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Still & Barrel: Craft Spirits in the Old North State

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Even though legal spirits in the Tar Heel state only go back about ten years, making liquor in North Carolina isn’t new. Wilkes County, which was once once dubbed the “Moonshine Capital of the World,” was once the leading producer of illegal liquor for decades. In 1965, Tom Wolfe’s article in Esquire―“The Last American Hero is Junior Johnson. Yes!”―made the area nationally famous. Lately descendants of famous moonshiners are now respectable craft distillers carrying on the Circle of relatives tradition―people like Brian Call, the master distiller at Call Circle of relatives Distillers, who is descended from Reverend Daniel Call, who sold his still seven generations ago to burgeoning entrepreneur Jack Daniels. Brian is the son of the legendary Willie Clay “The Uncatchable” Call, who hung around with Junior Johnson and whose favorite car―a 1961 Chrysler New Yorker fitted with toggle switches that kill the brake lights, is on display at the distillery Lately. Lately, the Calls make a 101-proof sour mash moonshine in addition to strawberry, cherry, and apple pie varieties. In Still & Barrel, Trump traces the history of manufacturing moonshine whiskey, gin, vodka, and rum in the state all of the way to Lately’s boom from the artisan movement. The book also serves as a guide so you’ll discuss with the almost 50 distilleries that are now in business. The state’s distillers don’t seem to be just making moonshine. Their wares include rum―from sorghum and molasses―aged red-wheat organic whiskey and vodka infused with the mysterious Tobago pepper. The information about the distillers and their products is surrounded by history and compelling stories about people and their passion.

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