Moonshiners (2011–…): Season 3, Episode 8 - Blue Moonshine - full transcript

Tonight on "Moonshiners"...

Josh and bill sing the blues.

How in the hell
Liquor gonna turn blue?

Needless to say,
We're failures again.

...Tim's
Right-hand man is tempted...

You can live
Off of that still.

I'm just gonna do
What I got to do.

I know how to take care
Of me and mine,

And I do it
By any means necessary.

...Tickle rolls the dice...

About two gallons?



...And comes up snake eyes.

Oh *bleep*

Hang on, hang on.

Shh. Get down.
Get down. Get down.

This is how
We make the moonshine!

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In south carolina...

We should be seeing it
Any time.

...Josh and bill

Are finally distilling
Their strawberry brandy.

There it is.
There it comes.

Things are looking up.

Ha ha!

Yes, sir!



Two years in the making.

Hell yeah.

But looks can be deceiving.

All of a sudden, we noticed
That our liquor's turning blue.

How in the hell
Liquor gonna turn blue?

Look at that.

I ain't never seen liquor
That color before.

That's just crazy, man.

Liquor is not
Supposed to be blue.

Liquor is supposed to be clear.

Moonshine can run blue

For reasons as simple
As a mash that's too acidic...

...To something more dangerous,
Like corrosion in the still.

Right now, josh and bill
Have no way of knowing.

I'm totally baffled
By this.

I've never -- never seen
Blue liquor before.

Needless to say,
We're failures again.

What we gonna do
With this *bleep* man?

I don't think

We're gonna be able to strain
That blue out of it.

It tastes good.

I mean,
It's still good liquor,

But there ain't no way
In hell

We're gonna be able to sell
Blue liquor

That's supposed
To be clear.

For the time being,

The brandy they hoped
Would fetch $200 per gallon

Is worthless.

As it sits right now,
It looks like window cleaner.

Nobody's gonna buy it.

Should we just
Dump it out?

No. We're not
Gonna dump it out.

I mean,
It's still good liquor.

Well, I mean, I don't really
Want to mix it up with nothing

And sell it to anybody.

I don't know what that is,

And I don't know whether
It's gonna make them sick

Or make them a headache

Or give them the *bleep*
Or whatever.

And what the hell
We gonna do with it?

Let's cover it up, then,
Drag it out of here and then --

I don't know --
Maybe do some research

And figure out to see if
Anybody else had these problems.

Figure out
What went wrong.

oh, man.

I don't know what
We're gonna do with it,

But we're so far
In the hole,

We just can't be
Dumping liquor out.

In kentucky,

Tim is realizing
A lifelong dream.

He's distilling his first batch
Of climax moonshine.

It's good!

I've been trying to get here
For 15 to 20 years,

Trying to get to this point,

And I'm really excited
About doing this.

All right, chico,
Rake your finger there,

Let's get you a little taste,
A little smell, really.

This is the first
Commercial batch I ever made.

I kind of look at it as like
Your first-born son, you know.

It's so special.
It's precious.

It's part of you, you know?
And that's what this is.

This is part of me
That went into this batch.

I want to catch some
In this jar

And just kind of
Take a look at it, too.

I just like to kind of get
An idea of what it looks like --

You know,
The clarity of it.

I mean, that looks good.
It's never been filtered.

It's clear.

But you see how fast
Them bubbles go away?

Look how big and clear,
And they shoot away real fast.

Mm-hmm.

About 160 proof right there.

Oo-wee.

That's it.

First jar of moonshine
That's getting ready to become

The world-famous
Tim smith's climax moonshine.

Best moonshine
In the whole world.

This is part of history.

You know, this is my dad
That did this

And this is, you know,
My grandfather who started this,

And then my son
Is coming along behind me --

The next generation.

And you can look at it
And you can buy it.
You can drink it.

And hopefully we can get it

In every state
In the united states.

When tim brewed
In the backwoods,

He could bring his liquor
Directly to his customers

And keep all the profits,

But now uncle sam
Gets his share, too.

Before prohibition,

30% to 40% of the
U.S. Government's tax revenue

Came from the production
And sale of alcohol.

When liquor became illegal,
All that income went away.

When the great depression came

And much of america
Was out of work,

Revenues from income taxes
Plummeted.

The government needed money,

And many saw
The alcohol industry

As a way to boost the economy.

In 1932,
Fdr ran for the presidency

On a promise to repeal
Prohibition and won.

