Merry at Midnight

For this year's Christmas Toast, we started with Midnight Moon's Cranberry Moonshine. Midnight Moonshine is inspired by Junior Johnson's family moonshine recipe and - true to the roots of moonshine - it is made from 100% American corn and handcrafted in small batches. Midnight Moon does not have the harsh, heavy corn taste people often associate with illegal moonshine. It's then blended with ultra-clean water that has been through a five-step filtration process, and the results is a very smooth spirit with a subtle sweetness from the corn.

Midnight Moon was officially born when Piedmont Distillers, North Carolina's first legal distillery since Prohibition, called on Junior at the mechanics shop on his old farm to taste-test what would become Midnight Moon Original. Junior sipped, smiled, and gave two thumbs up to the best moonshine ever made.

Merry at Midnight

2 oz. Cranberry moonshine

3 oz. blood orange juice

2 oz. grenadine - more or less to taste

Splash of club soda to taste

If you would like to make your own grenadine syrup fast forward to the Roaring 20's article for a Pomegranate Simple Syrup.

Serve in a Champagne Flute.