Food & Spirits: Moonshine isn't what it used to be. Forget overalls and bathtubs, the new moonshine is a new type of luxury liquor, just getting ready to hit the spirits market.

Moonshine, or white dog, as it is also known, is illegally distilled alcohol (it is illegal to make your own liquor). It is made from any substance that contains alcohol, must usually corn. The new moonshine can cost around $120 bottle and doesn't taste as good as your typical bar-poured liquor. The new moonshine has been described as everything from " bile with some simple syrup" to dog food. Still, it is gaining popularity.

Moving away from rural roots, moonshine is becoming the newest do-it-yourself project for hipsters living in metro areas.

"It's the same people who drove the home-brewing trend, and they're just as dorky," Max Watman, author of Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in Moonshine. "It tends to attract tattoo guys and the more outré farmers'-market types, although in the mountain states the practitioners are a little more snowboardy."

Moonshine has yet to make into bars, but it is quickly becoming the most talked about home party beverage.

Source: The Atlantic

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