Thread: Rum Runners (future idea) what would be right car?

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Rum Runner????? I don't think so. Most rum was made in the West Indies, as it is made from sugar cane. The rum-runners were in ships that brought West Indies rum across to south Florida and the Carolinas, and it was brought in to avoid the exise taxes put on it by the American government. This happened before prohibition. During prohibition, most of the moonshine liquor that was made in Tennessee and the other "moonshine states" was made from a corn base mash, and was in fact a "bourbon whiskey", not a rum. Canadian whiskey was made from rye grain, and as a consequence was a "rye whiskey". Back when I was a kid, an American tourist taught me how to make corn whiskey. I used to run off small batches for myself and my friends. One of the big fears of making moonshine whiskey was that you would cook a "bad batch"----this was a result of cooking the mash at the wrong temperature, or getting an outside contaminant into the mash. The resulting booze made from a "bad batch" could make you go blind from drinking it. I know that we used to get a spoonfull straight from the still, and light it on fire. If it burned with a perfectly clear blue halo of flame, it was considered a good batch, and was safe to drink. If it burned with a smoky flame, it was considered to be a "bad batch" and was supposed to be thrown out.---Depending on how close it was to the Saturday night dance, and how desperate we were for a drink, sometimes we threw it out,---sometimes we drank it anyways