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This time on Moon Chioners.

We need to find a good place to store these.

Here he came up with an idea to stash our brandy over here on one of these small

islands and then just sell our apple cider brandy to

some pretty wealthy people that live here on the lake.

Somebody's going up the island, y'all.

You ever hear of an old-fashioned cocktail?

I've heard of them.

Tell me, this wouldn't be a good liquor if we can make it clear.

I've been brainstorming about how we can switch up this

corn liquor and make it something a little bit more premium.

Oh, God.

Don't know if I'm going to sneeze or puke.

Chion, this isn't a chingale operation here.

This is a thousand gallons we've got to produce.

All we want to do, get the Kentucky, make a

thousand gallons of liquor and get it to camp.

I know you guys from Virginia, being Kentucky now.

It's totally different up here.

Come

here, come on, come on.

We got to load it up.

Holy dinging, slaves.

Oh, man, you know how it is when you set up stairs, you've got to have tools, man.

In Culpeper County, Virginia... After a group of vigilantes destroyed their stash

house and still site, Tim and Howard are moving their operation to the Heartland of

Bourbon, where they plan to produce 1,000 gallons

of terafree liquor for their customer in Canada.

Yeah, get that water hose too.

All right, Howard.

Well, this is all we got, man.

We got to get the Kentucky get out of Virginia.

I got eight people here, it's crazy.

You know, every time we turn around, they're after us on something.

Kentucky is flying out for away from Virginia,

where I feel like it's a safe place to be.

And we all talk to St. Language.

This is what we're bringing in Kentucky.

Well, I mean, this is start.

We ain't got no steel.

We ain't got nothing else.

There's a couple shovels, a hole, or a guy that ain't pickax and a water hose.

Well, I reached out to my buddy, Gary, which is my dad's old friend.

You know, back in the day, there's some moonshine business together.

So we'll get the Kentucky.

I'm just helping the girl.

We'll get the Kentucky.

We'll come through for us.

He's a good contact.

He's been there for his whole life.

He knows the outlaw business.

And he's a man I need to talk to.

And then on top of that, Kentucky is all about distilleries

anyway, because of the area, the terrain, the limestone water.

You know, way back, all the distilleries, this is

where they started going from illegal to legal anyway.

So I'm thinking there's a lot of resources out there.

There's a lot of grain out there.

You know, there's a lot of people out there making that court.

But now all these tariff taxes is taking some of those guys down, too, right?

But for us, that'd be resources.

We're going to swoop up what they what they dropping off.

It might be one of the most genius ideas ever.

Think about it.

We'll be closer to where we need to be anyway.

The Ohio River connects to the Mississippi.

Guess we're the Mississippi guys, Canada.

Put 1,000 gallons on the book, let it get to Canada.

So, you know, no guarantee, but right now we got to go.

Yeah, right, we got to go.

We should have been gone.

Yeah, right.

Oh, my God.

It's in chocolate.

Gary.

Yeah, man.

I'm glad you caught me back.

It's Gary now.

So what's the deal, Gary?

You can't do it.

We mean you can't do it.

Well, I guess you can do it.

Okay, well, that'd work too, I guess.

I mean, you trust them, right?

Okay.

And we loaded up.

We on the way right now.

Alright, see, well, now Gary's got some health problems.

He said he can't really physically help us, but he can help us.

But he's got this guy that used to work with him.

He knows to look up in this name DJ.

In the moonshine business in the outlaw business,

normally, we know people for years, but even generations.

And we know relatives.

When someone just pops up out of nowhere, it

can give you that question mark a little bit.

All I know is, we need to get there.

We'll kind of analyze the situation.

Alright, when we get there, we'll figure this DJ guy out.

Because let's get our hands so we can talk.

And then we'll see what goes after that.

We can't back up now.

I'm gonna back it back up over there.

Yeah.

I can't see.

Come on back.

Come on back.

Alright.

Alright.

I work good, man.

That worked like a damn show him, didn't it?

In Franklin County, Virginia.

You just turned just a little bit like what made you.

There you go.

After losing time to Tim and Howard's doomed shine operation, Tickle and Henry

turned to Apple brandy to make a quick profit.

There we go.

We got it.

But finding no source of wine sap bapples for Henry's family recipe.

They rolled the dice on mashing in fresh apple cider instead.

Hey, Henry, how's that?

Nice.

