num_pages: 192
description: When the first American tax on distilled spirits was established in 1791 violence broke out in Pennsylvania. The resulting Whiskey Rebellion sent hundreds of families down the Ohio River by flatboat stills on board to settle anew in the fertile bottomlands of Kentucky. Here they used cold limestone spring water to make bourbon and found that corn produced even better yields of whiskey than rye. Thus the licit and illicit branches of the distilling industry grew up side-by-side in the state. This is the story of the illicit sidethe moonshiners' craft and craftsmanship as practiced in Kentucky. A glossary of moonshiner jargon sheds light on such colorful terms as puker slop and weed-monkey.With a new foreword by author Wes Berry David M. Maurer's classic history of this subject is tongue-in-cheek but nevertheless provides a realistic look at the Kentucky moonshiner and the moonshining industry.
language: English
title: Kentucky Moonshine
publisher: University Press of Kentucky