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"Moonshiners" --

We need to find a good place
to store these.

Henry came up with the 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 coming up to
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.

[Kelly] Oh, God.

I don't know if I'm gonna
sneeze or puke.

Tim, this isn't
a 10-gallon operation here.

This is 1,000 gallons
we got to produce.

All we want to do, get to
Kentucky, make 1,000 gallons of

liquor, and get it to Canada.

I know you guys are
from Virginia.

-Mm-hmm.
-We're in Kentucky now.

It's totally different up here.

-Cut the lights off, guys.
-Uh-oh.

[man] What's going on in here?

[moonshiner] This is how
we make the moonshine.

[twangy music plays]

[Tim] Come on, Howard.
We got to get loaded up.

-What, we digging graves?
-No, man.

You know how it is.
When you set up stills,

you got to have tools, man.

In Culpeper County,
Virginia...

-[Tim] Oh [bleep].
-[Howard] God dang.

...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 tariff-free
liquor for their customer

in Canada.

[Tim] Yeah, get that
water hose, too.

All right, Howard.
Look, this is all we got, man.

We got to get to Kentucky
and get out of Virginia,

because these people here
is crazy.

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

on something.

Kentucky is far enough away
from Virginia where I feel like

it's a safe place to be.

And we all talk
the same language.

[Howard] This is what we're
bringing to Kentucky.

[Tim] Well, I mean, that's
a start, we ain't got no still.

We ain't got nothing else.

[Howard]
So we got a couple shovels,
a hoe, a goddang pickaxe,

and a water hose.
-[Tim] Well, I reached out to

my buddy Gary,
which is my dad's old friend.

You know, back in the day,
they did some moonshine

business together.

So we get to Kentucky, I'm just
hoping that Gary will

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 the 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 alcohol.

But now all these tariff taxes,
it's taking some of those guys

down too, right?
-Yeah.

But for us,
that'll be resources.

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

This might be one of
your most genius ideas ever.

[Tim] Think about it.

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

The Ohio River connects
to the Mississippi.

Guess where
the Mississippi goes?
Canada.

Put the thousand gallons
on a boat,

that'll get to Canada.

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

You're damn right
we got to go.

-We should have been gone.
-Yeah, all right.

Oh, my God.
Kentucky.

[music plays]

[phone ringing]

Gary.

Yeah, man.
I'm glad you called me back.

It's Gary now.

So what's the deal, Gary?

You can't do it?

What do you mean
you can't do it?

Well, I guess you can --

OK, well, that'll work too,
I guess.

I mean, you trust him, right?
OK.

We're loading up.
We're on our way right now.

All right, see you.

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 that he knows

the liquor business named DJ.

In the moonshine business
and the outlaw business,

normally we know people
for years, or 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, and we'll kind of

analyze the situation,
all right, when we get there.

We'll figure this DJ guy out.

-Let's get our
asses to Kentucky.
-And then we'll see where

it goes after that.

We can't back up now, Howard.

[Tickle] I'm gonna back it
back up over there.

-[Henry] Yeah.
-[Tickle] I can't see.

[Henry] Come on back, come on
back, come on, all right.

-[Henry] All right.
-[Tickle] All right.

That worked good, man.

That worked like a dang charm,
didn't it, Henry?

In Franklin County,
Virginia...

[Henry] Just turn just a little
back toward me.

There we go.

After losing time

to Tim and Howard's doomed
shine operation,

Tickle and Henry turn to apple
brandy to make a quick profit.

Here we go.
We got it.

But finding no source of
Winesap apples for

Henry's family recipe, they
rolled the dice on mashing in

fresh apple cider instead.

Hey, Henry, how's that
mash tasting?

Tasting good, man.
Tasting real good.

That's great.

We got this apple cider from
a friend of Henry's that's got

a local orchard here around.

Now, the problem is,
Henry always uses

Winesap apples.

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

grandpa passed down to his dad.

Now, while there are Winesap
apples in this cider,

it's a mixture of
five different apples.

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

All right.
That's it right here.

-We good.
-That's it.

