Matthew B. Rowley / Softcover

Moonshine: Recipes, Tall Tales, Drinking Songs, Historical Stuff, Knee-Slappers, How to Make It, How to Drink It

Name: Moonshine: Recipes, Tall Tales, Drinking Songs, Historical Stuff, Knee-Slappers, How to Make It, How to Drink It
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Fun internet fact: My first internet search was for a tutorial on how to build a home moonshine still without the cops catching on. I was in college and those were the days, weren't they? Did I just age myself? Did I just hear my hip crack?

Ahem.

This is a fun book for anyone who enjoys moonshine, but it also contains some of most well-written instructions on how to get your own distillation set-up running. I should know.

From the Publisher:

Now here's a volume you can really drink to! Something's brewing in these pages, and it's moonshinea word that evokes fascination, curiosity, and a warm sense of nostalgia. Never before has there been such a richly illustrated, thorough, and entertaining celebration of the history of making fine distilled spirits. Take a trip through moonshining's past: travel from its beginnings as a pioneer staple to the dark days of prohibition, from quickly produced urban rotgut to today's carefully handcrafted artisanal libations.

Get in on the fun with how-to instructions that take into account all legal regulations and requirements before covering ingredients, building a still, basic distilling techniques, and dozens of recipes, all adapted for the beginner. Whiskies, brandies, grappa, schnapps: they're all here, along with dozens of page-turning quotes, song lyrics, and vintage photographs and illustrations.

Learn More About the Author(s)

Matthew Rowley is one of America's foremost experts in extra-legal and folk distilling. The former museum curator is the author of the historical/how-to distilling manual Moonshine! (Lark Books, 2007) and contributor to several edited volumes on drinks.

Rowley is a former board member of the Southern Foodways Alliance, a past presenter at Tales of the Cocktail, and has spoken on drinking and cocktail culture for universities, radio, and television. His recipes and essays have been published by the University of North Carolina Press, Simon & Schuster, the Taunton Press, and others.

As a freelance writer, his spirits and cocktail clients include The American Distilling Institute, The Cocktail & Spirits Online Writers Group, Léirithe le Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Museum of the American Cocktail.

Release Date: 2007

Condition: New

Language: English