Moonshiners (2011–…): Season 9, Episode 16 - New Bootlegger in Town - full transcript
Mike and Jerry confront Daniel. Tickle, Henry and Kenny scale up their CBD-infused moonshine operation. A new bootlegger makes Mark and Digger a tempting offer.
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Narrator: on this episode
Of "Moonshiners"...
I bet we can infuse a wholelot
Of moonshine with that.
We're pushing the limits
Of what moonshine
Could possibly be in the future.
Narrator:
...In virginia, white lightning
Takes on a mellow shade
Of green...
Tickle:
I guarantee it's a winner.
We can't tell a soul.
I'm talking nobody.
Mark: what's on your mind?
Well, I got a boy wanting
To buy some liquor.
I don't know him.
Digger: rule number one
In this business --
Don't go around willy-nilly
Selling liquor
To everybody that asks.
Narrator: ...Stranger danger
In tennessee....
-you ain't the law or nothin'?
-no.
I'm gonna be honest.
I'm a little suspicious.
If I catch your ass
Selling liquor to my customers,
I will shut you down for good.
Narrator: ...And a blood feud
Is brewing in a county
That's only big enough
For one moonshiner.
I'm puttin' you out, son.
Man: this is how
We make the moonshine!
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-howdy, boys.
-well, I'll be damned.
I'd like to have a little word
With y'all outside, preferably.
Narrator:
In eastern tennessee,
Seveir county shiners
Mike and jerry
Cross into neighboring
Cocke county
To find out why their rivals'
Triple-grain moonshine
Is flooding their territory.
I can promise you
On my mamaw's eyes,
We are not coming to your
County to sell liquor.
If you'renot,
I mean, who could it be?
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What about daniel maner?
Is he in cahoots with you guys?
Digger: whoever we sell
Our liquor to,
That's none of
Y'all damn business.
Look here. I respect
That yinz coming to us,
But, honestly,
Who we sell it to
Really isn't
Your concern.
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Well, I -- you know,
I appreciate the honesty,
And it looks like
We've got all the answers
That we're gonna get,
So we're out of here.
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When I brought up the name
Daniel maner,
You know, you could see
The blood leave digger's face.
We gotta get to the bottom
Of this *bleep*.
-one way or a damn nother.
-damn right.
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Henry: you know how I am,
Kenny, about finding stuff.
Here's a column.
Yes, that'll definitely
Be a nice column right there.
Narrator: over in virginia,
Tickle and the laws
Engineer a still
To scale up production
On their cbd-infused moonshine.
This will go down
To the still itself.
Yeah. Thermometer go
Right in the top, right?
Perfect size, too,
Isn't it?
Henry and kenny, they've got
All kinds of still parts
And different things
Just laying around their house.
We're trying to find
Something to use
For a larger fractional
Distillation tower
So we can get the amount
Of ethanol we need
To really start
Extracting cbd compound
Out of a lot more hemp.
Henry: everybody's using it
For health purposes and all.
This stuff helps you sleep.
It's good for your joints.
Man, if we could just
Put it in our moonshine,
You know, we'll have
Something nobody else has.
Might be a new thing for us
To make some money, man.
Narrator: tickle and the laws
Used a fractionating column
To produce a test batch
Of the pure ethanol needed
To extract cbd from hemp,
Which they infused
Into their brandy.
Well, I know where
The little still's at.
I hate to think
That I'm a hoarder,
But I hate throwing
Anything away.
So we save every dollar
We possibly can save.
If we've got a board
Laying somewhere,
I will knock the nails
Out of it and reuse it.
We don't need
Nothing toobig.
There's stainless
On the bottom there.
Yeah.
Got some trash in it.
Yeah. Well, that's all right.
We can clean that up.
Henry:
Anytime we need something,
We can go to our
Little junk pile
And scrape it up and have it.
There you go.
See, right there's
About the perfect size.
Big enough to do
Something with...
We find us a little, bitty
Baby submarine pot out here.
Looks like it'll hold
About four gallons.
It almost looks like a toy,
Something you'd set on a mantle.
It's gonna be perfect
For our purposes.
We can already envision how
We're gonna build this thing.
It's really upscaling this,
And it's just a perfect piece
For us to use.
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[ clears throat ]
I got a really tall order
I got to fill.
I need to put another
One of these totes out here.
And I can fit it right here,
But the problem is,
Is I ain't gonna be able
To dang keep it warm enough.
Narrator:
In polk county, north carolina,
After securing a 60-gallon order
From a touring band called
The moonshine bandits,
Josh is taking a gamble
To make sure his mash
Works off quickly,
Even with
The falling temperatures.
It's starting to get cool
At night.
It's cooling down,
So the mash works off slower.
When it works off slower,
I can't produce it fast enough.
Every year, I come up
With some way to damn...
Keep this stuff warm
During the winter, and I just --
I don't have electricity here,
And I'm running out of time.
You know, I need to get
On the stick here
And figure out a way
To make it work.
I had this old-timer
A while back tell me
That if he had buried his totes
In the ground most of the way,
Just leave part of it
Sticking out of the ground
And you put straw
All around it,
The heat that the mash
Puts off itself
Is enough to keep it warm.
The mash will still work off
Into late, late season.
I'm not sure how long
We'll be able to make that work,
But hopefully it'll work
All winter long.
My brother's got a trackhoe.
I'm gonna call him and see
If he can't dig this thing out.
I don't have time to waste
Digging this hole.
I've really got to make
The shine for the bandits.
They're too good
Of a customer to lose.
[ line ringing ]
Man: hello?
Hey, brother.
What are you doing?
Uh, workin', workin'.
How busy are you?
-pretty busy.
-I got a favor to ask of you.
I really need a hole dug.
Pretty, pretty close out here.
I mean, it wouldn't be hard
For you to get to me.
When do you think you'd
Be able to come help me?
Probably the day after
Tomorrow or something.
Pretty busy.
I'm covered up in work.
Well, he's talking about it's
Gonna be a few days at best,
And I don't really have
A few days to waste.
I'm kind of hoping
That he can come right away.
I'm under a tremendous
Amount of pressure, joe,
And I really -- I need it a --
I know I'm asking a lot,
But I need it a little faster
Than that, you know?
I just need
To get it done.
[ sighs ] I guess I could run
Out there tonight if you want.
Tonight? Tonight?
Hell yeah. Let's do it.
The plan is,
My brother is gonna show up
About 8:00 in the evening,
And we're gonna dig a hole.
Wow. That worked out perfect.
Be making some moonshine
In no time.
I just got to figure out
Where I'm gonna put it.
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A lot of times you ask somebody
To do a favor for you,
It's like pulling damn teeth.
