Why Do They Call it Moonshine?
Why Do They Call It Moonshine?
Moonshine is as American as apple pie. Prohibition did not stop people from wanting alcohol. Prohibition did not stop people from wanting money. Put those two desires together and you have the illegal production of alcohol called “moonshining.” “Moonshiners” is a term used for people who did their production at night to avoid the government agents (G-Men) and Treasury Agents (T-Men) who patrolled the hills of Appalachia looking to stop production of illegal hootch.
Production of moonshine illegal alcohol required the use of stills. The stills were heated by fires and produced tell-tale smells, sounds and smoke. All the government men had to do was look up in the woods, see the smoke and go stop the illegal production. Being smarter than these government agents, makers began producing at night, by the light of the moon. These backwoods brewmasters became known as moonshiners. The moonshiners and their distributors (known as bootleggers) became local legends. In colonial times, these distributors would conceal their product inside their tall riding boots, which is how they got their name. More recently, bootleggers in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s took to racing cars packed with moonshine through the night to avoid local police. The cops never stood a chance. The love of horsepower and a well-earned reputation for driving skills led directly from the backwoods bootleggers to the NASCAR racing series. In fact, the winner of the first ever NASCAR race had used the same car to make a bootleg run just a week earlier.
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