Today the u.S. Government
Taxes up to $25

For each gallon of liquor
Produced in the country.

Down in mississippi,

Mike and shot don't have to
Account for taxes,

But they have a problem
Of their own.

Mike's got a handshake deal
To provide liquor

For a big-time bootlegger
In new orleans.

You think you could move
A little bit more down here?

But a drought has left
His operation high and dry.

Yeah, I don't think we're gonna
Make it much further than this.

Well, we knew we were gonna have
Problems at the river,

A lot of challenges out there --

Having to haul water
And everything.

So, this is just gonna be better
All the way around.

You wouldn't think
There's a barn right there,

Would you, shot?

Nope.

Well hid, I believe.

The lady
That owns this property,

She don't associate with an
Awful lot of people around here

And run her mouth,

So nobody really knows
About where we are.

It's got everything I want.

Look at
All this cover we got.

Yep.

All this concealment,
And another thing --

You can tell
Nobody's been back here.

I don't believe
You can beat it.

We're still close to the river.

We're inside of a building.

If it's raining, we won't be
Having a problem there.

I think it's got everything
I've ever been looking for.

This new site
Is much riskier than the swamp.

It looks good to me,
Shot.

Me too.

On the water,
Mike was free to move

At the first sign of trouble.

But on land, he's boxed in.

We are kind of nervous
About leaving the swamp,

But I think
It's gonna be worth it.

In north carolina,

Jeff and mark have just finished
Brewing 100 gallons of shine.

Don't spill that.

That's dollars.

Now they need a foolproof way
Of getting it to bootleggers

Without being caught.

How much you gonna try to bury
At one time?

Couple cases.

Jeff and mark
Will use a drop box

To transfer their shine
To bootleggers.

It's the same technique
That's been used by moonshiners

For hundreds of years.

Looks pretty good to me.

Each heavy-duty drop box
Can hold two cases of moonshine.

Jeff and mark
Will fill each box,

Lock it up,
And then notify a middleman

Who will tell the bootleggers
The shine is ready to pick up.

Once the shine is picked up
And transported,

The bootlegger returns
To leave payment in the box.

Might've left it out
In the weather too long.

Let's get out of here.

In virginia,
After weeks of delays,

Tickle is trying to brew
His first solo batch of shine

For the season.

Finally found me
A good spot.

Got a nice water source
Close by.

Think this is gonna work for me.

Tickle is using a copper still.

It's a dying art
That was taught to him

By popcorn sutton's
Still builder, mark.

We drained all the liquid
Off of the actual mash

And let it ferment
Without the mash in it.

There's no way
Of scorching it.

Mark helped me build this still.

He showed me how to run it.

I'm thinking I can run a little
Faster out of this still.

Smaller batches.
I can run it hotter.

Tickle's about to put
His new skills to the test.

I'm already behind
Schedule on making liquor.

That's why I'm out here
In the rain running this thing.

I think I can catch up,
But I don't know.

Catching up won't be easy

If mother nature
Doesn't cooperate.

Most shiners don't bother
To work in bad weather,

But tickle has
Too much on the line.

Moonshining is a dying
Art 'cause it's hard work.

It's back-breaking work.

You got to be
A little bit crazy to do it,

But it's also something

That gets in your blood
And in your heart,

And I don't want to
See that die out.

What the rain's doing is

It's gonna get all over this pot
And it's gonna cool it down,

Keep it from heating up as fast,

And that ain't good.

That means
It's gonna take longer

For me to make
This run of liquor.

All in all, it's a bad situation
That I'm in,

But I have no choice.

I have got to run this liquor.

I'm too far behind.

Coming up...

Jeff and mark's mobile decoy.

It's grunt work
For josh and bill.

I'd rather be a moonshiner,

But I'm stuck out here
Doing this *bleep* *bleep*

And it's dark days ahead
For tickle.

Oh, oh, oh!
Hang on, hang on, hang on.

Shh! Get down,
Get down, get down.

Put that light off.

In virginia,

Behind on production
In a region eager for shine,

Tickle is attempting his first
Solo run of the season.

All right.

Up until now, the weather
Has been fighting him.

Looks like the sun's coming out.

At least something
Will start going my way.

It's about time to get some mash
Going up in this thing.

This is a little bit different

Than from the way
I'm normally used to running it.

Normally add mash in in my
Submarine pot, but here I'm not.

Tell you what.
That'll do it right there.

Well, that's the beauty
Of this thing.

