Moonshiners (2011–…): Season 10, Episode 17 - Tennessee Whiskey - full transcript
This time
on Moonshiners...
We checked everywhere
to get some more
malted corn.
We figured you're
the man to go get it.
You tell me you can't find it,
the more interesting
it is to me.
We gotta get malted corn.
I know I gotta go South.
You know, I called you
about that sprouted corn.
I got corn, but I ain't
got sprouted corn.
How can I get this,
I don't even know where
to go right now,
you know, what am I gonna do?
We got all that cotton candy
ready to go, and we're cooking
cotton candy rum today.
This smells so good.
I can't wait to smell this
in a mason jar.
Hear that? You hear that?
Something coming,
get down.
- Get down, hurry up!
- Get down.
You know what's
great about this spring?
It's got potential of
puttin' us on the map making
crude Tennessee whiskey.
From everything I've been
told all my life, this is
limestone hard water.
We can't set no
damn still up here.
We're gonna pump
water right into
this building.
You're full of crap.
This is how
we make the moonshine!
Henry called me, he wanted
me to come down to talk
to him a little bit, you know.
Anytime Henry calls me
like that,
that means it's something
about moonshine.
In Franklin
County, Virginia.
Tim returns to the stomping
grounds of his former
outlaw life.
We called Tim because
Kenny and I found
a recipe of my dad's.
He was using malted corn,
malted corn is extremely
hard to get.
Because it's middle
of the winter
If there's one man
that can get it,
it'd be Tim Smith.
Oh... I came through
the metal detector.
Well, I got it off.
You're lucky.
Kenny went through it
earlier and I had to take
three knives off him,
- two guns and a machete.
- -What's goin' on, Kenny?
I don't know where
to get a hold of knives...
I ain't never heard of ...
What are you all doing?
Just hangin' around the camp?
Got something
I want you to try.
- You hit some?
- What you got?
- What you workin' on?
- -You tell me what it is.
I know you... You good.
I don't think
it'll be that good.
Smell like peach.
You added white
peach in it?
-Is that what it is?
-It's actually
a strawberry mango.
-Strawberry and mango.
-Mm-hmm.
- I guess mango maybe close to peach.
- -Very small batch.
Y'all gonna try to
make a whole lot
of this or...
-You got some more?
-No, that's not why
we brought you up here.
Bottom line is,
we got goin' through
some of Daddy's recipes.
Years ago...
we've done a lot
of corn liquor.
But I remember we ran
some of a malted corn.
We want to do it again.
I've done somethin'
with my dad 30 years ago too,
-'cause that was the thing.
-Mm-hmm.
You know, you don't get
a lot of yield out of it,
but you get high quality,
it has a real good
taste profile.
Malting is
a common process
in distilling
that involves sprouting
grains before drying
and grinding.
Barley and rye
are the best known
malted grains,
used to make
prices whiskeys
in the United States
and Scotland.
Corn can also be malted.
But the process only
works with whole kernel
seed corn.
Not cracked corn
or hybrid corn.
While malted corn
was popular among
moonshiners
throughout the past century,
it became harder to
find in the 1990s
when genetically
modified corn began
to dominate the market.
We think you're the man
to go get it.
What do you mean "go get it?"
- Find it for us.
- We've gone ahead...
We've checked everywhere.
Everybody we possibly
know to get some
of that malted corn.
I got the setup to make
malted corn or barley
or wheat or rye or whatever,
but it's outside, you know.
It's... To make it
during the summer time.
I can't make it,
but I mean,
maybe I can find it.
How many pounds
you think you need
to make this?
Four, five, six, seven
hundred, something
like that.
I gotta call some contacts,
but I know to get something
like that outta season,
like buying tomatoes.
You gotta go South.
Is that what you
are sayin' here? Exactly?
Well, I may be able to get it.
We doin' what we can,
I don't think
we can get it.
Yeah, but you don't
know the people I know.
You know, my ...
reaches out
a little bit father here.
Are you sayin'
you can get it
or you think you can get it?
I don't mind a challenge.
I don't mind
when you tell me
I can't do something.
You know, sittin' here
and talking to Tim,
and I love to watch
the expression on his face.
'Cause everything is cool
and fine and dandy
when we're talkin'
about it casually.
But when I started
pulling back on him,
you know,
sayin', "Well, you know,
it's not doable,"
that you possible can't do it,
then I started seein'
him straighten up
in that chair.
'Cause he loves a challenge.
And we've checked everywhere
and we can't find it,
so you're our last bet.
Henry and Kenny,
they've called all
their sources,
and they can't get it.
The more you
tell me you can't find it,
the more interesting
it is to me.
I don't know how
I'm gonna get it,
but right now,
I gotta call a contact.
I really think I can do this.
Hey, the guy needs help,
and that's what you do,
you know, that's what
moonshiners do,
we help each other.
We'll expire in it, Pus.
We've gotta get inside
or this cold air'll kill us.
In Tennessee,
with leaves falling
and demand for moonshine
on the rise,
Mark and Digger need
to move their stilt site
indoors to stay hidden.
Ain't no
clever, are they...
You know, back in the day,
our predecessor,
they didn't have
to worry about
comin' in here and it bein'
barren and leaves.
They went home because
nobody walked around
in the mountains back then.
So we usually
pull out in the winter time.
But we've
gotta keep up
with productions
so we can help
people out during
these hard times.
Wait a minute...
Something or somebody
has been here, hatty boy.
Damn, look at this!
- What in the world has took pace here?
- -Oh, hell.
- It's a bear.
- It's a bear.
There's been a bear
and he's tore up jack.
Look at this
*bleep*, Digger.
This isn't our first
go around with a bear,
We live
in the Smoky Mountains,
that's bear heaven.
God Almighty.
Best they've ever done
is chew a little hole,
look at that.
Where can we
get that whole again?
That barrel's toast.
Our bear, he's just
made a general
nuisance of himself,
which is...
what they're famous for doing.
-Has he hurt that thing?
-No, he ain't hurt it.
Plus he chewed the top of it.
You know, it's one thing
for him to tear up
a barrel and eat some corn,
fortunately he has not
harmed the steels,
you know?
He could really
cost us a tremendous
amount of money.
I don't know where
we're going,
the main thing is,
wherever we go,
we gotta have water, Pus,
you know that.
I got that in my mind,
I believe we'll be all right.
I've got an idea.
Let's make a move.
You know, pickin'
a location indoors,
you know, yeah,
we've got an indoor facility.
But it's for testing,
we can't put that much
liquid weight up there.
Watch them brick
under your feet.
We gotta have ground level,
we gotta have access
to some water somewhere,
But I've got an idea
in my hip pocket.
We'll get water source
that we can maybe
plumb in.
As long as Mark
don't fret, we'll be
in good shape.
Need me to push?
We've gotta clean up
the stilt site today.
Gotta move some
stuff around.
Gonna make sure
that we're ready for
a new stilt setup
that we got comin' in here.
Along the bayou
of New Iberia Louisiana,
Richard and his brother
Craig are clearing space
for a larger stilt.
We're gonna be running
two stilts here,
with this new submarine
stilt we wanna build.
We're gonna have
a bigger setup.
My brother's gonna come
down, and we're gonna
do some measurements,
make sure that
we can accommodatr
the old stilt
and the new stilt
at the same time.
Hey, what's goin' on, man?
You on time today.
Craig has a tendency
to be late. Yeah.
But if he's early I know
somethings wrong.
So I just let it be that way.
- I bought something to eat.
-Oh, yeah?
What's that?
Stuffed bread.
Yeah, I didn't eat
nothin' this morning.
Oh, yeah.
It's a small muffuletta,
the Louisiana delicacy.
My auntie makes
the best stuffed bread
in the world.
Made it fresh
this morning just
for us. Mm-hmm.
This is typical Louisiana.
Awesome breakfast
for us to have this morning.
We need to do a little
cleanin' on this.
I don't wanna
take too much of this
away because
that's our cover,
that's our hidin' place
right there.
Cover is so important.
There's a lot of boats
that pass on the bayou
every now and then,
we don't want to be exposed
because this is illegal.
We're gettin' a whole
lot of order right now.
I gotta whole lot of alcohol
we gotta get out.
Having a bigger stilt
is gonna give us
the ability to
run more of this...
this healing herb
that we call it,
as well as the sweet potato
vodka we produce.
And the smaller stilt
will give us the opportunity
to experiment
with some things.
The main thing is
just make sure
we have enough room
to do everything
we need to do.
The whole setup is gonna
be a whole lot bigger.
So that means
we're growin', right?
We're gettin' bigger?
We're gettin' bigger.
I had the chance to
visit some good guys
out in Virginia.
They showed me
a submarine stilt setup.
-I like this little setup.
-Oh, now this is
the stilt site.
Something that
we never use down here,
I've never seen it.
Their setups are so much
bigger than we're used
to dealing with.
So we're gonna kinda
scale down, which will
be scalin' up for us.
Once we get this done,
Craig, what we're doing to do
is we'll run and pick up
the copper,
we'll get that set up.
Tell Mom you're with me
today, all right.
I love copper.
Copper does attract
more sulfates
other than alcohol,
so instead of having
just a little bit copper
throughout my run,
I want copper all
the way through.
Traditional
Virginia style
submarine pots
are built with low cost
steel wrapped around
wooden side panels.
Richard's plan is to
upgrade this with
copper sheeting
to produce the quality shine
he's used to
from a copper pot
but with an increased
volume of the submarine pot.
- Hey, what's goin' on, sir?
- Good.
You called about the copper?
-Yes, sir.
-All right.
-Copper sheets, you got some?
-Yeah. Let me show you
what I have here.
This right here
is a 16 sheet.
We're gonna need
a little thicker than that.
What you lookin' at maybe?
At least a 32.
This is a huge investment
to be spending
that type of money
that we're about to be
spending on this copper.
I'd be more secure in my mind
using something
a little thicker then
we are faced with.
Yeah, we're gonna need
something a little thicker
than this.
This is the thickest
you got right here?
That's as thickest
I have on hand.
Yeah. We really,
really need this today.
How long will it
take to get the 32 in?
Uh, you know, with Covid
everything's pushed back,
um...
Once it comes in
I'll give you a holler.
Gonna push us back
but that's all we can do.
-Okay. Okay.
-Yeah. We need it.
Yeah. Let's go to
the front and, uh,
I'll get you, your names
and numbers and...
