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Ole Smoky can be so brazen because about a decade ago, several states, including Tennessee, changed laws to allow for the production of whiskey and other distilled spirits. Granted, there were exceptions for three counties in the state, including the home of the Jack Daniels distillery. But spirit makers in 41 more counties got the chance to start distilling (legally) after 2009. Founded the next year, Ole Smoky was the first legal distillery in the Volunteer State and now makes its moonshine in America with the help of 700 employees. Eleven years after it started, it isn't even the only spot you can pick up a mason jar of unaged corn whiskey within a mile radius. Moonshine, whose name is often attributed to distillers working in secrecy through the night, has gone mainstream.
\"Moonshine is a celebration of that Appalachian heritage, culture and alcohol that was made in the mountains, for a long time illicitly,\" says Ole Smoky co-founder Joe Baker, a Tennessee lawyer and entrepreneur who's been dubbed the \"moonshine millionaire.\" \"It's more than just a beverage; it's a culture.\"
That piece of culture, distilled and packaged in East Tennessee, is reaching well beyond its roots, bringing 25 flavors to all 50 states, and 40 countries. But Ole Smoky stays close to its roots -- its moonshine is made from mostly local ingredients using a Baker family recipe that's more than a hundred years old. Leaning hard into this distinctly American mythos of homegrown moonshine in a state already internationally famous for whiskey is a core strategy for selling it to the wider world. But distillers like Ole Smoky are also faced with the question of how to get consumers beyond the consumption of Southern culture as novelty.
In 2020, Ole Smoky's moonshine sales hit $118 million, according to numbers from IWSR, which collects data on the alcohol beverage market. The distiller snapped up 70% of the moonshine market share in the last year, Nielsen found. Moonshine makers like Ole Smoky are hoping to follow liquors like tequila and bourbon that've had bursts in popularity at various points in time. And not just that, but maybe they'll even steal some ground from other spirits.
Through Prohibition in the 1920s in particular, moonshine earned much of the reputation we associate with it today: edgy and illicitly made. Kosar says the 18th Amendment took what had been essentially a local business and turned into a crime syndicate. Opposition to the law and to taxes shaped the image of moonshine.
Growing up as a kid in East Tennessee, Baker, 46, knew his dad was making moonshine to sell, but didn't know it was illegal. He remembers helping out, holding up a big hose that would help recirculate the mash as it cooked.
Baker's roots followed him as he became an adult. In college at Georgetown University in the mid-'90s, people asked him for a moonshine hookup as soon as they heard he was from East Tennessee. As a young lawyer, he gave folks jars of homemade apple pie moonshine (think corn whiskey with cinnamon and apple flavoring) as gifts, carrying on a tradition he'd always seen firsthand among his family and friends.
Ole Smoky's Holler is a distillery and retail space of more than 2,000 square feet that employs about a hundred of the company's 700 workers. The distillery, attached to the back, is relatively small compared with the store, which sells moonshine and moonshine-themed gifts. It wraps around an outside performance area, where bluegrass musicians play from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., with 15-minute breaks every hour.
Large garagelike doors open the space to the outside. The interior looks like a barn, with rustic beams across the ceiling and an embarrassment of barrels branded with the Ole Smoky logo. Shelves line the walls, bearing moonshine's preferred storage vessel: the mason jar.
I'm standing at one of several wooden bar setups where the distillery holds tastings for guests. Ole Smoky has cordoned it off, though, so instead of being shoulder to shoulder with the masses, it's just Hall and me taking our tiny swigs of the various flavors.
Our server is Brooke Batchelor, a brand ambassador extraordinaire. She tells me how she spent her 20s as a hospice nurse and desperately needed a change of pace before a friend recruited her to Ole Smoky in 2017. Now she doesn't just pour moonshine, she smoothly sells you on a lifestyle and the many creative uses for Ole Smoky's wild assortment of flavors.
