Irish People Try American Moonshine For The First Time
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American Moonshine! That's right, we've tried Irish moonshine (Poitín) on the channel before but today, we're trying the American equivalent! It's known for being quite potent so let's see how our TRYers handled these drinks, with most of them trying it for the very first time!
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Real moonshine can only be obtained through a guy that knows a guy that knows a guy that knows about it
Or just, you know... make it yourself. It's really not that hard. 😛
And the guy that makes it sounds like Gambit from X-men
Whatever you say Saul Goodman
I know THAT guy!
The guy will ask you how tempered you want it so you don't go blind, and if he knows what he's doing you might get some peaches or somethin' in the mason jar for taste - although it goes down like water anyway.
Fond memories of camping at Merlefest and havin' some old mountain man swing by our campfire during breakfast sellin' quarts for like $20. Wilkes County folks don't mess around!
I think I heard it best from a Appalachian hillbilly “that redbull give ya wings but this moonshine give ya four wheel drive”
👍
More like it’ll give hair on parts that wasn’t even on part of your body till now
More like you'll find yourself waking up in a random ditch
Yea you saw that video tht was up awhile back where he downs the whole bottle and then falls and starts crawling
Oh shit Hillbilly's in the Hollar?
The best commercial moonshine. The best moonshine cannot be purchased in a liquor store and you have to know someone.
Yeah, I live in the mnts of TN, and let me just say. I've seen Jesus a couple of times.
I've been making shine for 25 years. Grew up in the Appalachian mountains
True. I bought the stuff they were drinking at Walmart!! The best I ever had was from West Virginia and Kentucky. Tennessee isn't bad either.
Commercial moonshine isn't moonshine
Yup and I'm that guy but it's just personal basically. Much much much better than what they are drinking.
“If it burns clear, have no fear. If it burns yellow, pitch that fellow.”
I used to get my shine from a steel pourer at the mill.
What does it mean
I just assume it’s not a good batch
@wikidclownchris distillation in general, but specifically moonshine has a much higher chance of making methanol, which has a lower boiling point than ethanol (I think) and is the first to come out of the still, you gotta pitch out the methanol until you get the good stuff, unless you wanna go blind and then 💀
@@charlesisdumb395 I thought the going blind bit was for Chokin the Chicken. 🤣
Everclear
Good shine burns blue , anything else is wood alcohol. Take it from someone who knows
My grandfather was born and raised in West Virginia. He moved to Baltimore MD at some point and built his family. One thing that never left him was making moonshine. My mom wasn’t happy about me learning to make moonshine at 10 but I loved helping him. He passed two weeks ago, Rest Easy Will Shrader
Wow. What's funny is my grandfather too was born and raised in WV (Morgantown) and then moved to Baltimore.
Those are memories that'll last your lifetime and generations to come. Rest easy old timer🙏
Those kinds of life lessons are hard to come by rip to your grandfather and condolences to you and your family
Hopefully you'll pass on the knowledge.
you can take someone out of west virginia but you sure can't take the west virginia out of someone 😂
I grew up in South Carolina. I personally knew 2 moonshiners. One dropped out of school in the 3rd grade to work on flathead engines with which his dad ran moonshine. He said if the batch didn't begin fermenting
properly, he would throw in a cap of Red Devil Lye.
The other man was a tobacco farmer who made 10 times as much income from his moonshine.
oh nooo lmao,, i read lye and checked out 😭
🎉🎉🎉
As a fellow South Carolina native, where can I procure said moonshine? I’ve only had some from the backwoods of GA
Lye….as in drain cleaner lye???
@@shaylajohnson7474 yes, the same Lye, also called sodium hydroxide. It has many other uses including treating drinking water, making candles, and giving pretzels their distinctive sheen
"With great moonshine, comes great responsibility"
"Thanks Drunkle Ben" 😂😂
"Drunkle Ben" is so clever that I can almost forgive Colin for all his other terrible puns.
Dude, I was just getting ready to timestamp it lol @3:57
I see you bro 😂 that bitch didn't laugh but we all did
"Drunkle Ben"...That one over drunk uncle at the family get togethers that embarrasses everyone and that nobody wants to admit he's part of the family. 🤪😬..
His brother is Uncle Ben...The founder of rice. 🍚 😂🍚
Down here in the mid south of the USA, I bought a ranch to retire on. Wasn't 24 hours after I moved in that an old grizzled guy, appeared from out of my southern woods with both hands up and waving (they still shoot uninvited trespassers down here on occasion). I Motioned him up to my back patio/sundeck where I was sitting admiring the view and we had a bit of a conversation. His First question was "Hello, do you hunt?" Turns out he owned the place just to the south of my property line. When I replied not so much anymore, but on occasion, he explained that his dogs would sometimes chase deer up over the ridge bout 20 yards from my deck and if that was ok. I said sure. Some days later on a different occasion, "Whitey" asked about if I knew why my Ranch had the name it did. To my surprise, he asked me to follow him into the woods which I did and after a short hike of about 70 to 80 yards , we appeared at a hidden glen with a spring flowing out of a wall of rocks, and into a small pool or incredibly (for this area) clear water.
