NC woman accused of selling moonshine at day care

Authorities have charged a North Carolina woman with selling moonshine out of her day care center. The Charlotte Observer reported Tuesday that North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement arrested a 57-year-old woman last week at Parkview Community Center in Charlotte.

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929 gallons of moonshine found in NC mountains

North Carolina authorities say they have found 929 gallons of moonshine under a shed in the mountains.

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Man charged in knifings at moonshine victim's wake

A parolee has been ordered to stand trial on charges of stabbing two men at a funeral wake for a man poisoned by moonshine.

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But the macho test of stamina was marred, as it has been in the past, by the copious amount of homemade spirits the riders consume, sometimes for days before the race. Depends upon what the macho test was? - H2

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The 17th annual Moonshiner's Reunion and Mountain Music Festival runs through today in the Spartanburg County town of Campobello.

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Headstones and Hooch

In times when people fear the unknown, that is a business man's greatest pleasure. Even in the situation of my Pappaw with his lack of education, he still knew how to work his business.

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Their family business was no mom-and-pop operation.

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A Noxubee County man is accused of operating an illegal moonshine whiskey operation, state officials said.

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To some he was the very stereotype of the cartoon hillbilly, to others he was an outlaw bootlegger, but to anyone who met him, he was just "Popcorn." He became an American Icon doing interviews with the History Channel and Johnny Knoxville from MTV Jackass fame.

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Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton was considered by many as the top authority on making Moonshine, an illegal alcoholic beverage, in the United States. Sutton has convict in U.S. District Court for Manufacturing Illegal Alcoholic Beverages ad possesion of firearm by a convicted felon.

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Novell developer Aaron Bockover has developed a Firefox plugin called Moonshine that leverages Moonlight's media codecs to play conventional streaming Windows Media content at websites like C-SPAN.

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Hillbilly rise again!

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Swigging spirits from a bottle while hovering in a 120mph wind - it is something only a Russian would attempt.

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A man who police in northeastern Tennessee charged with possession of untaxed whiskey told officers he's been buying it in the region for a decade.

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Two Italian senators want to make the Italian moonshine known as grappa legal. The step would keep homemade booze drinkers safe and protect commercial grappa outfits, they say.

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Two Northern League senators on Tuesday began a campaign to make distilling northern Italy's famous Grappa spirit at home legal.

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Two weks ago I seeded a well written article about legendary race car driver Lloyd Moore. Lloyd ran out of gas this past Sunday. RIP. .

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I rag on The NY Times a lot. Make that MORE than a lot. But sometimes you have to hand it to them. This article, written by one of their best, Frank Litsky, is a keeper.

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People have always enjoyed their liquor in rural Franklin County, which calls itself the "moonshine capital of the world," a slogan seen on billboards and T-shirts and even at a moonshine exhibit on the campus of a local Methodist college.

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Moonshine big business...

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Why Can't I Find any easy Homemade Wine Recipes?

Well here goes another useless topic I can write about since I have got a case of insomnia.....again. I recently "sampled" a friends batch of homade wine and found it quite tasty, now I have got a new thing I want to try, can you guess?..........wine making!

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The solution to problem drinking in some of the poorest parts of Africa is to flood troublesome districts with ultra-low-cost beer, according to the world's biggest alcoholic drinks group Diageo.

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Cool site...

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Six people were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of running a moonshine pipeline that authorities say reached as far north as Philadelphia.

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Here's a sobering thought: Hundreds of bottles of Jack Daniel's whiskey, some of it almost 100 years old, may be unceremoniously poured down a drain because authorities suspect it was being sold by someone without a license.

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...Two Georgia men pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges of operating a moonshine still in the Chattahoochee National Forest. One of the bootleggers faces up to 35 years in prison for his crimes: making the brew, selling it, and not paying taxes on the proceeds.

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What's new in Fedora™ 7 (besides a shortened name)? Just a few important things: No more division: Fedora Core and Extras have been combined into one seamless software universe. We've entered the era of the remix. If you don't like our Fedora you can make your own.

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Drinking Contest Plans

O.k...so it looks like there is definitely enough interest in the first ever (annual?) Newsvine Drinking Contest to merit making some solid plans.

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