“Daddy’s Moonshine Still” was introduced on Parton’s Joshua LP in 1971. The song begins with the father’s reputation — “Folks say my daddy wasn’t much of a man for disobeying the laws of the land.” ...

White lightning, mountain dew, firewater - you know it as the illicit substance made in secret by tax-dodging mountain men and drunk by people looking to alter their reality in a serious way. But ...

A 21-year-old man has been arrested in connection to a illegal moonshine still that Oconee County deputies seized Wednesday.Deputies arrested Colby Edward Watts, of Westminster, on two charges. Watts ...

Former Rhea County Sheriff Ola Harris, who served during a time when illegal moonshine operations were widespread in ...

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Kershaw County, SC (WLTX) - Kershaw County deputies say they've busted a moonshine still near Lugoff, which the sheriff says is the first such seizure in decades in the county. William Leonard Branham ...

“Moonshiners” is a popular TV show, tracking the law-evading lifestyle of modern-day bootleggers. But the history of making moonshine is nestled firmly in the backwoods of southern Ohio. The village ...

WINSTON COUNTY, AL (WAFF) - Agents with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency seized two moonshine stills at a Winston County business on Wednesday. The stills, one 500-gallon and one 55-gallon, were ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When you were learning about Prohibition in your high school history class, you probably heard a few ...

Since South Carolina began taxing small distilleries in 2009, allowing entrepreneurs to make legal moonshine, 28 companies have registered with the S.C. Department of Revenue – some using recipes ...

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At the height of his whiskey-soaked infamy, Percy Flowers earned over $1 million a year, enough to buy a fleet of Cadillacs and ride around hardscrabble Johnston County like an untouchable kingpin, a ...