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Illegal alcohol was known as 'sly-grog'.
It is called bootlegging
they were called saloons back then!
In the USA it was called Prohibition.
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During Prohibition in the United States, people who sold illegal alcohol were often referred to as bootleggers.
Alcohol in the United States was illegal during the 1920s; this time was called the prohibition.
During prohibition, a places that sold alcohol illegally was called a speakeasy.
Alcohol was illegal during a period called prohibition. It went from the 1920s to the early 1930s. Many American farmers made a good living making moonshine (illegal alcohol) during that period.
Speakeasies
bootlegging
I think you are looking for the word 'bootlegging' or 'moonshining'