[Paige] Yeah, that's it.

[Tickle] All right.
We got all that over in there.

You know, the difference from
this cider to the Winesap

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.

She's rolling.

Let's go ahead
and get her capped up.

We won't make no liquor
till we get the cap on, do we?

There you go.
Now check this cap out.

Look at all the axe holes.

This cap has been around
so much.

It's seen many men go to prison.

Well, I bet it has.

Just seen a many men make
a lot of pile of money, too.

[Tickle] There we go.

You pull the other side
across there, Paige.

There you go.
She looks, she looks pretty
doggone good over here.

-Let's pace that baby up.
-[Tickle] Yes, sir.

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

Oh, oh [bleep].
Henry.

-[Henry] All right.
-Check it out.

Look at her yonder.
Lord, she looks good.

I can smell it.
I can smell the apple.

[Tickle] We're already four
weeks behind because we've been

helping Tim, and we're in 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
every one of them.

-It's getting close, y'all.
-[Paige] I know it smells good.

It does smell good,
don't it my guy?

You can smell
the whole [indistinct].

It smells good.

I'm just anxious to see
what we get out of this.

Oh, that's a good looking
bead on it now, ain't it?

[Paige] It did look good.

[music plays]

-Oh, my God.
-[Paige] We might be
on to something.

-Oh, my God.
-[Henry] We are on to something.

[Tickle] 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 getting for

the brandy made out of
the Winesap apples.

After trying that taste
and smelling it, I think

you may be right.
-If this apple cider brandy

had 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, Tim's 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.

This lake, it's public.
There's people all over it.

Can just anybody
roll up on this island?

You know, no one would ever
suspect us being on this island

like this.
It's a perfect cover.

Be close to our customers,
less time 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 the island that long.

Stash it there, pick it up,
we got the boat,

make the delivery,
and get our money.

You know what?
You feeling strongly
about it, Henry?

I say let's go for it.

All right.

[music plays]

What took you
so long to get here?

Well, the still site'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 mash is ready to run.

In Graham County,
North Carolina,

after an unscrupulous outsider
tanked the regional moonshine

market with cheap jars of
industrial grade alcohol...

Our area's flooded with that.

$15 a jar for that liquor
right there.

Amanda and Kelly need to come
up with a strategy to eke out

a profit of their expiring
batch of corn mash.

You know, the mash
is ready to run.

The question is, do we run it
after what Mark and Digger

told us, or do we dump it
in the creek?

[Amanda] Well, I've been 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 even to get 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.

And 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 gotta

convince Kelly to get
on the same page first.

OK, so old-fashioned is
whiskey, bitters,

sugar, and water.

During prohibition,
they started adding cherries

and oranges in.

So take a cube of
sugar, bitters.

Bitters is a old,
traditional recipe where

they're making an extract
of different

botanicals and spices.

So we're gonna give it
some orange and cherry.

And then you just muddle
a little bit with your muddler

and your whiskey.

[Kelly] Here we are in the
woods, Amanda says she's gonna

make me a cocktail.
You know, maybe rather than

running this corn liquor,

Amanda just wants to
drink her sorrows away.

[Amanda] Try that.

You know, it's actually
pretty good.

So you're trying to tell me
that we can make a clear liquor

that tastes like that?

[Amanda]
What we're gonna do is we're
gonna make our own bitters.

Just a gallon of that is
all I'm gonna need.

And then we're gonna
strip this mash, right?

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

-Uh-huh.
-I wanna do a stripping run

because the idea is we're gonna
re-distill 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 re-distill 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 gonna

go nuts for this.

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

No risk, Kelly.
No what?

Jail time?

-No reward.
-[Kelly] Oh.

[Henry]
Hey, well, boys, it's gonna
be a big move today, isn't it?

[Tickle] Uh-huh.
You need me to put a hand

on something, holler.

Henry came up with the idea to
stash our brandy over here on

one of these small islands.

Tickle, can you grab
this one, too?

And then just sell our apple
cider brandy to some

pretty wealthy people that
live here on the lake.