He then explained that back in "his" day, my ranch was locally famous for being the home of some of the finest moonshine in the state, all made from the water from that spring. When I asked who had run the stills, he winked and replied that HE and his father had :) LOL. Whitey at that point was in his 90's and later, before he passed, he delivered his families formula to me, along with a jug of some that he had secreted away years before, when he could no longer safely drink the stuff. To be frank, Whitey would've laughed his ass off at 30 percent shine. I don't know exactly what the Percentage of the stuff he gave me was, but it was so clear that it made a full glass look empty. The taste was unlike anything I'd ever had before (and THAT is saying something;) it wasn't offensive, but it also wasn't what I would describe as "tasty" It didn't burn my mouth or throat, but moments later I began to feel a warmth quickly spreading throughout my core resulting in a deeply satisfying 'mellow' relaxation within a few minutes followed by a marked decrease in my hand/eye communication and speaking speed LOL. Powerful Stuff! TOO powerful to make a habit of imbibing straight up, but possibly an excellent 'mixer' component. Tell you one thing,though; if someone ever managed to spike the the punch at the local High School's Prom- 9 months or so later we'd have had a population explosion in the valley LOL. As my old grandfather used to say:
"that stuff will make you run through the bushes and bark like a fox!"
heh
I've known guys like Whitey... best story tellers and drinkin buddies on the planet. They'll help you build or fix anything just cause they see you workin on it, but then you'd do the same for them. Lucky is he who has a salt-of-the-earth neighbor like him.
What an awesome story. Thank you so much for sharing. ❤
I really enjoyed your story. Thank you for sharing it!
Here's a little description how moonshine is rated
In the old days, before the invention of more modern distilling techniques like thump kegs and reflux stills, moonshiners used a basic pot still - the simplest of all types of stills. It’s made up of two components: a boiler to cook the mash and a condenser to collect and cool the alcohol vapor back to a liquid.
While it is an effective device, you don’t get pure alcohol when you run a batch through the first time. The fermented mash, which is very similar to beer, starts out at about 5-10% alcohol by volume (ABV). When you run the mash through a pot still, the product coming out of the other end contains about 30-40% alcohol, the rest being mostly water. This is called “singlings.” (While the first run produces liquor at about 60-80 proof and is drinkable, you wouldn’t want to drink it since it still has quite a bit of off flavors carried over through the water from the mash. To raise the alcohol content, you must save up all the results of your first runs, and then run all of that through the still a second time. The second run raises it up to the 60-70% ABV range. Moonshine that had been run through the still three times was very close to being pure alcohol, above 80% ABV.
The “XXX” signifies how many times the moonshine batch had been run through the still. Three X’s indicated that it had been run through three times and that the shine was pure alcohol.
Interesting, i didn't know that about the X designations
Copperhead Road type
Very interesting.
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Blueberry moonshine sold on side of the road in Appalachia Tennessee is incredible. It cured my cold and made me a fan in half a shot.
Yeah right.
@@40billwaugh You have no idea until you try it lol
@40billwaugh Didn't actually cure their cold but that shot likely opened up their sinuses and made them forget ALLLL about their cold.
The blueberries means it's got vitamins.
@@asinglegreatarmada1998 🤣
We used to get moonshine from a family outside Montgomery, AL when I was in high school. I once asked how good it was and the guy said "Granny drank it every day 'til she went blind".
Blue Flame
Methanol in her ethanol
I was raised in the Gump! 😂
@@illuminerd3757 Yup, 100%. Someone who didnt know what they were doing.
@@StudioDaVeed As a Tennessean I watched this whole video just to see if Blue Flame was one of the ones they tried.
I was once trapped up waiting in the rainy woods under a tarp, tripping on some psychedelics with 4 friends… we howled into the night like werewolves, heard howls back. About 6 “ahhhhOoooooooO’s” & 14 mins later we were approached by 2 dudes looking for dry place. We exchanged some things for pure moonshine and it was one of the best nights of my life.
Mind you...this is our 'legal' moonshine, not the WV "White Lightning" I grew up with. This is about as strong as some good liquors here and has some good flavors for sure...but nothing gets you hammered quicker or hungover worse that the original.
I shivered at seeing White Lightning lol
I have a friend that distills their own alcohol, for themselves mind you, and moonshine is one of them.
I'm an old West Virginia boy and I totally agree!
I never got a hangover on original moonshine, but I've had Satan coming out of my forehead on some homemade apple pie shine.
Yeah your not getting the good stuff
Not giving them the apple pie moonshine as a disservice XD it is by far the best.
Nuttin’ as American as apple pie! Gotta spread the love to them furiners so they know the joys of USA!
Was surprised about that, and the peach one. I also like the cherry moonshine but that can vary person to person, what I like to do with the cherry is mix it with Sprite or some lemon/lime flavor soda as it tastes like a Shirley Temple.
