Charlie Bowman Craig Pakish	About C&C Shine Craig Pakish, FOUNDER Craig Pakish was born in 1954 in Fort Knox Kentucky. His father was a career military man and Craig had the privilege of traveling from post to post; from Kentucky to California, from California to Germany, from Germany to Pennsylvania, from Pennsylvania to California, from California to Hawaii and back to California. Craig attended Gonzales High School in California and worked summers at the Salinas Valley Feed Lot as a "hay boy" and later as a "feed truck operator". Craig was a member of the Future Farmers of America and won Grand Champion Steer at the Salinas Valley Fair in 1972. Craig attended Hartnell College and Humboldt State University and earned his BS in Wildlife Management. During the summer of 1976 Craig worked as a deckhand on a river boat that pushed coal barges on the Ohio River and Cumberland River. It was during his tenure as a deckhand that he learned about moonshine. In 1978 Craig began a career in managing wildlife. He became a Monterey County Deputy Sheriff. During his assignment as community officer for the town of Castroville he met Charlie Bowman, who at the time had a small business in Castroville. He and Charlie became friends and upon Craig retiring from the Sheriff's Office they went into business to make Appalachian Moonshine right, on the left coast. However, upon learning about all of federal and state regulations governing distilleries Craig and Charlie knew they had to call their moonshine "Clear Madness", because you would have to be clearly mad to embark on such an endeavor. But what is life without a few challenges and government regulations. Taste our Clear Madness and you will agree that we have the best California Moonshine since the Beverly Hillbillies came to California.
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