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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A military unit has one member — usually low-ranking — who secretly brews or distills liquor. Well, more or less secretly, depending on how strict regulations are. Usually winked at all around. Especially by those who drink it. Officers sometimes find it hard to find out how to get a bottle for themselves, or they may disdain the sketchy hooch because they have access to Luxurious Liquor on the Black Market. The moonshiner is often quite skilled at it; the Hillbilly Moonshiner is often his backstory. And the hooch itself, though frequently of fire-breathing potency, is at least drinkable without danger. Although the drinkers may curse it and describe it negatively, it generally doesn't blind or kill them, presumably because (from the characters' POV) if it were truly dangerous it wouldn't get the necessary nod-and-a-wink from higher up, and (from the writer's POV) they don't want to take out characters that way. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Often produces it for a toast To Absent Friends who were lost in combat. Because it requires the use of a still, appearances in cultures prior to the High Middle Ages are anachronistic — and even in the High Middle Ages stills were rarities, mostly used for medicinal purposes. This character has been known to appear earlier, making fermented brews rather than distilled liquor. If he's not The Scrounger, he gets his parts (copper tubing, large pots) from him. The moonshiner may need to negotiate with the Camp Cook to creatively obtain sugar, fruit juice, and other ingredients. See also: Camp Cook, Hillbilly Moonshiner. |
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The War of the Masters: In Looking Through Enemy Eyes (as a David Drake Shout-Out) Kanril Eleya tells K'Ragh she told her chief of the boat that either a bottle of the finest "slash" was to miraculously appear in her ready room, or she'd tear apart Main Engineering until she found the still. In Don't Say Goodbye, Farewell there's a Call-Back to the above when Tess says they should take Romulan ale off the embargo and replace it with a cheap blended bourbon Eleya took from an alcohol-abusing petty officer because "it's worse than [Chief] Walston's slash." |
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In Sound of the Sky the garrison of the Time-Keeping Fortress has taken the tradition of distilling calvados and selling it to the local mafia in a fairly large numbers to make up for late payments. It's a serious felony. | |
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Rocketship Voyager. Tom Paris buys a squeeze-tube of booze from the ship's cook, and explains to B'Elanna Torres that there's a vacuum-still hidden somewhere on Voyager (or maybe outside the hull) that their Master-At-Arms hasn't tracked down yet. It also helps that the crew subsist on yeast-based food. | |
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Referenced in The Simpsons episode "Brother from Another Series" after Sideshow Bob is released from prison: | |
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In F Troop, Sergeant O'Rourke gets around this by having the local Indian tribe, the Hekawis, make the booze for him. He still provides them with parts and raw materials...and sells the finished product in Fort Courage's saloon, which he secretly owns. | |
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The crew of the HMS Surprise is seen heating a still, apparently fueled with prickly pear cactus, over an open fire pit when they land on the Galapagos Islands in Master and Commander. Unlike many other examples, there isn't much reason to believe they are distilling behind the backs of their superiors at all. At the time, the rum ration was hallowed tradition and medical common sense in the Royal Navy and one of the reasons Jack Aubrey chose to return to the Galapagos Islands was to replenish his food stocks. To assume that "food stocks" includes some form of liquor to replace or stretch the supply of regulation rum isn't that big a stretch. | |
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The Master: The highly emotionally unstable, über-alcoholic Navy seaman Freddie Quell operates a still amid ship in which he concocts a moonshine made out of alcohol and industrial solvents. | |
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Dozer in The Matrix. | |
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A Discussed Trope in Starman Jones, when Sam Anderson explains to the title character why it's convenient for all concerned to turn a blind eye to such activities. | |
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Ryoko Sakaki in Food Wars! is a trainee chef, who specialises in fermented ingredients, and also makes "special rice juice" (read: illegal homebrewed sake) for dorm parties. The setting is a boarding school rather than an army base, but the "making illicit alcohol in a strictly controlled environment" is still there. | |
