A year of food scraps and discarded produce becomes a risky distillation test meant to recreate an old chemical process under real-world constraints. After visiting a licensed distillery to learn what ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The production of moonshine — or really any spirit — without a license is prohibited by the U.S. government and is very much ...

Within days after each season premiere and season finale of the Discovery Channel's reality show "Moonshiners," they come — a small but perceptible wave of people — to purchase suspiciously large ...

This is Straight Up, a column by whiskey expert and author Heather Greene. Today, Greene breaks down how exactly whiskey is made. Unless you’ve been living without the internet, you surely know that ...