{"id":125,"date":"2006-07-11T11:51:32","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T15:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/07\/11\/thunder-road-rum-runners-alive-and-well\/"},"modified":"2006-07-11T11:51:32","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T15:51:32","slug":"thunder-road-rum-runners-alive-and-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/07\/11\/thunder-road-rum-runners-alive-and-well\/","title":{"rendered":"“Thunder Road” rum runners alive and well"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here in Knoxville is the place of death there near Bearden Hill, when the moonshine runner lost control. “Thunder Road”<\/a> is a legend. There still (forgive the pun)\u00c2\u00a0is plenty of moonshine around these hills. But I have enlisted the aid of a buddy of mine, Traitor Vic<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0to run rum over the Appalachian mountains for me.<\/p>\n

For whatever reason, you can’t ship liquor to Tennessee for personal use. And for other reasons, you can’t get Demerara rum anywhere in Tennessee I have ever found with the exception of the pricey Plantation rum<\/a>. My normal mule in Florida may not be up here before my luau at the end of the month, and you can’t ship it to Georgia either. So, it’s my luck that Vic is coming over the mountain for the luau. And he is bringing a bottle of Marischino Liqueur<\/a> with him that he had managed to get his local store to carry. That fills a hole in my liquor cabinet. We had found a bottle of the stuff in Indiana on a buying trip for Hale Tiki<\/a> decor and let it go to their bar. I made one round of cocktails with it for us on the return trip. It turns out Basement Kahuna could use a bottle of Demerara as well.<\/p>\n

We’ll load that mule up for the trek over the hills and have him avoid Bearden Hill. I’m pretty sure this is semi-legal…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here in Knoxville is the place of death there near Bearden Hill, when the moonshine runner lost control. “Thunder Road” is a legend. There still (forgive the pun)\u00c2\u00a0is plenty of Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[536],"tags":[103,259,345,385],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocktail-capers","tag-demerara","tag-moonshine","tag-rum","tag-thunder-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p731sH-21","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":97,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/06\/19\/polynesian-paralysiscocktailstiki-rum\/","url_meta":{"origin":125,"position":0},"title":"Polynesian Paralysis","author":"Swanky","date":"June 19, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night we decided to take another step on the march to make every drink in Beachbum Berry's books. 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