But family's family.
And I asked my brother for
A favor, and he's there for me.
I want you to dig a hole
Big enough to put --
See that juice tote?
Yep.
I want to dig a hole
Maybe a foot wider
All the way around, and it
Don't have to be that deep,
Because I want 'em
To stick up a touch.
-all right.
-you can do that, can't you?
-yeah, we'll do it.
-all right.
Josh:
I don't know if it's gonna work.
I never done
Anything like this before.
The old-timers
Found a way to do things.
You know, just 'cause those
Old ways are sort of primitive
Don't mean that they don't work
And they're not great.
Josh: let me
Ask you something.
Is that gonna
Fill up with water?
We're higher than
The water table here.
You won't be that deep.
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This is all my brother does.
He's damn good.
He should be
With his family on the couch,
You know, enjoying himself.
He's out here helping me.
Long story short, I didn't
Have another minute to waste.
I have to make some more mash,
And the only way to do that
Is to figure out a way
To keep it warm.
-what do you think, brother?
-I think it looks good.
Thank you so much for
Coming out and doing that.
-I'll check you later.
-thank you, man. I love you.
Josh: tomorrow
I'll build a berm up
With some dirt
All the way around here.
I'll put straw
All the way around it.
We'll bring some grains
And sugar in here,
Frickin' make some mash,
And here pretty soon we'll
Be able to make another run.
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Jerry: let's see what old dan's
About to say about this.
Mike: yeah, we're gonna
Have to, ain't we?
-right.
-that's for damn sure.
Narrator: high in the mountains
Of eastern tennessee,
Mike and jerry are on their way
To confront a former ally
About how mark and digger's
Moonshine
Is infiltrating their county.
Mike: you know, I went
To see mark and digger,
And they didn't just
Come out and tell me
It was daniel
Doing the damn bootlegging.
But, you know,
I'm gonna put my two cents in
And say it's daniel doing this.
We're gonna have to
Resolve this mess
Right now and pretty damn quick.
What are you doing, daniel?
What are you into? What
Are you doing up this way?
Well, this right here
Is why I'm here.
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You giving me...?
No, I'm not
Giving it to you.
That's the multigrain liquor
That you've been
Selling around here.
Mnh. Is that right?
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Mike: that's
The multigrain liquor
That you've been selling
Around here.
Mnh. Is that right?
It might be,
Hell I don't know.
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You're telling me
You don't know?
Well I went to mark and digger
And talked to them.
This is their liquor,
And the reason
I'm here right now is that,
I asked you, I'm trying to be
In a good way about it,
I don't appreciate you
Selling, you know,
Around to my customers,
And that's exactly
What's happening.
If you've got a loss
Of customers,
The only thing
I can tell you
Is you'll just have to make
Better liquor, I guess.
Well, I'll tell you what,
They ain't but four damn people
That makes damn good liquor
This side of the mississippi,
And that's me and this man right
Here, and mark and digger,
And you're ain't doing nothing
But peddling this stuff around,
Calling it yours, trying to
Take money out of mine
And this man here's pocket.
I don't care who you
Sell it to around here.
You got a right to.
You live here, man.
-mm-hmm.
-that's fine.
And I'm going to,
And I don't care if it's...
You can say you're gonna.
Go ahead.
I don't give a damn.
Don't sell to the customers
That I've introduced you to.
Mike, I sell liquor
To whoever I want to.
You might do it.
If your old lady
Wants to jar liquor,
I'll sell her
A jar of liquor.
Yeah, you sell a damn jar
Of liquor to my old lady, son,
I'll be over here to cut your
Damn throat, and you know it.
Now, damn it, you know better
Than that *bleep*
Well, I'll just
Leave it like is.
I catch your ass selling
Liquor to my customers,
I will put you down,
I will shut you down for good.
Well, keep blowing smoke.
That's all you're going
To do is blow smoke.
You just think that, but when
I catch you selling liquor
To my customers, I'm putting
You out, son.
You hear me?
Well, you can bet
I'll be selling to 'em.
Jerry, let's load it up.
I'm through talking.
I'm glad.
Enough talking done, son.
I'm gonna put you down
For good.
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He thinks his damn back
Was hurting?
His ass will be walking
Around on *bleep* crutches
When I get through
With him.
This is our territory.
We're gonna take it back.
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Well, I'll tell you what.
I'm shutting his ass down.
I'm with you, but you know,
We've got to keep things
Within reason.
Jerry, I just tried to reason
With the man, did I not?
Mike: me and daniel was once
Partners,
And I'll be damned if he's going
To step on my toes.
I'm not going to put up with it.
I got five kids and a wife.
I've got to do for me and mine,
And that's what I intend to do.
His ass is finished, and I'll
See your ass in the morning.
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I'll be right back, I got some
Of that sawdust in my throat.
Sure it's sawdust
Or late night last night?
Well, I did have
A late night.
You've got to watch him
Like a hawk.
The women run him crazy,
About half his age, too.
Narrator:
In franklin county, virginia,
Veteran shiners
Henry and kenny law
Are building
A one of a kind still
To up their production
Of ethanol
For their cbd-infused moonshine.
I think right there
Is a nice spot.
Henry: when we built this thing,
We built a full cap.
That's why we having to
Modify this thing.
We can't use
This big cap hole.
We've got to reduce it down
To that two inch.
To two inch.
For our fractionating column.
This is something
Different for us.
I'm just going
To cut this back.
We've come up with an idea
Of rolling the tin back,
Run us a cord
On the inside of the still,
And then we'll be able
To cut us
A little two inch hole
Perfectly in the middle
And then mount
Our column to that,
And that should take
Care of the job.
We got a problem
Right here.
And once we got
This top cut out,
We could see a lot of rust
And stuff in here
That we couldn't see before.
I don't know about that.
Henry: I just don't know
If it's going to work or not.
Rust come out in ethanol.
It'll turn brown color
And could transfer over
Into our cbd oil,
And we can't have that.
It's time to cut our losses
On this old one
That I pulled out of the woods
And build a new one.
We've got new sides right here.
That's what we need.
That's what we should
Have done to start with.
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Kenny, you got
A couple of screws?
Yeah, man.
Try to do now
Is line this baby up.
This is the moment
I've been looking for.
Bore this hole right here,
Fasten this baby down.
This three foot fractionating
Column can go up here.
I've built many of stills,
And we've always built them
The same way
Except in this case here.
We've never rigged anything
Like this up before.
Piece we put on is holding
Good and tight, isn't it?
Yeah I think you got that right
Right there.
Now we're gonna pack
This thing with wide mesh.
With that mesh in there,
It's more surface area
For the vapors
To attach themselves to.