Thank you.

Tasting good, man.

Tasting real good.

I think we got something with apple cider.

That's great.

No chunks in it.

Just pure mash.

Yeah, man.

We got this apple cider from a friend to Henry's.

It's got a local orchard here around.

Now, the problem is, Henry always uses wine sap apples.

It's a recipe that his dad passed down to him and his grandpa passed down to his dad.

Tickle, fight it, bowl up.

Now, while there are wine sap apples in this

cider, it's a mixture of five different apples.

So, I'm a little concerned to see how it's going to come out.

All right, that's it right here.

We good.

Yeah, it's it.

All right, we got all that over in there.

You know, the difference from this cider to the wine sap apples could be

comparative to the difference in a single malt and a blended whiskey.

While both of them are good, one's always much more distinct.

Yeah, she's rolling.

Let's go ahead and get her cab done.

We won't make no liquor till we get the cab on.

There you go.

Now, check his cab out.

Look at all the ax holes.

This cab has been around so much.

You see, a million men go to prison.

Well, I bet it, hey?

You see, a man, a man, make a lot of pile of money, too.

There we go.

You pull the other side across there.

There you go.

She looks pretty dark.

I'll get over here.

Let's place that baby up.

Yes, sir.

This run right here could either make or break our season.

Oh, I'm f***ing in there.

All right.

Check it out.

Look at how the Lord, she looks good.

I can smell like a smell out.

We're already four weeks behind because we've been helping Tim.

And when this apple cider brandy run for money, and even more time.

If we don't have something good to start selling

our customers soon, we stand to lose everyone up.

Let's get close, y'all.

I know it smells good.

It does smell good.

Don't have my guts, but a little more good.

It smells good.

I'm not just anxious to see what we get out of this.

Ooh.

Oh, that's a good lookin' beetle there, ain't it?

It did look good.

Oh, my gosh.

Might as well be honest.

Oh, my God.

We own something.

It's actually sweeter than our old apple brandy.

And I swear, I can taste some notes of honey in there on the back of it.

I think we can get more than what we're gettin'

for the brandy from, made out of the wine sappamas.

I have to try on that taste of smell it.

Mm-hmm.

I think it might be right.

If this apple cider brandy turned out bad, we'd have lost a lot more money and time.

But it turns out, we've got a whole different set of problems now.

We need to find a good place to store this.

You know, tin stash, like, it burned up almost 800 gallons in it.

We can't be having that happen to us.

We can't have no more setbacks.

We got a big lake down here.

It's about a hundred islands down the mountain.

I know I got one in mine where we can go sash it liquor and cover it up.

Nobody should have any reason to be there.

And not only that, I've done a lot of dealers on that lake.

I know a lot of people down there with big money.

Everybody down there's got big money.

This lake, it's public.

There's people all over it.

And just anybody roll up on this island.

We get there like during the week.

It's very few people on that lake.

You know, no one will ever suspect those being on this island like this.

It's a perfect color.

To be close to our customers.

The last time I'm transporting it, we shouldn't have anybody trying to follow us.

So we should be in good shape.

We shouldn't have to leave it on island that long.

Stash it there.

Pick it up.

We got the boat.

Make delivery.

Get our money.

You know what?

You feel this strongly about it, isn't it?

I say, let's go for it.

All right.

Well, thank you so long to get here.

Well, it's still so, it's not very easy to get to.

Well, I hope that you're not tired because we've got a lot of work to do.

This match is ready to run.

In Graham County, North Carolina, after an unscrupulous outsider,

tank the regional moonshine market with cheap jars of industrial grade alcohol.

Our area is flooded with that.

$15 a jar for that liquor right there.

Amanda and Kelly need to come up with a strategy to

eat out a profit of their expiring batch of corn mash.

You know, the match is ready to run.

The question is, do we run it after what Mark

and Digger tell us, or are we dumping the creek?

Well, I'm putting some thought to this.

I think we could dress it up, but we'll run the corn liquor

and we'll make it taste like something way different.

We would just lose money selling liquor to customers who want to buy for $15 a jar.

I mean, it's not worth the time and the effort to even dig out to our still site.

You ever hear of an old-fashioned cocktail?

I've heard of them.

You ever have one?

No.

If we can craft the corn mash into a more premium

spirit, then we can sell it for a higher price.

So I brought some ingredients along to play with it a bit.

