[Cali BassMan]

Originally Posted by AWC

I understand Boone County is a dry county, but I am not sure what, exactly, that means. I am assuming it means restaurants don't serve alcohol, there are no bars, and no places to buy alcohol in the county. Is this correct? How does being a dry county affect home brewing beer, or making wine for personal use? Just curious, as I rarely drink, but my wife does love a glass of wine, and I'd like to try my hand at making some.

sounds like you is gonna be a moonshiner......Wife's uncle lives in a dry county just a few miles from the Missouri Border, Border Liquors sure is a busy store, parking lot full of Ark plates...

[AWC]

Originally Posted by Cali BassMan

sounds like you is gonna be a moonshiner......Wife's uncle lives in a dry county just a few miles from the Missouri Border, Border Liquors sure is a busy store, parking lot full of Ark plates...

I'll bet it is

[RogMar]

Originally Posted by AWC

I understand Boone County is a dry county, but I am not sure what, exactly, that means. I am assuming it means restaurants don't serve alcohol, there are no bars, and no places to buy alcohol in the county. Is this correct? How does being a dry county affect home brewing beer, or making wine for personal use? Just curious, as I rarely drink, but my wife does love a glass of wine, and I'd like to try my hand at making some.

I find it hard to believe that AR has a dry county that doesn't have at least one "supper club".

As for making your own, have at it. I'm in a dry county and a lot of people do. I've got a neighbor that does a batch of moonshine now & again.

You can tell when he's cooked it off by the number of pickup trucks in his drive.

[sbernard]

Harrison, is dry only in that you can't buy package liquor. There are eleven, count 'em, eleven private watering holes in the county where memberships are free, all the way up to five dollars per year.

Home brew and winemaking are legal, and if I say so myself, the process is kind of fun. You're a lot more proud of wine you made than wine you bought.

[AWC]

I think its time to dust off the old dandelion wine recipe

[RogMar]

Originally Posted by AWC

I think its time to dust off the old dandelion wine recipe

I think we've got as many wine recipes as we got chiggers round here.

The only tough part is letting it set for 1 to 1 1/2 years.

More than a few bottles have had a premature death.

Elderberry wine is an anti-viral, as is elderberry jelly, and raw elderberrys.

We feel a lot of colds "comin' on" from time to time.

[AWC]

Elderberry wine, mmmm. Many many years ago, I used to mow a lady's lawn for a quart of elderberry wine & $2.00 My dad sure would be mad when I gave him the jar and it was 1/2 empty from the walk home

[mjohnson4381]

I've never lived in Harrison, but I've been there several times. There are way too many rednecks up there. Not everybody is a redneck, true, but there's still too many for my liking. Harrison's claim to fame is to be the Ku Klux Klan capital of the world. I'm honestly not sure if the Ku Klux Klan still exists up there, but I have friends from there and even dated a guy from there. Racism is still very rampant, and so is ignorance.

It's also really small and there's virtually nothing to do for entertainment purposes. That probably explains why people usually start having kids up there very young. There's nothing else to do.