[Henry] Come on, baby.

-[engine revving]
-[Tickle] There she goes.

[Henry] All right, boys,
let's roll.

I'm gonna show y'all an island,
blow your mind, Tickle.

It's a beautiful place
to store this liquor.

Well, y'all just show me
where to go, and we'll get

this stuff hid.

[Henry] Look at all those
houses, man.

-[Tickle] Oh, you're right.
-You're talking money.

[Paige] Yeah, it's some
nice houses.

I mean, they should be wanting
some good liquor.

[Tickle] You gotta have money to
have a house on the lake,

especially some of these.
-Big money.

You got money to live on
the lake in a house like that,

Henry, you're right.

Up here's the first island
I was looking at.

Y'all check it out and see
what y'all think.

[Tickle] I'm not totally sold on
storing our shine

on this public island.

Even though Henry's assured me
it's safe, there's always risk

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
would be good.

Yeah, baby.
Hey, put them couple right here.

We'll be good.

[Tickle] Say, we need to make a
few contacts and see if we can't

get some of this stuff sold.
-[Henry] Sounds like a plan.

-Beautiful, let's catch that
boat before it washes away.
-[Tickle] Yeah.

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

we're gonna come back
tomorrow with some jars.

We're gonna start
jarring this stuff up.

We're gonna start selling.

Hey, Henry.

See what this
son of a bitch will do.

Oh, there you go.
Yes, you got some power

-[Henry] Whoo-hoo!
-[Tickle] Yeah!

This is your high-proof bumper
right here.

This thing is
freaking awesome.

[Kelly] Oh, yeah, this is the
trick right here for making

your high-proof stuff.

You know, the first thing
we're gonna do here

is a stripping run,
and basically,

a stripping run is just running
to get all the alcohol out of

the mash that we can
so we can use it for

a spirit run later.
-[Amanda] Here's what I brought.

-[Amanda] Cherries.
-Sweet.

-[Amanda] And oranges.
-[Kelly] All right.

So, it'll be
a lot of the flavor for

our old-fashioned is right here.

So, the whole process here is
I'm gonna use the alcohol

that we stripped 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 we re-distill
them 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 gonna use to

make the bitters.

As we get the spirit off
the still, we're just gonna

start adding these ingredients
into the alcohol to actually

extract all these flavors.

Well, you done sold me on it,
so I think we should just

get to it.
-[Amanda] 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,

a few ounces, is maybe $20,

which is like $500
for a gallon.

And then I have the wormwood.

The plan is to just make
our own bitters

for a fraction of the cost.

This is our bittering agent.

This is what's gonna make
the bitters bitter.

And then all these are gonna
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 and eliminate the ones
that I really don't care for.

It should be ready.

It should be coming any time,
because it's hot.

-Oh!
-[Kelly].Look at that.

[music plays]

Oh, 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 gonna be my first
time trying to make bitters,

so I really don't know how
these flavors are gonna

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 do these
extra runs, the money we spent

on additional ingredients,
and we've ruined a whole batch

of corn liquor.

The higher proof this is,
it's gonna immediately start

extracting all the nice aroma
and flavor

from our ingredients.

So this is gonna make
just pure orange extract.

Every old-fashioned needs
cherries, so now we just gotta

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

and start extracting
some bitters for us.

Very strong.

[Kelly] That looks like
a dang snow globe,

they's so much
stuff in it.

[Amanda] I know.
I think this is enough.

We can pretty much strip
the rest of the 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?

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 gonna mix
all this stuff together,

put it back in the pot,
and we're gonna 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.
-Ha!

[Tim] You know, Howard,
I don't love this whole idea.

Tim, this isn't a 10-gallon
operation here.

This is 1,000 gallons
we got to produce.

-Uh-huh.
-And one of your friends,
that 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.

You know, 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 that used to work for him,

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

I just hope this guy knows
something about moonshine.

You know, know what we need.
You know what I'm saying?

We got to have grain, right?
We got to have corn.

We got to have sugar.
We got to have stills.

We got to have a location.
We got to have good water.

