Moonshine?

[John_Gardner]

@Linda Baehr

I’m just listening to a story on Market Place on NPR about the new interest in unaged hooch- Moonshine. The story features 2 guys from Brooklyn who got a distillery license and will be selling their hooch to bars in Brooklyn in June. Anyone hear of this trend?

Happens in North Arkansas all the time. just not openly talked about.

[Robert.Fleming]

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[Robert.Fleming]

@dcornutt

Thanks to a kind Tennessee fellow, I was able to sample a bottle of TN’s best that was based on Popcorn Sutton’s recipe.

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[Jim_Karegeannes]

Good thread. My understanding - White Lightening is an Arkansas version made from Sorghum molasses, whereas original Moonshine was corn based. Now a days most bootleg is sugar liquor made from cane sugar. White dog is unaged whiskey made from grain, The NY Times had an article about that a few weeks back. Pitched it as a natural outgrowth of the home brewer/foodie trend as people take it to the next step. For a small distiller, unaged product makes financial sense because you can sell it as you make it.

You know, Archer Daniels cranks out oceans of corn based ethanol every day that’s safer, cleaner, cheaper than anything else. You could probably figure out a way to package and market it to capture this latest trend. Just saying-

NYT article:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/dining/05white.html

[dcornutt]

@Jim Karegeannes

Good thread. My understanding - White Lightening is an Arkansas version made from Sorghum molasses, whereas original Moonshine was corn based. Now a days most bootleg is sugar liquor made from cane sugar. White dog is unaged whiskey made from grain, The NY Times had an article about that a few weeks back. Pitched it as a natural outgrowth of the home brewer/foodie trend as people take it to the next step. For a small distiller, unaged product makes financial sense because you can sell it as you make it.

You know, Archer Daniels cranks out oceans of corn based ethanol every day that’s safer, cleaner, cheaper than anything else. You could probably figure out a way to package and market it to capture this latest trend. Just saying-

NYT article:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/dining/05white.html

But just like wines, natural yeasts really change the flavor of the end product.
That was Popcorn’s real advantage. He had cultivated a natural yeast in TN that really gave a great product.
Moonshine is made with corn only. No sugar or cane syrup or molasses.