-All right.
-Sounds good.
Let's go up front.
I got a whole lot of people
waiting on product right now.
We're behind on everything
and this is gonna set us back.
But we're gonna have to do it.
I mean, this the cards
that we were dealt.
We're gonna make
the best hand out of it.
Well, let's go do something
like I say we can do.
Let's go mash in.
Yeah, we can
do that for sure.
Here you go, hammy boy.
Why you bringing me here?
Well, look around.
What do you see?
I mean, I've been here before.
I see cars, traffic...
...middle of downtown
and a spring.
-Yep.
-What's this got to do
with us moving?
Digger, he's got an idea
for a new still site
but we're in the middle of
downtown at the spring.
We've got water before here.
We've talked about it.
It's sweet, it's sweet.
Yeah, it's wonderful water
but it's downtown.
There's no way that
we can do anything here.
We can't set
no damn still up here.
Of course, we can.
We're gonna pump water out
into this building.
You're full of crap.
That ain't got
a thing to do with it.
This building, in my opinion,
was built to make liquor.
I mean, look at them trucks,
trailers, parking lot.
Which right in
the middle of town.
Close to everything
we would ever need.
And from everything
I've been told all my life,
this is limestone hard water.
And I don't see a reason
why this won't be
a damn fine place
to make liquor.
Yeah. I know
I've been here before, Pus.
- I know about this.
- Yeah?
You know what's great
about this spring?
It's got potential at
putting us on the map
as making true
Tennessee whiskey.
If we're gonna make
Tennessee whiskey
we got to have
this water tested.
We gotta make sure
that it's hard water.
You know,
you always hear songs
about Tennessee whiskey
and water like this,
I feel like is why that
was able to be it.
Get that big old root
ball out of there
while you're bent over.
Water like this bubbles
through limestone.
It's good and hard,
which is a prerequisite for
yeast to be able to thrive.
I mean, it's hiding
in plain sight.
I mean, I get it and I like
hiding in plain sight.
-Mm-hmm.
-I do. I mean,
that's okay because,
you know,
what's the old saying,
-that you can't see
the forest for the trees.
-Exactly.
But you don't know if we can
get the building or not.
I mean, so right now
it's just an idea, right?
Yeah, and it's my idea
and it's a damn good one.
Well, I ain't
don't need to do nothing,
not a damn thing till you
find out about the building.
Mark's been a little bit
resistant to the idea.
I don't see
any problem with it.
It's safe. It's been
in the mama's arms.
I'm out.
I mean, have I let you
down more than
seven times
in the last two weeks?
Well... All right.
I'm gonna straighten down
this piece of metal here.
I got this deal going
with Henry Law, you see?
Go get him some malted corn.
Well, I'm calling
Howard to help me.
And I'm waiting on Howard.
Howard is not responding.
Howard. Good. Great.
You're here, old buddy.
What's happening?
We gotta go somewhere.
We gotta get some corn.
That's no problem. You got
silos full of them right here.
No, no, no, no,
different kind of corn.
We gotta get malted corn.
I know I gotta go south.
My first chores is
call my guy in Alabama.
I'm gonna call him,
see what he's got.
And, you know,
reach out to some people
that's gonna send me
to the right place.
I have a contact in Alabama.
- In Alabama.
- Alabama.
Tim, I don't
understand what's
the difference in
sprouted and,
and the corn you have.
There's a lot of
difference, Howard.
It just has a unique taste.
Sprouted corn you,
you dry that, you grind that
and that's what
you call malted.
I mean, we can't find this
nowhere else?
No, no, no, no.
You can get it in Alabama.
It's warmer weather
down there.
Now, getting malted grain
in the winter time,
it's like having red tomatoes
in the winter time.
It's not in season.
Uh-oh. We got blue lights.
We got road checks.
Somebody got
somebody pulled over.
Oh, man.
His is blue lights.
Like kinda the hair stands up
on your back.
-Like, oh, spidey sense.
-Phew.
You know, you always
got your guard up.
I grew up like this.
I was trained by my dad,
you know,
to watch out for the cops.
You know? You know,
you gotta look ahead.
Well, you've been to a jail
since you're three years old.
I'm sure you've had
a fair share of it.
Long time.
When I was five years old.
I mean, I probably been
doing it before that
but I remember five because
I know my dad let me
skip kindergarten.
Now he says, "Look,
this is what's gonna happen.
You gotta go to school
and go to kindergarten.
Or you gonna stay
and help me..."
Is that a vehicle?
It's off the road.
That is a vehicle.
It is off the road.
We're going in the road,
there's all of a sudden,
you know, I see this truck
has wrecked.
This truck has, like, ran off
the road and ran into a tree.
It's kind of, uh, hanging
at the side of a bank.
We are stopping right here.
Give me that flashlight.
It's right between
your legs there.
Oh, *bleep*.
-It's slick.
-That's why.
Howard, we gotta check it out.
You know, I'm a firefighter.
First responder.
Been doing it, you know,
for a long time.
I gotta investigate.
I gotta find out
what's going on.
Maybe I can help somebody
if they're trapped.
I don't see no blood in there.
Door is locked, yeah.
Hey.
My instinct goes in
to saving someone's life.
-Someone in there?
-No.
Nobody in there.
Somebody had locked it
and flipped this damn
thing off.
The tree actually helped him.
-No one seen him.
-Uh-oh.
-There's a car coming.
-Watch out. Watch out.
We gotta get out and run,
I'm telling you. We gotta get
on the road somehow.
Nobody's dead. Nobody's hurt.
Let's get out of here before
something does happen.
Before we get in an accident.
Yeah, I don't like it.
You know, I've know Tim
for over ten year.
I got the pleasure of working
with Tim this year
and it's been one hell of
an adventure the whole way.
See what, Howard.
I mean,
you always gotta watch out
for things like that.
We're just going
down the road
there's a guy that ran
out there and hit a tree.
Yeah. I mean, we're at this,
we keep pulling over
to help everybody out,
brother, we never get
to Alabama.
Yeah. Well, that's why
you're gonna drive.
When you start driving
then I can start figuring out
more exactly
detail where I gotta go.
Man, I hope they
got this cotton candy here.
Man, I hope
she got some of this.
So you know her?
Talk to her. She will kinda
do it if you get with her.
Sure, we could do.
In New Iberia, Louisiana,
while waiting for
the copper sheets to arrive
for their new submarine still,
Richard and his brother Craig
are on their way to
procure ingredients
for a nostalgic take on rum.
The smaller still will give us
the opportunity to experiment
with some things.
So we're gonna go ahead
and make a cotton candy rum.
-Hey, Miss Rhonda.
How you doing?
-Hi! How are you doing?
We're looking for some
cotton candy today.
-Please tell me you have some.
-Oh, you're in luck.
My little brother
knows this lady that makes
this cotton candy at her
snow cone factory.
How many you got?
I have 17 pink vanilla packs.
We'll take all 17.
-We'll take all of them.
-Okay.
Here in south Louisiana,
times are tough.
We just kinda wanna lighten
the mood for everybody
right now.
Cotton candy is something
that everyone enjoys.
We're the first people
to ever do this.
I've never seen
anybody do this.
Yeah, well, maybe there's
a reason nobody does it.
-We're about to find out
right now.
-We're about to find out.
We like to be
the first to do things.
So we do a small
five gallon run of that
and see what we get out of it.
It'll be good to go.
This will be a good run.
Seventeen bags
of cotton candy.
I can't wait for everyone
to taste this.
I just, I can't wait.
This is gonna be awesome.
Come on,
you feel like driving?
If you don't
I guess I will.
Gonna mash in
some brown sugar
and some cotton candy
and we've never done
anything like it before.
So Roland came down
with us. My scientist.
My brother-in-law.
He's here with us also.
We got all our cotton candy
ready to go.
We got our brown sugar here.
We're gonna start
our cotton candy rum today.
Not typical that we'd
have to start a fire here
especially in Louisiana
to warm up.
This water comes
from a natural spring.
In Spring, Texas.
Roland, he found a spring.
Texas, they have
a real good water.
It stays at
a constant ph for us.
This area right here
has a lot of
problems with calcium
and fluoride.
Additives that they put
in water around here.
It's real hard to deal
with this water
when making alcohol.
It's worth the effort of
having to bring some water
from Texas
to have a real good product.
We got 17 bags
of cotton candy.
So we'll go six and a half
pounds of brown sugar.
Six and a half pounds
of cotton candy,
that'll be 13 pounds.
That'll be the 13 pounds.
In a normal mash we'd
just be working with fruits.
We might be working
with a grain or something
like that.
In this cotton candy
there are 20 different
kinds of chemicals.
We don't want
any of these chemicals
to carry over and flavor out
of our moonshine.
We can take them out.
We can boil them.
They have boiling points.
What we want is
the flavor of cotton candy
and the flavor of this
brown sugar that
we're putting in it.
So that's where
our chemistry comes in.
That's where Roland comes in.
Whenever they
tell me what they know
and I just start doing
a little research.
And what all the ingredients
does involve and kinda try to
break it down to science.
'Cause although I know
they make a good product
what we wanna do now
is try to figure out
how to make it consistent.
The main thing is just to keep
those temperatures aligned
so that we get out what we
need and keep what we need.
And we maintain that flavor
that we're looking for.
That's the main thing.
We're gonna
use some brown sugar.
Some complex sugars.
And we're gonna see
if we can make these sugars
complement with the sugars
that are already in this
cotton candy
and come out with
something different.
Man, this smells so good.
I can't wait to smell this
in a mason jar.
When the water's warm enough
and you just drop some
cotton candy in it,
it just starts to melt.
It's oozing this sugary,
caramelly substance.
-Look at that.
-I know.
Look at the color.
And the pot is starting to...
-turn into a nice
dark burgundy.
-Yeah.
We're gonna
get to 212 degrees.
We're gonna stick there
for a while.
During the process,
you could smell
the chemicals coming out.
I'm starting to get
the smells now.
You start to smell the acetone
and that's something
I definitely don't wanna
carry over into the moonshine.
After maybe 15-20 minutes,
it started to smell
like cotton candy.
Oh, yeah. Look at that color.
And I don't
smell anymore chemicals,
you know.
-Yeah, I think we
burned them all out.
-Yeah. They're out of there.
Think it's about ready.
Check it out, bro.