So as the vapors come up,
It'll keep condensing,
Dropping down,
And every time and it's getting
Strong, pure ethanol
As it goes up this column.
I don't see no reason
It won't work. Do you?
Yeah, it's gonna be
A little trial and error.
Oh, yeah.
We're gonna find out.
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Let's go see
Ol' mark wayne.
-freeze!
-hi. What you doing?
I want to take you
On a road trip.
Narrator:
In cocke county, tennessee,
With the end of shine season
In sight,
Mark and digger prepare
For their last big run
Of popcorn's legacy liquor.
I want to take you and get
An ice cream cone.
Bull *bleep*
What's on your mind?
I mean, other than that?
Well, I've got a boy that's
Wanting to buy some liquor.
Well, what do you
Need me for?
I need you to be in agreement
To sell him this liquor.
I don't know him.
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You know this -- we don't sell
To anybody we don't know.
You know, we don't do
Anything with strangers.
The original unwritten rule
Of moonshining
Is you never sell to people
You don't know.
And I know this, but I know
People that knows him,
And he's wanting a tremendous
Amount of liquor.
He's wanting a hundred
Gallon of liquor.
A hundred gallon liquor?
That's 20 grand.
20 grand.
A lot of money.
In one swift lick.
But that's what we're getting
With daniel selling it.
If he don't pay more,
There's no point in us doing it.
But we can probably peel him
For a little bit more money.
You ain't priced it
Or nothing?
I ain't priced
Nothing to him.
And this late in the season,
It's always good to capitalize
A little bit.
Well...
You don't want to make
No more money?
I didn't say that.
Mark's got reservations
Just as I do,
But I see no harm, no foul
In just going and talking
To this guy
And see what he's got in mind.
Big sale all at once,
That's -- I mean, I get it,
But you ain't
Promised him nothing?
No, we're just going
To meet him.
But the thing about it is
I want you to be on board
Before we make
This little move.
Mark and I, we don't do anything
Unless we're solid together.
I've got to have his blessing,
Or I ain't gonna do it.
Okay. But we will do nothing
Until we both agree.
-exactly.
-fair enough.
We've got to go talk to this boy
And feel him out.
We'll see what he knows,
Who he knows,
And then we'll follow up
Beyond that.
Let's go get some
Damn ice cream.
Hell, ice cream's on the way.
We'll get my ice cream.
Here we go.
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Narrator: coming up...
Look, that temperature's
Going on up there.
-you better adjust it.
-yeah.
...The unforgiving science
Of high proof distilling.
Tickle: if we boil just
The least little bit of water
Over into this,
We've basically null and voided
This whole thing.
Coming down?
Little bit more,
Little bit more.
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Mark:
Yeah, I want to talk to him.
I want to check him out.
I ain't big on selling liquor
To somebody I don't know.
But if we don't agree a hundred
Percent amongst ourself...
-we pull out.
-...We're done.
Narrator:
Outside of newport, tennessee,
Two shiners are on the road
To meet up with a bootlegger.
The only catch?
They've never met him before.
Yeah, I can see
A fender down there.
Digger: it's rule number one
In this business.
You just don't go around
Willy-nilly
Selling liquor
To everybody that asks.
I mean, sooner or later
You're going up against somebody
That ain't exactly
Who they say they are.
-you jesse?
-I am.
Get out and talk to us
A minute there, son.
Jesse: all right.
[ grunting ]
So we got to go talk to this boy
And feel him out.
We'll see what he knows,
Who he knows,
And then we'll follow up
Beyond that.
And where'd you
Get our name at?
There's a feller named jamie
Told me to tell you,
He said if you want to,
You could call him.
Oh, we're gonna want to.
Yeah, we'll call him.
You're wanting to buy
A little something?
Yes, sir. I need a hundred
Gallons of the triple grain.
The legacy liquor?
A hundred gallons?
A hundred gallons.
That's an awful large figure.
-wow.
-you got the money on hand?
Yes, sir. I got plenty
Of good customers.
You bootlegged before,
Or you just trying
To get in the liquor business?
Eh? I've done
A little bit.
Well, you're trying
To want to do a lot.
We got regular customers
We're used to tending to,
And that's going
To dry up their supply.
That'll wipe us out.
And we're getting
$200 a gallon.
You might need to think about
Sweetening that pot a little bit
If we're gonna cut
Our regular people out.
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I'll give you $250.
Damn. $250 a gallon?
You ain't the law
Or nothing?
-no.
-I'm gonna be honest.
When somebody starts
Throwing more money out there
Than what you actually
Been getting for your liquor,
It makes you
A little suspicious.
Scares me a little bit.
The going rate's
$200 a gallon,
And he's offering us
$50 above that,
And you know,
That's a red flag.
If this young man
Even has this type money,
Where's he getting it?
That's usually the way
Law plays games.
They play
That magic number.
We're gonna find out
A little bit more about you,
Jesse, and it ain't nothing --
Yup, it ain't nothing personal,
Son. It's just business.
Just a lot on the line
For us.
And I'm too old
And pretty to go to jail.
You're half-right.
[ farts ]
Phew.
We didn't really agree
On that big fart, but...
[ chuckles ]
Well, we'll be
In touch with you.
That sounds good.
We'll send word to jamie,
Jamie will send word to you.
Right now at this point, you
Don't need any of our contact.
-sound good?
-sounds good.
It's all comes back
On the report on you.
-all right.
-all right, jesse.
-thank you.
-all right.
No matter what happens,
You don't know us.
-nope.
-fair enough?
-fair enough.
-all right, man.
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$25,000.
That makes me
A tiny bit nervous.
I'm still not 100%,
But he didn't hesitate
To offer us $50 more a gallon.
-exactly.
-that's a flag -- a red flag.
And you told him that,
You know?
We're gonna talk to jamie.
We'll learn a little bit more
About this young man.
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Josh:
We're gonna take this straw
And put it all around
Our mash barrels,
And hopefully we'll be able
To keep them warm
So the yeast don't go dormant.
Narrator: in polk county,
North carolina,
As temperatures drop,
Josh has to modify
His mash barrels
For a make-or-break sale
To the moonshine bandits.
So we decided we're gonna
Put our mash underground,
Put a bunch
Of damn insulation around it.
So as long as this crazy idea
Pays off,
It could be
A good wintertime spot.
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I'm building a berm up
So any water
That's running along the ground
There is kind of diverted away
So it don't fill
My hole up with water.
[ gunshot in distance ]
Because if that straw gets wet,
That's gonna sort of
Defeat the purpose.
[ gunshots in distance ]
Goodness gracious.
