C’est Vrai: Sugar for the stills left little for coffee

When south Louisiana men were hauled into court during Prohibition and accused of making moonshine whiskey at least a handful of them seemed genuinely surprised to find out that the mess of tubes and barrels discovered in their cabins was actually a still. For example, two men accused of operating a still in the middle of a south Louisiana swamp, told federal magistrate W. Alex Robertson they had…