive and undrinksble. Most m/s is tempered to 90-120. It is a cleaner better Spirit and is basically white dog whiskey. Unaged bourbon. I’ve been doing this for 35 years.
And fyi methanol burns yellow.
@@MadNlGER I've drank 190 proof moonshine.
Straight off my reflux still brother. Now I'm not drinking it to drink it but tasting it to see where the run is at.
Cheers.
@@MadNlGER It won't kill you .
Nope and u never should
My great-grandmother used to run moonshine for all my great uncles because she was so pretty she could get more money out of the men she sold it to ..... She also went on to have nine kids with nine different men LOL she was a wild one
If she looked anything like you I believe. Id let you price gouge me on some whiskey too! Haha
The back of Popcorns tombstone is has the words "Popcorn said fuck you" written on it
You can drink with Aunt Ethel but not with Aunt Methyl
yep best way of saying it
My mom and aunt were from Chattanooga Tennessee. Any time they would go visit they always managed to bring home the real thing. Usually procured from the sheriff. Anytime we would have a family get together it was always great fun to give the new comer, someone's boyfriend or girlfriend etc., the first shot. Once it high bottom they're face would turn red. So many times they thought they could handle it. Usually one shot was all it took. I still have a hand written recipe and diagram on how to make it and build the still. Never have attempted though. Maybe some day.
400 gallons is only half of what they got out of Popcorns basement.
"Farmers who often would resort to violence and intimidation" i mean it's literally the harsh frontier and a bunch of men in fancy clothing and jewelry come and say "for no reason other than we said so, give us half of your alcohol/money" i mean what else were they supposed to do? Ask them nicely to leave them alone? What a terrible way to start a video about people who were simply exercising their right to exist and create a product that hasn't been taxed for thousands of years.
Yeah but farmers are still citizens and are still subject to the same laws as everyone else. Living outside of a city doesn’t mean you don’t gotta pay taxes on liquor
@@EmeraldForester777 i think you are really fucking missing the point. A bunch of people who have lived harsh lives, most of them providing/creating everything they need themselves on a brutal frontier, among those is alcohol: a product that has been made by private citizens for private trade since recorded human history and you're telling me that these people who have lived these harsh lives providing for themselves are NOT justified in protecting their livelihood from a bunch of men in fancy suits that were rarely even from their own state, being paid in money that is literally extorted from them and are there to literally, by force, either take their money or products. You have to got to be fucking kidding me. How pathetic, how absolutely weak of a human being could you be to POSSIBLY justify that?
@@EmeraldForester777 what about the massive federal organization funded through money stolen from the people under threat of imprisonment or death that would routinely resort to violence and intimidation towards people that were simply brewing a bit of alcohol for trade? Huh? With how much you're bootlicking federal tax agents from a time where it's well documented they were corrupt as hell and beat and killed a lot of innocent farmers, It's pretty obvious you're one of those types of people that could look at a video of a cop killing an 11 year old unarmed black kid and instinctively defend the cop no matter what.
@@EmeraldForester777 seriously, you fucking justify to me EXACTLY how it is MORALLY OKAY for a bunch of city dwelling people who's entire lives have been in comfortable cities to vote for a politician that is exponentially richer than they are, to draft a piece of paper that now gives federal agents that are not even from the areas they go in, the right to go and literally, by force, take people's money/product they earned themselves. FUCKING EXPLAIN TO ME HOW THAT WAS EVER MORALLY OKAY
@@EmeraldForester777 so just obey the government even if it’s tyrannical and the laws are unjust and threaten your way of life?
Have to have the right water supply.
BEFORE WE GET TO THE ALCOHOL CONTENT BWAAHHHAAAHAHAHAH
I've been drinking moonshine my whole life
I so far have really enjoyed this channel. The one thing that bothers me is when you don't get it right or care to find out. Popcorn Sutton indeed committed suicide, but not to avoid incarceration. When you are incarcerated you're not allowed to smoke. He killed himself for that awful reason. He couldn't or wouldn't give up nicotine.
As a heavy smoker i understand but its still sad
Nice story
Homebrew and moonshine was two different things.
still is homebrew is legal shine is not (without a licence)
Hmm.. Nuts
My family is from Franklin County. My dad's stepmom family knew that family of 3 brothers.
I ( as a 12 yr old Australian) have not had moonshine but I would like to try it and run it
Moonshine is safe if it burns blue or clear
It was called hooch, or just plain moonshine in Lee Co Ky. It killed 5 poker players one night, including a relative in the 1970’s. Hooch became to be known as poison made by amateurs and it was shunned for decades in this part of Ky. Marijuana replaced hooch, and later, the dry counties lost the war against alcohol. The only bootleggers left will sell beer after hours with a mark up. I used to load and unload beer for bootleggers and I used to house-sit for 2 of them during their runs, with a loaded shotgun nearby and I never drank or smoked back then.
Making moonshine ISN'T that dangerous as this video may have conveyed.
Yes high proof booze is flammable but you'd have to be pretty careless to catch a building on fire & to cause an explosion you'd have to be the dumbest person in the state to pull that off.
you need to be a highschooler you mean
moonshine is safe if you know what your doing and do it outside
@@mr.nuggit8240 I make mine inside on the stove.
My moonshine is hangover free as well.
@@ClickClack_Bam drink enogh of anny boze and you dont have a hangover
not***
Don't partake in hooch anymore & being in NZ i would say its a different vibe to homemade Alcohol in other places, but when i did the most delicious drink i ever had was a Strawberry Brandy that was as smooth as silk & tasty as any candy but it packed a punch, never had anything comparable since & that was in the 1990's.
I took to making shine like a duck to water.,
i was not aware that was how popcorn died. godamn that's sad...
Really sad. He used to say he only lit one match a day. Lit his smokes end after end.
@@elizabethkaseroff4245 yeah when I wait he’s a video on him I noticed as soon as one cigarette was almost out he would use that one to light another
not particularly american but my grandad smuggled pretty substantial amounts of alcohol from the UK to the netherlands to sell free of tax
my family (ontario) is infumus for monshining durunig the prohibition out of a construction copany and smuggled large amounts of alcohol to the us and we still own old monshine and most of our money is tied back to this shell company lundering large amounts of money and than investing it so its all ligit now
Small point. Can we please stop with whatever county was the “moonshine capital of the world?” There are dozens of places in Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia that all claim that.
I'm a homebrewer
My son was also. Lost his battle with alcohol 4/2020. RIP Jacob.
Hi
I have a few different flavors of store bought moonshine, l don't like it too hot. Just hot enough to keep ya coming back for more
Ooof ur voice is absolutely bad she gone
Love me some apple pie
Huh?
nobody makes it right anymore
I just tried banana. It was dangerously good 😅 I can sip apple pie, but demolish the banana 😂❤
I could listen to her voice for a while 😅