There's a bunch of shooting
Going on over there.
I imagine everybody's
Sighting their rifles in
Because deer season's
Coming around.
I ain't too worried about
The bullets flying over here.
Most people that shoot like
That don't just
Shoot randomly through the air.
A lot of people hear gunshots
This day and time,
And they go all to hell.
When I was growing up,
You used to hear that
Every single time
You opened the door
Of the house.
It's just a sound
I've heard my whole life,
Gunshots and chainsaws
Echoing through the mountains.
So that's a good sound to me.
That reminds me of my childhood.
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I got to keep this
As dry as possible.
The ground has
Its own moisture in it,
So this straw
Is not gonna last that long.
It's gonna start rotting
And breaking down
And get all wet and soggy.
And if this gets wet and soggy,
Well, there ain't gonna be no
Keeping it warm at that point.
I don't want it to get cold.
If the yeast goes dormant,
Your mash is gonna die off
Or quit working.
Time to to make some mash.
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There it is. Good fresh water
Right off the side
Of the mountain.
It'll be a little while,
But when that fills up,
We'll put some grains in there,
Pour some sugar in there,
Stir it all about, and we'll be
Soon making some shine.
So hopefully this works out
For me. I don't know.
I've seen old time pictures
Of barrels halfway in the ground
With about this much of them
Sticking out of the ground.
But I truthfully thought
That was just for summertime
To keep it
At a lower temperature.
Now it's got a damn hole in it.
Son of a bitch.
But I've had some old timers
Tell me
That they did that during
The winter months, too,
Some of the cold months,
To help them pull off runs.
And, hell,
We're trying it ourselves.
That's all the sugar.
This mash might work off faster
Than we thought it --
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[ groans ]
You know what's really crazy
About this hole,
Is it sits so well,
I fell in the son of a bitch
My damn self,
And I knew where the hole was at
Because I helped
My brother dig it.
Just fell right in there,
And damn, I thought
I blew my knee out at first.
Thank god that wasn't the case.
Couldn't afford to have any more
Broken bones right now,
Any more injuries.
All right, it ain't perfect,
But it's brushed
In a little bit.
Hopefully in about five days,
We'll have some mash
Ready to run.
This just might be
Crazy enough to work.
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Narrator: coming up...
Digger: you know a little
Red-headed feller name of jesse?
I do.
Narrator: ...A background check
In tennessee.
Do you think he would
Cause us any problems
If we do sell him
This liquor?
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How's it going,
Fellas?
Come on and tell us
What we're doing wrong.
Narrator:
In franklin county, virginia,
Bringing their cbd-infused
Moonshine to market
Hinges on whether or not
Tickle and the laws
Can distill pure ethanol
On a large scale.
What you think, big boy?It's a hell of an upgrade
From that little glass one,
Isn't it?
You know, I come back in,
There's a whole brand-new
Still for us.
The amount that we
Can put in here,
It's really going
To up our production.
Let's line all this up,
And let's get on with it.
For this, we have to have
Electricity.
This ethanol is way
Too dangerous
To put a flame underneath,
So we're gonna use
Electric burners.
If this thing goes wrong,
We could blow ourselves
Off of the map.
-be careful with that now.
-yeah, I know, I just...
-slowly.
-yeah.
Four gallons of 100-proof
Moonshine.
Well, that's
Three-and-a-half gallons.
We'll drink that off
The top of it.
-good job.
-good job, tickle, damn.
That's moonshine
Over in your pot.
Put some heat
Under this thing.
Don't get no shorter
Till you light it.
Let's put this column
On here.
See what this thing's
Gonna do.
Oh, she's warming
Right on up.
Yeah. I got my knee against it,
Too, over here, henry.
A little bit more,
Right there.
All right.
If this thing does what
I hope it's gonna do,
We'd be in the money,
Fellas.
What we're doing here is
We're distilling the ethanol
Out of 100-proof moonshine.
That should be far enough.
We have our fractional
Distillation column.
All the water winds up
Back in the pot.
All the alcohol winds up
Coming right back out the worm,
And we have pure ethanol.
This is another one of the most
Important pieces here
Is this thermometer.
What we're trying to do
Is stay
At the boiling point
Of the ethanol.
That's between
72 and 78 degrees.
-right there between that.
-yeah.
So we're gonna have to
Adjust these burners
While we run it.Yeah, constantly.
We get over the temperature,
We're getting water.
If we get under it,
We're getting nothing.
We're not getting nothing.
All right, yeah.
♪♪
You know, ken and I got
To talking how good you been,
You know?
-we're proud of you.
-you're proud of me?
Ken:
Real proud of you.
Oh, yeah? What I got here?
You're our angel baby now.
[ laughter ]
Went from being a devil
With blue eyes to an angel.
At one time, hell, I was
One hell of a son of a bitch.
But now, I guess I'm
A little angel now, I reckon --
A moonshine angel, if you will.
Something's happening to it,
It's like it's coming apart.
It's breaking apart? Yeah.
See? Look at it.
It's falling all to pieces.
Yeah. It said, "Uh-huh,
Don't put me over him."
It'll probably blow up
Over kenny's.
Reckon it'll blow up
Over kenny's head?
Oh yes, yes. He'd be
Pulling a knife on it.
Yeah, he will.
[ laughs ]
It shouldn't be
Too much longer now.
Look, that temperature
Is going on up there.
You better adjust it
A little bit.
Yeah.
Turn it down slowly.
Coming down?
Little bit more, little bit
More, little bit more.
Coming down?
Coming down?
Hold it right there,
Hold it right there, hold it.
Just rest there for a sec.
It is a very,
Very tight temperature
That we've got to keep this at.
If we boil just the least little
Bit of water over into this,
We've basically null
And voided this whole thing.
Looks like it's --
Is she holding or she
Gonna drop too far?
She's holding. She's holding.
She's holding. She's holding.
That's good, man.
I think that's perfect,
But we need to keep
An eye on it, though.
Yeah.
There she comes. Yep.
There she comes, shooting
Out there at the end.
Coming out again.
That's a nice stream.
Check it out.
Nice stream.
Thing's pumping it.
♪♪
That's a heck
Of a dern stream there.
You know what?
Yes it is.
Get the board over there
And hold it.
Eh, I tell you what boy,
That stuff burn your eyes
And everything right yonder,
Won't it?
We've got something high proof
Coming out of this worm.
We don't want to taste it
Because this isn't stuff
That you drink.
This is stuff that can seriously
Hurt you if you drank it.
I use that,
Drop it in there.
Go down, sink, sink,
Sink, sink, sink.
Yes.
Hoo-wah!
Good god.
That's stronger than what we did
Off of the small one,
Isn't it?