So I brought everything to make you an old-fashioned cocktail.

When you taste it and you tell me, this wouldn't

be a good liquor if we can make it clear.

I mean, I'm open for ideas.

This is obviously a big risk because we're doubling down.

We're spending twice as much time and a little bit of

extra money on changing the spirit around a little bit.

So hopefully it pays off.

I think these changes could be worth it, but I just

got to convince Kelly to get on the same page first.

So old-fashioned is whiskey, bitters, sugar, and water.

During prohibition, they started adding cherries and oranges.

So take a cup of sugar, bitters.

Bitters is an old-traditional recipe where they're

making an extract of different botanicals and spices.

So we're going to give it some orange and cherry.

And then you just muddle a little bit with your muddle layer.

Here we are in the woods.

Amanda says she's going to make me a cocktail.

You know, maybe rather than running this corn

liquor, Amanda just wants to drink her sorrows away.

Try that.

You know, it's actually pretty good.

So when you're trying to tell me that we can

make a clear liquor, the taste like that.

What we're going to do is we're going to make our own bitters just a gallon of that.

It's all I'm going to need.

And then we're going to strip this mash, right?

It'll be really quick if we just strip it.

I want to do a stripping run because the idea

is we're going to retestel this a second time.

So essentially we're going to use the stripping run, flavor it with the

ingredients for the old-fashioned, and then retestill it in a spirit run to fortify it.

I mean, if you think you can make clear liquor taste like

that, I don't know why we ain't already been doing it.

I know if we do this and we do it right, people are going to go nuts for this.

I never heard of it, so I'm game.

No risk, Kelly.

You know what?

Jail time?

Never warned.

Hey, what ball is just going to be a big move today, isn't it?

Uh-oh.

You need me to put a hand on something, honey.

Henry, it came up with a diet, did a stash of

brandy over here on one of these small islands.

I think we'll keep you glad it wasn't too.

And then just sell our apple cider brandy to some

pretty wealthy people that live here on the lake.

Come on, baby.

There she goes.

All right, boys, let's roll.

I'm going to show you all an island, a little real

mine, take a beautiful place to store this liquor.

Well, y'all just show me where to go, and we'll get you stuff here.

Look at all those houses, man.

Oh, you're right.

Use all the money.

There's some nice houses.

I mean, they should.

We want some good liquor.

We've got to have money to have a house on the lake, especially some of these.

Big money.

You got money, little lake, and a house like that.

And then are you right?

I'm here as a first home.

I was looking at it.

Look, y'all, check it out and see which y 'all think.

I'm not totally sold on storing our shine on this public island.

Even though Henry's has shared me, it's safe.

There's always risks when you're transporting shine.

You want to just put them on the beach.

I'll help you tow them up in there, Paige.

You've got the boaters out here, the public.

You've also got lake patrol.

Yeah, right here, be good.

Yeah, baby.

I paid for some couple right here.

Would be good.

So we need to make a few contacts and see if we can't get some of this stuff, so...

Sounds like a plan.

Beautiful sketch-up boat for Wash's Way.

Yeah.

Now that we've got all our shine hit on this island,

we're going to come back tomorrow with some jars.

We're going to start drawing this stuff up.

We're going to start selling.

Hey, Henry.

See what this son bitches a day.

Oh, there you go.

Yes, we got some power.

This is your high-proof bumper right here.

This thing is freaking awesome.

Oh, yeah, this is the trick right here for making your high-proof stuff.

You know, the first thing we're going to do here is a stripping run.

And basically, a stripping run is just running to get all alcohol out of the mesh

that we can, so we can use it for a spirit run later.

Here's what I brought.

Cherries and oranges.

All right.

I'll be a lot of the flavor for our old fashioned is right here.

So the whole process here is I'm going to use the alcohol that we strip today and

make different flavor extracts.

Each one will be a flavor component of the old-fashioned cocktail.

So I'm hoping to extract the oranges, the cherries, and the bitters separately.

And then when we read it still and together, they should

come out balanced and taste just like an old fashioned.

So what you got?

These are all of our ingredients that we're going to use to make the bitters.

As we get the spirit off the still, we're just going to start adding these

ingredients into the alcohol to actually extract all these flavors.

Well, you don't sell me on it, so I think we should just get to it.

For this recipe, the bitters are one of the most important ingredients,

and I need maybe close to a gallon of bitters for a run this size.

