The moonshine comes as a complete surprise.Bryan Bedwell has just sat down on the edge of the Peter Mathews Memorial Skate Garden, which is currently under major construction in the Bevo Mill neighborhood, when a colleague shows up with a clear glass mason jar. The man is proud of what he has wrought, explaining that it is good shit.
“If you take a spoonful of it and light it on fire it burns blue,” he says, “and when you shake it up the frog-eye bubbles disappear pretty quickly.” These are apparently desirable qualities in homemade liquor.
Bedwell unscrews the lid and takes a sip.…