Shine through the Generations — Dalton Distillery in Dalton, Georgia
Moonshine became a heritage, and family shiners buddied up to local cops, hid evidence in their sick beds, and paid off lawyers with gallons of hooch to ensure its continuation.“It was just part of life,” says Raymond “Chuck” Butler Jr., Alvin’s grandson. “You needed to be secretive, but it wasn’t shameful. You didn’t need to talk about it, because you didn’t wanna get arrested.”[Editor’s note: This story is part of Good Beer Hunting’s Compound Interest series, underwritten by SMBX, which highlights different ways small businesses can get the funding they need; all of the businesses profiled in this series have worked with SMBX to achieve part or even all of their funding.]That’s how it went for almost 80 years until 2015, when Chuck and his father Raymond Sr.