Moving down the line, we try a sour lime, which Batchelor compares to a \"hillbilly margarita.\" Along the way, she talks about all the concoctions you can make with each. Blackberry is great in sweet tea. Hall says they've seen lemonade spiked with blackberry moonshine become popular as a cocktail among some of their restaurant clients. Batchelor walks me through how every flavor hits in the apple pie moonshine, from the crisp apples to the cinnamon, and says it's a good option if you're a little clogged up.
It's not a random stroke of genius that Ole Smoky has 25 flavors of moonshine. Back home in Louisville, Kentucky, I spoke with David Ozgo, chief economist with the Distilled Spirits Council, a national trade association. He tells me broadly about how it's a necessary move for any distillery to offer more than straightforward, unaged corn whiskey moonshine.
For sure, Ole Smoky has branched out. There's a line of creme moonshine with flavors including butter pecan banana pudding. They sell moonshine-soaked pickles, okra, cherries and the like, and even nonalcoholic jams and salsa. Another Ole Smoky location focuses more on its whiskey offering, including a salted caramel, which Baker says was inspired by an ice cream he ate one day, and was born in his mother-in-law's kitchen one night.
And there's the merch. So many shirts, hats, stickers, collapsible dog bowls, keychains, mugs, water bottles, shot glasses, hoodies, beanies, candles and just about anything else you can think of to slap a moonshine reference onto. There's even a crop top that says, \"Feelin' fine, drinkin' shine.\"
Maggie Kimberl, content editor for American Whiskey Magazine and president of the Bourbon Women Association, says moonshine can't rely too much on folksy nostalgia. \"It'll be novel for a little while, but it will peter out eventually,\" she says. \"I want to encourage people, especially if they're looking at building a brand, to approach it mindfully. Always have a backup plan or an exit plan, or just be really mindful of what the market will bear.\"
This is partly where having almost as many flavors as Baskin-Robbins comes into play. When I spoke to Hall over Zoom in July, he described all the ways moonshine could eat the lunch of other liquors.
\"There is a lot of creativity among the moonshine people,\" Kimberl says, telling me about one woman who spent months perfecting MoonPie-flavored moonshine. And though not everyone in the greater whiskey community is sold on this new world of legal, flavored moonshine, there's a market for it. \"They wouldn't be making it if it wasn't selling,\" she says.
As much as moonshine is a part of East Tennessee, its future lies, in part, outside the area. In 2019, Ole Smoky opened its Nashville location, and Hall says the company is looking at where to put fifth and sixth locations, bearing down even more on tourism as part of the business model.
You can take the moonshine out of the mountains, but in Ole Smoky's case, you can't really take the mountains out of the moonshine. The corn comes from a farm less than 20 miles away from the distillery. Everything else that goes into the moonshine, and everything the moonshine goes into, like the jars and the labels, is sourced in the US (with the exception of a few flavors like vanilla that come from abroad).
The sweet, juicy peach is one of the best summertime treats. And soaking a lot of them in Ole Smoky's White Lightin' Moonshine is the only way to improve on nature's perfection. Grab one of those juicy, moonshine-infused peaches from the bowl and indulge in a tasty morsel of bliss. Just enough moonshine remains after they're gone to produce a summer sangria that goes well with sunshine.
As one of the largest craft distillers in the U.S. and the most visited in the world, Ole Smoky sold over 1 million 9L cases in 2021 and holds the No. 1 share position in moonshine according to NielsenIQ. The Company retails its products across all 50 states and over 20 countries around the world, through over forty-five thousand points of distribution and four experiential distilleries that welcomed over 5.7 million visitors in 2021.
More than any other spirit, moonshine is misunderstood. Once an integral part of prohibition culture, moonshine was illegally produced in backwoods stills, and thus, unregulated and unpredictable. It was an exciting endeavor, but it was also a risky one.
The new crop of moonshines are created under far more auspicious circumstances, yielding a spirit that is rich with history, not lead. Today's moonshine maintains the devil-may-care allure of its illustrious past, but is entirely safe to drink, and yes, even delicious. 59ce067264
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