May 20, 2008
moonshine is a reflection
A potential hobby for Andrew I hope sticks. Making moonshine is making a come back, practiced by “whiskey geeks with a taste for top-shelf hooch”. Sounds good. Although:
Besides being illicit, white lightning has earned a reputation for blinding and killing people who drink it. Many sources attribute these effects to methanol (the heads), which boils off naturally during an early stage of the distillation process.
After all, he says, “This ain’t stamp collecting.”
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In southernmost Illinois, it never went away.
Drank white lightning once and only once. Out of the regulation mason jar. Damn. The verb drink is really an inadequate description of imbibing that stuff.
Done vaporized myself. Done etherized my soul. Went and transmogrified myself into that snake of Cooper’s. Headless. Tailless. Slithering.
There isn’t a winemaker in California that doesn’t have his own still by my reckoning. I talked grappa with my last boss for a good long while one evening.
It seemed pretty simpled and safe as long as you cut the heads and the tails.