Think bootleggers, backwoods stills and “white lightning” are things of the past? Hardly! It’s a thriving, though totally illegal, multi-million dollar industry.
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Discovery
Thursday
2nd January
4am
Think bootleggers, backwoods stills and “white lightning” are things of the past? Hardly! It’s a thriving, though totally illegal, multi-million dollar industry.
Episode 1
Tickle launches a campaign to legalise home distilling. Plus, Mark and Digger devise a plan to distil pallets of unsold light beer into liquor.
Episode 1
Moonshiners Mark, Digger, Tim, and Tickle delve deep into bourbon country's darkest secret. They uncover a bourbon theft, revealing a vast criminal plot.
Episode 2
Moonshiners Mark, Digger, and Tim delve deep into the case of the most prolific and elusive bootlegger of the Prohibition era: Bill McCoy.
Episode 2
Digger leads Amanda to where he last saw Popcorn Sutton's stainless steel still. An extortionist shine boss demands payment from Richard and Mike.
Episode 3
Digger and Amanda's plan to distil beer in Popcorn Sutton's old still hits a wall. Mark and Digger turn unsold light beer into shine. Josh is stuck in a van.
Episode 4
Tickle finds pristine water for brandy. Tim aims to resurrect a spirit that fuelled America's drunkest president. Mike and Richard ignore a threat.
Episode 5
Amanda and Kelly attempt to make a famous Appalachian apple brandy. Mark and Digger lend Popcorn Sutton's condenser to ambitious shiners.
Episode 6
Amanda unearths a lost apple variety and distils liquor that Mark and Digger find irresistible. Tim and Howard invent a double-distilling device.
Episode 7
Tickle launches his legalisation campaign while Josh attempts a difficult backwoods repair despite his injuries. The Arkansas double cousins bootleg by boat.
Episode 8
Mark and Digger's Memphis expansion hits a snag when their bootlegger gets robbed. Tickle opens a restaurant and a secret distribution hub for shine.
Episode 9
Tickle and Carol open their new restaurant while contending with conflicting priorities. Mark and Digger enlist Amanda to improve their popular hazelnut rum.
Episode 10
The Virginia boys attempt a 500-gallon bootleg from Tickle's restaurant. Plus, Jerry designs what he hopes will be a revolutionary waterless still.
Episode 11
Mark and Digger test Amanda to distil brandy and grappa from the same grapes. The Maggie Valley trio scours the scrapyards for a stolen copper still.
Episode 12
Mark and Digger invent a patriotic corn whiskey. Accident-prone Josh returns to the safety of his home, only to crash his minivan into his own house.
Episode 13
When their bootlegger suggests putting shine in pods, Mark and Digger enlist Amanda to innovate a product they can sell for $5 a shot. Jerry confronts a thief.
Episode 14
When kitchen trouble forces Tickle to shut down his restaurant, Josh proposes they make carrot-apple moonshine to raise the $8000 needed to reopen.
Episode 15
When Mark and Digger find out their friend Cowboy is dead, they hurry to retrieve a barrel he was tending. Tickle tries an unproven recipe to save his restaurant.
Episode 16
After tasting their best barrel yet, Mark and Digger think it will make them shine legends. Tickle makes a daring deal selling shine at a wrestling match.