The Alcohol of the 19th Century

There are three segments of society, and its very economically driven. Three different things that you would be drinking in the us under prohabation. If you were rich, you could afford the real thing, which you smuggled in and bought on the black market. The urban poor drank home made moonshine or grain baste moonshine. A myth that the real mc coy comes from a boot legger calledmc coy. That is a cultural myth. And everybody had recipes for gin - scott fitzgerald wrote one down by word of mouth.