LS Moonshine: American White-Lightening Strikes China
CHANGSHA, Hunan, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
American Moonshine Whiskey will be produced by Hunan Moonshine Liquor
Co. Ltd, a joint venture between American LS Moonshine, LLC and a Chinese
individual, at the end of October 2008.
All imported whiskeys on Chinese market have been aged in oak
barrels. "Western people drink the aged whiskey all alone. Habit makes
for happiness. But Chinese people who are happy with Baijiu (white
liquor) have a hard time with the oak taste," Miss Lu Wang, President of
Hunan Moonshine Liquor Co. Ltd., said. "So, no one drinks expensive
whiskey neat or on the rocks at the bars, everyone mixes it with Coke or
tea, which makes it hard to tell if the whiskey is a counterfeit."
However , Moonshine, not aged in oak barrels, has almost the same taste
as Chinese Baijiu. The whiskey was developed by Irish and Scottish
people who migrated to America, which was legal to distill until after
the civil war when Lincoln imposed excise taxes on liquor to pay the war
debt. Mountain moonshiners then moved into the woods, making their
illegal whiskey under the moon. Therefore, it is commonly known as
Moonshine, or white lightening.
"A friend gave me a bottle. I didn't know that America had Baijiu,
but the Moonshine tasted smoother. I brought it to Huarong, Hunan. The
county leaders Mr. Weixiong Xiang and Mr. Tao Wang immediately persuaded
us to build a distillery," Tong Li, the president of LS Moonshine, LLC,
said. "After twenty years of reform, China imported all the mass
produced products, but products like Moonshine with a rich folklore is
almost nonexistent."
Although it is not easy to find the white lightening in America, the
legends of bootleggers and moonshiners are abundant in American
literature. Even the world famous NASCAR was evolved from moonshiners
racing their fast cars. The terms "moonshiner's turn" or "Bootlegger's
turn" are still used today in auto racing.
Once available on the market, Moonshine whiskey and its stories will
strike Chinese dinner tables with a white lightening taste at NASCAR
speed.
SOURCE: LS Moonshine, LLC
CONTACT: Tong Li, LS Moonshine, LLC
+1-517-371-3063
Fax: +1-517-371-3028
admin@lsmoonshine.com
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