And hopefully this guy can
keep his mouth shut about

the whole operation.

We need someone who can
keep all this quiet.

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

All we want to do,
get to Kentucky,

make 1,000 gallons of liquor,

and get it to Canada.

Let's do it now.

You know, this guy, DJ,
I know nothing about him,

but I'm gonna have 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 gonna be no deal.

DJ?

-[DJ] Yes, sir.
-All right.

Seems like we've got
a mutual friend here.

-Yes, sir.
-[Tim] Mm-hmm.

-Who's this guy?
-[Tim] That's Howard.

[Tim] Howard's been
with me a long time.

Well, how do
you know our friend?

-Hey, I've worked for him.
-[Tim] Then what kind of work?

-Concrete.
-[Tim] OK.

Well, he recommended you.

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

who it was.

Well, we're in a different
kind of business,

so we probably don't say that
too openly, you know?

What kind of business
you thinking, sir?

Well, we in
the liquor business.

-I understand that.
-[Tim] OK.

We need a location,
and we need some equipment.

Probably got one of those.

We got a location nobody else
knows about.

We're gonna go far enough
in the woods, that's all

I can say.
-OK.

-I know you guys from Virginia.
-Mm-hmm.

We in Kentucky 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.

[Tim] Yeah.

I've been in the business
a long time.

Not my first day.
Yeah.

So we're gonna make
this work...

or not.
-[Tim] I'm in business.

I'm with you.

I can give you a location
tonight if you want it.

[Tim] Yeah, I want to see it.
We need it as soon as possible.

-All right.
-[Tim] All right.

-Are you ready?
-Let's roll.

I'm gonna tell
you what, son.

You got us in the by-God
backwoods of Kentucky mountains

right here.

[Tim] Well, I mean,
I'm just following him.

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

Because of all the problems
we've had, Howard and I,

we 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 place.

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

tariff-free 1,000 gallons
of moonshine to Canada.

You put us in charge of
dealing with Gary,

and he's your connect here,
and now we're with this

gentleman, and he's bringing us
out to God knows where.

[Tim] My buddy Gary,
he set us up with DJ.

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

and whatever we need
to make it happen.

-This is the place?
-Yes, sir.

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

-Looks good.
-[DJ] It's all I can offer
right here, right now.

Man, that's
a big, old building,

like a warehouse, man.
-[DJ] 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,
too perfect to believe.

[Howard] Damn.
What we got here?

[Tim] You got some
submarine still.

[Howard] Holy smokes.

-These are your rigs?
-Yes, sir.

[Howard] The barn is magical.

I mean, everything
we need covered,

sheltered, off-the-beaten path.
Hidden, gates locked.

Look at yonder.

-[Tim] Oh, that's the caps.
-There's the caps on.

Stills.

We mash in right here.
We got our 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 mash.

Yeah, what about cornmeal,
sugar, and all that

kind of stuff?
-Yeah, I set that up.

We can get it, too.
I'll figure out and talk to

one of the farmers
around here.

This whole plan is
coming together.

Great location.
Good-looking stills.

DJ's like, "I got you."

Let's see what's going on
in this creek.

Like I said,
the spring's about

three-quarters of a 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'll have plenty of water

in no time.

-[Tim] Oh, yeah, that's clear.
-Yeah, that's good.

[Howard] We're running
through limestone.

That's cold, too.
That's good.

That's filtered.
That's good.

Kentucky limestone water,
I mean, world famous.

It's just perfect
for making alcohol.

The minerals and the pH level,
it helps with fermentation.

It's gonna allow us
to make a better product

and more of it.

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 stills,

you know, everything's great,
but then again, I'm thinking

about what has happened back
in the past, back in Virginia.

We had some problems
with other still 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.

[metallic tapping]

All right.

See, I got it tilted down
a little bit.

It's gonna cover
a whole lot right here.

It's like we just
won the lottery.

All I need is some ingredients,
mash in.

Hey, we got it made.

First thing, we need some
sugar and cornmeal.

-I have a drop spot tomorrow.
-All right, let's do that then.

