I still have a copy of 'The Blue Flame' which is a book of recipies that used to be issued by Aramco in Saudi Arabia along with designs for making a still.

The recipies used plain sugar as the main ingredient as it was considered safer than using grain.

The finished product was called 'Sid', short for Siddiqui which is Arabic for 'friend'. So if you went to a party you brought along 'a friend'.

In Alabama our local cab driver knew all the moonshiners and bootleggers. But, as has been mentioned above, a bottle of Everclear is so cheap that it's not really worth the trouble.

Bert.