We have nutmeg, chamomile, we have allspice.

Commercial bitters right now for a small bottle of few ounces is maybe $20,

which is like $500 for a gallon, and then I have the worm words.

The plan is to just make our own bitters for a fraction of the cost.

This is our bittering agent.

This is what's going to make the bitters bitter, and then

all of these are going to cut it down and make it taste good.

I've read all different kinds of recipes on bitters, and I've seen some of the old

fashioned recipes have 60 or more ingredients.

So my idea is to just pick ingredients that I think taste good.

I eliminate the ones that I really don't care for.

It should be ready.

It should be coming anytime because it's hot.

Oh, look at that!

It's hot.

Yeah, it dries right up on your hands.

We can just get the first few gallons off of here as a nice high proof.

That'll be perfect to make the bitters with.

This is going to be my first time trying to make bitters, so I really don't know

how these flavors are going to mix together.

Hopefully it turns out well.

If this doesn't all go as planned, we're out quite a bit.

The time it took us to these extra runs, the money we spent on additional

ingredients, and we've room in a whole batch of corn lumber.

The higher proof this is, it's going to immediately start

extracting all the nice aroma and flavor from our ingredients.

So this is going to make just pure orange extract.

Every old fashioned needs cherries, so now we just got to

put together all the dry ingredients to make the bitters.

Add them together and see what happens.

And then this high proof alcohol should do its job.

Start extracting some bitters for us.

Very strong.

That looks like a dang snow globe based on my stuff, isn't it?

I know.

I think this is enough.

We can pretty much strip the rest of alcohol out, quick get

all the way down to the low tails and put it in our barrels.

We want to bring over a lot of cherry, a lot of orange, and then that bitters is

just there to give it that old fashioned flavor.

You know, here we stand with what should have been a good run of corn liquor.

And we've got two barrels of fruity-looking stuff.

And a couple of jars of funky-looking stuff.

And we're going to mix all this stuff together, put it back in the pot.

And we're going to hope that this spirit run is the most enticing old-fashioned

cocktail that you've ever put in your mouth.

Hey, look at this, go.

We're doing it!

You know, how... I don't love this whole idea.

Tim, this isn't a tin gal operation here.

This is a thousand gallons we've got to produce.

What are your friends?

Did you trust?

Yeah.

He's put us in the trust of some guy we've never met in our lives.

You know, right now, things are a little bit too hot for us in Virginia.

I got an old friend named Gary in Kentucky.

Gary goes way back in the moonshine business.

He's open to help, but he can't physically help.

He says that he's got another guy who used to work for

him, and he would like to connect me to this guy, DJ.

I just hope this guy knows some about moonshine.

You know, know what we need.

You know what I'm saying?

We've got to have green, right?

We've got to have corn.

We've got to have sugar.

We've got to have steels.

We've got to have a location.

We've got to have good water.

And hopefully this guy can keep his mouth shut about the whole operation.

We need someone who can keep on this quiet.

We don't want no one to know that we are eating.

All we want to do, get the Kentucky.

Make a thousand guns and look at it and get it to camp.

Let's do it now.

You know this guy, DJ.

I know nothing about him, but I'm going to go on my gut feeling when I meet him.

If it feels good, then we're good.

If it doesn't feel good, then it's going to be no deal.

DJ?

Yes, sir.

All right.

Seems like we've got to meet your friend here.

Yes, sir?

Who's this guy?

What's how?

I was being with him a long time.

Well, how do you know how I found him?

Yeah, I've worked for him.

Ben, what kind of work?

Tom Crete.

Okay.

Well, he recommended you.

He told me somebody was coming, but I didn't quite know who it was.

Well, we in a different kind of business.

So he probably don't say that too openly, you know?

Kind of business, you think, sir.

Well, we need to look at business.

I understand that.

We need a location.

And we need some equipment.

Probably got one of those.

We got a location nobody else knows about.

We're going to go far enough in the woods.

That's all I can say.

I know you guys from Virginia.

We ain't good talking now.

I don't know how you run things down there.

It's totally different up here.

Yeah.

We up here in the heart of bourbon country.

There's a whole lot of outlaws up here.

Yeah.

I've been in the business a long time.

Not my first day.

So we're going to make this work?

No.

I'm in business.

I'm with you.

I'll give you a location tonight if you want.

Yeah, I want to see it.

