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Originally Posted by DarkCircus
They didn't use copper to color it. The only time that copper was used was when rednecks tried to bootleg it like moonshine. It took as much as 1/3 of all alcohol sales in some places, so they people tried to cash in and made poison because they didn't know that they were doing.
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Eh, that's essentially what I said. Companies trying to cash in on the popularity added toxic ingredients like copper as colorants, in order to produce something that looked similar.
The quality distillers who had already been making it didn't, of course.