CC#4: 'Moonshiners'

Meaghan Murphy gives us great details on a famous moonshiner, Tim Smith, and his beliefs in her latest article: 'Moonshiners' star Tim Smith wants to go legit, says investors are wary. She's explained Tim as man who was working on making moonshiners go "legit" on the hit TV show, "Moonshiners" ran on Discovery Channel. Smith has told FoxNews.com on his first ever interview online, "I'm trying to get out of these woods. I'm trying to get out there and take an illegal product and make legal money out of it. They say you can't do it, but I think we can."
     Even though Tim Smith is very successful with his reality TV show, he is having a bit of trouble getting people to invest in his ideas on manufacturing moonshine. "It's a challenge," admits Smith, a forth generation moonshiner, "It’s kind of hard to tell someone that you’re an illegal moonshiner trying to start a legal business. A lot of times, there’s an investor–they kind of take it with the wrong interpretation, I guess. They kind of look at it as, ‘Well, if you’re brewing something illegal now, then you’re probably doing something illegal later, so we’re not too fond of that idea.’”
     Smith is even reported saying that he wants to make something that "stands out" when he publishes his brand of moonshine. He wants people to notice his label when he sets a bottle of his delectable treat on a table or at a bar. No matter how far away, preferably farther away. " If you gotta get up close to it to identify it, and then you take a person who’s been drinking, they could care less what it is. But I want something to be attractive and something that’s going to stand out, so we’ll just have to wait and see what I come up with,” Tim reported.
     "Smith also notes that he has a unique background in making the taboo brew that the big, legal distilleries lack,"  noted Murphy. Apparently, none of them have actually made real moonshine in their life. In fact, the reason that Smith is so anxious and feels so pushed to become a legal moonshiner is because no one else really knows how to make moonshine. He even wants to be and believes that he will be the only illegal moonshiner to go legal.
     Some moonshiners say they make an average of $200, 000 a year, but Tim Smith disagrees. "There are very few people who are making that kind of money," Smith was quoted, I know that they’re trying to build it up that it’s possible – and it is possible. Any kind of business is possible – look at Wal-Mart. But normally, it doesn’t happen. Normally, these guys just work and the money goes back into the business. No one really gets rich off of this thing, it’s just that everyone keeps going. Once you get in it, it’s hard to stop and get out of it.”
     All in all I believe that Mr. Smith should not become a legal moonshiner. Or anyone to be honest. Moonshine should just be illegal period. It's bad enough that there are people who tend to drink uncontrollably on just regular alcohol, imagine people binge drinking all of the time on moonshine.