Still & Barrel
Craft Spirits in the Old North State
$46.45
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
14 August 2017
Summary
Although legal spirits in the Tar Heel state only go back about ten years, making liquor in North Carolina is not new. Wilkes County, which was once dubbed the “Moonshine Capital of the World,” was 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.
Today descendants of famous moonshiners are now respectable craft distillers carrying on the family tradition—people…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780895876836 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0895876833 |
| Author: | John Francis Trump |
| Publisher: | John F Blair Publisher |
| Imprint: | John F Blair Publisher |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 14 August 2017 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 215mm |
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John Francis Trump
A lifelong newspaper reporter & editor in NC, Trump received an MFA in narrative nonfiction from Goucher College. His thesis, which told the stories and profiles of North Carolina’s craft distilleries, evolved into a regular Huffington Post/i> blog focused on the subject. That blog was the impetus for Still & Barrel.
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