Fun Facts
In California, a jury was indicted for drinking the evidence in a moonshining case.
Forbidden to legally make beer, some of our national breweries survived Prohibition by making malted milk.
Judge John Knox ruled that prescriptions for whiskey were not limited under Prohibition, making physicians an important source for those seeking alcoholic beverages. An average of 10 million prescriptions were issued each year during Prohibition.
A bootlegger in a small Pennsylvania town evaded the law in an ingenious manner. He used a horsedrawn milk wagon and a uniformed “milkman” to deliver booze to customers doorsteps in milk bottles painted white.
Bootlegging during Prohibition was so rampant in one northern city that the spent mash from the many stills and illicit breweries clogged the sewage sytem.
