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Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in Moonshine by Max Watman

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Now, researchers have to find the animal—the string theory that would illuminate all these deep connections. Thanks for your interest! Forks of Cheat Distillery www. Despite its illegal status, today's moonshine is insanely lucrative. This Ripley, WV-based distillery is making waves in the mountains with its variety of moonshine flavors, including Caramel Apple, Strawberry Lemonade and plain Straight Moon. Kenneth Moneagle December 14, at 4:

Our excluding Smooth Ambler from the map was not poor research or agenda driven or a mistake--he requested to be left out, and we respected his decision. Thanks for your interest! Here is the web version of a story we did on Smooth Ambler back in We hope you enjoy! This should be turned into an experience like the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, offering passports and a shirt for completion. As our new Governor says..

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February 25, Posted In: By Katie Allie West Virginia is known for its mountains overhead, its coal underfoot and the people who live among its hills. J Johnson December 14, at 6: West Virginia Executive December 14, at 9: Kenneth Moneagle December 14, at 4: Things began for Isaiah Morgan Distillery in when Rodney Facemire obtained a license for the smallest still in the nation, and the rest, as they say, is history. Today, guests can take a tour of the distillery Monday-Saturday, 9 a.

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One of the only makers of buckwheat whiskey in the country, Pinchgut Hollow Distillery makes a variety of moonshine-style whiskeys—Apple Pie, Honey Peach, Corn and Buckwheat—in addition to their premium and novelty whiskeys, like Ramp Shine and Rhubarb. Since the distillery is part of the well-established acre Heston Farm facilities, guests can participate in on-site activities, enjoy a tour or even reserve space to host a wedding or corporate event. Operating hours are Monday-Saturday, 10 a. How do you leave out Smooth Ambler, our state's first and most successful distillery, while including the Bloomery Plantation who while has a nice product, doesn't even own a still?

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Either way, poor form. When we did this story last year, Smooth Ambler's Head Distiller John Little declined our invitation to participate in the map because, according to him, while Smooth Ambler produces a legal white spirit, moonshine is not really their thing. Our excluding Smooth Ambler from the map was not poor research or agenda driven or a mistake--he requested to be left out, and we respected his decision.

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Chasing the White Dog and millions of other books are available for instant access. Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in Moonshine Paperback – February 15, Max Watman is the author of Race Day, which was an editors’ choice in the New York Times Book. Beginning in and progressing into the early years of the great depression, Chasing Moonshine tells the story of a family living on the outskirts of Spokane.

Thanks for your interest! Here is the web version of a story we did on Smooth Ambler back in Quality has nosedived as profits have skyrocketed, and most of today's white dog bears little resemblance to the palatable if fiery product once available in jugs marked 'XXX. Modern-day moonshiners forgo the copper kettles and elaborate pipes for huge metal tanks called "black pots" that rely on straight sugar and cook up to 1, gallons at a time.

The taste, Watman finds, is gag-inducing: Fortunately, Watman says, "the tide is turning.

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The movement is toward local, small" distilleries, who, taking their cue from the microbreweries of the '80s and '90s, are now making artisan moonshine infused with everything from grapes to cherries, walnuts to pecans. Watman's book may well end up in the cookbook section for his descriptions of whiskeys like this one: No matter where the chase takes him, from policing a lobster pot full of boiling molasses to getting schnockered at a conference for hobby distillers, Watman is a hands-on, no-holds-barred participant.

He profiles local color like Daytona winner Junior Johnson, one-time moonshiner, famous for inventing the "bootleg turn" to outrun the feds; and "white-collar" distillers like George Stranahan in Colorado. There's a little of the likable goofball in him too, and one of the book's most memorable scenes are ones in which this "bibliophilic, bespectacled Jewish boy" daydreams about his next adventure, such as the artsy, jazzy, juke-joint atmosphere he imagines awaits him inside a derelict shot house in urban Danville, Virginia: Reality often turns out to be colder and more depressing.

Saddest is the cultural breakdown Watman observes when a symbiotic community of moonshiners, suppliers, cops and politicians -- who once benefited from a tacit "don't ask, don't tell" agreement -- is shattered by federal crackdowns. Concludes Watman, "I have yet to resolve the moral ambiguity of moonshining".

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Though he believes small-scale moonshining should be legalized, comparable to the gallons of beer and wine the government allows home hobbyists each year, he abandons his own distilling efforts. Thus ends his "outlaw" career, and his promising "Rocket 88" brand of moonshine. Nate Chinen's treatise on the subject of jazz in the 21 st century, Playing Changes , is erudite, passionate, and downright inspiring.

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