The term moonshine came to mean illicit alcohol in the late 1700s -- specifically liquor that was created and transported at night, under the "shine of the moon." Moonshiners distilled their ...

He owned more than 5,000 acres of farmland, all of it stocked with moonshine stills tucked in the woods, hidden inside tobacco barns and concealed under bluffs of the Neuse River — an operation ...