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Rebel Stand, written by Aaron Allston like the other two Star Wars Expanded Universe examples, also has moonshine. Moonshine which one character thinks smells like paint thinner. The scene continues on with notes like Jaina's voice now sounding like an elderly mechanic's, Jag tasting it and making "a noise that suggested he'd just been punched", Kyp tasting it and surmising that it seems to be "part alcohol, part pepper, part rotted fruit" and then asking if the other two had had the antidote before he showed up, Jag taking another sip and having a clearly visible ripple of anguish from his neck to his feet, and at the end Jaina saying they should drink to the (unrelated) conclusion of the conversation. |
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A not-quite-as labor-intensive version was the fatal flaw/clue in a Columbo episode. The killer, a colonel in charge of a military academy who rigs a ceremonial cannon to explode and killing the owner of said academy, gets on his subordinates to find apple cider the cadets are fermenting into alcoholic after seeing a bottle of it. When the bottle is found, he drags the cadets outside to where he saw it to lay into them, as Columbo had planned, He reveals to the colonel that there was only one place on the campus of the military school where the bottle could be seen: the cannon, and only seen before reveille, as the cadets made sure to hide the bottle before then, blowing the colonel's alibi of sleeping at the time. | |
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Chief of Security Tony Verdeschi from Space: 1999's second season spends his off-duty period trying to brew beer using Moonbase Alpha's hydroponics equipment, resulting in varying degrees of failure. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: While the cast are technically military, they haven't been moonshining. But Schlock does find a still while working undercover at a circus - being used by the clowns. They were apparently trying to make Merlot Brandy. Schlock stated that they were closer to making biodiesel. Captain Tagon recounts a time when he was in the infantry and a greenie major gave their company far too much living space. |
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In Don't Say Goodbye, Farewell there's a Call-Back to the above when Tess says they should take Romulan ale off the embargo and replace it with a cheap blended bourbon Eleya took from an alcohol-abusing petty officer because "it's worse than [Chief] Walston's slash." | |
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Subverted in Inglourious Basterds in that Lt. Aldo Raine implies he did this in Tennessee before the war. | |
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While they were never actually shown in a scene, a later Vorkosigan Saga novel has Miles commenting that in his ten year career in the military, he has never once seen a spacecraft or station larger than a courier or personal transport that didn't have an unauthorized still on it somewhere. | |
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EarthCent Ambassador: Joe has a sideline in homebrewing and his products are served at a number of bars on Union Station. It evidently dates back to his mercenary days, since he's able to barter permission to land at a merc encampment when he offers several kegs to an old war buddy. | |
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In Twilight: 2000, a still is essential as a source of fuel, and the game includes rules for distilling alcohol. Keeping a still supplied and functional is frequently a full-time job for The Scrounger. | |
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X-Wing Series: In Wraith Squadron, the squadron mechanic looks at a hastily-cobbled-together ship he just out built of a smuggling compartment ripped from a shuttle and the ejection seat boosters from a crippled fighter, he says it's the second most hazardous thing he's ever made. The most hazardous was his first still. In Starfighters of Adumar, one pilot mentions that he knew their new diplomatic liaison when said liaison was a pilot. He didn't make his own alcohol, but he smuggled it and all manner of other things in. |
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Averted in Band of Brothers; Easy Company lacks a moonshiner. The biggest drinker among the main characters has to smuggle his booze in the luggage of a known teetotaler, and later resorts to looting when his supply runs dry. As they were fighting through France and into Germany finding left-behind alcohol wasn't too hard. | |
