Description

Sharptop Lawless – Walter `Peg Leg` Fields – Spiced Rum

Details:
Mash Bill: Sugar Cane
Age: 7+ Years in a Wine Cask
Bottle Proof: 80

Description:
This is a sugar cane rum distilled in Alabama by a good friend of ours down in Atmore, Big Escambia Spirits, Seth Dettling. It’s been aged in used World Cooperage Wine Casks for over 7 years, spiced with a blend of our secret spices.

History:
Sometime in the 1830’s the Fields family settled here in North Georgia from North Carolina. In 1890, Thomas W. Fields and his cousin Eli, along with 20 other men gathered together, in the valley just east of Sharp Top Mountain, to retaliate against informants who testified about their moonshining business. Their group, the Honest Man’s Friend and Protectors, set out to get revenge.

Eli was tried and sent to prison that same year. A few years later, after he was released, he and his wife Rachel relocated to a 100 acre parcel near Hendrix Mountain and they raised nine children. Eli, like his father before him, was one of the best distillers around. He and his children made moonshine and brandy from their own fields & orchard.

His son, Walter, and daughter Maude carried on Eli’s legacy. Early in Walter’s life, he lost his leg while trying to board a train and turned to moonshining to make a living. Walter became “Peg” (pronounced “Pag”). He continued making liquor and ended up being one of the last genuine old-time whiskey makers in the region.

We were hoping that there was a cool story about some pirate that stole treasure and then buried it under some ole oak tree up in the North Georgia Mountains. But unfortunately our area lacks pirates and the closest history we could find that fit, is a legendary local moonshiner that happened to have a peg leg.