FROM A US PARATROOPER TO A TN STATE TROOPER, NOW HE’S THE MAN BEHIND THE MASON JAR!

Step into the world of Drop Zone Distilling, where the spirits flow as freely as the stories that inspired them. Rod “Sarge” Parton is on a journey to introduce everyone to the real, authentic, unadulterated taste of hand-crafted Moonshine made famous from the back hills of Pittman Center, TN by his grandfather and great-grandpap as far back as 1930s.

Rod’s grandfather had a small store up on the river where other shiners would come and get supplies to keep them from having to travel into town and be seen. Rod’s grandfather started making Rye Moonshine in the late 1960’s for a different flavor from the traditional corn-based shine most everyone was making. Rod has now taken the recipes from his great-grandpap’s corn based and his papaw’s rye-based moonshine and perfected the taste of both into Gold Medal Winning very smooth enjoyable shine made for sipping and telling stories around a campfire.

Rod has now taken the corn-based moonshine from his great-grandfather and the rye from his grandfather and barreled them to create a family-based whiskey to honor his family heritage under “The Jumpmaster’s Reserve,” Bourbon’s and Whiskey’s!

2 Locations:

Pigeon Forge
2674 Teaster Lane
Pigeon Forge, TN 37863

Knoxville
806 E. Governor John Sevier Hwy
Knoxville, TN 37920