Break out the Champagne: More legal moonshine coming
More moonshine – yes, corn liquor – may be coming to a store shelf near you.
The city of Dawsonville has given the final toast that will allow Dawsonville Moonshine Distillery to produce moonshine for retail sale in the months ahead.
Dawsonville Moonshine Distillery joins Milledgeville –based Georgia Distilling Co. as two of only a handful of “legal” moonshine producers in the country.
“We are testing equipment now that we have the green light from the state,” Dawsonville Moonshine owner Cheryl Wood told The Gainesville Times. “We will be in production in August.”
The distillery will rely on a 250-gallon copper still, two 415-gallon stainless steel mash tanks, a 1,050-gallon stainless steel mash tank and an ample supply of grains and sugar. It will sell its bottled corn liquor to a wholesaler, which will then supply it to a distributor, who will sell the product to retailers.
The company wants the liquor ready for the 45th annual Mountain Moonshine Festival on Oct. 26-28, according to the Times.
Georgia Distilling began producing 90-proof Goodtime Moonshine in 2011 and distributes it through United Distributors, the state’s largest alcohol distributor.
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Old devil
August 1st, 2012
3:02 pm
Its been awhile since I had some moonshine. The revenues busted up a still a quarter mile from my house in Butts County when I was about seven or eight years old. Atthe time they blew it up it was the largest still in the state they said. That was the first explosion I saw in real life instead of on TV. Those were good times in the mid sixties.
The one
August 1st, 2012
3:24 pm
How come we can get legal moonshine to pass in Georgia but we cant legalize Marijuana? Its healther and can be regulated just like moonshine and not have the said effects of alcohol posioning.
Shine
August 1st, 2012
3:43 pm
make your own. you can get a permit for ethanol from the feds and it wont be punked out at 90 proof.
MrLiberty
August 1st, 2012
5:10 pm
So long as the protected cartel of distributors gets their money, the govenrment will support anything. Heaven forbid there should be freedom or a free market in this state. The government has been violating the people’s rights to free commerce and free choice since the Wiskey Rebellion in the late 1700’s (and even that one was about protecting the government monopoly – that Goerge Washington was a part of).
Raheem
August 1st, 2012
5:45 pm
The Barrettsville area of Dawson County has a rich moonshine tradition going back many decades. I am looking forward to sampling the new legal brew.
Marlon D.
August 1st, 2012
6:19 pm
If it’s only 90 proof it ain’t real “shine”. Try 180 proof for the real thing.
That Dude Says...
August 1st, 2012
6:37 pm
That’s what I’m saying Marlon D. 90 proof isn’t real moonshine. I’m from Kentucky and have a uncle that has a still on his land since as long as I can remember. This commercial stuff isn’t moonshine. This stuff is like the synthetic pot that is being made now a days. Hahaah shine only 90 proof bwhaaaaah what joke.
@Shine to make it legal it takes a lot more than just getting a ethanol permit.
bosshawg
August 1st, 2012
6:42 pm
ditto marlon d. an that dude says gimme tha real stuff
dry dirt road
August 1st, 2012
7:33 pm
article conjures up recollections of gettin’ drunk once on Georgia Moon, a 30 day old legal corn likker that was sold in ATL in about 1984 or 5 when I got drunk on it; it was an unpleasant, pass out-like drunk w/o stomach rejection of it; I was about 30 years old then; I don’t recollect if got drunk from it being only 30 days old, or drinkin’ too much of it that night(while indoors), but it is corn whisky that bourbon is also made from, but allows the tastin’ of the corn, and it tastes delicious, why I must have drank too much
dry dirt road
August 1st, 2012
7:35 pm
if and then when Coke creates a likker that is calorie-free, I might be interested, but right now I can’t handle any calories from likker unless I gotta have a drink to hit the spot
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 1st, 2012
7:41 pm
Is this pro-gay marriage moonshine? If not, prepare for them to whine..
dry dirt road
August 1st, 2012
7:42 pm
there is a video on moonshine that was on PBS which I saw one night and won an Emmy Award entitled “The Last One” and it was made by a company named Sucker Punch Productions; the video can be purchased from a P.O. Box in Raleigh, NC, where Sucker Punch gets their mail; do a Yahoo Search on it and order it if you are curious about how moonshine was made in the mountains outdoors by a now deceased hillbilly
My Two Cents
August 1st, 2012
8:05 pm
Must try some! But, y’all are right the real stuff is like firewater!
LeftATL
August 1st, 2012
8:55 pm
Enjoy some w/ your ChicFila after church Sunday! Ohh you can’t get ChicFila on Sunday…
Sara Tonin
August 1st, 2012
9:06 pm
I love the smell of mash cookin’ in the mornin!’
Rick James
August 1st, 2012
9:58 pm
Anybody know where I can get some of Popcorn Sutton’s legal shine locally?
Mountain Man
August 1st, 2012
10:15 pm
Corn is a vegetable, corn produces moonshine therefore corn liquor is good fer you. Case in point: Popcorn Sutton drank moonshine, they locked Popcorn up, Popcorn died.
Rick James
August 1st, 2012
10:23 pm
@Mountain Man
Corn is a vegetable, corn produces moonshine therefore corn liquor is good fer you. Case in point: Popcorn Sutton drank moonshine, they locked Popcorn up, Popcorn died.
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Popcorn didnt just die.He committed suicide to avoid a jail sentence.
cb
August 2nd, 2012
12:42 am
That Dude Says…. TOO MUCH! Yer Uncle had a still until you mentioned it online! TCPIP = location = name = family = bummer. LEOs love hanging out in social media and blogs to get clues from the clueless.
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robert
August 2nd, 2012
6:15 am
i would rather have weed
JREV
August 2nd, 2012
6:40 am
Trisha, looks like you’re the one who’s whining…
Capt Jack
August 2nd, 2012
9:23 am
@Shine,
I checked into it to see if I could distill a small batch legally and just having the components to complete a still, not even assembled, on your property violates 16 federal statues. The big liquor companies really tied up all of the loopholes in the when they had the chance.
MountainDawg
August 2nd, 2012
5:21 pm
@ Rick James, ol’ Popcorn was the last of the old time shinerunners in NC. He was a legend in Maggie Valley long before gaining national exposure from Johnny Knoxville and Hank 3.
SKUNKAPE
August 2nd, 2012
10:47 pm
yoo no that the besis Huncheyville Holle. I git likkered owne nite wez puits in gowd stuff fer wez no howdo it bes. i git baid owne nite i squirtz it awll out of me in the back of dentin county sherif car . but i didnt say to no anythin. wez awll laft athat. thas gets mi cawll SKUNKAPE cus i stuank liekes own! use like it gowd like we did if yer can fin it.