Moonshine - Blue Ridge Style
Jars of MoonshineMoonshine, Blue Ridge Style

Produced by the Blue Ridge Institute & Museum of Ferrum College
with funding and support from John Redd Smith, Jr., Martinsville, Virginia, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

Chapters...

  • An Introductory Taste
  • Old Spirits in a New World
  • Turning Distillers into Moonshiners
  • Still Types and Techniques
  • A 1980s Mash Recipe for Corn Liquor
  • Building the Moonshine Industry
  • The Cat and the Mouse
  • Liquor Cars & Liquor Haulers Video
  • The Franklin County Conspiracy
  • Lincoln Gusler, Copper Still Maker
  • Sipping in the Blue Ridge
  • Common Blue Ridge Moonshining Terms
  • An Industry in Decline?
  • The Stuff of Legends
  • Acknowledgements & Further Reading 

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