Past moonshine cases differed from John Ream’s plans for personal use. The court said he could challenge the home-distilling ...

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the Reconstruction-era ban on distilling alcohol in private homes. Why it matters: Americans can legally brew beer or make wine at home, but ...

The Supreme Court will consider in the new year whether the 1868 legislation forbidding home distilling should be overturned.

Fire up the stills. Well, maybe not quite yet, but the Supreme Court just announced a major decision that could clear the way for home distilling for the first time since the 1800s. For decades it's ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. — East Tennessee-based Sugarlands Distilling Company has made quite a splash since arriving on the moonshine scene. The company has only been open a few months, but has already ...

Mark Ramsey and Digger Manes from "Moonshiners" challenge stereotypes about Appalachia's distillers as home distilling ...

WESTON, MO, June 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ – Today, Granny from the Beverley Hillbillies would raise a glass and rejoice, because it’s National Moonshine Day! Hooch, white lightening or mountain dew, ...

In March, Appalachian moonshiner Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton, 62, received notice to report to prison to serve 18 months for illegally producing distilled spirits. Days before he was to start doing time, ...

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 ...