When I was born, my parents called my Great Uncle to tell him that they had named me after him. "What'd you go and give him a dumb name like that for?" he replied, and then he started crying.
He was a gruff bachelor, a clothes horse, a carpenter, an expert marksman, a beekeeper, and he made his own moonshine. One day the Feds showed up and busted up his still and hauled him off to jail...a jilted ex-girlfriend had turned him in. When he got out he built a better one.
He was a mentor to my Grandfather and his younger brother, and later to my Dad. He lived in a small house he’d built himself, living simply and working only when he needed money.
I asked my father what he remembered of his moonshine making operation…
"I remember the still, the felt hat full of charcoal, the white gas stove-which I think I still have-the wooden barrels and the fermenting mash, the 5 gal glass water bottles used to 'flavor' the whiskey with bunches of ¼” square by 6" long sticks that were pushed into the bottles. I know he used honey as a sweetener and sometime used corn sugar."
A friend gave me a bottle of "OriginalMoonshine". I like it a lot. They give a lot of cocktail recommendations but I prefer it “neat”, or on ice because I want to actually taste the ‘shine.
I was tempted to drink it from a Mason jar, but I’m Hillbilly enough as it is.
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