None of these are moonshine to begin with
Absolutely agree, but this stuff is not near as stout or as good as true Mountain Shine
@@HeatherHolt1313 I'm aware, I was just referring to the brand that they were serving them. Y'all cant expect them to serve illegal alcohol, it's the closest thing they're gonna be able to serve
A friend of mine makes moonshine. I took a sip of it once and vowed to never do that again. Just the vapors coming off of it burned my nostrils and made my eyes water. It's STRONG.
White lightning
No different than Everclear. 190 proof grain alcohol. We used that in the military for Jungle Juice. 1 part Everclear, 3 parts fruit juice.
If it burnt your mouth and had "vapors," it wasn't the good stuff. Needs a little more cooking 🤪
@@justasimpleguy7211 in my teens i randomly ran into a friend of mine 1 night in a cemetery and i had bad cottonmouth. he had a bottle of water, i asked to have it. he didnt explain anything and i downed the whole bottle. right after that i realized that i had my first drink of 100 proof everclear as I struggled to breathe lol.
@@Dahstin5311 190 proof. :-) That's 95% alcohol by volume. In the Air Force we called it jet fuel. LOL! 1 part jet fuel and 3 parts fruit juice is a really good jungle juice.
I'm a bourbon and tequila kinda guy and that's generally 80-100 proof or 40%-50% alcohol by volume. They were drinking 100 proof 'shine in this video. Seems kinda on the tame side to me.
If you like tequila try Casamigos Añejo Tequila and in my opinion Old Grand-Dad Bonded Bourbon is hard to beat when compared to anything close to its price. ;-)
These kids were drinking cut shine. A slug of uncut shine 170-185 proof is not easy on your mouth or throat. This is store bought coal filtered crud that few from these mountains would actually call shine. It's a treat, and yes i dilute it put it over ice and keep it in the fridge. When people ask me where I get it...DON'T ASK-PERIOD.
I served in the Marines with a guy whose family were moonshiners. He would periodically bring some back with him from when he went home to visit family. I was a HEAVY drinker. Would drink about a 5th of Jack Daniels every night we went out. One quart jar of that stuff.....NICE! Put a 3 fresh picked cherries split in half in it and let it sit for 3-4 days the sip at room temp. Mighty fine Kentucky Sipp'n Whisky.
Shoulda tried a peach, ‘oorah.
I also may know this Marine👊🏻 Semper Fi 🇺🇸
I’m from east Kentucky in the mountains. Personally my favorite way to flavor shine is with wild blackberries that grow all over the mountains, and a special ingredient I mustn’t divulge😁
Rah
@@charlesbrown4483having lived in East KY I concur. As a Bostonian girl it was a whole new experience for me having moonshine like that and let me tell you I'm a big big fan
"That's a margarita for someone that's had a day"...HYSTERICAL!!!!😂
That was a great line! So good!
Him: “Your enthusiasm is…”
Her: “ *DRINK* “
🤣♥️
Everyone just brought a different energy to this one and I'm loving it.
Seamus and Nicole - Chill and thoughtful
Paddy and Laura - Wholesome af
Pagan and Colin - Glorious Chaos
I know you can't legally get the homemade stuff, but something about paying taxes on it just takes away some of the kick
You can 100% legally distill your own in some states.
Edited because some of you are autistic and nitpicky af
@@aardeng Not 100%, its still illegal under Federal Law (but I expect that to change ... a federal court in Texas ruled last month that the laws forbidding home distilling are unconstitutional, so this will likely go to the SCOTUS and federal laws against it will be struck down sometime within the next decade).
Of course you said "brew" so yes, you can brew your own beer in most of the US. But distilling ... that's how spirits are made and that's illegal ... for now.
@Zundfolge some states like in the state of Missouri you are legally allowed to make 50 gallons for personal use(100 if you are married)
Federal government has stated that if you are following state laws concerning manufacturing of alcohol then nothing illegal is being done and they won't intervene.
@@aardeng distilling is not brewing and is illegal
Moonshine is by definition made in private stills. The term dates back to prohibition, when private stills were the source of all bootleg liquor.
Was offered moonshine once in Kentucky, from a farmer I had helped. He was amazed at how well I handled it. Had to explain to him that my Hungarian wife and her friends, had introduced me to Palinka years earlier!😂
When I lived in Hungry and Romania, it was called tuica (Zwickau).
The Bulgarian version is Rakia and once you try it, you can never regain your innocence.
If it has a label, it's taxed. if it's taxed, it ain't moonshine.
@@brianpatton3765Amen
My Hungarian girl friends introduced Palinka to me in Germany about a decade ago. Waaaaay too strong for me! 😊
Paddy and Laura trying to casually sneak away the hunch punch was both funny and adorable!
He's on to us... RUN!!
I'm from America, so the Greased Lightning reference in the Hunch Punch Lightnin' segment was HILARIOUS!! 😂😂😂
Pagan's "I'm drinking it gay" made me cackle a little too loud to admit 🤣 Also Laura and Paddy trying a cheeky little steal there was too adorable
I'm a genuine moonshiner and very proud of the quality products I've made. Peated Scotch, bourbon, sour mash, cherry bounce, tequila, rum, vodka, and good old Popcorn Suttons multi grain moonshine!! It's an art, but once you get it down, you can reproduce it great every time!!