I can run it faster
And run it hotter

Without the danger of scorching

All of my solid ingredients
In there.

Looking like it's about time
To light this sucker.

Oh, she getting
Too hot to touch now.

If I can get this thing running
Good liquor out of it,

That's product going out
The door to my customers.

And right now,
That's all that matters.

It ain't gonna be long

Till I got something
Coming out of this thing.

She's already starting to drip.

Oh, yeah.

She looks beautiful right there.

Right there
Pretty much needs to go on out.

You got some toxins in there

That we just
Don't want to drink.

I swear,
If I didn't know any better,

I'd think tim smith
Ran that liquor right there.

Let's see what the proof
Is looking like on her.

She tastes high.

Whew.

It's about 180 proof.

That's a little hot for
An average man to be drinking,

But 180 proof is probably worth
About $200, $300 a gallon.

I think I could make a pretty
Penny with a pot this size.

Just hope I can make enough.

A run this size

Could earn tickle
$1,500 in an afternoon.

The only thing I can do --

Keep this thing running,
See what she'll do.

In south carolina,

After a run of blue shine

Had them put a hold
On all distilling,

Josh and bill
Are back to their day jobs.

I'd rather be a moonshiner,

But I'm stick out here
Doing this *bleep* *bleep*

We're working our regular jobs,

Just so we can stay afloat
In the moonshine world,

And we still can't get ahead.

We spent all that time
And all that money

And that blood,
Sweat, and tears,

And when it was
All said and done,

We got everything
But *bleep* on.

Everybody talks about
$100 million tax-free,

And we ain't seen
A dime of that.

We're totally in debt.

I'm in the hole thousands
And thousands of dollars,

But I don't give up.

You're gonna have to kill me

Or lock me up
And throw away the key.

Man, my chain popped off now.

If it ain't one thing,
It's 10 more.

Some crazy-ass, stupid,
Damn saw wrench

That don't even have
The right end on it,

When they're all standard.

They're either that end
Or that end.

They're not no medium-sized.

In north carolina,

Jeff and mark need a way
To conceal 100 gallons of shine

For transport
Away from the still site.

Glass jars would break
On the rough roads,

So they'll transport it
In sealed 5-gallon buckets.

And they'll just think
We're hauling the lumber

To working on the house.

Good work.
Yes, sir.

We're ready to go,
Ain't we?

Yep.

Down in mississippi,

Mike's leaving behind
The safety of the swamp

And moving his entire operation
To a single location.

That ought to do it, mike.

Yeah, I'm gonna set
Some posts in here.

I want to elevate
Those barrels

So I can put a valve
In the bottom of them,

And then we won't have to
Be dipping it out

With buckets all the time.

No. No. I ain't trying
To eliminate you.

All right.

I'll tell you what
I'm thinking about doing is

Having the barrels start
At that end

And line them up
Along this wall.

What you think?
You think that will work?

Mike and shot's
New gravity-fed system

Uses 4x4 posts
To elevate a platform

That will support
200 gallons of mash.

When ready to run a batch,

The fermented mash is simply
Drained into the still below.

Being a moonshiner's
A tough job.

You see all the things that
We're going up against here,

But it's part of our history.

As long as I keep enjoying it,
I'm gonna keep on doing it.

I wish I'd have brought
Some boards with me
Now we got that in.

Yeah.

Went faster
Than I thought it would.

For moonshiners in mississippi,

The only thing feared
More than the law

Are the violent storms
And flooding

That frequent the region.

I'm glad we got
This little thunderstorm, shot.

We can come by here
And see what we got.

I mean, this old barn's
Not perfect,

But it's a lot better than
Anything I've ever had before.

What I need you to do is tell me
How I can get to my truck

Without getting drowned.

Can you help me
With that right now?

Up in kentucky,
Chico's in dire straits.

And pull my weight,

But there's nothing to do,
You know.

Hey, what's going on,
Brother?

The, not no whole lot.
Beating up this blacktop.

All right.
I'll see you in a little bit.

Take it easy, brother.

That was tyler wood.

Tyler's a good old boy.

I've knowed him most of my life.

He'd been gone
For a little while.

I guess he contracted
Over to iraq,

Doing something over there.

Just getting back.

He's one of them friends,
You know --

If you fall into a bar

And there's 10 dudes
With pool sticks

Wanting to beat your head in,

He's one of them
That will least go in there

And take an ass whupping
With you.

