Moonshine has been having something of a renaissance. The colloquial term for clear, non-barrel-aged whiskey — and occasionally other home-distilled spirits — has sparked curiosity in a younger ...

Moonshine earned its name because it was often distilled in secret — under the light of the moon. But what is moonshine, exactly? (Photo: Robert F. Bukaty) There’s something about moonshine that ...

Former Rhea County Sheriff Ola Harris, who served during a time when illegal moonshine operations were widespread in ...

A “folk hero” in the world of moonshine is accused of helping run an illegal still on a farm in rural North Carolina that produced over 9,000 gallons of untaxed liquor over the course of more than two ...

Moonshine has been having something of a renaissance. The colloquial term for clear, non-barrel-aged whiskey — and occasionally other home-distilled spirits — has sparked curiosity in a younger ...

April 9 -- In the hills of southwestern Virginia, the moonshining business is still as strong as the potent, illegal white lightning made for centuries in backwoods stills. The recent convictions in a ...

After the Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted in Iceland in 2010, flight cancellations left Miranda Cheng stranded in Paris. While waiting for the ash to clear, Cheng, then a postdoctoral researcher at ...

Prohibition prompted a surge in illegal moonshine production across the US in the 1920s and early 1930s A growing number of Americans are thought to be getting involved in moonshining - distilling ...