Some of the best shine I've ever tasted came from popcorn's batch. Smooth as butter going down.
We mustin forget Ever Clear
@@HOOSIERLOVER Ever Clear is trash! Week no flavor!
I distilled a batch of GWR today.
Is there a way to exchange currency for this xD I've really wanted to have authentic moonshine lol
The peanut butter one is really good. My great-uncle, who served in Navy in WW2, would purposely get KP duty because he would steal potatoes while skinning them and make moonshine in his bunk to give out to his crewmates. As he ran low, he got himself in trouble again, just to make more
Mix the peanut butter with the cookie dough. Tastes like a liquid peanut butter cookie. You'll happily get completely trashed!
I'm a little hurt they didn't do peanut butter or apple pie. Those are the goats
That’s hilarious!! I love it!
I’ll have to try the peanut butter one now. Thanks!
I live in Georgia. Best moonshine I've ever had was homemade apple pie. So GOOD! Smoooooth 😊
I loved how Pagan was like...eh. I'd have been on the floor trying the original. LOL!
Hunch Punch is an old old recipe here in the States. Traditionally made with 190 proof alcohol, Hawaiian Punch and cut fruit.
Usually served in a 30+ gal trashcan, in a field with a bonfire. And you just serve yourself. The fruit will F#@$ you up worse than the liquid LOL
Everyone I know here in South Carolina calls it PJ short for Purple Jesus.
@@Ishmal22 That's what we always called it too lol. And if you couldn't get moonshine, Everclear was the replacement.
In the military we called that jungle juice haha
In Wisconsin we call it Whoppatwowe!
Hunch punch was a Tennessee thing when I was in university in north Tennessee. But it involved a large, clean (new) trash can, everybody’s left over alcohol, Hawaiian Punch and a golf club to stir it. Dangerous stuff!!
We called it something else that escapes me at this moment but the aftermath of a long night with it never will forget
Jungle juice over in the northeast
For the uninitiated, Ol' Smokey is the easiest to do. True shine comes from a old man down in holler, and you don't know if it will kill you, make you see...things, or be the best drink you ever had.
Also, Hunch Punch is made in a cooler where everything in the fridge gets poured in, along with gallons of pure shine, and then you take your own cup and dip what you want out. Most commonly found at frat parties and trailer parks.
My mama calls Ol' Smokey 'city shine', cuz it can't come close to the true southern brew.
Yeah it's not like they could actually get some old dude in Seymour to send them unmarked jars.
That said they could have at least sent the Blue Lightning, but given the flammability it's understandable why they couldn't.
a few rap songs suddenly make more sense, thank you 😆
@@thomasbrantley5667Short of making a trip via boat and hand delivering it to them... Yeah they'll never get a taste of true shine. (Well that or they come visit the states and hit up the hill of North Carolina)
The “best” commercial moon shine does not compare to homemade shine…✌🏼💖
Reminded of my friend in Tennessee introducing me to his friend who had a stash in the fridge. As we drank he warned me that as soon as you wonder if you’ve had enough, its too late.
When I was 19 my parents went on a two week vacation. I bought 50# of corn, malted it, used my mom’s blender to chop it up, and cooked it in her pressure pot on a hot plate. Caught it out of a copper snake. The results:
1. My friends came by the garage during production and termed me as “Really f***in’ strange.”
2. I got 4 pints of about 60 proof.
3. When my parents got home and wondered what the rotten corn smell was in the backyard, my dad said “YOUR SON was running shine.” Only time one of them verbally disowned me.
4. My friend Pat got really sick drinking it in the dorm.
God Bless the Firefox books.
As a parent, its not so much about disowning as passing blame to the other parent, basically saying "he gets this from you".
My dad had all the Firefox books I need to find them
I Love Laura's response "Solidarity" !
I’ve never had a good big-box moonshine. The good stuff comes from people you have to know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy to get it from, someone your uncle traded something with, people camped out for bluegrass festivals, or a popped trunk at someone’s backwoods wedding.
Old Smokey is definitely not moonshine. It's marketed as moonshine, but it is not real moonshine
Totally agree!!!!!
This episode would be very different if it were real Shine 🤣
100 proof, no chance
It's a mix clearly
Yep just a liqueur, same as how fireball isn't whiskey
I LOVE how Pagan got Colin with the Strawberry, that had me in tears before he realized he had to down the rest
I think everyone realizes that this is "moonshine" in much the same way that Dollywood amusement park is an "authentic Smokey mountain experience". It's in the same area, it's been diluted, sweetened and Disney-fied., but it's still pretty fun. Glad you enjoyed it for what it is. Slainte!
(Other comments will elaborate ad nauseum I'm sure lol)
well put.....
That's a great description. Well done.