What's going on,
Big brother?

Oh, same old *bleep*
Try not to take it hard, anyway.

How you been doing?

Aw, about the same,
Brother.

It's just
The same old *bleep* man.

We work, work.

Bills keep rolling in.

I say, "Well, I know
I can't pay that one.

Here, let's put it off."

I got me a new job.Got you a new job?

Yeah. Making moonshine
To the distillery.

Making moonshine
At the distillery?

The old boy
I'm working for, tim,

He's a pretty good dude,
You know?

But he does
All he can do for me,

But at the end of the day,
I'm still struggling.

Have you thought about

Making a little bit of liquor
On the side?

Maybe make
A little cash money.

Shoot, man.
You know how it is.

If I just try to do what I can,
How I can, the legal way,

'cause, man, my third strike,
They'll lock me back up.

They won't let me out.

If a square job
Ain't cutting it,

Sometimes you got to do
Something

That ain't
Necessarily right

To make things right,
You know?

I've been down that road, man.
It's scares me.

You know, I got a still,
An old still,

Stashed out in the woods.

Do what you got to do
To get by.

You know,
You got to feed your kids.

You got to pay your bills.

At the end of the day,
You know what?

You'd rather sit in jail before
You'd say your kids go hungry.

Aw, hell.
I'd take a bullet for them.

You know, a little bit
Of jail time

Wouldn't match nothing
What I would do for them.

I don't want to do nothing

To jeopardize the bond
That me and tim has got.

I'll do whatever
I've got to do to get by.

Coming up...
Chico crosses the line.

I know how
To take care of me and mine,

And I do it
By any means necessary.

And lance steps up.

In kentucky,

Months without work before
He started at the distillery

Left chico deep in debt.

I hope nobody else
Has found it yet.

But an old buddy
Has turned up with an offer

That might be
Too good to refuse.

Well, let's go
Down through here

And see if we can find
This place.

Look underneath
That mess right there.

Right here?Yeah, right there.

Spared no expense
Covering it up, did you?

Oh, yeah.

Lord, have mercy.

There it is.

It ain't that big,

But it ought to be big enough to
Make you a little money, anyway.

You could turn
That thing around

And have you one
10 times that size

And be making
A whole lot of money

In a short amount of time.

I'm not worried about
Making a whole lot of money.

I just want to get by,
And if what I'm --

Man, you don't know.

Well, you got to crawl
Before you can walk.

Well,
I'm sick of crawling.

That's right.
You can live off of that still.

This might be
Exactly what I need

To get me
Out of this hole.

Well, it'll be a good start,
Anyway.

I hate to see
Good people in a spot.

Tim's been a pretty good friend,

But I'm just gonna do
What I got to do.

I know how to take care
Of me and mine,

And I do it
By any means necessary.

The good old boys
Is a dying breed.

I heard that.

420 miles to the east
In virginia,

With his first solo run
Of liquor on board,

Tickle is on the move,

Putting distance
Between the shine and his still.

I'm heading over towards
The stash house that I got,

And it's important
For me to have that

Because I can't just
Carry this shine around on me

All the time.

I can't keep it at the house

Because I run the risk
Of getting caught.

Then your house
Winds up getting seized --

Your property, all your vehicles
And everything.

Here at this stash house,

It's in an old barn
Out in the middle of nowhere.

What's the government
Gonna take? Nothing.

They don't want that old barn.

I think this is a good place
To be storing it.

It's out in the middle
Of nowhere.

Nobody knows where it's at.

I don't think I have
Any problems at all

Having my shine here.

In north carolina,

Jeff and mark are moving
Their liquor to a drop box,

Where bootleggers
Can pick it up.

Mark, let's get these
Buckets toted out of here.

We can come back
And get us another load.

Oh, them's heavy,
Ain't they?

Moving it out
In the public and stuff,

That's always
What made me nervous.

That's where you get caught at,
Most likely.

Long ways out of there,
Ain't it, mark?

Yeah.

Try our new invention
Out here.

Being caught now

Would mean forfeiture
Of their vehicle,

Bankruptcy,
And years behind bars.

Let's put the lid
On this thing, mark,

And let's get out of here
Before somebody drives by.

The back roads of graham county,
North carolina,

Started as little more
Than packed dirt trails

For logging operations.

But by the time of prohibition,

They became a trusted way
For moonshiners

To get their liquor to customers
Without using county roads.

Today, north carolina
State highway 28

Bears the name "Moonshiner 28"
In honor of the region's past.