Love it.
How about that?

-Let's get out of here.
-Oh, thank you so much.

-Good deal.
-Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

[music plays]

What do you think, Paige?
Where we at?

Looks like we keep
going straight,

we should be all right.
-[Henry] Cool.

[Tickle] 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 brandy.

[Henry] We make this sale today,
boys, we're gonna make some

big money.
-[Tickle] Big money.

-[Tickle] That's what I'm about.
-We're gonna 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.

[Henry] Got us, Paige?

I mean, are the risks really
gonna be worth the rewards?

Now we're getting somewhere.
I just hope nobody stole

that liquor while we were gone.
-Yeah, for real.

[Tickle] I feel like a pirate,
Henry, you know that?

I feel like,
"Aye aye, Captain."

-[laughing]
-Aye, matey.

[Tickle] What do
you think, Henry?

[Henry] I hope
the liquor's still here.

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

-[Henry] Oh, yeah.
-[Tickle] So far, so good.

Now, we're not just gonna
sell this stuff by

the five-gallon bucket.

What we're gonna do is
we're gonna break this down

into quart jars.

Oh, ain't that pretty?
There it is.

-Liquid gold, boys.
-[Tickle] Good and clear,
too, ain't it?

Because we can get a higher
price selling it like that than

I can by the gallon jug
or by the bucket.

[Henry] All right, boys.
Let's make some money.

While this lake
is a public lake,

these personal docks
are not.

And we're gonna go meet
Henry's friend Tony right here

on his dock.

Henry, how do you know
this guy, Tony?

We met a long, long time ago,
and he just got beaucoup money.

He got a huge-ass house down
here, keeps his mouth shut,

and he don't 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 private.

Tony, what's up, buddy?

[Tony speaking]

[Henry] So how
you doing, buddy?

[Tony speaking]

[Henry] Been a while.

Man, we got some stuff
for you today, Hoss.

-[Henry] Hand me
one of those jars.
-Yeah, sir.

The costs are really
adding up on this.

This wasn't a cheap shine
to make.

We're gonna have to get $150
a gallon on this brandy,

or we're gonna find ourselves
underwater on this.

[Henry] You know, I don't come
with anything but the best.

-[Paige] Coming in.
-[Henry] Why don't
you try that out?

Henry said you only
drink your best.

[Tony speaking]

[Tickle]
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 gonna be

a long time before we turn
a profit on this brandy.

What do you think, buddy?

[Tony speaking]

[Henry] Thank you, big guy.
Two boxes, right?

[Tony speaking]

Getting our first sale of this
season done, it feels great.

-Good to see you again, buddy.
-[Tony] Yeah, yeah.

If you need any more,
just holler at us.

-[Tony] OK.
-And we'll fix you right up.

We charge this guy $150
a gallon at six gallons now.

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

See you, buddy.

[Tony speaking]

[Tickle] First sale down.

[Henry] Whoo-wee, what do
you think, Tickle?

-Tell you what --
-That was a good sale,
wasn't it?

Yes, it was.

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.

If we keep going like this,
we'll be sold out in no time.

[Tickle] You got
that right, man.

[Henry]
Now let's get these few jars
off here, get them filled up,

make us another sale.

Sales are going great here on
this lake, and Henry, he's got

another potential buyer for us.

It won't be too much longer.
We're gonna have to

make another run, ain't it?

All we gotta do is fill up
a few more jars and be

right on our way.
-All right, guys.

We got two more of these
bad boys left.

All right, let's roll.

Sale here.
That's gonna be it.

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

[Tickle] Get this stuff
on the boat.

[Henry] Get it on
the boat, Paige.

[Tickle] Get it on the boat.
Quick as we can.

[tense music plays]

[Tickle] Throw it to her, Henry.

We have no idea what these
guys saw or why they got

so close to this island and then
turned around and really sped

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.

[Kelly] Everything looks
intact, Amanda.

[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 gonna
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 market to buy $15 a jar

of crap liquor.

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

and money we could have spent
doing something else.

This is our bitters.

