Ep. 6 - Essential Oil of Alcohol

Written By Fred Czuba

Home distilling of alcohol still isn't legal in the USA. Why is that? It's...kind of Alexander Hamilton's fault. (In part, at least.)

Fred covers how distilling works, a little bit of history, and why the current laws surrounding it are pretty absurd.

Illustration in the August 23, 1879 edition of Harper's Weekly showing a moonshiner and his still in North Carolina. Part of a larger composite entitled "Law and Moonshine – Crooked Whiskey in Western North Carolina." - wikimedia commons

Illustration in the August 23, 1879 edition of Harper's Weekly showing a moonshiner and his still in North Carolina. Part of a larger composite entitled "Law and Moonshine – Crooked Whiskey in Western North Carolina." - wikimedia commons

Photograph of a confiscated moonshine liquor still photographed by the Internal Revenue Bureau at the Treasury Department, Washington, D.C. Courtesy of the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. - wikimedia commons

Photograph of a confiscated moonshine liquor still photographed by the Internal Revenue Bureau at the Treasury Department, Washington, D.C. Courtesy of the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. - wikimedia commons

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