Bourbon Whiskey Distillery

[nachoman]

I had a bootlegger as a neighbor(5 houses down).No,this wasn't a redneck neighborhood...His family would go to Ohio and buy beer,whiskey and wine and sell it out of his house...Every time the cops would show up with a search warrant he would be listening to gospel music and the cops couldn't find his stash...Finally the cops showed up by surprise and caught him red handed.He was arrested,fined and went back into business as nothing happen 2 weeks later...He was busted 2 or 3 times more with the same results..Then one night he was gunned down by a drunk over $2-3.00 in change...It came out in the trial that the bootlegger had raise his prices and the guy had the correct change...They never did find out how he got his information on the police raids.

Getting slightly off topic here - but my grandparents lived in a dry county, and my grandfather hypothesized that the bootleggers stayed in business by paying off the politicians, who in turn did their part by keeping the county dry. I know many distilleries are in dry counties - they can make it there, but they have to ship it across county line to consume it. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe Jack Daniels is that way.