Wow, baby. Yeah.
That's good 90%, 95%
Right there, isn't it?
That's what
I'm talking about.
Nailed it.
95% pure ethanol.
We've hit the mother lode.
We could make
A pile of money
Off of just this one
Distillation process.
I bet we're some of the few
People that can do this.
We need to keep this
Hush-hush between us.
We can't tell a soul.
I'm talking nobody.
Because once everybody else
Gets a hold of it, it's over.
You're right.
-prices drop.
-yep. You're right.
Right now we'll be able to get
Anything we want for it.
I'm getting right excited
About this.
This could mean
A lot of money for us.
And also this
Is something different
Than any other moonshiner's
Ever done.
So we got a little bit
More off of there.
-yeah.
-we're getting a little bit more
Than what we'd anticipated
On here.
Two quart.
I tell you what,
We did a fine job right there.
What do you think, kenny?
I'm satisfied
If you are.
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
Mark: I believe that's the
Reason that people gain weight
When they quit smoking.
Their damn food tastes
So much better to them.
No. I'm 300 pounds,
Smoke four packs a day.
Now, don't ever quit!
Narrator:
In cocke county, tennessee,
After receiving an offer
Above market value,
Mark and digger
Are meeting a friend
To do some recon
On the potential buyer.
Thank you, baby.
Keep track how much we bet
You out of if you don't care.
♪♪
-what's up, slim?
-big cold beer?
-why, yeah.
-get me one too.
-believe me.
-sit down there, cuz.
Did you clue him in on any of
This, what we needed with him?
No, you know me and telephones,
I ain't real fond of them.
Hence,
That's why he's here.
Exactly.
Mark: we don't want our buddy
To feel on the spot.
We just simply need to know
What kind of person
He knows this boy to be.
Let's go out here
And talk.
Yeah, we'll be back, tammy.
We need to talk
To you, man.
We've got a couple
Of questions.
We're just gonna quiz you.
You ain't being graded.
I'm gonna get us a little
Jar liquor I set in here.
Mark: all right.
By the way, if that's
Something you want,
Feel free to take that jar
Home with you.
Well, that's good.
I'll take it.
Whatever's left of it
Anyway.
Yeah, there may not be
Much to take home.
We love to come bearing gifts.
You know a little redheaded
Feller the name jesse?
-I do.
-up jones co?
I do.
Well, when he came to us,
He said he got the contact
Number from you.
And he recommended to us
That we talk to you.
Yeah.
He's wanting to buy
100 of our favorite
Gallons of liquor,
And he's offered us
50 more dollars per gallon
Than we've normally
Been getting.
And I don't know whether
The boy was that damn eager
To be in the liquor business,
But our main objective
Is we want to stay out
Of damn handcuffs.
We want to sell him
This product,
But we can't sell it to him
If he ain't the right kind,
And that's why
We come to you.
He ain't been no trouble,
Has he?
Not that I know of. He seems
To be a pretty good boy.
Well, big question is,
Would he be able to
Come up with $25,000
If he needed to?
Well, I mean, I know him,
But who can come up
With $25,000 nowadays?
You can't say for sure
If he's got $25,000
Or not,
But if he did have,
You'd be surprised?
He might have money.
I don't know.
Let me ask you this,
In your heart of hearts,
Do you think that
He is the kind
That would cause us
Any problems
If we do sell him
This liquor?
♪♪
♪♪
No, I don't. He's...
Okay. Fair enough.
...A good boy and...
Your word's
Good enough for me.
If you've got that much
Confidence in him,
Then I feel okay with it.
I do. I do.
He's a good man.
Okay. We agreed?
I'm good with it.
We'll sell him the liquor.
We've checked this boy out
Just as thorough
As I think we can.
We're pretty much at ease.
We don't feel like this boy
Is gonna set us up.
We got to move forward with it.
We don't have enough
Of our legacy liquor
To sell this boy
A hundred gallons.
We've got to pull up our stakes
And go make another
Quick little run.
-good deal.
-let's go drink some more beer.
Thank you, man.
Appreciate you coming.
We'll buy you another.
-well, I'll take another.
-get everybody a beer on tammy.
♪ trouble, welcome home ♪
♪♪
I told it if it ever
Flooded my house again,
I was gonna kill it.
You're talking to a machine,
Not a person.
You don't understand.
It was practically brand new.
It was just out of warranty,
And it flooded the house again.
And you killed it?
And I was sitting
In the living room
And there was
A shotgun there.
Boom!
It don't give me
No more trouble no more.
What about your harley?
If your harley don't crank,
You're gonna shoot it?
No, that's my harley.
That's a different story.
Oh, okay.
Narrator: mark and digger
Make it look easy
As they glide past their
Season goal with 2,050 gallons.
Connubial bless is close at hand
For tickle as he and the laws
Hit 2,000.
Success without reward
For mike and jerry
As they near 990.
And at 65 gallons,
Josh might want to consider
Another line of work.
♪♪
♪♪
All right, guys.
Let's see what we got.
See if that ethanol has done
Got all that cbd out of it.
Narrator: in virginia,
After soaking their hemp
Overnight in the pure ethanol
From their last run,
Tickle and the laws are ready
To extract cbd from the mixture.
Tell you what, we're gonna
Take this cheese cloth
And we going strain
Some of it off.
-strain it?
-look at how green that is.
Yeah, I swear I believe
That's the color of the dye
They use to color
$100 dollar bills.
-cha-ching, baby.
-look here.
Our hemp has been mashed in for
A little while with our ethanol,
And it's given it plenty of time
To start extracting the cbd
From the hemp.
God them fumes. Whew!
Damn, that's strong.
Y'all don't want me to catch
A buzz off of this.
I imagine.
The way you stand over it,
It won't be long.
Our next step is to strain
This off
And to start pressing what
Last little bit of ethanol
And cbd that's in this hemp
Back out of it.
Heck, yeah. We did good
With this thing.
Cleaner we can get it now,
The easier it'll be
To work with later.
We get it on the burner,
Cook this ethanol off,
And we can start
Our infusion.
Moonshine is just like
Any other business.
It has to progress
With the times,
Or it's doomed
To be left in the past.
And that's what
We're doing here.
We're pushing the boundaries
And the limits
Of what moonshine could
Possibly be in the future.
And this right here is going
To be a draw for customers.
-god, that looks good.
-it sure does, gracious.
I never thought I'd look
At a bowl
Of boiling black tar goop
And say, "Mmm, mmm, good."
All right, guys.
It's ready.
-yeah, it looks real good.
-looks great.
I bet we can infuse a whole lot
Of moonshine with that.
-let's do it.
