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Minnesota 13 Moonshine Podcast

Stearns County in Central Minnesota was a national player in the illegal moonshine business during the Prohibition Years of 1920-1933. St. Cloud State University Professor Elaine Davis has published a book that documents through county records, oral histories and other research of how and why Stearns County was so fruitful in the moonshine business.

In this interview with KVSC news, you'll hear about Al Capone's reputed visit to a farm near Melrose to "check in" on a top bootlegger. You'll discover all the perfect variables that came together to make Stearns County's moonshine some of the best in the nation.

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