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This is referenced in one of the data entries in Mass Effect: the Alliance ships have ablative armor and void spaces between the decks and the main outer hull; in the entry it's mentioned that you'd often find illegal stills in these void spaces. Chief Ashley Williams (no, not that one, the other one) jokes that a still is the second thing Alliance engineers install in a starship — the engines being the first — before her toast to absent family members. Not quite military, but in Mass Effect: Andromeda, an overheard conversation on Ryder's first visit to The Nexus implies the A.P.E.X. Strike teams have been doing some of this. (Squadmate Liam can be heard talking with one of them, and notes she's brewed something fierce. When he asks how she made it, she just replies "you'd be surprised.") |
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The novelisation of Aliens has an administrator of the terraforming colony on Acheron noting that his assistant is chewing something illegal. He doesn't raise it because too much insistence on rules and regulations on a colony far from Earth can get you lost outside without a communicator. Besides he's hoping to score some himself. | |
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In the Alexis Carew series, larger ships brew small beer legally in vats to give off-duty crew an alternative to ship's water, which tends to taste bad after being cycled through the ship's treatment plant a jillion times. | |
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While commanding the war effort at Alwa Station, Kris Longknife relaxes several regulations on conduct aboard ship, including consumption of alcohol off-duty (she had run a "wet" ship as a previous command due to a mixed crew of sailors, Marines, and various civilian contractors, and had no problems). This is met by general approval from the rank-and-file sailors, except usually by one leading chief per ship who is suspected to run the still. | |
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Star Trek: The Star Trek: The Original Series novel "Vulcan's Glory" establishes that producing "Engine Room Hooch" was almost universal on early Starfleet vessels and other installations. Predictably, newly arrived junior engineer Montgomery Scott was very skilled at producing hooch of the highest quality. Even by-the-book officers like Number One and the Commandant of Starfleet Academy largely looked the other way (in exchange for having the first squeezings from the still, of course). After Scotty took over hooch production on the Enterprise, Number One commented that the hooch was better than that from the Lionheart. However the batch in the novel was subsequently accidentally contaminated by radiation from the warp reactor, which made it much stronger than intended. This had the fortunate side effect of bringing their attention to a damaged reactor that they would have missed otherwise. After this incident, Chief Engineer Barry put a firm end to any further production of the hooch on the Enterprise. Later, in the novel "Ghostwalker" several junior officers justify to themselves setting up a customized food synthesizer to produce better chocolate by stating that they were not setting up a still or making illicit substances. When discovered Scotty tried to convince Spock not to go too hard on them as the compartment the "chocolate factory" helped keep Spock safe for several days, and plenty of Enterprise crew members would thank these crew members for making decent chocolate. |
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M*A*S*H: Hawkeye and Trapper John (and later BJ) have a still in their tent. They say that they're distilling gin (hence the martini glasses), but what actually comes out is little more than high-proof grain alcohol. Colonel Potter once mentions that he had had a still in Guam during World War II that exploded and injured him. He got a Purple Heart for the wounds he suffered when said distillery explosion occurred. This very still received a Shout-Out in Community, where the TV-obsessed Abed constantly compares Jeff Winger to Hawkeye. Jeff immediately orders a "Hawkeye still" be built in his editorial office. |
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In Orange Is the New Black, Poussey fills this role at Litchfield, notably contributing a two-liter bottle of it for Trica's wake. Other inmates have tried their hand at the trope as well. | |
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The Forever War: William Mandella has virtually nothing in common with his unit by the time he becomes a Major. Except that one of the cooks has cobbled-together a still and is selling booze to the troops. More than anything, he's amazed at how they got the raw materials out of a closed-system. They pulled it off by offering crewmen their products in exchange for sugary desserts to use as feedstock. | |