We use a blend of yeast
that we do ourselves.
It's kind of proprietary.
Oh, yeah, that looks good.
That's perfect right there.
-Looks good to me.
-Yeah. That's what
we're looking for.
That's how
it's supposed to look.
We've got all our
bad chemicals out.
We're gonna set it aside.
Ferm in a few days,
come back and cook it later.
Leave her right there.
Get out of here.
We're in Alabama now.
I drove all night.
It's like 700 miles
to get down here.
I called my buddy, Mike,
on the way,
he says, "I got sprouted
corn for you."
I can't wait to see it.
I wanna get it loaded up.
But Howard,
he's been sleeping
since we left Culpeper.
Yo. You gotta wake up, man.
We're in Alabama.
We drove
all the way to Alabama?
Yeah. I drove
all the way to Alabama.
Is this the pillow
here I bought.
What do you mean
the pillow you bought?
That little neck pillow
put you all out.
Don't worry, Tim.
If you wanna pull over,
I'll get the rest
of the way in.
- I don't mind driving.
- We're almost there.
Well, go south by god.
Yeah.
This man lives off
the beaten path for real.
He is cut from the same clock
you are, ...
That isn't a bad way.
Oh, sure. You want me
to wait in the truck?
Yeah. Wait in the truck.
Tim Smith. Come on in.
-What's going on, man?
-What's you doing?
I got the trailer.
I got Howard.
Welcome to Alabama.
Well, apparently, I kind
of dozed through the night.
But no big deal.
I mean we're here now.
You know I called you
about that sprouted corn.
I saw one of those
chicken houses. Is that
where it comes from?
Well, no. I got corn
but I ain't got sprouted corn.
Man, that's hard to believe.
You didn't hear me say,
"sprouted?"
Misunderstanding,
miscommunication...
Well, let me
show you what I got.
Come out here and have a look.
I don't know
why I didn't pick up on it
but I needed sprouted
malted cornmeal.
I got corn
but it ain't sprouted.
I got plenty corn.
-You got silos full of it.
-I got silos full of it.
I mean I'm pressured now
because how can I get this,
I don't even know
where to go right now?
-We came ten hours.
-I know how long you drove.
Let me make some phone calls.
Can you let me
make some phone calls?
Yeah. Yeah, make phone calls.
Now that you're here,
every time you call me
and ask me for something,
I mean, you know
I've tried to deliver.
You know I'm trying
not to be mad at Mike,
but I'm getting a little bit
stressed and tensed,
I guess I wanna say
because I was banking on Mike.
Man, we drove ten hours,
12 hours, however long
to get the same *bleep*
you got in Culpeper?
I don't know exactly
what to tell you, Howard.
All right, Tim.
I got you a connection.
You got to go
about two hours south.
Two hours south?
Two hours south but I got it.
-Yeah.
-I got you hooked up.
They're gonna
be there when I get there?
Yeah. They're gonna
be ready, waiting on you.
He calls a lady,
that's about two
and a half hours south
of where we're at.
So here we go.
-You got an address?
-Yes.
I'll text it to you.
They're waiting on you.
You gotta trust me.
All right.
Let's get out of here.
I mean I'm thinking,
you know,
what am I gonna do here?
I've spent all
this time, you know.
Are we gonna get on another
wild goose chase here?
What's going on?
We're going to lay the hammer down, Tim.
I'm asking for certain.
I'm getting ready to.
I've done been to work
I've been to courthouse...
I got it figured out.
Digger, he's got an idea
for a new still site
inside a building
and beside
a great water source.
The thing about it
as he tells me,
oh, I don't know
who owns it, you know.
I don't know really
anything about it.
What did you have to do,
just go give the address?
Yeah. Just give them
the address, they'll pull
your property right up.
Are you kidding me?
I ain't thought so.
Really?
Unbelievably, it is somebody
that we do know.
Now whether we can get it,
that we don't know.
Let's get him on the phone.
Hurdle number one,
cleared easy.
Found out who
owns the property.
Now hurdle number two,
we're gonna call him
and see if he has any problem
with letting us rent this
or use this building.
- Hey, Digger.
- Hello, John.
How you doing?
Well, we were going
to talk to you
about a little business.
All right.
We're looking at a little,
small warehouse downtown
and I've learned lo and behold
all about it.
Okay. Yeah.
Have you done
anything with it?
I haven't been there
for quite a while
and I know there's
a bunch of junk in there.
If you'll let us look at it
and see if it'll suit us,
do you care to rent it
for a couple
or three months, maybe?
I don't normally
rent the building.
It'll be like you
make a little bit of money
and nobody will ever
know anybody's in it.
Well, yeah,
there's a door on the back
that I know you can
get in through, so...
-Go ahead and look at it.
-All right.
Say it it will do
what you need to do,
we can always
work something out.
But as far as I'm concerned
if you're doing anything
that's not ...
and this conversation
never even happened.
I understand.
All right. I'll see you later.
All right buddy.Thanks. Bye.
The only stipulation,
he doesn't wanna know
a damn thing about what
we're doing with it.
Which is fine with us.
We're in business.
Oh, yeah. It ain't
gonna be no fun but
we can get back through here.
We just gotta
get back here one time.
- Yeah. It's a little
bit mushy back here.
- It's all right.
Whatever it's holding,
it not worth much.
Well, damn, hatty boy.
Looks
bigger from outside.
You fine?
It's not horrible, man.
Wow.
This will be all right.
It was just full of crap.
It was just
piled up with stuff.
But it's a real nice space.
A good concrete floor
and it's inside.
It's out of the elements.
It will permit us
to get back to business.
We've wasted too much time.
It's a good spot.
But we gotta do some
damn major house cleaning.
This is platinum in our world.
This close
to a direct water source,
this much square foot inch,
we're gonna be in business.
-There's some
kind of sign I think.
-I think that's it.
Sprouted flour.
Is this who
your buddy deals with?
I don't know.
It's what he said I gotta
go to get sprouted cornmeal.
Two and a half hours.
We go south Alabama.
We get there,
I mean it's not like a farm.
You know
we're looking for silos
and stuff like that.
Look, there's those bags
that Mike's got in his house.
It's more like a factory.
Forklifts run in.
All right. Here we go.
This don't look like
no backward establishment.
Commercial type building,
I didn't see
a grain silo nowhere.
Hey, so Mike told you
I needed sprouted cornmeal.
He did. Follow me this way.
No piercings, no tattoos,
-no shoes, okay.
-I don't know if I can
get through the door.
-Okay. All right.
-What is this?
We need you
to step in our disinfectant
for the bottom of your shoes.
We're all gonna
wash our hands.
Wash our hands.
Hell, yeah, wash your hand.
This is not a farm.
I can see that.
This is food
processing company
and we had to be sterile
and clean and everything.
Howard, let me get you
suited up with a hair net.
I have to wear this?
I've never seen
a operation like this before.
It's almost like
I'm in the hospital.
Is there radiation
or something
I gotta worry about?
And I'm thinking, is she
gonna make me put that on
but she didn't.
I had my hat on.
Where are we going now?
We're gonna go
into our sprouting room.
What are all this?
So these are specially
designed sprouting machines.
This is where
we sprout all the grain.
What kind of seed is this?
So this is quinoa.
-Quinoa?
-It's very popular,
high protein grain.
It'll get full of water.
It'll go through
a rinse cycle.
In moonshine, we're
always in the backwoods.
We get our corn sourced
from local farmers
and stuff like that.
Never have I took it
to a manufacturing level...
coming on
to something like this for.
Now this is popcorn
that was sprouted overnight.
This is a whole lot faster
than your process.
Well, I guess so.
Now I build a trough
and I flood it
with water overnight
and then I drain
the water out.
And then I scoop
that out into a dryer.
But I can't do this
in the winter time
'cause I'm outside.
Well, and this environment
is controlled.
She's showing us around.
You know,
it's a commercial building.
It's like different rooms
that does different processes.
Here's your cornmeal
if you wanna check it out.
This is sprouted
yellow cornmeal.
-Oh, my lord.
-Uh-huh.
Oh! Can't taste
through the mask.
That's one
of the benefits of sprouting.
-It brings out the sweetness
in the different grains.
-All the flavors pop.
This sprouted cornmeal,
I mean this is jackpot.
You have more
than 400 pounds to sell.
I've got 7000 pounds
ready to be sold.
Why do you have 7000 pounds
to get rid of?
Well, there have been
tough times in 2020.
Everything kind
of changed with Covid.
Well, you know,
it's the pandemic.
You know, the virus
is hurting everybody.
Every commodity around.
I think we might want
to bag up a little bit
more than that 400.
What if we got
like 4000 pounds?
If you can handle it
on your trailer.
She tells me, "Well,
you can have all you want."
You can take 400.
You can take 4000.
I'm going to take 4000.
I'm pretty sure
Henry can use it.
It's turning into one
hell of a day, Tim.
I know
and I can't wait to see Henry,
when he sees this,
I'm pretty sure,
he's gonna be surprised.
He's gonna get 4000 pounds
instead of 400 hundred.
I just know it looks good,
it's a good deal.
Buckle up. I don't know
if you've ever
seen my driving.
Easy, easy.
Man, I can't wait
for this cotton candy
to start running.
And I'd left some
cotton candy here so...
I wanna grab some
of that this morning
and put the cotton candy
taste in my mouth.
Watch your step.
We're cooking cotton candy
where I am today.
It's time to put
a new flavor in town.
I wanna be known
as a bag of Jelly Beans
with so many flavors,
people never get tired.
I wanna go past the corns.
I wanna go past the grains,
I wanna go past the scotches
and the ryes and all that.
-Still here man.
-Man, let's just
do it over here.
Everyone looks cotton candy.
Everyone's gonna love this.
Oh, yes.
That smells so nice.
We never pump straight
from the fermenter.
We always filter.
We use cheese cloth
to make sure that we don't
have anything at the bottom
of our pot that can burn
and turn over into the flavors
and that's just not good.
This is our cooling system.
This is how we bring water
from the bayou.
We're able to take
this water from the bayou
and cool down our condenser.
This is cold, cold water.
It's perfect for what we need.
It's all murky bayou water,
but I promise you, it's cold.
All right.
It's a waiting game now.
I'm gonna make a paste.
This is gonna
close up any cracks
that we might
have in our system.
Where leaks occur,
money leaks out.
It's also flammable.