But some paths are still known

Only to locals
Like jeff and mark.

Somebody sees us,
You know,

They catch a fella,
If you don't watch it.

Down in mississippi,

Mike is planning an operation

That could triple
His production,

But the location carries a risk.

Even though they don't know
We're here making moonshine,

People know this barn's here.

I always try to look around,

Make sure
Nothing's been bothered.

Everything looks like
It's still in the same place.

What I'm gonna try
To do today is

Get my little rack built
To put my barrels on

So that they'll be elevated

And can gravity-flow
Right into my still

When I get it built.

I don't want to make
Much noise back in here

Is the reason I'm using
A handsaw right now.

Anytime I can do something

To eliminate
Arousing any suspicion,

That's what I want to do.

It's little bit harder,
But a little bit safer.

I got kind of a fine line

Between how high I can go
And how low

Because I need to have room
To put my corn and stuff

In the barrel and tend to them,

But I need to also
Be high enough

That I'll be able to
Gravity-flow into the still.

I don't want to have to dig
A hole to put the still in.

Now, that's a thing of beauty,

As far as I'm concerned,
Right there.

Eliminates a lot of work for me.

I'm actually gonna be making
Some moonshine.

This is looking good to me now.

In north carolina,

With just hours before
Their bootlegger arrives,

Jeff and mark are forced
To transfer their shine

Out in the open.

Good.

Yeah.

I'm feeling a lot of pressure

'cause I've got to prove to dad
That I am a man

And I can handle
This responsibility.

With $8,000 of shine
Riding in the bed of his truck,

Lance is taking the biggest risk
Of his young moonshining career.

Coming up...
Lance puts it all on the line.

Mark and dad --
They're depending on me

To get this liquor
To where it needs to be.

Tickle wheels and deals.

In virginia,

With his first run
Under his belt,

Tickle has no time to rest.

He's got thirsty customers
Waiting on him,

And he needs to start
Another run of mash right away.

There is no loyalty

When it comes
To somebody buying a product.

All they care about is
They got good moonshine

And they got enough of it.

How's it going today?

I'm doing all right.

I ordered a little corn
A while back.

All right.

Buying large
Quantities of corn and sugar

Can arouse suspicion,

So moonshiners only deal
With trusted suppliers.

About two gallons?

I can work with that.

All right.
Thank you.

Hey, I'm gonna do that.

In south carolina,

Josh and bill
Have seen better days.

Yep, yep.

I had
A hell of a day, man.

What happened?

I do this tree job
For a guy a handshake.

He had some problems with
The bank and this and that,

And long story short,

The man couldn't pay me
My money today.

He owed me $500 cash.

He said all he could give me
Was 200 bucks.

He said, "You look like
A good old country boy to me,"

And then gave me
About 7 gallons of moonshine

To make up
For the difference.

The rest he paid you
In liquor?

Let's give it a try.

Sure did need
That money.

Smells stout.

That ain't bad liquor.

Won't take much of that.

I'm getting a buzz
Already.

Maybe we can go back
And get some more of this

And get
A really good deal on it.

Turn it over and sell it.

Sell some of his liquor?

I ain't quite sure
It's the right move,

But we got to do something.

We're so far
In the hole financially.

I mean,
It's definitely sellable.

I say let's stash it.
I'll go back and talk to him.

We'll see
If we can get some more.

I feel like resorting

To selling somebody else's
Liquor's a little degrading.

It's sort of like
We're taking a step backwards.

But let's face it,

We can't never really seem
To get where we want to get.

I guess let's put it
In the weeds over here.

600 miles away,
Deep in the mississippi woods,

Mike and shot need a way
To move their shine

Without blowing their cover.

He and I are gonna try to
Establish a trail to the river.

We want to take our moonshine,
Put it on the boats,

Take it downriver
To go into the city with it.

We roughly have an idea
Which direction it is,

So I'm just gonna head
In the general direction.

When I find the river,

I'll wander along the edges
Till I find him.

Mike's cutting a trail
To a spot on the river

Deep enough to dock
And load the boat.

I'm trying to zigzag
This trail down through here

So if anybody does
Wander through,

They won't see
A long, straight path.

They'll just see
A little short trail,

And maybe
It won't even be noticeable.

Anybody can get lost
In the woods.

So that way, when I come back
Through after I meet shot,

I'll come back
Through the same trail,

And I'll take these little
Pieces of tape off.

