Copper Barrel Distillery's Moonshine Tasting Room In North Carolina is part of a tour you don't want to miss. Moonshine is entrenched in Southern culture and heritage and Copper Barrel is a large part of that as Wilkes County’s first legal moonshine distillery. And get this — it's the world’s first distillery to produce a legal beverage alcohol using a direct steam-injection distillation process. Even if you don't drink alcohol, you'll appreciate the interesting process in North Wilkesboro.

Copper Barrel is an award-winning distillery with the goal of giving everyone a taste of genuine American craft spirits.

Distillery Tours and Tastings are available with different options and price ranges.

Well-behaved dogs and children under age 16 tour for free.

You may see Master Distiller and artisan Buck Nance, with more than 50 years of experience, who oversees production of the handcrafted spirits.

The moonshine folk hero is pictured "mashing in." Do you know this VIP designed and fabricated the world’s first legal steam-injected distillation system?

And he is well known beyond the North Carolina borders.

In 2018 Nance is pictured during a filming of “Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern.”

And here's why we came - the moonshine tasting room.

George Smith

President and CEO of Copper Barrel aka “Visionary Bootlegger,” talks moonshine, and you will definitely walk away with a favorite.

All of the spirits are crafted onsite in the stillhouse using grains from North Carolina mills and farms, and well water from the Crystalline-Rock Aquifer.

Presenting the beautiful, award-winning Strawberry Moonshine.

The company's flagship is called White Lightning, which folks enjoy by itself or mixed with other cocktails.

This is when you'll try a sip or two and toast to a day worth remembering.

Make a reservation to tour this fascinating moonshine tasting room in North Carolina on Copper Barrel's website.

And while you're there, drive about 20 miles to Elkin for another small-town adventure in North Carolina.