Highly flammable.
You can never have
too much of safety in place.
I don't have to worry
about my little brother
havinging to explain
to his wife
how he's got third degree
burns and he can't bring
no money in the house.
Look at the steam
coming out of here.
See, right now what's coming
out of here is the haze.
This is what
a metal alcohol is.
This is the bad stuff.
This is the alcohol that
we don't want in our drink.
That's the haze.
This is the first time we're
doing cotton candy moonshine.
But I think we're gonna
have good product
to share with everybody.
All right, we're looking nice
and tight around our fins.
It's good.
We roll it low and slow.
I don't like it
to run real fast.
So I figured,
in little less
than four hours,
we ought to be drinking
cotton candy moonshine.
In little less than four hours
ought to be tipsy
'cause I can't wait
to taste that stuff.
Hey, you hear that?
You hear that?
What is it? It's a airplane?
Sounded like a airboat.
Something coming.
Get down!
Man, we going to have to build
something right here man.
We don't have
to build something.
That was a bar,
so these guys are--
Cool. You know
I'm getting old, man.
These guys are
not out having fun.
They actually
have a job to do so,
they're going
to just keep moving.
That's some
good old boys right there.
We can give them some liquor,
they'll keep
their mouth quiet.
People around here
are generally okay
but we're stuck,
we're out here,
we're running now.
I mean that's the way
you go to jail right there.
-It's starting to drip.
-Yeah.
Here it is. It's coming.
Yeah. That's what
I wanted right there.
Pink cotton candy.
Man, that's the flavor,
right there.
That's the cotton candy,
right there.
When that drip comes out,
there's a pleasant smell.
I could taste instantly
real good alcohol coming out.
It's like nostalgic.
You know it's gonna take
everybody back
to their childhood.
Man, take a sip of that, man.
Smells like cotton candy.
Tastes like cotton candy.
It's real hot.
It tastes just like
cotton candy,
it has a little bite
but I think as it flows on,
it's gonna mellow out
a lil' bit.
You know,
it's hard times right now.
Everybody ain't got
no money right now.
You know, everybody wants
to enjoy somethin' different.
It's like nostalgia
with the cotton candy,
and on the flipside,
it's like, I'm on
a rollercoaster ride.
Up and down.
I promis you, this is 150...
- What can I bet you?
- Let me see.
-One-five-zero.
-One-five-zero.
You don't bet with me
because you know.
If I tell you
a chicken dips snuff,
he's dipping snuff.
We gonna have to buy
a cotton candy machine.
How are we gonna
explain that to the police,
we out here
with cotton candy.
"You got moonshine
and you got cotton candy."
"Did you go
rob the streets there?"
But after you'velooked at this
and tasted this...
You sit right there
and finish doing
what you're doing.
Then, everything
is coming with me, son.
- How you doin' there?
- What's goin' on?
Always something about
people named Mark.
You got a nice new truck
and he got a nice new truck.
If you get off your butt
and get a job,
you'll have one too.
A lil' bit more work
and you can get that done.
Hell, boy, there's a lot
of things worse
than not having a new truck.
Havin' a damn job
is one of 'em.
We need a favor, ol' buddy.
I kinda figured
you needed somethin'.
We need that water tested,
see if it's got anything
bad in it.
See about the mineral content.
Make sure there is no
chemicals in it?
That's what I have
to worry about more.
I don't think
they'll be anything up
in the stream from here,
- but you never know.
- You never know.
I might wanna ask you
what you're doing with it.
I kinda got an idea.
Well, you know,
we know you
and we know
you'll keep quiet about it,
but we really need this done
and we didn't know
who to ask.
Okay, no problem.
I'll take care of it.
Let me get my test kit
and we'll go at it.
Yeah, boy.
He brought his lunch bucket.
This is kinda interesting now.
All right, what I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna fill this lid up
and I'm gonna put
a 100 mills in that.
I'll take it
and run it in the lab.
We're interested
in the hardness.
- I can check the pH...
- Yeah.
I'll let you know
if it's getting color forms...
That's the stuff
that gives you a bad belly,
don't it?
Uh, yeah.
-Real quick.
-Okay.
You can *bleep*
through a keyhole.
Can either of you
do me a favor?
You want me
to take that lid off.
Put about
a 100 mills in here.
We don't wanna count
our chickens before they hatch
but we wanna make sure
this water is perfect.
If that's the case, then, uh,
we've probably produced
the best Tennessee whiskey
that east Tennessee's
ever seen
When can we expect
to hear back from this?
- In 24 hours.
- Hey, we appreicate you, brother.
- One of these days, I might need a favour.
- We'll do it.
-We'll fix you right up.
-You can ask around, we know
how to return a favour.
-Don Corleone.
-Don Corleone.
-All lookin' good.
-Get the straps.
-Aw, man.
-Just tie 'em to trailer.
What am I gonna do
with the straps?
-You can't get out
till we got the load secured.
-That's all right, come on.
I got the pleasure
of working with Tim this year.
Every time I get with Tim,
it's always an adventure.
How you gonna put it
in the middle, huh?
'Cause I didn't see
the middle.
Any time with Tim
is an enjoyable time.
Just hook it up, Howard.
'Cause, with Tim, he's always
flying by the seat
of his pants.
Why you got that
on your head for?
I forgot I look
like ridiculousness.
Tim kinda leads headway
into everything first
without really thinking things
through it seems, sometimes.
Man, I'm in a hurry.
-Why don't I get gloves?
-I only have
one pair of gloves,
if I give you gloves,
what am I gonna do?
Tim's a little crazy,
but I'm along for the ride.
Someone's like, "This is
too low now. But now I got it
all jacked up.
Oh, God, man.
We're gonna get out of Alabama.
We gotta get some lights up
'cause that door can't be open
after we start doing business.
I hope this thing is rated
for Fat Boy.
We wanna get a jump start
on making
this Tennessee whiskey,
so, we're gonna get started
cleaning on the warehouse
while we're waiting
Mark's call
concerning the water test.
If it's not just right,
then we're out of luck here.
Yep, cleanin' up,
ain't nothing wrong with that.
Bein' able to come inside
this building,
it's gonna extend our season
right on into spring,
should we need it to.
We can work in warm.
We can keep it heated
just enough, our mosh will
work like it's supposed to.
What about the water?
How we gonna come in here
with the water?
The spring
is right over there,
so, we'll just drop the pump,
we'll go right back
through here,
and go right like we did,
all the way to that door
right over there.
-Then we can run a hose...
-Around there?
Once we got it cleaned out,
it's looking much bigger
than it really did
with all the clutter in,
but the building doesn't have
any lighting at all
that's worth a crap.
So, while we're waiting
for the water results,
we'll take care
of that little issue, too.
Hey, there's our boy.
Hello there, Mark.
What's going on?
Well, I'm trying to talk Mark
into not jumping off
his ladder.
You better not let him
fall off that thing.
He's got enough padding
on him, he won't
bounce real high.
Okay, I've got
your results back.
-Wonderful.
-Yep.
What we looking like?
Believe it or not, this is
probably the best water
I've tested anywhere.
Sure enough?
Everything's coming out
good and clean and clear...
Good hard water?
Yeah, it's real hard.
It's got
a lot of limestone in it.
Oh.
pH is about 5.3.
We hit the jackpot.
Our friend, Mark, he said
the calcium and magnesium
is as high as he's seen
in this region.
Those are
the two main ingredients
we need
to make fine mash
for Tennessee whiskey.
I know
what you boys are upto
and this should make for some
damn good Tennessee whiskey.
Well, if we get
that business,
we'll see
if we can't run you up
a little dose of that.
All right, man,
appreciate that.
If you need anything else,
that's all right.
You do the same, brother.
If you need anything else,
just holler.
Damn it, man.
Liquor, Tennessee Whiskey,
here we come.
I knew it. I've been saying it
the whole time
Now maybe
Mark Wayne Ramsey will listen
to me a little more.
All these things considered,
we're that much closer
to making the finest Tennessee
whiskey the illegal world
has ever seen.
-You know what's left to do?
-Gonna go get that steel.
Now we're ready to move on
to bigger and better things.
Now go slow down here,
you'll get jagged up
with the law enforcement.
Ain't got but one cop in town
and he raced me,
anybody coming down here
to pull him over.
I can't believe
we made this town.
So we just arrived at Henry's.
Yeah, make a turn right there
and come around that way.
I just can't wait till I see,
Henry and Kenny open that door
and see what we got.
What in the world.
What in the...
Henry, Kenny.
Damn, brother.
That looks a little bit more
than 400 pounds.
That it is.
You're crazy.
This is best sprouted,
malted, ground.
This is corn flour.
I got you 400 pounds,
- Plus some.
- plus some.
I think Henry's
a little bit surprised
'cause really in his heart
he didn't think
I was gonna make it.
Just two tons on there.
Man, I got a trailer load.
- Good?
- Tastes good.
- Yeah.
- It's malt.
Yeah, Damn.
Yeah, damn good taste.
That is malted corn.
We went 1700 miles
to get this.
One hundred percent.
Tastes good.
Damn right,
it tastes good.
- Yeah.
- -You've done a good job.
Man,
it's a good day today.
You know, words can't tell you
how excited we're about this.
We're gonna mash this stuff
and make us some money.
He said he drove
all of them miles.
Yeah,
he drove me crazy.
It's amazing I found
this recipe of my dad's.
We're coming together,
to do what our fathers did.
But we can't use
our other still,
it's just not
quite big enough.
It looks like
we're gonna need more help
and we're gonna need
more stills.
We need to get Tickle.
He's right there we need him,
we should be good to go.
Hello.
How's it going brother?
Would you be interested
in making some money?
Next time
onMoonshiners...
You jump ten of these
you win the pins.
Damn it.
It'll be the best
Tennessee Whiskey,
Tennessee's ever seen.
Just rolls off
your tongue.
Don't know where Jay is.
I don't see him.
I just can't afford
to pay somebody,
not to be at work.
Damn, it's getting cold.
I'm gonna kick his ass
next time I see him.
If he's got eight pots
we could do something
with 4000 pounds
of this mulch gone.
Yeah.
We're going
to Virginia,
to work with Tickle,
Henry and Kenny.
We're going to Virginia,
with a truck load
full of stills.
Dead row offence.
Brian, the scales are open.
Holy *bleep* .
Watch out for those smokies.
