moonshine

North Wilkesboro Speedway to host All-Star Race after last year's lucrative comeback

4:26pm May 16, 2024

After a successful first year back, the NASCAR All-Star Race returns to North Wilkesboro Speedway this weekend. Last year's event generated tens of millions of dollars in regional revenue.

Sports

Junior Johnson, Who Ran 'Shine Before NASCAR Fame, Dies

9:21pm December 22, 2019

by Associated Press

NASCAR Hall of Famer Junior Johnson has died at 88. His death was announced Friday by NASCAR.

Onlookers watch as suited men stand in front of a large copper kettle still for making illegal liquor, with boxes of bottles and funnels spread before them all for the manufacture of booze, circa 1900.

Arts

Moonshine Makes A Comeback in Virginia. And This Time, It's Legal

1:28pm October 19, 2017

by C. Jarrett Dieterle

While the revival has taken off around the country, it's especially strong in Virginia, where many of the twists, turns and car chases that are a part of moonshine lore took place.

Vegemite rolls along the production line at the Vegemite factory in Melbourne, Australia, in 2013. The iconic yeast-based spread is reportedly being used to produce moonshine in officially dry communities.

World News

Australian Government Concerned Over Vegemite's Use In Moonshine

2:09pm August 09, 2015

by Scott Neuman

In 19 officially dry aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, the dark-brown yeast-based spread is reportedly being purchased in bulk to produce homebrew.

Cynthia Thomas puts labels on bottles of moonshine near Union Springs, Ala., Friday, Oct. 25, 2013. Last year, High Ridge Spirits â Alabama's first legal distillery since Prohibition â joined the growing trend of more than 600 craft distilleries

Arts
Economy

Getting Your 'Shine On Is Becoming Increasingly Legal

9:31pm December 12, 2014

by Andrew Yeager

Mention moonshine and you might think of an illegal backwoods still carefully hidden to evade authorities. But recently, legal distilleries have been popping up in a white lightning renaissance.

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