At the top of the mountain from Dollywood there’s a town called Gatlingburg. Ole Smokey has a retail outlet there where there distill this product. There is a huge tasting bar where the product is show cased in many flavours for free. I believe they are 1/4 or 1/3 ounce tasting shots. Starting with un cut from the still to a plethora of different flavours, 14 when I was there ( 10 years ago) . Watching this video seems to show newer flavours. They assume you’re gonna buy your favourite flavours. On the same block there is another brand doing the same thing. Good for a free drunk if that’s what you’re into
You're right about the shine, but you must not have ever been to Dollywood. It has southern Appalachian food, music, and crafts of all kinds, beside the rides. Unless you think "authentic" means being run out of a holler by some barefoot guy in overalls with a rifle or shotgun....? That's rare.
@@injunsun Settle down there sweetpea - it's all in fun. Plus I've known and done work for and at the place since it was Silver Dollar City. So yeah, a little familiar lol
Just wanted to say.. the same place that moonshine originates from and is still made, the Appalachians, are the same mountains that were once connected to the Scottish highlands and the Atlas before the continents broke apart. They are also among the oldest mountains in the world and geologists come from all over the globe to study the different strata, especially the one on the West Virginia/Kentucky line, where a road was cut into the mountain and reveals a lovely view of it.
I was born and raised in the state of North Carolina, famous for its moonshine. Every Christmas, my parents had a "friend" who would make moonshine and flavor it with watermelon or sometimes strawberries. I was allowed to have a sip when I turned 16, and it was GREAT!!!!
Had some apple pie shine while visiting family back in the Tennessee hills and it was pretty good if I do say so myself.
I was raised in Georgia and when I visited family in the South there was often REAL Moonshine, not the "store bought" stuff. Nothing like the family reunions where either a whole hog or an entire flock of chickens were barbequed! Sitting out there with my Uncles at night tending the firepit and turning the hog while drinking Moonshine. I've had the store bought (same brand as you're trying) and it's not bad but the real thing is better! I always get the plain and laugh at the jars next to it FULL of cherries with a little moonshine in it selling for the same price! Silante' !
Having worked as a distiller for a company in Appalachia that I wont ID, very little of what we marketed as moonshine was a traditional corn liquor. Most of it, especially the flavored stuff, was grain neutral spirit (190 proof) mixed with copious quantities of water, sugar and flavorings along with coloring additives. Some of it was corn "beer" that was distilled and watered down to a pre-determined ABV in a more traditional method, but mostly, it's commercial-grade everclear with water and/or sugar added. We were not alone in this,either. Most of our competitors did similar products.
Does the city start with a W and end in G? I won't give it away, but if it is my company is their neighbor!
@@SamuraiChris78 nope, it did not, I'm afraid.
That's why I commented earlier that you can't buy shine in a store (legally).
legal moonshine will never exist unless someone is willing to slave together a ton of stills, the fact its small batch significantly contributes to the flavor.
I've seen EVERCLEAR make a grown ass man run around half naked😂😂😂
Life goal achieved. Always wanted to try moonshine and glad I did
Good on ya, Seamus!
I wish they had sent you Apple pie. It's the best!
Now get your ass over here and we will get you the real stuff!
I love the history behind moonshine!
I'm from California but have been living at the foothills of the appalacian mountains since 2006, right after I graduated high school. Moonshine here isn't a normal alcohol to drink, but it is a huge part of the history. Every year a town near me, Dawsonville, GA, holds the Moonshine and Car show. I went last year and it was so much fun: We got to see a lot of beautiful vintage cards and some new ones. They had tents set up selling vintage car parts, records, license plates, etc. The moonshine was so amazing too, supplied by Granddaddy Mimms.
My charge nurse when I was just starting off in the medical field was the granddaughter of an old shiner. She said she loved seeing him fix up his cars and hear his stories of out running the police during prohibition. It's great, even though I don't like NASCAR, to have visited the NASCAR museum and talking with my old boss. I love learning the history.
That being said, I LOVE Smoky Mountain Moonshine! We have a lovely package store that sells these as their main display. They sell shot sized mason jars full of shine, and they're the cutest little things. I reuse the little mason jars to store spices when it's harvest season. :)
In Virginia and NC you can still get a quart jar out of the mountains, good spring water is a must.
My father-in-law always kept one of those quarts under the kitchen sink. Medicinal purposes only. I think his source was in Elkin.
@@a.n.7863100% true. I live in Wilkes, the next county over. Wilkes was known for years as the MOONSHINE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. You need to know the right people.
@@markroe8229is there any truth to the rumor that Junior Johnson got his start by building engines that would outrun the law while running moonshine? (Sorry for stereotyping but you did say Wilkes County.)
Yup grew up in NC and this stuff is a joke. THe most we had for flavor in our shine we got from our guy was a few pieces of fruit like apple, pear and the like he had tossed in.
Needless to say when you finally finished that jar those pieces of fruit would get you blasted because they had soaked up so much shine.
