Former Moonshiner Cookie Wood Talks Moonshine & Bootlegging | NC Now | UNC-TV

I wonder who began the reporter cadence like the one this guy is emulating, with those piercing, focused eyes like they're always asking the tough questions.

this interviewer is painful to watch

Popcorns idol/role model.

Wrong interviewer. Square peg on on side and country boy on the other.

Do right

Good shine is smooth no burn knock you on your face fast. Good tast run of slow.

Old timers keeping old ways alive 😊😊😊😊😊.

Whata bunch of dumb ass questions

Personally, I’d rather buy NON TAXED Shine.

So if I pay my taxes on it I can make it?

Popcorns best freind.

Stainless steel the way to go!! Even popcorn 🍿 said that 🎃

The interviewer was on point with his question!!! Great show you got here come to ohio we shine every night!!! We will give you a great show a how to !! We make gallon by gallon by gallon

Ain’t no fun !!! That’s right

It ain't as simple as just paying the tax. There are thousands of pages of Gov regulations you have to follow to make legal liquor. You have to hire lawyers and chemical engineers, then buy thousands of dollars worth of Gov approved equipment. The investment is so high you will never make a dime.

Love moonshine

I wonder if he knew Percy Flowers

I treat them like thieves!!!!

Good stories on CD, that came with Popcorn Sutton book, done by Suckerpunch productions. Book is great. Great story about Cookies mom, Popcorns aunt

Popcorn Sutton’s cousin and best friend growing up.

Him and Popcorn are kin. I don't remember how, maybe Popcorn's cousin?

Dude this interviewer is god damn jackoff

In a way people who do make moonshine do pay taxes cuz they gotta buy the ingredients and pay taxes on that..why the law gotta bother people tryin to make a livin and provide fer their family they made weed legal so whats the difference

I swear I'm related to this guy my last name is Wood and I love likker

Much respect for this man right here. He is the kind of person you want as a neighbor. I saw where someone had commented that he had passed. RIP sir!

Understandable during prohibition. But, this guy wasn't alive then. Just a hillbilly crook like the crackhead meth cooks nowadays. No respect for him at all.

Government wants it's extortion fee

RIP Cookie! I remember you from the Popcorn Sutton film

Moonshine is watery in my experience. Thats why I like it, goes down the throat smooth jack daniels cuts the fuck out of me. I can sip shine all day if I drink Jack Daniels I wake up in jail explain that to me.

Interviewer asking all the wrong questions

This guy right here's a legend in his own he was making the same time as popcorn

it's kinda bitter sweet cause when pop corn put out his documentary he said several times moonshine was dead and gone .. he had no idea the resurgence it would have .. that's the sweet part ..the bitter part he wasn't around to really see it ..

I make and it really fun...they call me the Corn Chemist

Interviewer is a total moron. Fake southern accent and all. What a buffoon!

Cookie is incorrect about moonshine tasting like Jack Daniels (whiskey)... Professional distillers do NOT use sugar in their mash... A Professional distillery uses all grain (corn, rye, barley, rye). NO SUGAR........

Welcome to NASCAR

Taxation is theft. The government takes a God given birth right from you, calls it a privilege and charges you for it multiple times.

My grandfather had a small farm in Trap Hill and he used to tell us about moonshiners in the woods behind his farm and the "revenoorers" that hunted for them and destroyed their stills - would have been around 1947 - 1948. My grandfathers name was Charlie Johnson.

this guy who is doing the interview is an annoying knob.

Mr. Wood knows what he's talking about. I've been around several old shine makers that built time for making it BUT like he said, it was to feed their families back then. And it was hard work toting everything back in the bushes where you tried not to be caught. It's still the best thing for a bad cough. Just sip it and don't get hoggish or your head will blow off.

we would put a quart of good moonshine in the freezer for 3 days and then bring it out and sip it icy cold and I seen many people who thought they could drink go down after a glass of shine

MY GREET GRANDPAP USTER SKIN A POSSUM AND PUT IT IN HIS BARREL OF MOONSHINE - I AXED, "PA PA, WHY WAS IT THAT YOU PUTTED THAT DEAD SKINT POSSUM IN YO SHINE?" - HE SAYS TO ME, "WELL BOY, YOU COULD CALL IT POSSUM SHINE THEN, AND IT SHO DID SELL BETTER!" - SUPPORT YO LOCAL MOONSHINER, DRANK YOSELF PLENTY OF POSSUM SHINE!

al pacino you are a dumb ass

food safe silver solder ;)

well, ive run my fair share of it, and the ol boy is right, theyy make solder that aint got much lead in it, or all ya have to do is make a paste of half flour and half oatmeal or rye bran, and paste all the joints, it aint rocket science, u dont wanna drink too much mash, that stufff will make ya shit fire ,and burp sin.. and anyone who thinks theynbwanna try making shine best think hard, cuz its a hard dang job, the only fun part is when the worm starts spittin the good stuff,

I worked with someone in the 1970 who lived in a community well known for its moonshining. He gave me the recipe and basic instructions on making a still. A couple of guys got together built a still, mixed and brewed the formula, let it work for 21 days. Then when it came time to run it through the still, they wouldn't take the chance because solder was used to put all copper still together and to connect the copper pipe to the still and filling hole. It was bottled as was and was v.effective