I had occasion to study the Whiskey Rebellion a few years ago, and I discovered the flipside of alcohol distribution. Farmers love distilling grain alcohol. Be

I had occasion to study the Whiskey Rebellion a few years ago, and I discovered the flipside of alcohol distribution. Farmers love distilling grain alcohol. Because it can take their crops and make the product easy to transport. If you're trying to ship lots of corn, barley, rye, or potatoes, etc., overland, you're looking at a large volume and mass. It is cumbersome to load and unload. It spoils easily, and pests can make lots of problems in storage. So [historically,] if you're a farmer in Kentucky or Western Pennsylvania and you grow plenty grain to feed your townspeople and livestock, and there's anything left over, it's only logical to distill it and ship it out to an urban market. But on the market side, it's feeding into vices, so what's an honest farmer to do? Contract for torpedo juice?