I can tell you that unfiltered, pot still moonshine and mushroom honey has a really unique synergy of flavor that constantly intrigues. Packing fresh mushrooms in warm honey is a way to preserve them, and the liquid that is left after using up the mushrooms is what's called mushroom honey. Very common with old hippy types that picked magic mushrooms, but it keeps any mushrooms for months. And mixed with high proof, uncut moonshine it tastes addictively curious, nobody can ever guess the flavor, plus it keeps shifting on the palate.
I'm sold. Take my money
I love Laura and Paddy paired together. Such good energy!
Totally agree!
Solidarity had me rolling! Love Laura's attitude!
Right?! Laura's the best!
I so would travel to their bar!!!
Same. 😊
A friend of mine goes to Tn each year, and always brings back moonshine, homemade by a friend of his. I got their cherry, apple pie, and peach. Absolutely delicious!!
The best shine is flavorless and doesn't burn - you can't tell it from water except when you try to stand up and fail.
I'll acquire a jar of peach or damson shine for the summer activities and a jar of apple pie for the holiday season.
It also won't freeze.
@@katyas-mom not in home appliances, no. If you get it down to -114c, which isn't likely outside of a laboratory, it will go solid.
This is correct!
Most of this is true except the no taste part. The shine I used to get has the best corn taste I've ever had. My guy retired because his bootlegger got caught and he didn't want to risk it anymore.
Apple Pie and Lemon Aid are normally on my shelf
Best if bought in a gallon jug from a GOOD producer
I love Apple pie with ginger ale
Apple pie is dangerous stuff. Its goes down so nice and smooth ,then BANG ! you are. S--t faced drunk
Especially the stuff in the gallon milk jug from ol' walt
I once had real moonshine in a Dixie cup. It ate a hole in the cup. Always serve it in glass. Preferably a mason jar.
It also eats thru styrofoam coolers
The two opening a bar together and ONLY serving this are such charmers! Love them!
Colin is so quick-witted it’s practically a super power.
My dad introduced me to a friend from Puerto Rico who made his own moonshine & it was my first time trying it. It was infused with mango & went down so smoothly. I drank like I usually would but was tore up!!!! Powerful stuff. I remember after my grandfather died, we all went to his house in Pittsburgh to sort through his things & I found the entire area under his kitchen sink full of mason jars filled with clear liquid. My mom said it was moonshine he never revealed the source of & threw it all away. I was a teenager then but now that I think about it, it was so wrong to trash it! That stuff was made the original way, in a still in the woods.
That is a Batman-level childhood tragedy
yes moonshining took off in Puerto Rico at the same time it did as in the mainland US because Puerto Rico is a United States commonwealth and territory
There's an old saying that I'll paraphrase: Shoot moonshine, you'll do something to get shot; sip moonshine, and you're one sip away from heaven all night long. 😉
On my way back through Tennessee, I had hit a place called Sugarlands Distillery, I believe it was called. Went in for the $10 tasting sessuon, left with 3 or 4 jars of moonshine. One of them in particular was what they were calling a “Sippin’ Cream”. Absolutely delightful. Didn’t last long in my house…went great with coffee
Having grown up drinking real backwoods moonshine, I can't help but laugh when I hear 50% ABV and moonshine in the same sentence! 😂
That’s what you give the kids to help with teething and just general fussyness
Oh, the stories I could tell.
I also had to laugh at the ABV. That's for the younguns.
Pagan, that warmth is fire!
My Ozark father-in-law would call a man when we visited. He'd say, "My son-in-law has a little cough! Do you have any cough medicine?"
4:15 Well played, Pagan! It took me a full 45 minutes to realise! 😅
😂😂😂 🫰🏻💖
That's our girl :)
I was watching your face that whole time and when you realized what happened I lost my shit! Hahaha the trust issues she gave you for the rest of the video were golden!
Colin, Old Smoky, has a couple of different foods soaked in their moonshine. Please, try next! 😂 Dill pickles, cherries, peaches and spicy dill pickle. 🍒🍑🍍🥒
My grandfather once needed some money. A friend said help me with a delivery. Sure he said. It turns out they were delivering moonshine out in the country. Grandpa rode shotgun in the most literal sense, with a shotgun across his lap lol. He said you could run an engine on the stuff but it would burn it up quickly haha
(6:50) It's red flavor.
😂😂😂
We need Lolsy & Leather Jacket Guy for this video! Pagan, Paddy, Nicole, Laura, Collin, & Seamus were really great!
You need real moonshine from the hills of Tennessee or Kentucky! Double run or triple run are the best! That is where the XX or XXX comes from. And it needs to be proofed before you drink it! This will make you take back things you never stole!! But until then enjoy your Ol Smokey! Cheers…
Don't forget North Carolina. Anywhere Appalachian really.
Even the apple farms in MD have real shine - the stuff that you absolutely need to proof down before chugging.
WV❤
@@DJMarcO138 The sad thing about apple is you definitely need a lot because the hearts are very small compared to grain. Tasty, but if you don't have a cheap supply of apples it's pricy.
I've tried that brand, and it's not enjoyable.
