This Moonshine Tasting Room In North Carolina Is One Hidden Speakeasy You'll Want To Tour
By Carolyn Harmon|Published June 21, 2023
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Under Brown Mountain Lights the Beast of Blandenboro wanders this magical land where lighthouses shine on kingdoms only accessible by ferries. A Lost Colony of legends and pirates revealed in historical sites and majestic mountains with views that make us weep. The home of handmade sculptures and scrumptious cuisine. North Carolina leaves this long-time writer and artist breathless with endless surprises, including the unlikely warmth a winter walk on the beach can bring.
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.
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?
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.