Huffington Post profiles Asheville’s Troy and Sons

Excerpt from the Huffington Post story:

It was as if young Frankenstein met Old MacDonald—with a touch of Austin Powers thrown in for good measure.
Tucked away in a small barn in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, Troy Ball and her friend John McEntire were like a pair of mad scientists—mixing, boiling, adding ingredients, then taking them out again— trying to achieve just the right formula for their precious concoction. “It was all undercover,” says Troy. “But it was also really exciting. I mean, we’d hear somebody pulling up the gravel road, and we’d close the barn doors.”

The reason for all the secrecy: Troy and John had built their own little distillery, and what they were doing—making moonshine—was criminal in the minds of some of the neighbors.

Troy’s journey from mom to moonshine maker began back in 2003, when she and her husband, Charlie, moved with their three sons to Asheville, North Carolina.

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