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The Star Trek: The Original Series novel "Vulcan's Glory" establishes that producing "Engine Room Hooch" was almost universal on early Starfleet vessels and other installations. Predictably, newly arrived junior engineer Montgomery Scott was very skilled at producing hooch of the highest quality. Even by-the-book officers like Number One and the Commandant of Starfleet Academy largely looked the other way (in exchange for having the first squeezings from the still, of course). After Scotty took over hooch production on the Enterprise, Number One commented that the hooch was better than that from the Lionheart. However the batch in the novel was subsequently accidentally contaminated by radiation from the warp reactor, which made it much stronger than intended. This had the fortunate side effect of bringing their attention to a damaged reactor that they would have missed otherwise. After this incident, Chief Engineer Barry put a firm end to any further production of the hooch on the Enterprise. | |
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In Red Planet, Commander Bowman discovers that two of her crewmembers have made a still in the lab after the computer tells her that the lab's thermostat is set a little high. She confronts the crewmembers... and then asks for a drink. She downs the shot in one go and, at the crewmembers' shocked expressions, reminds them that she was in the Navy. | |
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One - Corporal Harrigan - appears in the movie Jarhead, providing the supplies for the party in Iraq. | |
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Referenced, but never seen, in SeaQuest DSV. Lt. Krieg manages to purchase and assemble a still aboard ship, only to find out that the genetically modified barley on offer doesn't yield alcohol when mashed and distilled, a failure Lucas teases him for. | |
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Not a distiller himself, the cook for the C57D in Forbidden Planet did get a lot of booze in an unorthodox way. After befriending Robbie the robot and asking him if he could make him more bourbon, Robbie supplies him with several gallons, all in hundreds of bottles identical to the one he let Robbie scan. | |
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A couple chapters of Kurogane Puka Puka Tai feature a sake-brewing ring aboard the Unebi. It's run by several officers: the ship's doctor, the chief engineer, the purser, and the gunnery officer, and was almost discovered when a fermenting container exploded in a storeroom. | |
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The prisoners of G-Wing in Bad Girls brew up a batch of "Chateau Larkhall" using fruit, powdered drink mix, and yeast tablets nicked from the prison kitchen. Winds up tasting as good as it sounds (that is: horrible), but at least it's alcoholic. It's later consumed at an impromptu wake for Monica's son. | |
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On the Ark Royal The chief engineer has a still, which provided most of the booze Cpt. Smith drank while the ship was stuck in orbit. Newcomer Commander Fitzwilliam is momentarily surprised to see unlabeled rotgut served openly at his first briefing with the senior crew, then remembers that he hadn't seen a ship yet where the crew wasn't fermenting something. | |
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A Study in Murder by Robert Ryan. Despite there being in theory nothing to ferment thanks to the surrounding populace being on starvation rations, and the fact that Allied prisoners can pay to have proper booze mailed to them, moonshine still exists in the POW camp where Dr. Watson is imprisoned. Watson drinks a sample and promptly passes out, waking with a splitting headache. It could have been worse—several men had died after drinking the stuff and Watson suspected they'd been deliberately poisoned. | |
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Brody assembled a still from the lab/kitchen tools aboard Destiny in Stargate Universe. The drinks usually taste horrible (most likely due to being brewed from alien flora), but the crew doesn't complain too much because hey, alcohol! | |
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Peace Forged in Fire: Morgan has a side business brewing Romulan ale, and Praetor Velal is very impressed at the quality of her product. She also mentions she had a vineyard on Virinat before the Tal Shiar and Elachi destroyed the colony, and in another scene speaks hopefully of one day going back there. Unusually for the trope, she's a flag officer (her rank of khre'riov is equivalent to a rear admiral). | |
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Trying to run a "dry" army in The Citizen Series essentially just means that the men avoid being drunk on duty; they'll otherwise make tonk with anything that has cellulose.note Technically possible, but you need to involve the gut bacteria of ruminants, as ordinary yeast isn't capable of breaking the type of glucose linkages found in cellulose. Yeast is then needed to finish turning the glucose into ethanol. Which is why most brewers in Real Life start with starch instead, which is also a polymer of glucose but with linkages that are a lot easier to break. Hawthorne at one point combines the moonshiners' output (from sea algae in this case, and it tastes exactly as horrible as it sounds) with lubricating oil to make Molotov cocktails. He obtains the liquor by telling the senior NCO that either the liquor "miraculously" appears outside his quarters in the middle of the night, or he tears the base apart until he finds where the still is hidden (taking it as a given that there is one somewhere). The requested miracle occurs. | |
