To say moonshining is a Miller family tradition is an understatement.
"My grandfather actually made it in Forbidden Caverns. He got ran out of there," said Darrell Miller of White Pine, "We can trace it back, me being fifteenth generation, actually puts it back coming over on the Mayflower."
Darrell Miller opened Bootleggers, a legal distillery in Hartford, in 2013. He didn't want to share his decades old recipe with just any employee.
"We're trying to keep all the secrets in the family," he said.
He started teaching his daughter, Taylor, and she caught on quickly. She just turned 18 years old last month.
"He leaves it all to me. He would just like you to think he does all the work," Taylor said laughing.
She got her distiller's license from the Alcoholic Beverage Commission and officials told her, she's the youngest legal moonshiner in the state.
"She can do anything in here a seasoned veteran shiner can do," her father said.
Taylor takes the process very seriously and can explain every detail of the sometimes days long process.
"You don't want the building to explode so you've got to be precise with everything," she said.
Legally, she can't even taste her own product for another three years.
"I just make it, can't drink it," Taylor said.
She said people don't always understand why she decided to learn her family's skill.
"Especially my high school teachers," she said.
But she's proud of her heritage. She's even taken on her 15-year-old sister as an apprentice.
"It tickles me to death, not just for me but for my whole family," Darrell said.
Taylor recently graduated from Jefferson County High School. She plans to attend the University of Tennessee in the fall and major in business.