[Kalium]

If you know the right people - or are in the right areas - it's not unusual or even uncommon. I know people who make moonshine in California.

[magic_beans]

I think the vast majority of people DON'T know the right people.

[Kalium]

Probably true! But I stumbled into it in Oakland without even trying, and large swaths of Appalachia have longstanding moonshining traditions.