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The Unknown Soldier features the soldiers brewing alcohol during a stalemate. They nickname the container it's brewing in "Boy". | |
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Never So Few: Cpl. Bill Ringa offers his CO Capt. Tom Reynolds a flask of some noxious gin. When Tom asks how he got it, Bill reveals that he himself makes, bottles, and sells it. | |
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JAG: In "Cabin Pressure", Harm & Mac are sent out to a ship to investigate the death of a moonshiner. | |
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The flight deck crew in the new Battlestar Galactica set up a still and are harshly reprimanded for it by Chief Tyrol... because it was a sloppy job that made "liquor" liable to kill someone, and teaches them to build a better version. Later, Colonel Tigh catches Tyrol brewing liquor to trade for engine parts, directs him to the parts he needs, and takes a jar as payment. | |
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The Mote in God's Eye: Captain Blaine always has a good supply of Irish Mist, supplied courtesy of Sergeant Maloney and his vacuum still. Officially, Blaine doesn't know where it comes from. It has a part in the climax, when a Motie imitates the captain, but doesn't know about the still. | |
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In House on Bare Mountain, Granny Good and the Wolf Man Krakow are running an industrial scale still in the basement of the school. | |
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Star Wars Legends: X-Wing Series: In Wraith Squadron, the squadron mechanic looks at a hastily-cobbled-together ship he just out built of a smuggling compartment ripped from a shuttle and the ejection seat boosters from a crippled fighter, he says it's the second most hazardous thing he's ever made. The most hazardous was his first still. In Starfighters of Adumar, one pilot mentions that he knew their new diplomatic liaison when said liaison was a pilot. He didn't make his own alcohol, but he smuggled it and all manner of other things in. Rebel Stand, written by Aaron Allston like the other two Star Wars Expanded Universe examples, also has moonshine. Moonshine which one character thinks smells like paint thinner. The scene continues on with notes like Jaina's voice now sounding like an elderly mechanic's, Jag tasting it and making "a noise that suggested he'd just been punched", Kyp tasting it and surmising that it seems to be "part alcohol, part pepper, part rotted fruit" and then asking if the other two had had the antidote before he showed up, Jag taking another sip and having a clearly visible ripple of anguish from his neck to his feet, and at the end Jaina saying they should drink to the (unrelated) conclusion of the conversation. |
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Firefly: Not strictly military, but alcohol is still hard to find in the Black: | |
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Not quite military, but in Mass Effect: Andromeda, an overheard conversation on Ryder's first visit to The Nexus implies the A.P.E.X. Strike teams have been doing some of this. (Squadmate Liam can be heard talking with one of them, and notes she's brewed something fierce. When he asks how she made it, she just replies "you'd be surprised.") | |
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This is a subplot of The Great Escape, where the American prisoners buy up all the potatoes in the camp and secretly ferment it to make a very powerful potato whisky. The English and Americans are blown away by the power of the alcohol, but the Scottish prisoners actually don't seem terribly affected by it. | |
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The RCN novels have slash, which is literally distilled from the alcohol-based hydraulic fluid used in ships' power rooms. The RCN attitude toward it seems to be benign neglect: as long as the crew aren't drunk on duty the officers are fine with it and will usually partake themselves. (Daniel being asked to partake of native liquors will usually elicit some comment to the effect that he's tasted slash that was a hell of a lot worse.) | |
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Updated in Buffalo Soldiers (2001). Ray Elwood doesn't make moonshine; he bakes heroin. | |
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In the chronologically first Dragonriders of Pern novel, the now ex-Navy personnel who are part of the newly founded Pern colony note that the first two types of plants that people look for on a new planet are ones that can be distilled into liquor, and ones that can be brewed into a coffee substitute. | |
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