At first glance, the lab seems normal. Undergraduate students are gathered around copper apparatuses, fiddling with hot plates as they wait for something to happen. And then the first sweet-smelling ...

Purchasing a still is perfectly legal to own. Using a still to distill alcohol at home is not. Under federal and state law, ...

However, the home-based distillation of alcohol has been against federal law since Prohibition was repealed in the 1930s. “We’re being governed by stuff designed to stop the illegal sale of untaxed ...