Wilkes Heritage Museum's Eden Hamby said the moonshine trade generated about $2 million for the economy of the county. "The heyday for Wilkes County was from like the late 1930s to like the 1960s ...

but he managed to produce a blend that neither burned a hole through a drinker’s esophagus nor struck him blind from lead poisoning — risks of the moonshine trade. What land Flowers could buy ...

The song “Pitorro de Coco” shines a light on pitorro, Puerto Rico’s beloved homemade moonshine rum, infused with fruits like coconut, pineapple, mango, prunes, and more. Pitorro is ...

In Prohibition-era Kentucky, Internal Revenue agent Frank Long figures he could make a dishonest buck by squeezing the moonshine producers. First, he targets an old army buddy, John Martin aka Son ...

Poitin, a long-banned Irish moonshine, is re-emerging from a checkered history of legend and prohibition to become its homeland’s most trending spirit. While American moonshine is typically made ...