We need it.

As soon as possible.

All right.

Are you ready?

As well.

I'm going to tell you what's on.

You got to send a bad guy back bullet off Kentucky mountains right here.

Well, I mean, I'm just following him.

So wherever he's going, I guess we can go.

Because of all their problems we've had, how and

now we're kind of made a decision to go to Kentucky.

I never made moonshine out here.

I don't know the lay of the land.

And I don't know the players.

But right now, I only got a few weeks to get this

tear-free 1,000 gallons of moonshine to counter.

You put us in charge again with Gary.

And he's looking next here.

And now we're with this gentleman.

And he's bringing us out to God knows where.

I'm about to get Gary.

He set us up with DJ.

Hopefully, he's got everything we need, a location

and a steel and whatever we need to make it happen.

This is the place?

Yes, sir.

Let's see what you're working with here.

Let's do it.

It's all like an offer right here right now.

I'm going to be with that.

And that's a big old building.

I don't like a warehouse, man.

Yes, sir.

It's a huge old barn, way back in the woods, sitting right on a creek bank.

I mean, it's almost like a too perfect to believe.

Damn.

What we got here?

You got some.

Some submarines still.

Oh, these smokes.

These are your rigs?

Yes, sir.

The barn is magical.

I mean, everything we need covers, shelter, off the beaten path, hidden gates locked.

Look at the honor.

Oh, that's the cap saw.

Steel.

We match in right here.

We got a worm right here.

Truck there.

We're out the door.

Yeah, can I drive in?

Yes, sir.

This is a miracle.

I feel like this man has everything we need but the match.

Yeah, we're about to call me our sugar and all that kind of stuff.

Yeah, I set that up.

We can get it too.

Now I'll figure out and talk one of the farmers right here.

This whole plan is coming together.

Great location.

Good looking steels.

DJ is like, I got you.

And let's see what's going on on this creek cover here.

Like I said, this rings about three quarters of mile up.

Oh, yeah, that's good water right there.

The water is a little bit low, but then again, it's running.

All you got to do is dam it up and you have plenty of water in no time.

Oh, yeah.

That's clear.

That's good.

We're running through limestone.

That's cold.

That's good.

That's good.

That's good.

Kentucky limestone water.

I mean, we're a famous.

It's just perfect for making alcohol.

The minerals and the pH level.

It helps for fermentation.

It's going to allow us to make a better product and more heavy.

I mean, we can work with that.

But we got one other thing we got to do.

We got to put some cameras up here.

Looking at the barn, looking at the steels.

You know, everything's great.

But then again, I'm thinking about what is

happening back in the past, back in Virginia.

We have some problems with other steels sites.

Yes, what you got in mind?

So I'm thinking here, we need to set some game cameras up here too.

Because, you know, you just never know.

All right.

You can see I got it tilted down a little bit.

It's going to cover a whole lot right here.

It's like we just wanted to lock it.

All I need is some ingredients, mansions.

Hey, we got it made.

First thing we need some sugar in the corner here.

I have a drop spot tomorrow.

All right.

Let's do that.

You love it.

How about that?

Let's do that at the end of the day.

Well, thank you so much.

Good deal.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

That's what you're doing.

Take where we're at.

All right.

Let's see.

Keep going, sir.

Sure.

All right.

Cool.

Now that we've got our brandy hidden on this island, Henry's arranged a potential

sale with a wealthy customer who is really interested in our good apple cider brand.

We make a sale today for us to make some big money.

Big money.

Well, I'm back.

I'm going to rock and roll.

I'm not totally sold on storing our brandy over here on this public island.

There's a lot of dangers out here.

Got his page.

I mean, are the risks really going to be worth the rewards?

Now we're getting some marches.

Oh, no.

I stole that liquor while we go.

Yeah, for real.

I feel like a pirate.

Henry, you know that?

I feel like I am.

I am 80.

What are you thinking, Henry?

I hope it looks to you.

I think that's it over there, ain't it?

Oh, yeah.

So far, so good.

Now, we're not just going to sell this stuff by the five gallon bucket.

What we're going to do is we're going to break this down into court jar.

I like that pretty soon.

I think we go, boys.

Good and clear, too, Henry.

Because we can get a higher price selling it like that than I can by the gallon jug

or by the bucket.

All right, boys, how much money?

Well, this lake is a public lake.

These personal docks are not.

