Best of BAD: A Distillation Of The History Of Moonshine
As the moonshiner movie LAWLESS hits theaters, revisit a classic Badass Digest post where Tim League tours the history of home distillation of spirits - and champions it!
Tim is the founder of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, co-founder of Fantastic Fest and was named by the Austin American Statesman as “one of the most unusual CEOs in Texas history.” He likes to eat really good food, drink really good beer and sing really bad karaoke but is getting slightly better at it.
CoolBadass BeverageAs the moonshiner movie LAWLESS hits theaters, revisit a classic Badass Digest post where Tim League tours the history of home distillation of spirits - and champions it!
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Like port, Sherry sometimes carries some pretty low-brow connotations, a drink your grandmother would nip at before bedtime. Its also easily confused with the $5 bottle of cooking Sherry from the grocery store. I aim to show that true Spanish Sherry from Jerez, however, can be a nectar worthy of the Gods.
91 years ago today the federal government took away the people’s right to drink. We got it back, but we’re still inching towards some more basic booze freedoms. In the 70s Jimmy Carter legalized home brewing, creating a multi-billion dollar industry. When will someone do the same for home distilling of spirits?
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