Automobiles of yesterday, moonshine runners and building of whiskey stills is an art. Appalachian Mountains, leaving your doors unlocked was a common thing at night. Most of the Appalachia are genuine old folks: if they like you, they like you, and if they do not like you, it is better to keep going on down the road. Once you get to know the Appalachian folks, they would carry on until you have had a little of their moonshine, showing off their handcrafted liquor still and telling you it is a dying art. These folks are not your everyday bootleggers; they just want to make them a little shine...

Step-by-step on building an oak barrel thumper moonshine still. The 5 gallon oak barrel design is used in this book, but not limited to the desire size thumper still you want to build. The still can be built as a thumpertop or a stand along thumper with your boiler pot. 1. Over 100 figure pictures to help give clearer instructions to build your still. 2. Information on type material and tools you need. 3. Making your mash batch. 4. Recipes to help to get you started. 5. Cooking instructions.