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
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