-yeah.
Here we go.
This stuff's thickened
Right up, man.
This the pure form
Right here
So we know we've got
One more step.
We got to dilute it.
Oh yeah, she's thinning on
Down some, isn't she?
This is 100% pure cbd.
We're gonna dilute that down
Into our peach brandy moonshine
Because it's actually soluble.
It's like something
From the swamps.
The swamp monster.
-oh, look a yonder.
-it's breaking it on down.
It's sure enough is,
Isn't it?
I know I got 10 gallons
Of shine sitting here.
-let's see.
-and we got customers waiting.
We've taken a whole lot of time
And went through a whole
Lot of pains
With this cbd extraction,
And we're at the point now
Where it's time to infuse
It into our moonshine.
But if we mix them together
And this is something
That doesn't have
A good taste,
Let's face it --
All of this was for nothing.
I think we've done
A fair deal to everybody.
If every shot they take,
They're gonna get
A dose of cbd.
We want that person to know
When he takes that shot,
He's getting his dose...
He's got it.
He's got it. It's in there.
-that's right.
-of cbd.
Let's try it and see
What we think.
That's one thing about it,
You got to keep working with it
Until you get it
The way you want it.
Gonna put a pint
In each one.
Make sure that
Everything's even.
Everything's even. I'm going
To give y'all the honors.
-all right.
-one in each one.
All right.
One in each one.
-look at how thick that is.
-it's like lemon syrup.
Oh, yeah. She just went
Right on in it.
-it mixed good.
-it did.
We ain't done yet, boys.
Color looks great.
♪♪
You know what?
I like it.
No comparison right there.
Hit it on the head there.
I think that's about
The mixture we got
That that we need to have.
That there is great.
When you first take
A little sip of it,
You get a little bit of green,
Earthy note of the cbd
And the hemp,
And it pairs very well
With the peach
In our peach brandy.
We took a big gamble on this,
And I tell you what --
I'm extremely happy
With the outcome.
Like I said the brandy's,
But you've got a little...
Where you can tell it --
On your tongue.
You can tell it
That cbd is in there.
-it's in there.
-yeah.
That right there
Should be a winner.
I'll guarantee you
It's a winner.
You've got that right.
Narrator: tickle and the laws'
Revolutionary new moonshine
Should be able to fetch
North of $60 per quart.
Well, you know,
Here's what it boils down to --
We figured this out.
We built
Our fractionating column.
We figured out how to
Infuse it into moonshine.
We've got it, and we're not
Compromising this liquor.
Way I see it,
The sky's the limit from here.
I hear you.
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
Mark: can you see
Where you're going?
Digger: I'm gonna call that
Wonderful right there.
Narrator: in tennessee,
In order to fill their
New 100 gallon order,
Mark and digger
Need to mash in
Their legacy liquor
One last time.
Digger and I've come
To an agreement.
We're gonna go through
With the deal,
But we don't have enough
Of the legacy liquor,
So we're gonna have to do
A mash in, do another run.
Clean all this *bleep* off.
Don't want many leaves
In their liquor.
Digger, hattie, this guy,
He's wanting in the neighborhood
Of a hundred gallons.
Why is it we're giving him
All this liquor
And we're not letting
Daniel have it?
It's a ridiculous
Amount of money
That he's offering
For this liquor.
I mean, he's offering us
$250
For every gallon of this liquor
We bring to him.
Daniel's bootlegged this liquor
For us all season,
And to cut him off,
You know, kind of --
It don't sit well with me.
It's business,
Hattie boy, I mean.
Call him.
If he's like me,
I want to hear bad news
Immediately.
[ ringing ]
-hello?
-hey. What are you doing, man?
Piddling around a little.
What about you?
I'm gonna cut to the chase
First and foremost.
We told you we was going have
A little bit of liquor for you.
Yeah.
That ain't gonna be
The case, brother.
♪♪
♪♪
Narrator: next time
On the season finale
Of "Moonshiners"...
Smith: I stashed
Just a little bit.
You never know when you're
Gonna have a special occasion.
...In virginia...
It's okay,
You're stressed out
Because you're getting ready
To get married.
This is a first time,
I understand.
...Pre-wedding jitters
Threaten to become
A full-blown case of cold feet.
♪♪
Josh: what in the hell?
In north carolina...
They got me completely
Blocked in.
...After a season filled
With obstacles,
Josh finally makes
A breakthrough.
Damn!
Mark: I really didn't
Expect to see you here
This evening, buddy.
And in tennessee...
I promise you that
That legacy liquor
Is gonna end up
In mike's hands.
Mark and digger get a tip
That shines new light
On their biggest sale
Of the year.
Do you remember what popcorn
Did to that boy back '83?
-we'll do it.
-all right.
If little mikey wants to buy
A hundred gallons of liquor,
We'll sell him
A hundred gallon of liquor.
-it's gonna be interesting.
-oh. Yes, it is.
Narrator: on this episode
Of "Moonshiners"...
I bet we can infuse a wholelot
Of moonshine with that.
We're pushing the limits
Of what moonshine
Could possibly be in the future.
Narrator:
...In virginia, white lightning
Takes on a mellow shade
Of green...
Tickle:
I guarantee it's a winner.
We can't tell a soul.
I'm talking nobody.
Mark: what's on your mind?
Well, I got a boy wanting
To buy some liquor.
I don't know him.
Digger: rule number one
In this business --
Don't go around willy-nilly
Selling liquor
To everybody that asks.
Narrator: ...Stranger danger
In tennessee....
-you ain't the law or nothin'?
-no.
I'm gonna be honest.
I'm a little suspicious.
If I catch your ass
Selling liquor to my customers,
I will shut you down for good.
Narrator: ...And a blood feud
Is brewing in a county
That's only big enough
For one moonshiner.
I'm puttin' you out, son.
Man: this is how
We make the moonshine!
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Discovery communications
♪♪
-howdy, boys.
-well, I'll be damned.
I'd like to have a little word
With y'all outside, preferably.
Narrator:
In eastern tennessee,
Seveir county shiners
Mike and jerry
Cross into neighboring
Cocke county
To find out why their rivals'
Triple-grain moonshine
Is flooding their territory.
I can promise you
On my mamaw's eyes,
We are not coming to your
County to sell liquor.
If you'renot,
I mean, who could it be?
♪♪
What about daniel maner?
Is he in cahoots with you guys?
Digger: whoever we sell
Our liquor to,
That's none of
Y'all damn business.
Look here. I respect
That yinz coming to us,
But, honestly,
Who we sell it to
Really isn't
Your concern.
