Week 7

Last Sunday our group took a trip to Dunn, North Carolina to interview one of our experts (who I will leave nameless) since he wished to be left anonymous. It could not have gone better! We were greeted with a home cooked meal to enjoy before we started shooting.  Which we did not expect because Alex forgot to tell us that his mom was cooking for us! The food was amazing. Afterwards we got started on making the moonshine and learning the process of distillation. Our expert walked us through his process and explained in detail what all of his equipment was. Some of the equipment was handmade along with items you can buy at a store. We were there all afternoon and the process took the entire time we were there and continued after we left. During the distilling we interviewed our expert and got great information on his history with making moonshine as well as the general history of the activity. And a few of his talking points brought up some of the things I found in my research so it was cool to have my research validated by him. He was an extremely easy expert to interview. He was very open, willing to talk, and knowledgeable on the subject of moonshine.