Hey, grease monkey, can you hear
That tractor mowing?

Yeah,
I hear something up there.

Sound like a tractor running
Or something up there.

What you think?

Mike?

There you are.

Made it, huh?

Yep.

It ain't too bad
Through there,

But we got a good bit
Of chopping to do.

We just got
A lot of new things going on

That we've never done before,

So we're really gonna have
A lot to work through here,

A lot of challenges to get by.

In north carolina,
Lance is pressed for time.

He needs to make his drop

And clear out
Before his bootlegger arrives.

If the law catches them
Making the transfer,

A four-generation-old moonshine
Business will be destroyed.

Right now we're on the way
To go drop off a load,

And if I get caught
With a load of liquor,

They're not gonna stop at me.

They're gonna go after dad and
Mark, mom, the whole family.

You know, I can't have that.

Mark and dad --
They're depending on me

To get this liquor
To where it needs to be.

And me being a man of my word,
I'm gonna do it.

Coming up...

Josh goes all in.

Hey, man.
How's it going?

I was kind of hoping

Maybe I could get
Some more of this to sell it.

And chico goes to the dark side.

If tim catches me, I am through,

So either this is gonna work out
And pay me

Or this is gonna work out
And screw me.

Well, we're trying
Something different.

We're gonna see if we can make
Liquor the old-timey way.

I'm gonna run the corn
Through his cane squeezer,

Catch the juice,
Put it in a barrel,

And let that ferment.

And then I'll make moonshine
From that.

To me, it's just kind of a
Special way of making moonshine.

I'll get a premium price
For this stuff.

It should taste different.Yeah.

In south carolina,

Desperate to get back
Into the business,

Josh has a plan to bootleg
Another shiner's liquor.

I know this guy
Is hard up for money

And just gonna see
What we can work out.

We're hard up for money, too.

Bill and myself hated

To resort to selling
Somebody else's liquor,

But we have to do something
To make some money.

Most shiners

Only use trusted contacts
For moving liquor.

As an outsider,

Josh is taking a big risk

By approaching the source
Without an invitation.

Hey, man.
How's it going?

Doing all right?

Hey, man,
I hate to bother you.

I was kind of hoping

Maybe I could get
Some more of this and sell it.

In kentucky, still hand chico

Is considering breaking the law
In order to make ends meet.

He risks losing his job
Or worse --

Going back to prison.

I need the money.

It's no doubt
I need the money.

My criminal record,
My past screws me

As far as getting a decent job.

But once you a screw-up,

The only way you can get by
Is to keep screwing up.

I mean, heck,
If I can sell 4 gallons a week,

That's more than I'm making
At the distillery.

People don't use city water,

But it's the easiest way
I know of doing it.

As far as everything I know
About running this thing

I learned from tim smith.

But if tim catches me,
I am through --

I have no job.

So, either this is
Gonna work out and pay me

Or this is gonna work out
And screw me.

chicken.

It's time to start my mash.

So, we gonna fire up
This burner.

There we go.

Well...

I've been put in a position
To learn from the best.

So, hell yes, I'm gonna
Take advantage of this.

I mean, if everything
Can fall together like it has,

Maybe I can do something
Successful with it.

Maybe I can pull my life
Out of the ashes

And do something with this.

With his first batch of mash,

Chico is back
In outlaw territory,

And he could end up
Dragging tim back with him.

In virginia,
Tickle is working double duty

As a moonshiner and bootlegger

With a potential sale to
One of tim's former customers.

Well, I got me a buyer

For all this shine
That I done got stashed.

Tickle stashed his
Shine in an abandoned barn --

Far from the road,
Well across the county.

So, now it's time
To go pick it up

And bring it out
To the man that's wanting it.

Being caught moving
A single jar of shine

Is an offense that can lead
To crippling fines

And land a bootlegger
Behind bars.

All right.

Oh, oh, oh.
Hang on, hang on, hang on.

Shh! Get down,
Get down, get down.

Put that light off.
Turn the light off.

*bleep*

Next time on "Moonshiners"...

Tim gets hassled by the man...

I cannot believe
That after all of this work,

They gonna say no.

...Chico's back in the saddle...

Trying to keep my head
Above water.

If I make one stumble, I'm done.

...And rival shiners
Barreling toward a showdown.

Apparently somebody else
Cooking off some there in town.

We'll warn them first.

If they don't heed
To the warning, we'll...

We'll stop them
From running.