-Oh, God.
-Oh, that burns.

I don't know if I'm gonna
sneeze or puke.

[Amanda] I feel like it's
way too bitter.

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

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
wormwood and nutmeg.

And the whole idea with
wormwood 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 gonna 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 gonna put these
ingredients and the alcohol in

the jar in a pot of boiling
water and basically cook it

like a tea to rapidly extract
this flavor.

Hopefully by making individual
extracts of all these flavors,

we can kind of isolate.

If any of these are giving
an off flavor, we're gonna

know when we're done,
and we can blend something back

that tastes the way
we want it to taste.

[Kelly] 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 moonshine.

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 gonna add
a little bit of chamomile.

I know I want to taste
more ginger in there.

I think the vanilla is gonna
help sweeten it up a little bit

and 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, right?

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

get that chamomile
and some vanilla bean in there.

[Kelly] 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 then.
-[Amanda] OK.

So, I think we got
the bitters balanced 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.

-[Kelly] Oh, there it goes.
-[Amanda] All right.

-[Kelly] Man, that
smells so citrusy.
-It does.

I definitely got that orange
right up front.

That's strong on there.

I mean, there are some flavors
that's coming through there,

and it's reasonably aromatic.

I'm dying of suspense.

[music plays]

Ooh.

Ha, ha, ha, ha.

-I think it's a home run.
-Wow.

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 won't sell good.

-No [bleep].
-Good job.

[Amanda] That's old-fashioned,
I'll tell you what.

So what all do you know about
this guy we're making this sale

to today?
-We dealt with him years ago.

Haven't saw him in a long time,
but when we made this top-notch

brandy, I figured
I'd reach out to him.

Name is John.
But he's gonna meet us

out here, up here
around the s-curves.

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.

Supposed to be waiting for us
off this main channel.

Should be on a pontoon boat.

-What's up, John?
-[John] How you doing, Henry?

[Henry] We got some
good stuff for you today.

-Do you?
-[Henry] Whoo-wee.

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

[Henry] I heard that.

[John] All right, let me
grab onto that thing.

You're driving around like
Steve McQueen in this.

Yeah, well, I'm not that good
of a captain, you know.

-Good seeing you, big guy.
-Good to see you.

I'm telling you.
We got you a little sample.

-You all got the sample?
-[John] What'd you bring?

We've got some very rare
apple brandy that we made

with apple cider.
You're gonna love that.

Oh, yeah.

-That is some good stuff.
-[Henry] Man, what do you think?

-That's delicious.
-All right.

How much you bring me?

Brought you a whole box,
whole case.

[John] 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.
-[Henry] All right, buddy.

All right, man.
Great to see you again.

[Henry] Good to see you
again, too, man.

-Enjoy that liquor.
-Now all we got to do is

get back to the dock
and figure out our next move.

We done 'bout got rid
of everything, ain't we?

Everybody else is
scratching and scrounging.

-[Tickle] Uh-huh.
-We all got already run
brandy, man.

[Tickle] Yeah, people can't even
find corn hardly yet.

-We running brandy.
-[Henry] I love it.

[chuckling]

Make that money, honey.
I'm telling you right now.

[Tickle] That's right.

Yeah.

[theme music plays]

We probably need to make it
look like somebody's

living here.
-Not a bad idea.

We did bring that
little tent in, though.

[Tickle] You want to set this
tent up that you were talking

about, Henry?
-[Henry] Stretch it out, Paige.

Just get the bottom.
Don't worry about that top.

There you go.

You can tell we haven't been
camping in a long, long time.

[Tickle] No kidding, Henry.
Hop right here.

[Henry] We don't have
too many rods on it, do we?

Maybe it takes
one rod per thing.

They're connected together.

-[Henry] They are?
-[Tickle] It's all one piece.

-No, I think Paige has got it.
-[Henry] OK.

-Yeah, stick it back through.
-Yeah.

That goes through
this little hole.

[Paige] All right, all right,
all right.

OK, let me get out
of the way.

Damn.
Wee doggy.

