Slavery, treason, moonshine...that's one hell of a heritage…
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A black plastic pipe, stretching a tenth of a mile down the ridge, delivered the booze to a livestock watering trough. From there, the moonshiner could fill plastic jugs, jars or whatever, "just like you were at a filling station," said Jason Brown, a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent stationed in Rabun County.
Was it rough stuff? Probably. Could you get legal stuff more cheaply? Certainly, but that's not the point. "It's all about heritage," Brown said. "It's a link to the past."
Police blow up moonshine still
By MARK DAVIS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 11/23/04
RABUN COUNTY — State and local authorities stumbled across a small piece of private enterprise Monday as they poked about in the ridges above Lake Rabun. So they did what any cop would do.
They blew it to the moon.
That's "moon" as in moonshine still, and that's what Rabun County and state officials detonated Tuesday afternoon: a well-made little manufacturing plant capable of producing about 300 gallons of white lightning every week.
…With its production capabilities reaching 300 gallons a week, the still was probably a going enterprise, police said. Prime stuff fetches anywhere from $35 to $50 per gallon, meaning potential sales of $10,500 to $15,000 each week it operates.
"When you see somebody putting that much effort into it [a still], they're not doing it for a hobby," said Bart Graham, the commissioner of the state Department of Revenue, who witnessed the explosion.
The cops, who had made no arrests late Tuesday, destroyed it almost reluctantly. Even guys who blow up stills for a living recognize a good one when they see it.
