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Hooch Planet

Emelie Kaye Peine

Searching the world for moonshine wherever it is made, and exploring how rural people make a living, make meaning, and make community in the 21st century.

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The Sobriety-Industrial Complex

On January 3 2025, the New York Times ran a series of articles about the health risks associated with drinking alcohol. They reported that the US Surgeon General is pushing for new warning labels on alcoholic beverages akin to those on ciga...

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What in the West-by-God Virginia?

Breaking news here on Hooch Planet: back in March of this year, the West Virginia state legislature announced that it would be legal for Mountaineers to produce up to 10 gallons of hooch annually for their own consumption. Just a few months...

2 years ago
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Turning sugar into gold

Partaking in the great gaúcho tradition of passing the chimarrão

In the hour or so that I sat chatting and sipping chimarrão—the ubiquitous erva mate tea that is a symbol of gaúcho culture—with Tuco and his wife Cristiane1, three different...

2 years ago
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On sunny days, the water keeps rising

After six straight days of drenching rains, when the sun finally came out in Porto Alegre it was surreal. The brilliant blue skies reflected blindingly off of the stagnant flood waters that inundated the historic city center. The dank scent...

2 years ago
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Here comes the flood

Three weeks ago we arrived in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul to begin the third phase of Hooch Planet’s orbit this year. I came here to study homemade cachaça, an iconic sugarcane-based spirit that is a symbol of Brazilia...

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    Political economist, professor of global booze studies, food systems, and rural communities. Musician and mom.

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