Buddy, you all right?
Hey, Brian.
Brian.
on Moonshiners...
We checked everywhere
to get some more
malted corn.
We figured you're
the man to go get it.
You tell me you can't find it,
the more interesting
it is to me.
We gotta get malted corn.
I know I gotta go South.
You know, I called you
about that sprouted corn.
I got corn, but I ain't
got sprouted corn.
How can I get this,
I don't even know where
to go right now,
you know, what am I gonna do?
We got all that cotton candy
ready to go, and we're cooking
cotton candy rum today.
This smells so good.
I can't wait to smell this
in a mason jar.
Hear that? You hear that?
Something coming,
get down.
- Get down, hurry up!
- Get down.
You know what's
great about this spring?
It's got potential of
puttin' us on the map making
crude Tennessee whiskey.
From everything I've been
told all my life, this is
limestone hard water.
We can't set no
damn still up here.
We're gonna pump
water right into
this building.
You're full of crap.
This is how
we make the moonshine!
Henry called me, he wanted
me to come down to talk
to him a little bit, you know.
Anytime Henry calls me
like that,
that means it's something
about moonshine.
In Franklin
County, Virginia.
Tim returns to the stomping
grounds of his former
outlaw life.
We called Tim because
Kenny and I found
a recipe of my dad's.
He was using malted corn,
malted corn is extremely
hard to get.
Because it's middle
of the winter
If there's one man
that can get it,
it'd be Tim Smith.
Oh... I came through
the metal detector.
Well, I got it off.
You're lucky.
Kenny went through it
earlier and I had to take
three knives off him,
- two guns and a machete.
- -What's goin' on, Kenny?
I don't know where
to get a hold of knives...
I ain't never heard of ...
What are you all doing?
Just hangin' around the camp?
Got something
I want you to try.
- You hit some?
- What you got?
- What you workin' on?
- -You tell me what it is.
I know you... You good.
I don't think
it'll be that good.
Smell like peach.
You added white
peach in it?
-Is that what it is?
-It's actually
a strawberry mango.
-Strawberry and mango.
-Mm-hmm.
- I guess mango maybe close to peach.
- -Very small batch.
Y'all gonna try to
make a whole lot
of this or...
-You got some more?
-No, that's not why
we brought you up here.
Bottom line is,
we got goin' through
some of Daddy's recipes.
Years ago...
we've done a lot
of corn liquor.
But I remember we ran
some of a malted corn.
We want to do it again.
I've done somethin'
with my dad 30 years ago too,
-'cause that was the thing.
-Mm-hmm.
You know, you don't get
a lot of yield out of it,
but you get high quality,
it has a real good
taste profile.
Malting is
a common process
in distilling
that involves sprouting
grains before drying
and grinding.
Barley and rye
are the best known
malted grains,
used to make
prices whiskeys
in the United States
and Scotland.
Corn can also be malted.
But the process only
works with whole kernel
seed corn.
Not cracked corn
or hybrid corn.
While malted corn
was popular among
moonshiners
throughout the past century,
it became harder to
find in the 1990s
when genetically
modified corn began
to dominate the market.
We think you're the man
to go get it.
What do you mean "go get it?"
- Find it for us.
- We've gone ahead...
We've checked everywhere.
Everybody we possibly
know to get some
of that malted corn.
I got the setup to make
malted corn or barley
or wheat or rye or whatever,
but it's outside, you know.
It's... To make it
during the summer time.
I can't make it,
but I mean,
maybe I can find it.
How many pounds
you think you need
to make this?
Four, five, six, seven
hundred, something
like that.
I gotta call some contacts,
but I know to get something
like that outta season,
like buying tomatoes.
You gotta go South.
Is that what you
are sayin' here? Exactly?
Well, I may be able to get it.
We doin' what we can,
I don't think
we can get it.
Yeah, but you don't
know the people I know.
You know, my ...
reaches out
a little bit father here.
Are you sayin'
you can get it
or you think you can get it?
I don't mind a challenge.
I don't mind
when you tell me
I can't do something.
You know, sittin' here
and talking to Tim,
and I love to watch
the expression on his face.
'Cause everything is cool
and fine and dandy
when we're talkin'
about it casually.
But when I started
pulling back on him,
you know,
sayin', "Well, you know,
it's not doable,"
that you possible can't do it,
then I started seein'
him straighten up
in that chair.
'Cause he loves a challenge.
And we've checked everywhere
and we can't find it,
so you're our last bet.
Henry and Kenny,
they've called all
their sources,
and they can't get it.
The more you
tell me you can't find it,
the more interesting
it is to me.
I don't know how
I'm gonna get it,
but right now,
I gotta call a contact.
I really think I can do this.
Hey, the guy needs help,
and that's what you do,
you know, that's what
moonshiners do,
we help each other.
We'll expire in it, Pus.
We've gotta get inside
or this cold air'll kill us.
In Tennessee,
with leaves falling
and demand for moonshine
on the rise,
Mark and Digger need
to move their stilt site
indoors to stay hidden.
Ain't no
clever, are they...
You know, back in the day,
our predecessor,
they didn't have
to worry about
comin' in here and it bein'
barren and leaves.
They went home because
nobody walked around
in the mountains back then.
So we usually
pull out in the winter time.
But we've
gotta keep up
with productions
so we can help
people out during
these hard times.
Wait a minute...
Something or somebody
has been here, hatty boy.
Damn, look at this!
- What in the world has took pace here?
- -Oh, hell.
- It's a bear.
- It's a bear.
There's been a bear
and he's tore up jack.
Look at this
*bleep*, Digger.
This isn't our first
go around with a bear,
We live
in the Smoky Mountains,
that's bear heaven.
God Almighty.
Best they've ever done
is chew a little hole,
look at that.
Where can we
get that whole again?
That barrel's toast.
Our bear, he's just
made a general
nuisance of himself,
which is...
what they're famous for doing.
-Has he hurt that thing?
-No, he ain't hurt it.
Plus he chewed the top of it.
You know, it's one thing
for him to tear up
a barrel and eat some corn,
fortunately he has not
harmed the steels,
you know?
He could really
cost us a tremendous
amount of money.
I don't know where
we're going,
the main thing is,
wherever we go,
we gotta have water, Pus,
you know that.
I got that in my mind,
I believe we'll be all right.
I've got an idea.
Let's make a move.
You know, pickin'
a location indoors,
you know, yeah,
we've got an indoor facility.
But it's for testing,
we can't put that much
liquid weight up there.
Watch them brick
under your feet.
We gotta have ground level,
we gotta have access
to some water somewhere,
But I've got an idea
in my hip pocket.
We'll get water source
that we can maybe
plumb in.
As long as Mark
don't fret, we'll be
in good shape.
Need me to push?
We've gotta clean up
the stilt site today.
Gotta move some
stuff around.
Gonna make sure
that we're ready for
a new stilt setup
that we got comin' in here.
Along the bayou
of New Iberia Louisiana,
Richard and his brother
Craig are clearing space
for a larger stilt.
We're gonna be running
two stilts here,
with this new submarine
stilt we wanna build.
We're gonna have
a bigger setup.
My brother's gonna come
down, and we're gonna
do some measurements,
make sure that
we can accommodatr
the old stilt
and the new stilt
at the same time.
Hey, what's goin' on, man?
You on time today.
Craig has a tendency
to be late. Yeah.
But if he's early I know
somethings wrong.
So I just let it be that way.
- I bought something to eat.
-Oh, yeah?
What's that?
Stuffed bread.
Yeah, I didn't eat
nothin' this morning.
Oh, yeah.
It's a small muffuletta,
the Louisiana delicacy.
My auntie makes
the best stuffed bread
in the world.
Made it fresh
this morning just
for us. Mm-hmm.
This is typical Louisiana.
Awesome breakfast
for us to have this morning.
We need to do a little
cleanin' on this.
I don't wanna
take too much of this
away because
that's our cover,
that's our hidin' place
right there.
Cover is so important.
There's a lot of boats
that pass on the bayou
every now and then,
we don't want to be exposed
because this is illegal.
We're gettin' a whole
lot of order right now.
I gotta whole lot of alcohol
we gotta get out.
Having a bigger stilt
is gonna give us
the ability to
run more of this...
this healing herb
that we call it,
as well as the sweet potato
vodka we produce.
And the smaller stilt
will give us the opportunity
to experiment
with some things.
The main thing is
just make sure
we have enough room
to do everything
we need to do.
The whole setup is gonna
be a whole lot bigger.
So that means
we're growin', right?
We're gettin' bigger?
We're gettin' bigger.
I had the chance to
visit some good guys
out in Virginia.
They showed me
a submarine stilt setup.
-I like this little setup.
-Oh, now this is
the stilt site.
Something that
we never use down here,
I've never seen it.
Their setups are so much
bigger than we're used
to dealing with.
So we're gonna kinda
scale down, which will
be scalin' up for us.
Once we get this done,
Craig, what we're doing to do
is we'll run and pick up
the copper,
we'll get that set up.
Tell Mom you're with me
today, all right.
I love copper.
Copper does attract
more sulfates
other than alcohol,
so instead of having
just a little bit copper
throughout my run,
I want copper all
the way through.
Traditional
Virginia style
submarine pots
are built with low cost
steel wrapped around
wooden side panels.
Richard's plan is to
upgrade this with
copper sheeting
to produce the quality shine
he's used to
from a copper pot
but with an increased
volume of the submarine pot.
- Hey, what's goin' on, sir?
- Good.
You called about the copper?
-Yes, sir.
-All right.
-Copper sheets, you got some?
-Yeah. Let me show you
what I have here.
This right here
is a 16 sheet.
We're gonna need
a little thicker than that.
What you lookin' at maybe?
At least a 32.
This is a huge investment
to be spending
that type of money
that we're about to be
spending on this copper.
I'd be more secure in my mind
using something
a little thicker then
we are faced with.
Yeah, we're gonna need
something a little thicker
than this.
This is the thickest
you got right here?
That's as thickest
I have on hand.
Yeah. We really,
really need this today.
How long will it
take to get the 32 in?
Uh, you know, with Covid
everything's pushed back,
um...
Once it comes in
I'll give you a holler.
Gonna push us back
but that's all we can do.
-Okay. Okay.
-Yeah. We need it.
Yeah. Let's go to
the front and, uh,
I'll get you, your names
and numbers and...
-All right.