And we're going to go meet Henry's friend Tony right here on his dock.

Henry, how do you notice that, Tony?

We made a long, long time coat.

And he just got boot-coo money.

He got a huge ass house down here.

He keeps his mouth shut.

And he'll buy nothing except the primo stuff.

If it's not the primo primo, don't even pull up to his dock.

Tony's house is up in a small cove.

Makes it much more proud of him.

Tony, it's up, buddy.

Good to see you.

So how you doing, buddy?

I'm feeling good.

Been a while.

Yeah, but whenever it happens, it's always good.

Man, if we got some stuff for you today, Halce, Henry, one of those jars, too.

Yeah, it's here.

The costs are really adding up on this.

This one, the cheap shine to make.

We're going to have to get $150 a gallon on this brandy.

We're going to find ourselves underwater on this.

You know, I don't come up with anything but the best.

Coming in.

What'd you try that out?

Henry said you only drank your best.

Can't wait for pressure.

Now, these wealthy customers, they have a

pretty refined taste when it comes to alcohol.

I really hope this customer likes this.

Or it's going to be a long time before we turn a profit on this brandy.

We think, buddy.

Paul, my goodness.

Henry, you did it again.

Two boxes, right?

Yeah, that's what we talked about.

Getting our first sale of this season done.

It feels great.

Good to see you again, buddy.

I need any more.

Just highlight us.

Okay.

And then we'll fix you right up.

We sure just got $150 a gallon at $6 gallons now.

Now, that's a pretty doggone good $900 tax-free payday.

See you, buddy.

See you now.

First sale down.

Leave.

We're going to take a look.

There you are.

I'm a good sale one that is you are.

Henry might be on to something here.

If we can keep making sales and stay out of trouble,

the potential for earning on this lake is limitless.

We keep rolling like this.

We'll be sowed out in no time.

Got that right, man.

Yeah, it takes few jobs off here.

Get them sealed up.

Make those a little sale.

Sales are going great here on this lake.

And Henry, he's got another potential buyer for us.

We're going to be too much longer.

We're going to have to make another run, ain't it?

All we got to do is fill up a few more jars and be right on our way.

All right, guys.

Too many bad boys left.

All right, let's roll.

A sale here.

We're going to be it.

Oh, damn, somebody's coming up to the island, y'all.

Get your stuff on the boat.

Get it on the boat, please.

Get it on the boat.

Quick as we can.

Throw it through, Henry.

We have no idea what these guys saw.

Or why they got so close to this island.

And then turn the round and really spit off the other direction.

That was just a bad luck right there.

One thing's for sure.

This island here is burned.

Only thing we can do now.

Make our final sale for the day and get out of here.

Everything looks intact, Amanda.

Well, that's good.

I was worried about that.

Today, we're going to try to take typical Appalachian corn liquor.

And we're going to try to turn it into a

premium, clear old-fashioned cocktail in a jar.

If this works, we can market this to high-end premium customers.

People who aren't in the markets by $15 jar crap liquor.

On the other hand, if this fails, we're out twice the

time of money we could have spent doing something else.

This is our bitters.

Oh, God.

Oh, that burns.

I don't know if I'm going to sneeze or puke.

I feel like it's way too bitter.

It's not very balanced, and the flavor is just really all.

I was kind of winging it.

I've never done this before.

I don't know what a good ratio is of some of these ingredients are very intense.

Like worm-wooded nutmeg.

And the whole idea with worm-wood is it tastes bitter, right?

So everything else is there to improve the flavor of it.

But I just don't think we have enough of the positive flavor ingredients.

So maybe we make another tincture of more of the good flavors

and mix it to cut back the really overpowering flavors.

So we're going to use a cooking technique to essentially rapidly extract these

better tasting ingredients and balance out the bitters.

I'm glad we didn't use all of this.

We're going to put these ingredients in the

alcohol in the jar and a pot of boiling water.

And basically cook it like a tea to rapidly extract the flavor.

Hopefully, by making individual extracts of all these flavors, we can kind of isolate.

If any of these are given an all flavor, we're going to know when we're done.

And we can blend something back that tastes the way we want it to taste.

Whoo!

That's hot already.

This is our last hope.

If this doesn't work, then we've ruined our chances

of creating a clear old-fashioned instrument.

The alcohol actually has a lower boiling point than water does.

