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October 2016

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60  /  the tasting panel  /  october 2016 WHAT WE'RE DRINKING TENNESSEE'S FIRST LEGAL MOONSHINE DISTILLERY DIGS DEEP INTO ITS PAST TO GO GLOBAL On Top at Ole Smoky by Amy Zavatto I f you'd told Justin King that he'd be jet-setting with Mason jars full of hooch at the ready as the global maven of moonshine, he'd have told you perhaps you'd been stand- ing a little too close to fumes of the strong spirit coming off the still. But King, 32, Master Distiller at Ole Smoky, Tennessee's first legal moonshine distillery, has been doing just that—and getting as much of a kick out of it as the spirit he crafts. Justin King, Master Distiller at Ole Smoky, located in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

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