Always Take A Pass When Invited To Go See What’s Fermenting Down At The Old Sewage Plant – IOTW Report

Always Take A Pass When Invited To Go See What’s Fermenting Down At The Old Sewage Plant

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As reported by The Roanoke Times, police recently received a tip that an illegal alcohol operation was taking place in the town of Rainsville, pop. 5,100.

And boy was it: Investigators uncovered what’s been described as a large, illegal winery.

Law enforcement photos from the bust-up show buckets, glass containers, a fermenting rack, and other gear used for making homemade haughty hooch.

According to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office, a whole lot of illegal intoxicant was seized.

But perhaps the most stunning part of the raid was its whereabouts.

As it turns out, the malefactors were making Mommy’s Medicine at a most unusual locale.

Guzzling Guys and Gals, enjoy your adult beverage compliments of…the local sewage plant. More

18 Comments on Always Take A Pass When Invited To Go See What’s Fermenting Down At The Old Sewage Plant

  1. Years ago, in Al Capp’s Li’l Abner strip, the town of Dogpatch was famous for its local moonshine. It was described as

    a liquor of such stupefying potency that the hardiest citizens of Dogpatch, after the first burning sip, rose into the air, stiff as frozen codfish.

    The booze was called Kickapoo Joy Juice.

    I wonder why this Alabama story reminded me of that? (-:

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  2. When I ran the lab for an aerospace company in Ca many decades ago I bought a laboratory grad still to make my own water for a specific test we were running. When the company President got wind of it he came down to my lab and asked what the status of the still was…in particular on the weekends. As it turns out he and his buddy (the head of our accounting dept) had acquired 200 gallons of wine from a local grower, so I loaned them the still as long as it was back in the lab on Monday mornings CLEAN! Of course it also cost them a bottle of their brandy which didn’t turn out half bad at all!

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  3. AL
    53 years ago some guys in the squad “appropriated” some cans of corn , and yeast from the “Galley” (I never new our cooks used yeast!)

    We “mashed” it for a while, put in the yeast and let it ferment.
    Then cooked, “stilled” it. It was real “kickakpoo joy juice” Taste bad, burned all the way down (so Ive been told) I think a half pint would blind a man!

    The things we did in
    “Indian Country”;- beside bleed and die. I may seem dead; but still live.

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  4. Back during prohibition (and before and after) some people, maybe a lot of people, got sick and died from drinking bad homemade stuff or even bottles of rotgut peddled in the “market”. Some of the hooch not much better than rubbing alcohol, according to a book about prohibition called “Last Call”, which I rank as one of the most eye-opening books I’ve ever read.

    One of my uncles who was in the British merchant marine was served some deadly drinks in a bar in Germany a few years after WWII and died from it.

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  5. @Ivan

    Calling a sewage treatment plant a turd farm, although pretty funny, seems a tad inaccurate. They don’t grow turds there, as far as I know. I know what the input to a sewage plant is, but what the output might be is a mystery to me.

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