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Chasing The White Dog
Max Watman
An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in Moonshine
Simon & Schuster
February 2010
On Sale: February 16, 2010
304 pages
ISBN: 1416571787
EAN: 9781416571780
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In Chasing the White Dog, journalist Max Watman
traces the historical roots and contemporary story of hooch.
He takes us to the backwoods of Appalachia and the gritty
nip joints of Philadelphia, from a federal courthouse to
Pocono Speedway, profiling the colorful characters who make
up white whiskey's lore. Along the way, Watman chronicles
his hilarious attempts to distill his own moonshine -- the
essential ingredients and the many ways it can all go wrong
-- from his initial ill-fated batch to his first successful
jar of 'shine. It begins in Monongahela, Pennsylvania,
where drunk and armed outlaws gathered in the summer of
1794. George Washington mustered 13,000 troops to quell the
rebellion, but by the time they arrived, the rebels had
vanished; America's first moonshiners had packed up their
stills and moved on. From these moonshiners who
protested the Whiskey Tax of 1791, to the bathtub gin
runners of the 1920s, to today's booming bootleg
businessmen, white lightning has played a surprisingly large
role in American history. It touched the election of Thomas
Jefferson, the invention of the IRS, and the origins of
NASCAR. It is a story of tommy guns, hot rods, and shot
houses, and the story is far from over. Infiltrating
every aspect of small-scale distilling in America, from the
backyard hobbyists to the growing popularity of
microdistilleries, Chasing the White Dog provides a
fascinating, centuries-long history of illicit booze from an
unrepentant lover of moonshine.
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