Read a great article in Wired recently about the underground production of moonshine.  One of the highlights was a bit about a federal agent:

John Spidell misses the moonshine tradition. A former federal revenuer, the 65-year-old spent the first half of the ’70s “busting up” illegal stills in North Carolina. His job sometimes required living in a sleeping bag under a piece of canvas for weeks at a time, watching a big still, waiting for the owner to appear. Smaller stills got less attention.
“A five- or six-hundred-gallon outfit wasn’t worth wasting time on,” he says. “I’d go back to my vehicle, get the C4 explosives and blasting caps, and I’d blow it up. There were only so many of us, and only so much time.”

That’s right, C4!  The full article is a pretty interesting read on the current state of moonshine.

I’m glad beer brewing is legal.