Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The plaintiffs, which included aspiring home distiller Scott McNutt as well as the association, challenged two provisions of ...

In 1791, a proud and hearty band of rabble-rousers in western Pennsylvania protested the first tax ever to be levied on a domestic product by America's new federal government—a tax on the sale of ...

Tue, April 14, 2026 at 4:01 AM UTC A federal appeals court just handed a major win to homebrewers. On Friday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans struck down a nearly 158-year-old ...

Two federal courts reached opposite conclusions on whether Congress can criminalize homemade liquor production under its ...

A U.S. Appellate Court ended a Reconstruction-era ban on making spirits at home. The prohibition was challenged by Hobby Distillers and four of its members, who said they wanted to produce spirits as ...

A former moonshiner explains how a homemade still works. Credit: Courtesy Photo / American Folklife Center, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. He and other ...

Yet how civilized is any society that criminalizes the American-as-apple-pie hobby of home-distilling, a proud tradition carried on by our first president long predating our great nation? You may be ...