Ahh, Katz & Besthoff, the nectar of the....swamp. They had great prices on their beer though, always bought mine there when I was in Laurel. You could go there on Friday and Saturday nights and watch the bootleggers from surrounding dry counties load their trunks down with beer. They also had such delicacies as Mickeys Big Mouth Beer, Sterling, Dixie, Strohs, Hamms, Falstaff, Jax, I could go on but getting a headache.
I had a friend that worked in a liquor store and said those same guys that bought the beer would go to the liquor stores and load up on the big half gallon size bottles of rock gut liquor like Aristocrat and he said they would sell it to you in whatever containers you brought to them if you didn't want the whole bottle. If you showed up with a Mnt. Dew bottle, they would pour into a measuring cup and charge you by the ounce if you wanted.
