Now a Carolina Beach resident, she can be seen on Discovery Channel’s “Moonshiners: Master Distiller.”
Lowery is one of the three contestants featured in the Gin Craze episode on the show’s second season, currently streaming on Discovery+.
Lowery said she competed against two moonshiners in the episode, which was filmed in August at a legal distillery in Tennessee. “Moonshiners” is a docudrama that first premiered in 2011. Its success led to spinoffs, like the Master Distiller series and “Moonshiners: Whiskey Business.”
Judges on the program included familiar Moonshiner faces, like Tim Smith and Steve Tickle as well as a guest judge.
The popular âPuss ânâ Mewâ machine in the York Gin shop is here to stay
The popular âPuss ânâ Mewâ machine in the York Gin shop is here to stay THE popular York Gin shop is re-opening on Monday with their socially-distanced contraption continuing to serve free samples. The contraption is based on the world’s first vending machine - known then as a ‘Puss ’n’ Mew’ - invented during the 18th Century Gin Craze. During the Gin Craze, customers would buy illicit gin from the cat-shaped machine attached to the outside of a house by putting a penny in a slot and being served through a lead pipe. It was a way to get around a ban on gin sales.
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Of the many things I would not, as a young man, have predicted about my life at present, perhaps the most surprising is that I would spend dozens or perhaps hundreds of hours drinking gin in Spanish airports and train stations (I am writing this in Terminal Four of Barajas Airport in Madrid, where the cashier in duty free was kind enough to ask whether I needed
no, gracias
the customary sealed bag for my half-pint of Gordon’s). I didn’t start learning Spanish until three years after college, and I didn’t visit the country until I was almost 30. As a young man, I wasn’t scared of flying and had no need for such balsams to get through it. And finally, I used to think gin a repugnant swill old people pretended to like out of feigned sophistication.
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Gin Craze is set during the 18th-century moral panic about working-class women drinking a newly invented, potent form of alcohol: gin. They not only drank it, they found a new economic freedom in selling it and worshipped it as a semi-divine “mother”. Today we still talk about mother’s ruin. Though the history of gin is well documented, the voices of the working-class women who drank it and made their living selling it were never recorded. The play tries to imagine who those women were, struggling in a brutal London.
Lydia, a pimp, meets Mary, a castoff servant, and soon their journey with gin begins. Through their friendship and fortunes, the play traces the vicissitudes of the gin craze from the perspective of the London street. Also featured in the play is the novelist Henry Fielding, who incarnated himself as a magistrate and pitted his last energies into stamping out the practice of the poor drinking gin.