The Basics of White Lightning: What Is It And How to Enjoy It By Richard Thomas The growing popularity of moonshine first caught media attention several years ago, when moonshine consumption and even distillation caught on with hipsters. A few years later came white lightning-based reality television, such as The Discovery Channel’s Moonshiners. Now moonshine has a major presence in ...

By S.D. Peters Rating: D Firefly Distillery, on Wadmalaw Island, SC,  produces a distinguished White Lightning Moonshine, which is a great starting place for first-time white whiskey drinkers to start exploring the trend. The Distillery also produces flavored expressions of the Moonshine, of which its Apple Pie Flavor Moonshine is, sadly, reminiscent of neither apple pie nor moonshine. The Moonshine ...

By Richard Thomas Technically, James Higdon’s The Cornbread Mafia is about pot-farming in Central Kentucky, and not about whiskey-making. Even so, the history of whiskey-making in Marion County is heavily interwoven into the story. In a different venue, I endorsed Higdon’s book as a must-read for any lover of True Crime or recent Kentucky history. From a bourbon-lover’s point of ...

By S.D. Peters Rating: B- Firefly White Lightning Moonshine is crafted by the Firefly Distillery on Wadmalaw Island, SC, and, other than the professional label on the jar, has the look and feel of the sort of a illicit moonshine you might expect from a small, out-of-the-way place– which is to say it looks like moonshine, and comes in a ...

By S.D. Peters Rating: B+ There’s a certain predictability about white whiskeys that’s comforting. For those who enjoy getting it together in the country every once and a while, the pure grain flavor of most white whiskeys won’t disappoint, and a few may even surprise. Take LBL Moonshine, for example. This 100% unaged corn whiskey from the Silver Trail Distillery ...