Show WHY THE NAME MOONSHINE in earlier years the illicit liquor wax wad supposed to be made only at night america calls the liquor illicitly mai 11 tilled especially in the allegheny alleghany Alleg hany liany mountains moonshine the apparent reason Is that it ls la believed to bo be distilled at night and secretly transported without payment of a tax or the iha authority of official permit the ret fact Is of course that the secret still work as aa hard in day as at night england used the word in similar manner though not la in the same sense over there moonshine is 1 liquor that his has been smuggled into the country without payment of 0 a tax the smuggling is usually done by small boats front from the conti continent rient that land at lonely shores at night and the cargo Is unloaded by the light ot of the moon it was this that gave the its generic name american moonshine Is raw imaged and often uncolored colored spirits british moonshine may inay be tile the finest brandy braddy front from france the lie choicest rum ruin froia jamaica in the british isles especially ireland the popular nime name for home distilled spirits Is mountain dew because it Is in ill the lillis hills that it Is made far from the prying eyes of the excise man inan |