-Sounds good.
Let's go up front.
I got a whole lot of people
waiting on product right now.
We're behind on everything
and this is gonna set us back.
But we're gonna have to do it.
I mean, this the cards
that we were dealt.
We're gonna make
the best hand out of it.
Well, let's go do something
like I say we can do.
Let's go mash in.
Yeah, we can
do that for sure.
Here you go, hammy boy.
Why you bringing me here?
Well, look around.
What do you see?
I mean, I've been here before.
I see cars, traffic...
...middle of downtown
and a spring.
-Yep.
-What's this got to do
with us moving?
Digger, he's got an idea
for a new still site
but we're in the middle of
downtown at the spring.
We've got water before here.
We've talked about it.
It's sweet, it's sweet.
Yeah, it's wonderful water
but it's downtown.
There's no way that
we can do anything here.
We can't set
no damn still up here.
Of course, we can.
We're gonna pump water out
into this building.
You're full of crap.
That ain't got
a thing to do with it.
This building, in my opinion,
was built to make liquor.
I mean, look at them trucks,
trailers, parking lot.
Which right in
the middle of town.
Close to everything
we would ever need.
And from everything
I've been told all my life,
this is limestone hard water.
And I don't see a reason
why this won't be
a damn fine place
to make liquor.
Yeah. I know
I've been here before, Pus.
- I know about this.
- Yeah?
You know what's great
about this spring?
It's got potential at
putting us on the map
as making true
Tennessee whiskey.
If we're gonna make
Tennessee whiskey
we got to have
this water tested.
We gotta make sure
that it's hard water.
You know,
you always hear songs
about Tennessee whiskey
and water like this,
I feel like is why that
was able to be it.
Get that big old root
ball out of there
while you're bent over.
Water like this bubbles
through limestone.
It's good and hard,
which is a prerequisite for
yeast to be able to thrive.
I mean, it's hiding
in plain sight.
I mean, I get it and I like
hiding in plain sight.
-Mm-hmm.
-I do. I mean,
that's okay because,
you know,
what's the old saying,
-that you can't see
the forest for the trees.
-Exactly.
But you don't know if we can
get the building or not.
I mean, so right now
it's just an idea, right?
Yeah, and it's my idea
and it's a damn good one.
Well, I ain't
don't need to do nothing,
not a damn thing till you
find out about the building.
Mark's been a little bit
resistant to the idea.
I don't see
any problem with it.
It's safe. It's been
in the mama's arms.
I'm out.
I mean, have I let you
down more than
seven times
in the last two weeks?
Well... All right.
I'm gonna straighten down
this piece of metal here.
I got this deal going
with Henry Law, you see?
Go get him some malted corn.
Well, I'm calling
Howard to help me.
And I'm waiting on Howard.
Howard is not responding.
Howard. Good. Great.
You're here, old buddy.
What's happening?
We gotta go somewhere.
We gotta get some corn.
That's no problem. You got
silos full of them right here.
No, no, no, no,
different kind of corn.
We gotta get malted corn.
I know I gotta go south.
My first chores is
call my guy in Alabama.
I'm gonna call him,
see what he's got.
And, you know,
reach out to some people
that's gonna send me
to the right place.
I have a contact in Alabama.
- In Alabama.
- Alabama.
Tim, I don't
understand what's
the difference in
sprouted and,
and the corn you have.
There's a lot of
difference, Howard.
It just has a unique taste.
Sprouted corn you,
you dry that, you grind that
and that's what
you call malted.
I mean, we can't find this
nowhere else?
No, no, no, no.
You can get it in Alabama.
It's warmer weather
down there.
Now, getting malted grain
in the winter time,
it's like having red tomatoes
in the winter time.
It's not in season.
Uh-oh. We got blue lights.
We got road checks.
Somebody got
somebody pulled over.
Oh, man.
His is blue lights.
Like kinda the hair stands up
on your back.
-Like, oh, spidey sense.
-Phew.
You know, you always
got your guard up.
I grew up like this.
I was trained by my dad,
you know,
to watch out for the cops.
You know? You know,
you gotta look ahead.
Well, you've been to a jail
since you're three years old.
I'm sure you've had
a fair share of it.
Long time.
When I was five years old.
I mean, I probably been
doing it before that
but I remember five because
I know my dad let me
skip kindergarten.
Now he says, "Look,
this is what's gonna happen.
You gotta go to school
and go to kindergarten.
Or you gonna stay
and help me..."
Is that a vehicle?
It's off the road.
That is a vehicle.
It is off the road.
We're going in the road,
there's all of a sudden,
you know, I see this truck
has wrecked.
This truck has, like, ran off
the road and ran into a tree.
It's kind of, uh, hanging
at the side of a bank.
We are stopping right here.
Give me that flashlight.
It's right between
your legs there.
Oh, *bleep*.
-It's slick.
-That's why.
Howard, we gotta check it out.
You know, I'm a firefighter.
First responder.
Been doing it, you know,
for a long time.
I gotta investigate.
I gotta find out
what's going on.
Maybe I can help somebody
if they're trapped.
I don't see no blood in there.
Door is locked, yeah.
Hey.
My instinct goes in
to saving someone's life.
-Someone in there?
-No.
Nobody in there.
Somebody had locked it
and flipped this damn
thing off.
The tree actually helped him.
-No one seen him.
-Uh-oh.
-There's a car coming.
-Watch out. Watch out.
We gotta get out and run,
I'm telling you. We gotta get
on the road somehow.
Nobody's dead. Nobody's hurt.
Let's get out of here before
something does happen.
Before we get in an accident.
Yeah, I don't like it.
You know, I've know Tim
for over ten year.
I got the pleasure of working
with Tim this year
and it's been one hell of
an adventure the whole way.
See what, Howard.
I mean,
you always gotta watch out
for things like that.
We're just going
down the road
there's a guy that ran
out there and hit a tree.
Yeah. I mean, we're at this,
we keep pulling over
to help everybody out,
brother, we never get
to Alabama.
Yeah. Well, that's why
you're gonna drive.
When you start driving
then I can start figuring out
more exactly
detail where I gotta go.
Man, I hope they
got this cotton candy here.
Man, I hope
she got some of this.
So you know her?
Talk to her. She will kinda
do it if you get with her.
Sure, we could do.
In New Iberia, Louisiana,
while waiting for
the copper sheets to arrive
for their new submarine still,
Richard and his brother Craig
are on their way to
procure ingredients
for a nostalgic take on rum.
The smaller still will give us
the opportunity to experiment
with some things.
So we're gonna go ahead
and make a cotton candy rum.
-Hey, Miss Rhonda.
How you doing?
-Hi! How are you doing?
We're looking for some
cotton candy today.
-Please tell me you have some.
-Oh, you're in luck.
My little brother
knows this lady that makes
this cotton candy at her
snow cone factory.
How many you got?
I have 17 pink vanilla packs.
We'll take all 17.
-We'll take all of them.
-Okay.
Here in south Louisiana,
times are tough.
We just kinda wanna lighten
the mood for everybody
right now.
Cotton candy is something
that everyone enjoys.
We're the first people
to ever do this.
I've never seen
anybody do this.
Yeah, well, maybe there's
a reason nobody does it.
-We're about to find out
right now.
-We're about to find out.
We like to be
the first to do things.
So we do a small
five gallon run of that
and see what we get out of it.
It'll be good to go.
This will be a good run.
Seventeen bags
of cotton candy.
I can't wait for everyone
to taste this.
I just, I can't wait.
This is gonna be awesome.
Come on,
you feel like driving?
If you don't
I guess I will.
Gonna mash in
some brown sugar
and some cotton candy
and we've never done
anything like it before.
So Roland came down
with us. My scientist.
My brother-in-law.
He's here with us also.
We got all our cotton candy
ready to go.
We got our brown sugar here.
We're gonna start
our cotton candy rum today.
Not typical that we'd
have to start a fire here
especially in Louisiana
to warm up.
This water comes
from a natural spring.
In Spring, Texas.
Roland, he found a spring.
Texas, they have
a real good water.
It stays at
a constant ph for us.
This area right here
has a lot of
problems with calcium
and fluoride.
Additives that they put
in water around here.
It's real hard to deal
with this water
when making alcohol.
It's worth the effort of
having to bring some water
from Texas
to have a real good product.
We got 17 bags
of cotton candy.
So we'll go six and a half
pounds of brown sugar.
Six and a half pounds
of cotton candy,
that'll be 13 pounds.
That'll be the 13 pounds.
In a normal mash we'd
just be working with fruits.
We might be working
with a grain or something
like that.
In this cotton candy
there are 20 different
kinds of chemicals.
We don't want
any of these chemicals
to carry over and flavor out
of our moonshine.
We can take them out.
We can boil them.
They have boiling points.
What we want is
the flavor of cotton candy
and the flavor of this
brown sugar that
we're putting in it.
So that's where
our chemistry comes in.
That's where Roland comes in.
Whenever they
tell me what they know
and I just start doing
a little research.
And what all the ingredients
does involve and kinda try to
break it down to science.
'Cause although I know
they make a good product
what we wanna do now
is try to figure out
how to make it consistent.
The main thing is just to keep
those temperatures aligned
so that we get out what we
need and keep what we need.
And we maintain that flavor
that we're looking for.
That's the main thing.
We're gonna
use some brown sugar.
Some complex sugars.
And we're gonna see
if we can make these sugars
complement with the sugars
that are already in this
cotton candy
and come out with
something different.
Man, this smells so good.
I can't wait to smell this
in a mason jar.
When the water's warm enough
and you just drop some
cotton candy in it,
it just starts to melt.
It's oozing this sugary,
caramelly substance.
-Look at that.
-I know.
Look at the color.
And the pot is starting to...
-turn into a nice
dark burgundy.
-Yeah.
We're gonna
get to 212 degrees.
We're gonna stick there
for a while.
During the process,
you could smell
the chemicals coming out.
I'm starting to get
the smells now.
You start to smell the acetone
and that's something
I definitely don't wanna
carry over into the moonshine.
After maybe 15-20 minutes,
it started to smell
like cotton candy.
Oh, yeah. Look at that color.
And I don't
smell anymore chemicals,
you know.
-Yeah, I think we
burned them all out.
-Yeah. They're out of there.
Think it's about ready.
Check it out, bro.
We use a blend of yeast
that we do ourselves.
