In the final years of his legendary life, Popcorn Sutton put his wife up ... he was seeking permission to make moonshine, this “experimental license” still lived in his head when he contacted ...

The documentary still is from "The Last One", a 2009 film about Sutton's last moonshine run before he died. Sucker Punch Pictures Popcorn Sutton, a famous Appalachian moonshiner, surged in ...

In the final years of his legendary life, Popcorn Sutton put his wife up ... he was seeking permission to make moonshine, this “experimental license” still lived in his head when he contacted ...

And moonshine has flowed like water in Cocke County for generations now. The man behind the still of much of that homebrew was Popcorn Sutton. "Moonshine is our history," Pam said. "Regardless of ...

A still on display ... “Bwahaha!” Sky Sutton laughed in an interview for this article. “Of course it is!” Sky Sutton is the daughter of Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton, one of the best-known practitioners in ...

They would have been referring to home brew connoisseur Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton ... big stills “with capacities up to 1,000 gallons, over eight hundred and fifty gallons of moonshine ...

Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton, a colorful character at the very ... Figure 1: Chemical composition of moonshine as a function of distillation temperature. Adapted from Whiskey Still Pro Shop and Stilldragon ...

SEVIERVILLE — Every time a moonshine still came ... honest effort to seize those stills and tried to stamp it out,” Ogle recalled. Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton is perhaps the most famous ...

Before Prohibition, most farmers had stills. Hobbyists tend to feel nostalgic about that earlier era of unfettered alcohol production. Ask them about why they like to make moonshine, and they are ...

Tennessee loves the lore of its moonshine. From mountain boys ... for allowing us to use their incredible photos of Popcorn Sutton and his still for this article.

When I heard about Popcorn Sutton’s moonshine still blowing up a couple of years ago in Cocke County, Tenn., I realized that he had been lying to me in 2005. Either that, or he had just changed ...