Taking a Look at Moonshine

Moonlight is made from fermented cereals and mashed potatoes. The main ingredient is usually corn, which is called "corn whiskey". Other ingredients such as yeast, malt and sugar are used and change depending on the taste of the distiller (Logsdon, nd). A well-designed still picture is used for the production of wine. There are only two steps for production, fermentation and distillation (Stewart, 2103). During the fermentation process, grain or fruit starch is broken up into sugar by saccharification, then sugar is broken down into alcohol.

"Moonlight is one of the topics that most people are familiar with," the hand said. "But that is also a topic that most people can not understand.The idea of ​​this project is to look at the historical aspect of the moon sinker which needs to get rid of the geographical viewpoint of Appalachian production.The story of a black American Include it in the story. "

Hot smell is still a lifestyle in most parts of the southern part, but it is not the lifestyle expected by the federal government. The dangerous high ethanol content in the moonlight is one of the reasons they are concerned; the other is that the moonlight does not need to aging as much as alcohol. This means that whiskey cooked in cottages in every corner of the South means that any legal breweries and breweries can profit earlier than they wish and taxes are not imposed. The moonlight winery is expected to earn $ 6,000 per week without paying the government one cents and economists estimate that Virginia loses tax-free alcohol income of 20 million dollars per year. When the federal government collects consumption tax revenues of $ 9.6 billion from alcoholic beverages within a year, some smugglers think it is reasonable to do things in their own way.

Southern Food Alliance writer said, "Moonlight should be awkward," and whatever alcohol company is dressing their products, selling is not the moonlight brought up in the south. The winery of East Tennessee (the region where Moonshiners has been running for decades) sells "Folk Fantasy" to tourists instead of the real moonlight. Traditionalists say that the moonlight cultivated for the South generation is about independence and rebellion; Jim Beim and other companies trying to enter the market sell things through local taxes, state taxes and federal taxes I will. Former rum and lunar players were shocked.

Of course alcohol companies take different approaches. According to a spokesperson for winery in Tennessee, Moonshine refers to any high spirit of illegal distillation. She defended her company's business by maintaining the "real roots" of their family style for 200 years and eventually tribute to the moonlight heritage. But for real addicts, this is not enough. "Cocktail Story" is "a veteran from Wilkes-gun, North Carolina" (formerly known as the "Moonlight Capital of the World") Business The moonlight is not true, he insists. Particularly when the moonlight of some brands is sold at Wal-Mart sale, the high brilliance of self-esteem that regards the variety purchased at the store as genuine