Quote Originally Posted by ohiopiper View Post
If you're under sixty and selling it, I'd turn you in myself. The few old-timers left that do it for the craft lose money every time they make a run and most give it away to friends and family.
Therein lies the pickle. With them it dies.

Not to get too political, but I'd really like to see the US laws that allow wine and homebrew (as of 1978) to extend to the home distiller... perhaps with similar laws determining how much someone can distill for personal use. A whole new macroeconomy would form around the craft, not the product. Can you imagine, instead of Mr. Beer you'd have Mr. Vodka?

As it stands now, foodie-types are hacking the thermostats in water purification distillers to run lower so they can make a pint of brandy out of a few gallons of juice...

I miss seeing the craft. For those interested, there is a whole youtube series on Popcorn called "This is the last dam run of likker I'm ever gonna make" and it's fantastic... also shot in my old stomping grounds of Maggie Valley, NC.

Here's part one... it goes on for 11 episodes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXkoc5-9a-Y