This is still boiling, and you can actually see it

extracting, even though it's not even in the water anymore.

Pretty cool.

Science.

So we're going to add a little bit of chamomile.

I know I want to taste more ginger in there.

I think the vanilla is going to help sweeten it up a little bit.

Hopefully, cut back some of that bitterness.

Hopefully, if we just increase the good flavors,

we'll be able to counteract the bad flavor.

It's like three parts of the new one and one part of the old one.

That smells a lot better.

I'm getting to smell all the other things now.

I can smell that orange, I can smell the ginger, I

can get that chamomile and some vanilla bean in there.

I mean, that's bitter without being offensive.

Right, well, that's what we're going for.

So then let's uncover this, get all this going, and get this run going there.

So think we got the bitter's balance back out, and it's actually tasting pretty good.

The only tricky part now is to see if all these flavors, the orange and the cherry

and the bitters, are going to marry together, and actually taste like an

old-fashioned when it comes out the other end of that still.

Oh, there it goes.

All right.

Man, that smells so sweet, particularly does.

I definitely get that orange right up front.

That's strong in there.

I mean, there are some flavors that's coming through there, and it's really aromatic.

I'm dying of suspense.

I think it's a home run.

This is blowing my mind.

We're tasting this, and it's just like the old-fashioned that she made for us.

It's just like a bartender mixed this, and it's clear.

There's no reason this one will sell good.

No.

That's a whole fashion.

I'll tell you what.

So what do you know about this guy we're making to sail to today?

We did wish the mirrors ago.

I have his song in a long time, but we made this nice brandy.

I figured I'd reach out to him, name it John.

But he's going to meet us out here and appear up in front of his curves.

And he's got the money, and I know he's straight up.

I know he's a cool dude.

I really hope John buys the rest of this brandy.

After that surprise visit from the boat, and these guys that saw our moonshine,

I really don't feel like having anything illegal out here on me.

He's supposed to be waiting for us all for this mangane channel.

She had been on the pontoon boat.

It's up John.

Are you doing Henry?

We got some good stuff for you today.

Yeah, yeah.

I've been waiting for it because I'm running low.

I heard that.

I'm going to grab onto that thing.

I'm driving around like Stephen Queen in this.

Yeah, well, I'm not getting a little captain, you know.

Good seeing him again.

Good to see you.

I'm telling you.

You got your little sample.

You don't got your sample much more.

What'd you bring?

We've got some very rare apple brand that we made with apple cider.

You're going to love that.

Oh, yeah.

That is some good.

Oh, man.

What do you think?

That's delicious.

All right.

How much you bring me?

That's a whole box.

Okay.

All right.

That's what I need.

John loves our brandy, and he's taking all we got.

Let's get this on.

Considering how this day started, I feel like we made a great sale.

Oh, good, man.

Great to see you again.

Great to see you again tonight.

Enjoy that liquor.

Now, all we got to do is get back to the dock and figure out our next move.

We're in the back.

I got rid of everything.

Everybody else is scratching and scrounging.

We all got all right, run brandy, man.

People can't even find corn hardly yet.

We running brand.

I love it.

Make that money on it as well.

You're right now.

That's right.

Yeah.

Can I ask what your business is out here, Phelps?

I'll not see you guys around here before.

We probably need to make a look like somewhere I live in here.

Not a bad idea.

We did bring that little tension up.

You want to set this tip?

You talk about Henry?

Stretch it out, Paige.

Just get the bottom of it.

We're about that top.

There you go.

There you go.

You can tell when they're camping in a long, long time.

See it, Henry.

I don't have too many rods on it, do it.

Maybe place one rod for things.

They're connected together.

It's out one piece.

I think Paige's got it.

Yeah.

Yeah, stick it back through it.

Yeah.

It goes through this little hole.

Oh, I mean, get out of way.

Damn.

It looks like somebody's camping here now, don't you?

Let's get some trash out.

Let's see what we got going on in there.

Oh, my God.

Yeah, this is damn sure who in person is.

My wife ain't going to get up in this with me.

She going to hold up before prunes me in there.

That gen ain't made for me.

Yeah.

Can I ask what your business is out here, Phelps?

I don't know if it's a little fish and knock around a little bit.

I'm not seeing you before.

Let me look.

We got a place over the lake here.

What are you doing fishing?

Nope.

I was just checking on my boat.

People around here, we keep a good eye on each other.

