Cover of Moonshine!: Recipes * Tall Tales * Drinking Songs * Historical Stuff * Knee-Slappers * How to Make It * How to Drink It * Pleasin' the Law * Recoverin' the Next Day

Moonshine!: Recipes * Tall Tales * Drinking Songs * Historical Stuff * Knee-Slappers * How to Make It * How to Drink It * Pleasin' the Law * Recoverin' the Next Day

"White lightning, firewater, hausgemacht ... call it what you will, if it's liquor made in secret and outside the law, it's moonshine—a time honored institution ... This richly illustrated, entertaining history and how-to, liberally sprinkled with quotes, song lyrics, and vintage photographs, celebrates this potent potable in all its glory"—Page 4 of cover.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 176 pages

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