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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 like Brian
Call, the master distiller at Call Family Distillers, who is
descended from Reverend Daniel Call, who sold his still seven
generations ago to burgeoning entrepreneur Jack Daniels. Brian is
the son of the legendary Willie Clay “The Uncatchable” Call,
who hung around with Junior Johnson and whose favorite car—a 1961
Chrysler New Yorker fitted with toggle switches that kill the brake
lights, is on display at the distillery today. Today, the Calls
make a 101-proof sour mash moonshine as well as strawberry, cherry,
and apple pie varieties. In Still & Barrel, Trump traces the
history of manufacturing moonshine whiskey, gin, vodka, and rum in
the state all the way to today’s boom from the artisan movement.
The book also serves as a guide so you can visit the almost 50
distilleries that are now in business. The state’s distillers are
not just making moonshine. Their wares include rum—from sorghum
and molasses—aged red-wheat organic whiskey and vodka infused
with the mysterious Tobago pepper. The information about the
distillers and their products is surrounded by history and
compelling stories about people and their passion. 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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