It's kind of proprietary.
Oh, yeah, that looks good.
That's perfect right there.
-Looks good to me.
-Yeah. That's what
we're looking for.
That's how
it's supposed to look.
We've got all our
bad chemicals out.
We're gonna set it aside.
Ferm in a few days,
come back and cook it later.
Leave her right there.
Get out of here.
We're in Alabama now.
I drove all night.
It's like 700 miles
to get down here.
I called my buddy, Mike,
on the way,
he says, "I got sprouted
corn for you."
I can't wait to see it.
I wanna get it loaded up.
But Howard,
he's been sleeping
since we left Culpeper.
Yo. You gotta wake up, man.
We're in Alabama.
We drove
all the way to Alabama?
Yeah. I drove
all the way to Alabama.
Is this the pillow
here I bought.
What do you mean
the pillow you bought?
That little neck pillow
put you all out.
Don't worry, Tim.
If you wanna pull over,
I'll get the rest
of the way in.
- I don't mind driving.
- We're almost there.
Well, go south by god.
Yeah.
This man lives off
the beaten path for real.
He is cut from the same clock
you are, ...
That isn't a bad way.
Oh, sure. You want me
to wait in the truck?
Yeah. Wait in the truck.
Tim Smith. Come on in.
-What's going on, man?
-What's you doing?
I got the trailer.
I got Howard.
Welcome to Alabama.
Well, apparently, I kind
of dozed through the night.
But no big deal.
I mean we're here now.
You know I called you
about that sprouted corn.
I saw one of those
chicken houses. Is that
where it comes from?
Well, no. I got corn
but I ain't got sprouted corn.
Man, that's hard to believe.
You didn't hear me say,
"sprouted?"
Misunderstanding,
miscommunication...
Well, let me
show you what I got.
Come out here and have a look.
I don't know
why I didn't pick up on it
but I needed sprouted
malted cornmeal.
I got corn
but it ain't sprouted.
I got plenty corn.
-You got silos full of it.
-I got silos full of it.
I mean I'm pressured now
because how can I get this,
I don't even know
where to go right now?
-We came ten hours.
-I know how long you drove.
Let me make some phone calls.
Can you let me
make some phone calls?
Yeah. Yeah, make phone calls.
Now that you're here,
every time you call me
and ask me for something,
I mean, you know
I've tried to deliver.
You know I'm trying
not to be mad at Mike,
but I'm getting a little bit
stressed and tensed,
I guess I wanna say
because I was banking on Mike.
Man, we drove ten hours,
12 hours, however long
to get the same *bleep*
you got in Culpeper?
I don't know exactly
what to tell you, Howard.
All right, Tim.
I got you a connection.
You got to go
about two hours south.
Two hours south?
Two hours south but I got it.
-Yeah.
-I got you hooked up.
They're gonna
be there when I get there?
Yeah. They're gonna
be ready, waiting on you.
He calls a lady,
that's about two
and a half hours south
of where we're at.
So here we go.
-You got an address?
-Yes.
I'll text it to you.
They're waiting on you.
You gotta trust me.
All right.
Let's get out of here.
I mean I'm thinking,
you know,
what am I gonna do here?
I've spent all
this time, you know.
Are we gonna get on another
wild goose chase here?
What's going on?
We're going to lay the hammer down, Tim.
I'm asking for certain.
I'm getting ready to.
I've done been to work
I've been to courthouse...
I got it figured out.
Digger, he's got an idea
for a new still site
inside a building
and beside
a great water source.
The thing about it
as he tells me,
oh, I don't know
who owns it, you know.
I don't know really
anything about it.
What did you have to do,
just go give the address?
Yeah. Just give them
the address, they'll pull
your property right up.
Are you kidding me?
I ain't thought so.
Really?
Unbelievably, it is somebody
that we do know.
Now whether we can get it,
that we don't know.
Let's get him on the phone.
Hurdle number one,
cleared easy.
Found out who
owns the property.
Now hurdle number two,
we're gonna call him
and see if he has any problem
with letting us rent this
or use this building.
- Hey, Digger.
- Hello, John.
How you doing?
Well, we were going
to talk to you
about a little business.
All right.
We're looking at a little,
small warehouse downtown
and I've learned lo and behold
all about it.
Okay. Yeah.
Have you done
anything with it?
I haven't been there
for quite a while
and I know there's
a bunch of junk in there.
If you'll let us look at it
and see if it'll suit us,
do you care to rent it
for a couple
or three months, maybe?
I don't normally
rent the building.
It'll be like you
make a little bit of money
and nobody will ever
know anybody's in it.
Well, yeah,
there's a door on the back
that I know you can
get in through, so...
-Go ahead and look at it.
-All right.
Say it it will do
what you need to do,
we can always
work something out.
But as far as I'm concerned
if you're doing anything
that's not ...
and this conversation
never even happened.
I understand.
All right. I'll see you later.
All right buddy.Thanks. Bye.
The only stipulation,
he doesn't wanna know
a damn thing about what
we're doing with it.
Which is fine with us.
We're in business.
Oh, yeah. It ain't
gonna be no fun but
we can get back through here.
We just gotta
get back here one time.
- Yeah. It's a little
bit mushy back here.
- It's all right.
Whatever it's holding,
it not worth much.
Well, damn, hatty boy.
Looks
bigger from outside.
You fine?
It's not horrible, man.
Wow.
This will be all right.
It was just full of crap.
It was just
piled up with stuff.
But it's a real nice space.
A good concrete floor
and it's inside.
It's out of the elements.
It will permit us
to get back to business.
We've wasted too much time.
It's a good spot.
But we gotta do some
damn major house cleaning.
This is platinum in our world.
This close
to a direct water source,
this much square foot inch,
we're gonna be in business.
-There's some
kind of sign I think.
-I think that's it.
Sprouted flour.
Is this who
your buddy deals with?
I don't know.
It's what he said I gotta
go to get sprouted cornmeal.
Two and a half hours.
We go south Alabama.
We get there,
I mean it's not like a farm.
You know
we're looking for silos
and stuff like that.
Look, there's those bags
that Mike's got in his house.
It's more like a factory.
Forklifts run in.
All right. Here we go.
This don't look like
no backward establishment.
Commercial type building,
I didn't see
a grain silo nowhere.
Hey, so Mike told you
I needed sprouted cornmeal.
He did. Follow me this way.
No piercings, no tattoos,
-no shoes, okay.
-I don't know if I can
get through the door.
-Okay. All right.
-What is this?
We need you
to step in our disinfectant
for the bottom of your shoes.
We're all gonna
wash our hands.
Wash our hands.
Hell, yeah, wash your hand.
This is not a farm.
I can see that.
This is food
processing company
and we had to be sterile
and clean and everything.
Howard, let me get you
suited up with a hair net.
I have to wear this?
I've never seen
a operation like this before.
It's almost like
I'm in the hospital.
Is there radiation
or something
I gotta worry about?
And I'm thinking, is she
gonna make me put that on
but she didn't.
I had my hat on.
Where are we going now?
We're gonna go
into our sprouting room.
What are all this?
So these are specially
designed sprouting machines.
This is where
we sprout all the grain.
What kind of seed is this?
So this is quinoa.
-Quinoa?
-It's very popular,
high protein grain.
It'll get full of water.
It'll go through
a rinse cycle.
In moonshine, we're
always in the backwoods.
We get our corn sourced
from local farmers
and stuff like that.
Never have I took it
to a manufacturing level...
coming on
to something like this for.
Now this is popcorn
that was sprouted overnight.
This is a whole lot faster
than your process.
Well, I guess so.
Now I build a trough
and I flood it
with water overnight
and then I drain
the water out.
And then I scoop
that out into a dryer.
But I can't do this
in the winter time
'cause I'm outside.
Well, and this environment
is controlled.
She's showing us around.
You know,
it's a commercial building.
It's like different rooms
that does different processes.
Here's your cornmeal
if you wanna check it out.
This is sprouted
yellow cornmeal.
-Oh, my lord.
-Uh-huh.
Oh! Can't taste
through the mask.
That's one
of the benefits of sprouting.
-It brings out the sweetness
in the different grains.
-All the flavors pop.
This sprouted cornmeal,
I mean this is jackpot.
You have more
than 400 pounds to sell.
I've got 7000 pounds
ready to be sold.
Why do you have 7000 pounds
to get rid of?
Well, there have been
tough times in 2020.
Everything kind
of changed with Covid.
Well, you know,
it's the pandemic.
You know, the virus
is hurting everybody.
Every commodity around.
I think we might want
to bag up a little bit
more than that 400.
What if we got
like 4000 pounds?
If you can handle it
on your trailer.
She tells me, "Well,
you can have all you want."
You can take 400.
You can take 4000.
I'm going to take 4000.
I'm pretty sure
Henry can use it.
It's turning into one
hell of a day, Tim.
I know
and I can't wait to see Henry,
when he sees this,
I'm pretty sure,
he's gonna be surprised.
He's gonna get 4000 pounds
instead of 400 hundred.
I just know it looks good,
it's a good deal.
Buckle up. I don't know
if you've ever
seen my driving.
Easy, easy.
Man, I can't wait
for this cotton candy
to start running.
And I'd left some
cotton candy here so...
I wanna grab some
of that this morning
and put the cotton candy
taste in my mouth.
Watch your step.
We're cooking cotton candy
where I am today.
It's time to put
a new flavor in town.
I wanna be known
as a bag of Jelly Beans
with so many flavors,
people never get tired.
I wanna go past the corns.
I wanna go past the grains,
I wanna go past the scotches
and the ryes and all that.
-Still here man.
-Man, let's just
do it over here.
Everyone looks cotton candy.
Everyone's gonna love this.
Oh, yes.
That smells so nice.
We never pump straight
from the fermenter.
We always filter.
We use cheese cloth
to make sure that we don't
have anything at the bottom
of our pot that can burn
and turn over into the flavors
and that's just not good.
This is our cooling system.
This is how we bring water
from the bayou.
We're able to take
this water from the bayou
and cool down our condenser.
This is cold, cold water.
It's perfect for what we need.
It's all murky bayou water,
but I promise you, it's cold.
All right.
It's a waiting game now.
I'm gonna make a paste.
This is gonna
close up any cracks
that we might
have in our system.
Where leaks occur,
money leaks out.
It's also flammable.
Highly flammable.
You can never have
too much of safety in place.