The idea that one of our drinks is compared to hugging an old friend and it helps you relax is the best compliment you can ever give to ANY American item.
Loved the Apple Pie and the Cherry one, one of my favorites was to mix some Sprite with the cherry moonshine so it could be like an adult version of a Shirley Temple drink.
Welcome to the team Pagan. Our month is next month but thanks for kicking it off early!
I made moonshine in the mid 90's in rural Midwest USA. In 5 yrs of making shine I only flavored one batch and used peaches. My orchard had an abundance of peaches, and I used 1/2 bushel in my fermented mash. That was a lot of extra work. I much preferred the taste of the unflavored shine. The ingredient labels are telling for ingredients. I used water, corn, wheat, and yeast to make my mash. The best shine is not sold in stores...
Nice job being vague on your whereabouts.
@@a.n.7863 I may still be doing some consulting with younger distillers. Making shine is a tremendous amount of work, a legal risk, and I'm not sure when the statute of limitations takes effect. Glad to pass on knowledge to the youth though.
Is their a reason for typing like a woman/Redditer? Makes me question your credentials
@@morewi Is there a reason that you can't distinguish the difference between their and there? My sentences are complete, properly punctuated, and spelled correctly. You effed up on the second word of your reply. Your final statement lacks punctuation for your second mistake in a really short reply (2 mistakes in 15 words). Did you finish school or just a lower intelligence HS graduate? I'm unsure what a Redditer even is.
No shine is sold in stotes. By definition, moonshine is illegally distilled liquor. Nothing they sell in stores is real shine.
I swear, every drinking video that Laura is in, instantly becomes my favorite video ever uploaded to UA-cam.
My first encounter of moonshine was in a parking lot of a Phish concert in the back of a van.... I was later found in a tree, singing Disney songs like folk music.. Was a great day.
I like Pagan's laughter more than any moonshine.
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0:35 no this is absolutely accurate we are all like that here in america.
Except they forgot the part about my six shooter
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My family is from the Mississippi delta, we have been making moonshine since prohibition. I don't make it, but the cousins still do. Family reunions are like a restock. Just don't get in a car accident on your way home!
My grandfather made two types - essence of corn and essence of blackberry. He gave me a sample in a mason (ball) jar and I found it a week later with the top completely rusted. Powerful. 😂
Laura and Paddy were killing me on this one. It’s been a while, glad I came back.
This is as close as you can "legally" come to moonshine. The real stuff if made properly is as smooth as water going down. The problem is that because the "good stuff" is so smooth, you drink more than you should and pay dearly for it.
We were gifted a mason jar of apple pie a couple years ago… we drank it by the sip-
One sip - done for the night….
And that sip hit hard every time. - it was so delicious… so I could see how easy it would be to over drink.
@@bisonfarm I hate to admit it, but I've done it more than once!😉
@@AppStateSpanky haha. I can honestly see how it would be far too easy to do. Especially with the apple pie we had.
The first time we tried it, I took 3 sips- my husband his own sized few……
From then on I knew to only take one . Took my husband took a few times of a couple large sips to realize one was enough.
I’m really hoping for another jar this year. Crossing my fingers they make enough again this year.
I once had cheryy-flavored moonshine. I could not taste the alcohol and that's how I blacked out for the first time.
The Old Smokey Moonshine also has a blueberry lavender that is phenomenal!
There are many types of moonshine. There is corn mash,sour mash, wheat mash, stump shine, Brandi shine, potato shine.
Most American shine is 180-200 proof naturally before proofing barrel, it’s clear because brownish color comes from wood in aging barrels. Most American shines are a corn grain whiskey but don’t have to be. Quality of any shine is defined by its proof,mash and water source just like Whisky.
I’ve made various shine whiskeys,vodkas and Brandi’s. My preferred shine is distilled honey mead.
This is commercial mass produced flavored hooch. Its found a lot in Pidgeon Forge TN tourist area. My family in Kentucky used to make the REAL stuff back up in the holler..THAT stuff....shewwwwieee!!!!!
The ol' Kentucky sippin' water. I'm from East Tennessee. I am familiar...
Real moonshine will eat the metal lid off the jar after about a year. Happened to me. Once had a gallon jug flavored with kerosene.
I did the flight sampler at Ol Smokey there in Gatlinburg…hoodoggie after the 10th one you’re feeling mighty fine!
I see their billboards everywhere on trips to see relatives in Eastern Tennessee.
The little Sampler Bottles you can pick up at the grocery store and liquor store are fun. Put a few in a gift basket and they make a neat little gift....
While it is possible that Pagan was only debating mischief before this shoot, I'm certain that she got up to hijinks after it. 😅
Always ✌🏻
I have moonshined. The moon has shone on me. 🥰 finally paired with the legend that is Colin! ❤ let’s gaauuuurrrr
Let's gaaauuurrrr!! 🤘
You definitely had a "glow" by the end of the shoot, so there must've been _something_ shinin' inside ya!
Y’all have me laughing so much! …From a truly Southern girl of the South! 😂🤣
I love Pagan's giggles.