♪♪
Well, I -- you know,
I appreciate the honesty,
And it looks like
We've got all the answers
That we're gonna get,
So we're out of here.
♪♪
When I brought up the name
Daniel maner,
You know, you could see
The blood leave digger's face.
We gotta get to the bottom
Of this *bleep*.
-one way or a damn nother.
-damn right.
♪♪
♪♪
Henry: you know how I am,
Kenny, about finding stuff.
Here's a column.
Yes, that'll definitely
Be a nice column right there.
Narrator: over in virginia,
Tickle and the laws
Engineer a still
To scale up production
On their cbd-infused moonshine.
This will go down
To the still itself.
Yeah. Thermometer go
Right in the top, right?
Perfect size, too,
Isn't it?
Henry and kenny, they've got
All kinds of still parts
And different things
Just laying around their house.
We're trying to find
Something to use
For a larger fractional
Distillation tower
So we can get the amount
Of ethanol we need
To really start
Extracting cbd compound
Out of a lot more hemp.
Henry: everybody's using it
For health purposes and all.
This stuff helps you sleep.
It's good for your joints.
Man, if we could just
Put it in our moonshine,
You know, we'll have
Something nobody else has.
Might be a new thing for us
To make some money, man.
Narrator: tickle and the laws
Used a fractionating column
To produce a test batch
Of the pure ethanol needed
To extract cbd from hemp,
Which they infused
Into their brandy.
Well, I know where
The little still's at.
I hate to think
That I'm a hoarder,
But I hate throwing
Anything away.
So we save every dollar
We possibly can save.
If we've got a board
Laying somewhere,
I will knock the nails
Out of it and reuse it.
We don't need
Nothing toobig.
There's stainless
On the bottom there.
Yeah.
Got some trash in it.
Yeah. Well, that's all right.
We can clean that up.
Henry:
Anytime we need something,
We can go to our
Little junk pile
And scrape it up and have it.
There you go.
See, right there's
About the perfect size.
Big enough to do
Something with...
We find us a little, bitty
Baby submarine pot out here.
Looks like it'll hold
About four gallons.
It almost looks like a toy,
Something you'd set on a mantle.
It's gonna be perfect
For our purposes.
We can already envision how
We're gonna build this thing.
It's really upscaling this,
And it's just a perfect piece
For us to use.
♪♪
♪♪
[ clears throat ]
I got a really tall order
I got to fill.
I need to put another
One of these totes out here.
And I can fit it right here,
But the problem is,
Is I ain't gonna be able
To dang keep it warm enough.
Narrator:
In polk county, north carolina,
After securing a 60-gallon order
From a touring band called
The moonshine bandits,
Josh is taking a gamble
To make sure his mash
Works off quickly,
Even with
The falling temperatures.
It's starting to get cool
At night.
It's cooling down,
So the mash works off slower.
When it works off slower,
I can't produce it fast enough.
Every year, I come up
With some way to damn...
Keep this stuff warm
During the winter, and I just --
I don't have electricity here,
And I'm running out of time.
You know, I need to get
On the stick here
And figure out a way
To make it work.
I had this old-timer
A while back tell me
That if he had buried his totes
In the ground most of the way,
Just leave part of it
Sticking out of the ground
And you put straw
All around it,
The heat that the mash
Puts off itself
Is enough to keep it warm.
The mash will still work off
Into late, late season.
I'm not sure how long
We'll be able to make that work,
But hopefully it'll work
All winter long.
My brother's got a trackhoe.
I'm gonna call him and see
If he can't dig this thing out.
I don't have time to waste
Digging this hole.
I've really got to make
The shine for the bandits.
They're too good
Of a customer to lose.
[ line ringing ]
Man: hello?
Hey, brother.
What are you doing?
Uh, workin', workin'.
How busy are you?
-pretty busy.
-I got a favor to ask of you.
I really need a hole dug.
Pretty, pretty close out here.
I mean, it wouldn't be hard
For you to get to me.
When do you think you'd
Be able to come help me?
Probably the day after
Tomorrow or something.
Pretty busy.
I'm covered up in work.
Well, he's talking about it's
Gonna be a few days at best,
And I don't really have
A few days to waste.
I'm kind of hoping
That he can come right away.
I'm under a tremendous
Amount of pressure, joe,
And I really -- I need it a --
I know I'm asking a lot,
But I need it a little faster
Than that, you know?
I just need
To get it done.
[ sighs ] I guess I could run
Out there tonight if you want.
Tonight? Tonight?
Hell yeah. Let's do it.
The plan is,
My brother is gonna show up
About 8:00 in the evening,
And we're gonna dig a hole.
Wow. That worked out perfect.
Be making some moonshine
In no time.
I just got to figure out
Where I'm gonna put it.
♪♪
A lot of times you ask somebody
To do a favor for you,
It's like pulling damn teeth.
But family's family.
And I asked my brother for
A favor, and he's there for me.
I want you to dig a hole
Big enough to put --
See that juice tote?
Yep.
I want to dig a hole
Maybe a foot wider
All the way around, and it
Don't have to be that deep,
Because I want 'em
To stick up a touch.
-all right.
-you can do that, can't you?
-yeah, we'll do it.
-all right.
Josh:
I don't know if it's gonna work.
I never done
Anything like this before.
The old-timers
Found a way to do things.
You know, just 'cause those
Old ways are sort of primitive
Don't mean that they don't work
And they're not great.
Josh: let me
Ask you something.
Is that gonna
Fill up with water?
We're higher than
The water table here.
You won't be that deep.
♪♪
This is all my brother does.
He's damn good.
He should be
With his family on the couch,
You know, enjoying himself.
He's out here helping me.
Long story short, I didn't
Have another minute to waste.
I have to make some more mash,
And the only way to do that
Is to figure out a way
To keep it warm.
-what do you think, brother?
-I think it looks good.
Thank you so much for
Coming out and doing that.
-I'll check you later.
-thank you, man. I love you.
Josh: tomorrow
I'll build a berm up
With some dirt
All the way around here.
I'll put straw
All the way around it.
We'll bring some grains
And sugar in here,
Frickin' make some mash,
And here pretty soon we'll
Be able to make another run.
♪♪
♪♪
Jerry: let's see what old dan's
About to say about this.
Mike: yeah, we're gonna
Have to, ain't we?
-right.
-that's for damn sure.
Narrator: high in the mountains
Of eastern tennessee,
Mike and jerry are on their way
To confront a former ally
About how mark and digger's
Moonshine
Is infiltrating their county.
Mike: you know, I went
To see mark and digger,
And they didn't just
Come out and tell me
It was daniel
Doing the damn bootlegging.
But, you know,
I'm gonna put my two cents in
And say it's daniel doing this.
