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In Running after the White Dog, journalist Potential Watman traces the historical origins and contemporary tale of hooch. He can take us to the backwoods of Appalachia and the gritty nip bones of Philadelphia, from a federal government courthouse to Pocono Speedway, profiling the bright colored characters who make up white whiskey's lore. On the way, Watman chronicles his amusing tries to distill his own moonshine - the essential ingredients and the many ways it can all fail - from his preliminary ill-fated batch to his first successful jar of 'shine. It begins in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, where drunk and equipped outlaws gathered in the summertime of 1794. George Washington mustered 13,000 troops to quell the rebellion, but by the time they came, the rebels acquired vanished; America's first moonshiners acquired jam-packed up their stills and moved on. From these moonshiners who protested the Whiskey Tax of 1791, to the bath tub gin joggers of the 1920s, to today's flourishing bootleg entrepreneurs, white lightning has enjoyed a incredibly large role in American background. It touched the election of Thomas Jefferson, the invention of the IRS, and the origins of NASCAR. It really is a story of tommy weapons, hot rods, and shot properties, and the storyplot is definately not over. Infiltrating every aspect of small-scale distilling in America, from the garden hobbyists to the growing popularity of microdistilleries, Running after the White Dog offers a fascinating, centuries-long background of illicit booze from an unrepentant enthusiast of moonshine.
