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Dawsonville moonshine gets green flag
Distillery on 3rd batch of white lightnin, may expand
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Moonshine trickles out of the large still Friday inside the Dawsonville Moonshine Distillery. The new distillery is busy producing its third run of Dawsonville Moonshine liquor to a waiting list of thirsty buyers. - photo by Scott Rogers | The Times
The backwoods moonshining business birthed one of the nation’s most popular sports in NASCAR, so it fits that the state’s newest legal moonshine distillery is under the same roof as the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame.In fact, the distillery — Dawsonville Moonshine Distillery on Ga. 53 in Dawsonville — can’t make the liquor fast enough to take the checkered flag ahead of its demand.The distillery, which shares space with the Hall of Fame and Dawsonville’s City Hall, produced its first batch of liquor at the end of October, just in time for the city’s Mountain Moonshine Festival. That batch sold out very quickly and the second is currently in the distribution phase. Distillers are now working on the third batch of corn whiskey.