We're thinking to find out if someone would liquor anything illegal.

You've always got people out there that's going

to stick to those where it doesn't need to be.

Other people have come up to me.

What are those old boys doing up there in that boat?

They're going to the island back to the island, back to the whole lake.

Those what y'all are doing out here.

We don't know exactly what this woman seen or what she knows.

But it sure does seem like those guys from the boat this morning.

Might have been talking.

Come on, son.

I don't have that road project to get out of the way.

This one's crazy.

I mean really.

Me.

What the hell?

You can't hold out of here.

Don't you come back.

God damn it.

We had a really good thing going on this lake.

She knows we've been at that island.

If your damn sure it does.

But I think it's best we pack up and leave before we draw the attention of the lake.

You know, we got to get in this barn.

I lose all this stuff.

Since I got to Kentucky, it looks like it's just falling together.

Gary connects me to DJ.

DJ shows us the location.

We got a barn.

It's on the creek bank.

Nice clean water.

We got steels.

We got sugar.

We got corn.

All we need to do now is get back mashed in.

I was up.

There we go.

I got some lanterns that are going to light one, buddy.

How you doing, Mr. Tim?

All right.

I'm going to shut this door.

Yeah.

Well, you know, tonight is a night where

we're going to actually level these steels up.

Get them ready.

I want to put some water in them and get mashed in.

It's all we got to do tonight.

Easy.

What the hell?

Easy.

What the hell?

Took lights off, guys.

Somebody's coming.

Took the lights off.

Cut it off.

Cut it off.

Maybe there's a rat back.

Well, there you go.

You know, they're coming back to the ground.

Coming on the other side.

Okay.

I don't know.

I don't know what we're going to need to do.

I don't know.

Uh-oh.

Uh-oh.

They give me that to come.

Oh, there ain't no where else.

What's going on in here?

What do y'all don't?

Gary, give us permission to be here.

Oh, he did, did he?

Yes.

Okay.

Well, I mean, I know who Gary is.

I know who Gary is.

But I don't know y'all.

They're good guys.

Gary and some Christians do me.

So what's the deal to you?

This is my backyard.

But he told us we could come set up the steels.

Okay.

So your moonshiners?

Yes, sir.

Is that right?

That's it.

Well, I'm set.

We're not the only one in that business.

That means we all know the same side, I guess, somewhat.

I think we got an opportunity here, fellas.

I really do.

Hold on one sec.

Mike.

Here's what I need, okay?

I'm gonna write an address now for you, okay?

At that address, I've got a steel and mesh ready to go.

My guy was operating.

He got busted.

Now he's almost way to the pin.

So what have we got to do?

I want you guys to run the shine.

And then after you run the shine, I want you to deliver the product.

And then once the product gets delivered, then we can work out some business here.

You can call us home.

That we do it here in Kentucky.

It looked like we ain't got no chalk.

It looked like a fortune of America.

This is the deal.

Looks like we got ourselves an agreement.

Right now, we're in someone else's house.

Someone else's property.

And there's no way we can fight this thing.

And I really need to make the deal and finish the deal in Canada.

So I have no other choice.

Welcome to Kentucky.

All right, fellows, let's go.

I lost everything I had for Virginia.

I come here.

I'm starting it all over again.

I really need this opportunity.

But, you know, it is what it is.

I've got to work with him.

You know, he wants us to do a favor for him.

And then he does a favor for us.

DJ got to communicate better.

Right, DJ, you got to go on board with us, man.

Not that it was your fault, man.

This is whole big misunderstanding.

This should not happen at all.

Because this puts us behind time again.

How these guys on my side didn't be against me.

Yes, sir.

There ain't nothing going on that's playing.

No, this is far from playing now.

Well, I'm getting happy to wait.

We're measuring patients and pumping juice.

Kelly will get you to mind.

He'll get you out of it too.

Are you guys home?

You ready?

Well, she's alive, sir, actually.

We're trying to construct a steel within one room.

We can produce an age whiskey that tastes

like it's been in a barrel for several years.

I like it.

I like it, too.

If this thing works and produces the age whiskey that we're looking for here today,

we've changed the world.

That's what they're going to work out, sir.

I'll let you look at a steel that I was always in the back with.

Getting caught in this large scale illegal operation,

you know, this could put me in prison for a long time.

You heard that, Andy.

Uh, winter's lost power.