I don't have to worry
about my little brother
havinging to explain
to his wife
how he's got third degree
burns and he can't bring
no money in the house.
Look at the steam
coming out of here.
See, right now what's coming
out of here is the haze.
This is what
a metal alcohol is.
This is the bad stuff.
This is the alcohol that
we don't want in our drink.
That's the haze.
This is the first time we're
doing cotton candy moonshine.
But I think we're gonna
have good product
to share with everybody.
All right, we're looking nice
and tight around our fins.
It's good.
We roll it low and slow.
I don't like it
to run real fast.
So I figured,
in little less
than four hours,
we ought to be drinking
cotton candy moonshine.
In little less than four hours
ought to be tipsy
'cause I can't wait
to taste that stuff.
Hey, you hear that?
You hear that?
What is it? It's a airplane?
Sounded like a airboat.
Something coming.
Get down!
Man, we going to have to build
something right here man.
We don't have
to build something.
That was a bar,
so these guys are--
Cool. You know
I'm getting old, man.
These guys are
not out having fun.
They actually
have a job to do so,
they're going
to just keep moving.
That's some
good old boys right there.
We can give them some liquor,
they'll keep
their mouth quiet.
People around here
are generally okay
but we're stuck,
we're out here,
we're running now.
I mean that's the way
you go to jail right there.
-It's starting to drip.
-Yeah.
Here it is. It's coming.
Yeah. That's what
I wanted right there.
Pink cotton candy.
Man, that's the flavor,
right there.
That's the cotton candy,
right there.
When that drip comes out,
there's a pleasant smell.
I could taste instantly
real good alcohol coming out.
It's like nostalgic.
You know it's gonna take
everybody back
to their childhood.
Man, take a sip of that, man.
Smells like cotton candy.
Tastes like cotton candy.
It's real hot.
It tastes just like
cotton candy,
it has a little bite
but I think as it flows on,
it's gonna mellow out
a lil' bit.
You know,
it's hard times right now.
Everybody ain't got
no money right now.
You know, everybody wants
to enjoy somethin' different.
It's like nostalgia
with the cotton candy,
and on the flipside,
it's like, I'm on
a rollercoaster ride.
Up and down.
I promis you, this is 150...
- What can I bet you?
- Let me see.
-One-five-zero.
-One-five-zero.
You don't bet with me
because you know.
If I tell you
a chicken dips snuff,
he's dipping snuff.
We gonna have to buy
a cotton candy machine.
How are we gonna
explain that to the police,
we out here
with cotton candy.
"You got moonshine
and you got cotton candy."
"Did you go
rob the streets there?"
But after you'velooked at this
and tasted this...
You sit right there
and finish doing
what you're doing.
Then, everything
is coming with me, son.
- How you doin' there?
- What's goin' on?
Always something about
people named Mark.
You got a nice new truck
and he got a nice new truck.
If you get off your butt
and get a job,
you'll have one too.
A lil' bit more work
and you can get that done.
Hell, boy, there's a lot
of things worse
than not having a new truck.
Havin' a damn job
is one of 'em.
We need a favor, ol' buddy.
I kinda figured
you needed somethin'.
We need that water tested,
see if it's got anything
bad in it.
See about the mineral content.
Make sure there is no
chemicals in it?
That's what I have
to worry about more.
I don't think
they'll be anything up
in the stream from here,
- but you never know.
- You never know.
I might wanna ask you
what you're doing with it.
I kinda got an idea.
Well, you know,
we know you
and we know
you'll keep quiet about it,
but we really need this done
and we didn't know
who to ask.
Okay, no problem.
I'll take care of it.
Let me get my test kit
and we'll go at it.
Yeah, boy.
He brought his lunch bucket.
This is kinda interesting now.
All right, what I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna fill this lid up
and I'm gonna put
a 100 mills in that.
I'll take it
and run it in the lab.
We're interested
in the hardness.
- I can check the pH...
- Yeah.
I'll let you know
if it's getting color forms...
That's the stuff
that gives you a bad belly,
don't it?
Uh, yeah.
-Real quick.
-Okay.
You can *bleep*
through a keyhole.
Can either of you
do me a favor?
You want me
to take that lid off.
Put about
a 100 mills in here.
We don't wanna count
our chickens before they hatch
but we wanna make sure
this water is perfect.
If that's the case, then, uh,
we've probably produced
the best Tennessee whiskey
that east Tennessee's
ever seen
When can we expect
to hear back from this?
- In 24 hours.
- Hey, we appreicate you, brother.
- One of these days, I might need a favour.
- We'll do it.
-We'll fix you right up.
-You can ask around, we know
how to return a favour.
-Don Corleone.
-Don Corleone.
-All lookin' good.
-Get the straps.
-Aw, man.
-Just tie 'em to trailer.
What am I gonna do
with the straps?
-You can't get out
till we got the load secured.
-That's all right, come on.
I got the pleasure
of working with Tim this year.
Every time I get with Tim,
it's always an adventure.
How you gonna put it
in the middle, huh?
'Cause I didn't see
the middle.
Any time with Tim
is an enjoyable time.
Just hook it up, Howard.
'Cause, with Tim, he's always
flying by the seat
of his pants.
Why you got that
on your head for?
I forgot I look
like ridiculousness.
Tim kinda leads headway
into everything first
without really thinking things
through it seems, sometimes.
Man, I'm in a hurry.
-Why don't I get gloves?
-I only have
one pair of gloves,
if I give you gloves,
what am I gonna do?
Tim's a little crazy,
but I'm along for the ride.
Someone's like, "This is
too low now. But now I got it
all jacked up.
Oh, God, man.
We're gonna get out of Alabama.
We gotta get some lights up
'cause that door can't be open
after we start doing business.
I hope this thing is rated
for Fat Boy.
We wanna get a jump start
on making
this Tennessee whiskey,
so, we're gonna get started
cleaning on the warehouse
while we're waiting
Mark's call
concerning the water test.
If it's not just right,
then we're out of luck here.
Yep, cleanin' up,
ain't nothing wrong with that.
Bein' able to come inside
this building,
it's gonna extend our season
right on into spring,
should we need it to.
We can work in warm.
We can keep it heated
just enough, our mosh will
work like it's supposed to.
What about the water?
How we gonna come in here
with the water?
The spring
is right over there,
so, we'll just drop the pump,
we'll go right back
through here,
and go right like we did,
all the way to that door
right over there.
-Then we can run a hose...
-Around there?
Once we got it cleaned out,
it's looking much bigger
than it really did
with all the clutter in,
but the building doesn't have
any lighting at all
that's worth a crap.
So, while we're waiting
for the water results,
we'll take care
of that little issue, too.
Hey, there's our boy.
Hello there, Mark.
What's going on?
Well, I'm trying to talk Mark
into not jumping off
his ladder.
You better not let him
fall off that thing.
He's got enough padding
on him, he won't
bounce real high.
Okay, I've got
your results back.
-Wonderful.
-Yep.
What we looking like?
Believe it or not, this is
probably the best water
I've tested anywhere.
Sure enough?
Everything's coming out
good and clean and clear...
Good hard water?
Yeah, it's real hard.
It's got
a lot of limestone in it.
Oh.
pH is about 5.3.
We hit the jackpot.
Our friend, Mark, he said
the calcium and magnesium
is as high as he's seen
in this region.
Those are
the two main ingredients
we need
to make fine mash
for Tennessee whiskey.
I know
what you boys are upto
and this should make for some
damn good Tennessee whiskey.
Well, if we get
that business,
we'll see
if we can't run you up
a little dose of that.
All right, man,
appreciate that.
If you need anything else,
that's all right.
You do the same, brother.
If you need anything else,
just holler.
Damn it, man.
Liquor, Tennessee Whiskey,
here we come.
I knew it. I've been saying it
the whole time
Now maybe
Mark Wayne Ramsey will listen
to me a little more.
All these things considered,
we're that much closer
to making the finest Tennessee
whiskey the illegal world
has ever seen.
-You know what's left to do?
-Gonna go get that steel.
Now we're ready to move on
to bigger and better things.
Now go slow down here,
you'll get jagged up
with the law enforcement.
Ain't got but one cop in town
and he raced me,
anybody coming down here
to pull him over.
I can't believe
we made this town.
So we just arrived at Henry's.
Yeah, make a turn right there
and come around that way.
I just can't wait till I see,
Henry and Kenny open that door
and see what we got.
What in the world.
What in the...
Henry, Kenny.
Damn, brother.
That looks a little bit more
than 400 pounds.
That it is.
You're crazy.
This is best sprouted,
malted, ground.
This is corn flour.
I got you 400 pounds,
- Plus some.
- plus some.
I think Henry's
a little bit surprised
'cause really in his heart
he didn't think
I was gonna make it.
Just two tons on there.
Man, I got a trailer load.
- Good?
- Tastes good.
- Yeah.
- It's malt.
Yeah, Damn.
Yeah, damn good taste.
That is malted corn.
We went 1700 miles
to get this.
One hundred percent.
Tastes good.
Damn right,
it tastes good.
- Yeah.
- -You've done a good job.
Man,
it's a good day today.
You know, words can't tell you
how excited we're about this.
We're gonna mash this stuff
and make us some money.
He said he drove
all of them miles.
Yeah,
he drove me crazy.
It's amazing I found
this recipe of my dad's.
We're coming together,
to do what our fathers did.
But we can't use
our other still,
it's just not
quite big enough.
It looks like
we're gonna need more help
and we're gonna need
more stills.
We need to get Tickle.
He's right there we need him,
we should be good to go.
Hello.
How's it going brother?
Would you be interested
in making some money?
Next time
onMoonshiners...
You jump ten of these
you win the pins.
Damn it.
It'll be the best
Tennessee Whiskey,
Tennessee's ever seen.
Just rolls off
your tongue.
Don't know where Jay is.
I don't see him.
I just can't afford
to pay somebody,
not to be at work.
Damn, it's getting cold.
I'm gonna kick his ass
next time I see him.
If he's got eight pots
we could do something
with 4000 pounds
of this mulch gone.
Yeah.
We're going
to Virginia,
to work with Tickle,
Henry and Kenny.
We're going to Virginia,
with a truck load
full of stills.
Dead row offence.
Brian, the scales are open.
Holy *bleep* .
Watch out for those smokies.
Buddy, you all right?
Hey, Brian.
Brian.