Points to Pagan for patiently waiting for Colin to notice that she had downed the whole strawberry drink
In my part of Tennessee we call it Tennessee block and tackle. Drink enough of our real shine and you'll run a block and tackle the first person you see. Unfortunately you're drinking a weak approximation of shine.
You’re not wrong. 😂 the first time I went back to visit my dads side in the blue ridge… my god. First alcohol that ever made me hallucinate 😂😂😂
@@jenzerr8856 😂😂😂😂
@@19rudy73 “ a thimble full? No I’ll
Do a full shot, give it to me” biggest mistake I’ve ever made in my life. 😂😂😂
When you come back to the west coast and tell your friends about that shit and they’re just looking at ya like “ yeh ok” 😂 I do adore my Appalachian cousins though, best peeps ever! 😂♥️
@@jenzerr8856 We may not be fancy, but we know a good time when we see it. 😂
My grandpa has stories of coming home from school when he was a kid about tending the mill for his dads moonshine mill in their basement. They were from rural West Virginia and settled into western Pennsylvania. And then my uncle who’s lived in Tennessee for about 15 years gave me and my sister a taste of real bootleg moonshine when we were teenagers and it’s pretty gnarly
Legally made and sold in Gatlinburg, Tennessee
You may have missed one. Imagine its a cold day outside. You have some close friends over for a nice dinner then after sitting around a nice warm fireplace and enjoying the cinnamon apple moonshine. Fantastic.
They missed a lot, those guys make a shitload of flavors. But yeah, apple pie is one of the big traditional flavors.
I'm just an old man now. And I live in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. I love this video I needed a good laugh tonight. Our children drank that moonshine around here. It's also called White lightning
That's NOT true. White Lighting. That's the watered down store version. True White Lighting is over 150 proof. Those are around 87 proof. No stronger than good old number 7.
So funny how they got a bit more talkative and laughing after all those shots!
Basically this came from our Irish and Scottish immigrants in the Appalachian Mountains. If you get it from a moonshines it’s good it’s more fun to watch people from the east and west coast drink it. They can’t understand why they see us shotgunning whiskey but slowly sipping it. We are drinking the same amount but we get to entertain ourselves watching them. I think the best is Green Apple moonshine
Old Smoky is a watered-down version of moonshine. The real stuff is STRONG. It burns all the way down your throat, boils in your stomach, and has a slight corn aftertaste. Good stuff that gets the party started.
You've never had good shine.
When I was in the USAF, my roommate went home to Tennessee for Christmas and brought back some of the real stuff. OMG, you're so right, it burned all the way down but had a fairly nice taste. That was more than 40 years ago and I have never had the real stuff since.
@@katyas-mom Exactly! Good shine tastes like clean air and sweet water... that's what makes it dangerous. It will warm you up, but shouldn't burn.
@@katyas-mom and you've never had aged Japanese Whiskey. But you can. And you should.
The ingredient list says the moonshine is made from fermented white sugar water.....real, authentic moonshine should be made of a corn based mash and then fermented. The sugar wash stuff is ok but it is just kind of pure alcohol without the nuances and character that corn or grain provides. The real moonshine I can get here in western NC sometimes has a drop or two of corn oil that separates out of the shine after a few weeks or so. I just spoon it off and throw it away.
It's a good store brand shine. I kind of hope this gets a follow up, because there is so many flavors left try: Cherry (with the cherries inside), Banana Pudding Cream, Peach (also with peaches inside), Sour Watermelon, and their flavor called Some Beach, to name a few.
Granted, homemade moonshine flavors can be great. I've had a blackberry moonshine that was some of the best I've ever had.
When I was in my 20’s, I was in Tennessee working and a local gave me a jar of Moonshine. I tucked it away in my suitcase, wrapped…but it broke on the way…got home, opened the suitcase and my two cats wouldn’t get out of my suitcase…the spilled moonshine acted like catnip for them!
0:45 Def real moonshiners were like that.
Those are on the west coast while moonshine is from the hills closer to the east coast
iirc it was around California during the gold rush. Maybe not so cartoonish though.
No gold in the South, my friend.
Colin's accent was bang on with the old prospecter! 😂
You wouldn't be talking about Popcorn Sutton, would you?
"So dis is a sneaky focker" LOL had me dying!
My great grandmother grew up in the hills of Virginia. Her family were moonshine. She did drink it from a jug hidden under her bed. When I was 14 she gave me some. YIKES!
🎵Shine On Harvest Moon, up in the sky. Oh Shine On Harvest Moon for me and my gal. 🎶🌝
I like that the age-old feud between the Hatfields and McCoys has ended. And they started the Hatfield & McCoy Moonshine Distillery together. True history!
Ahh, the TRYers go deep into the hollers of Appalachia, fleeing in a jalopy from the sheriff and sipping moonshine out of mason jars. Thumbs up from me. Incidentally, Pagan is totally delightful.
This blondie is amazing 😂😂😂❤❤ she made this video so good love her voiceovers “with great moonshine comes great responsibility!” 😂
😊 thank you!