[Tickle]
Well, it looks like somebody's
camping here now, don't it?

Let's get some of
this trash up.

[Tickle] Well, let's see what
we got going on in here, Henry.

Oh, my God.
Yeah, this is damn
sure one person.

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

She's gonna want a whole lot
more room than this.

Damn, that tent ain't made
for old folks.

[Henry] Yeah.

We do a little fishing,
knocking around a little bit.

[Henry] Well, we're locals.

We got a place over
the lake here.

What are you doing, fishing?

[woman speaking]

[Henry]
One thing, if you find out
fooling with liquor or anything

illegal, you've always got
people out there that's gonna

stick their nose where it
doesn't need to be.

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.

[Henry] Come on, son,
grab that rope, there.

Let's get out of the way.
This woman's crazy.

[Tickle] I mean, really.

-[Tickle] I mean, damn.
-[Henry] What the hell?

God dang it.

We had a really good thing
going on this lake.

[Henry] She knows
we've been at that island.

-[Tickle] She damn sure does.
-Yep.

But I think it's best we pack
up and leave before we draw

the attention of the law.

[Tim] All right Howard, well,
you know, we got to get

in this barn,
unload all that 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 a creek bank.
Nice, clean water.

We got stills.
We got sugar.

We got corn.

All we need to do now
is get back and mash in.

There we go.
There we go.

I got some lanterns set
over there if you want to

light one, buddy.
How you doing, Mr. Tim?

[Tim] All right.
All right.

-I'm gonna shut this door.
-[DJ] Yeah.

Well, you know, tonight is
a night to where we're gonna

actually level these stills up,
get them ready.

I'm gonna put some water
in them and get mashed in.

It's all we got to do tonight.

Easy with it, Howard.
Easy.

Easy with it, Howard.

[suspenseful music plays]

[Tim] Cut the lights off, guys.
Somebody's coming.

Cut the lights off.
Cut it off.

[suspenseful music plays]

[motors revving]

Maybe they're just riding by.

Well, there you go.

[DJ] Nope, they're coming
back across.

[Tim] Coming on the other side.

Uh, OK.

-[Tim] I don't know.
-[DJ] What do we need to do?

[Tim] I don't know.
Uh-oh.

Uh-oh, they're getting ready
to come.

Uh-oh.
There ain't no way out.

-[man] What's going on in here?
-[Tim] What are y'all doing?

[DJ] Gary gave us permission
to be here.

Yes.

[DJ] They're good guys.
Gary introduced them to me.

[Tim] So what's the deal then?

[man speaking]

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

OK.

-[man speaking]
-Yes, sir.

That's it.

Yeah, 100%.

That means we're on the same
side, I guess, somewhat.

[Tim] So what, what,
what do we gotta do?

[Tim] It looks like
we ain't got no choice.

There's no damn choice
in this matter.

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

someone else's property,

and, you know, 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.

[man] All right,
fellas, let's go.

[maniacal laughter]

I lost everything I had
in Virginia.

I come here, I'm starting
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.

Well, DJ, you got to get
on board with us, man.

Not that it was
your fault, man.

This is a whole, big
misunderstanding that should

not have happened at all,
because this puts us behind

time again.

I'd rather have these guys on
my side than be against me.

[DJ] Yes, sir.

There ain't nothing
going as planned.

No, this is far from
planned now.

Well, I'm getting out
of his way.

We're mashing peaches
and pumping juice,

Kelly'll get you in a bind,

and he'll get you
out of it, too.

Ah, you asshole.

[Mike] You ready?
Well, she's a nice one,
ain't she?

We're trying to construct
a still within one run

we can produce an aged whiskey
that tastes like it's been in

a barrel for several years.

-[Jerry] I like it.
-[Mike] I do, too.

If this thing works
and produces the aged whiskey

that we're looking for here
today, we've changed the world.

This is a dadgum warehouse,
aint it?

All the illegal stills
I ever run was always

in the backwoods.

Getting caught in this
large-scale illegal operation,

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

You heard that, didn't you?

[Howard] Uh, we just lost power.