The French eau de vie made from prunes is called pruneau, but eau de vie can be distilled from any fruit wine. To start distilling at home, you’ll need some technical knowledge about the equipment, ...

And now, that magical device is shipping. So while you’ll still have to keep any actual moonshine a secret (because it’s illegal to distill your own spirits at home), but you can, at the very least, ...

On July 10, U.S. District Court Judge Mark Pittman in the Northern District of Texas ruled in the case of Hobby Distillers Association v. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau that the longstanding ...

Well into the 1800s, homes in both Europe and North America had a “still room” where the woman of the house used a pot still to transform herbs and flowers into medicines and perfumes. Farms also had ...

The Buckeye Institute filed a document last month challenging the federal government’s argument that a Newark brewer can’t bring his case to overturn a home-distilling ban forward. John Ream, ...

Last year a federal judge ruled a 156-year-old ban on home distilling was unconstitutional. Even if the Department of Justice loses its current appeal of that ruling, that still leaves many state laws ...