We're gonna have to
Resolve this mess
Right now and pretty damn quick.
What are you doing, daniel?
What are you into? What
Are you doing up this way?
Well, this right here
Is why I'm here.
♪♪
You giving me...?
No, I'm not
Giving it to you.
That's the multigrain liquor
That you've been
Selling around here.
Mnh. Is that right?
♪♪
Mike: that's
The multigrain liquor
That you've been selling
Around here.
Mnh. Is that right?
It might be,
Hell I don't know.
♪♪
You're telling me
You don't know?
Well I went to mark and digger
And talked to them.
This is their liquor,
And the reason
I'm here right now is that,
I asked you, I'm trying to be
In a good way about it,
I don't appreciate you
Selling, you know,
Around to my customers,
And that's exactly
What's happening.
If you've got a loss
Of customers,
The only thing
I can tell you
Is you'll just have to make
Better liquor, I guess.
Well, I'll tell you what,
They ain't but four damn people
That makes damn good liquor
This side of the mississippi,
And that's me and this man right
Here, and mark and digger,
And you're ain't doing nothing
But peddling this stuff around,
Calling it yours, trying to
Take money out of mine
And this man here's pocket.
I don't care who you
Sell it to around here.
You got a right to.
You live here, man.
-mm-hmm.
-that's fine.
And I'm going to,
And I don't care if it's...
You can say you're gonna.
Go ahead.
I don't give a damn.
Don't sell to the customers
That I've introduced you to.
Mike, I sell liquor
To whoever I want to.
You might do it.
If your old lady
Wants to jar liquor,
I'll sell her
A jar of liquor.
Yeah, you sell a damn jar
Of liquor to my old lady, son,
I'll be over here to cut your
Damn throat, and you know it.
Now, damn it, you know better
Than that *bleep*
Well, I'll just
Leave it like is.
I catch your ass selling
Liquor to my customers,
I will put you down,
I will shut you down for good.
Well, keep blowing smoke.
That's all you're going
To do is blow smoke.
You just think that, but when
I catch you selling liquor
To my customers, I'm putting
You out, son.
You hear me?
Well, you can bet
I'll be selling to 'em.
Jerry, let's load it up.
I'm through talking.
I'm glad.
Enough talking done, son.
I'm gonna put you down
For good.
♪♪
He thinks his damn back
Was hurting?
His ass will be walking
Around on *bleep* crutches
When I get through
With him.
This is our territory.
We're gonna take it back.
♪♪
♪♪
Well, I'll tell you what.
I'm shutting his ass down.
I'm with you, but you know,
We've got to keep things
Within reason.
Jerry, I just tried to reason
With the man, did I not?
Mike: me and daniel was once
Partners,
And I'll be damned if he's going
To step on my toes.
I'm not going to put up with it.
I got five kids and a wife.
I've got to do for me and mine,
And that's what I intend to do.
His ass is finished, and I'll
See your ass in the morning.
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
I'll be right back, I got some
Of that sawdust in my throat.
Sure it's sawdust
Or late night last night?
Well, I did have
A late night.
You've got to watch him
Like a hawk.
The women run him crazy,
About half his age, too.
Narrator:
In franklin county, virginia,
Veteran shiners
Henry and kenny law
Are building
A one of a kind still
To up their production
Of ethanol
For their cbd-infused moonshine.
I think right there
Is a nice spot.
Henry: when we built this thing,
We built a full cap.
That's why we having to
Modify this thing.
We can't use
This big cap hole.
We've got to reduce it down
To that two inch.
To two inch.
For our fractionating column.
This is something
Different for us.
I'm just going
To cut this back.
We've come up with an idea
Of rolling the tin back,
Run us a cord
On the inside of the still,
And then we'll be able
To cut us
A little two inch hole
Perfectly in the middle
And then mount
Our column to that,
And that should take
Care of the job.
We got a problem
Right here.
And once we got
This top cut out,
We could see a lot of rust
And stuff in here
That we couldn't see before.
I don't know about that.
Henry: I just don't know
If it's going to work or not.
Rust come out in ethanol.
It'll turn brown color
And could transfer over
Into our cbd oil,
And we can't have that.
It's time to cut our losses
On this old one
That I pulled out of the woods
And build a new one.
We've got new sides right here.
That's what we need.
That's what we should
Have done to start with.
♪♪
Kenny, you got
A couple of screws?
Yeah, man.
Try to do now
Is line this baby up.
This is the moment
I've been looking for.
Bore this hole right here,
Fasten this baby down.
This three foot fractionating
Column can go up here.
I've built many of stills,
And we've always built them
The same way
Except in this case here.
We've never rigged anything
Like this up before.
Piece we put on is holding
Good and tight, isn't it?
Yeah I think you got that right
Right there.
Now we're gonna pack
This thing with wide mesh.
With that mesh in there,
It's more surface area
For the vapors
To attach themselves to.
So as the vapors come up,
It'll keep condensing,
Dropping down,
And every time and it's getting
Strong, pure ethanol
As it goes up this column.
I don't see no reason
It won't work. Do you?
Yeah, it's gonna be
A little trial and error.
Oh, yeah.
We're gonna find out.
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
Let's go see
Ol' mark wayne.
-freeze!
-hi. What you doing?
I want to take you
On a road trip.
Narrator:
In cocke county, tennessee,
With the end of shine season
In sight,
Mark and digger prepare
For their last big run
Of popcorn's legacy liquor.
I want to take you and get
An ice cream cone.
Bull *bleep*
What's on your mind?
I mean, other than that?
Well, I've got a boy that's
Wanting to buy some liquor.
Well, what do you
Need me for?
I need you to be in agreement
To sell him this liquor.
I don't know him.
♪♪
You know this -- we don't sell
To anybody we don't know.
You know, we don't do
Anything with strangers.
The original unwritten rule
Of moonshining
Is you never sell to people
You don't know.
And I know this, but I know
People that knows him,
And he's wanting a tremendous
Amount of liquor.
He's wanting a hundred
Gallon of liquor.
A hundred gallon liquor?
That's 20 grand.
20 grand.
A lot of money.
In one swift lick.
But that's what we're getting
With daniel selling it.
If he don't pay more,
There's no point in us doing it.
But we can probably peel him
For a little bit more money.
You ain't priced it
Or nothing?
I ain't priced
Nothing to him.
And this late in the season,
It's always good to capitalize
A little bit.
Well...
You don't want to make
No more money?
I didn't say that.
Mark's got reservations
Just as I do,
But I see no harm, no foul
In just going and talking
To this guy
And see what he's got in mind.
Big sale all at once,
That's -- I mean, I get it,
But you ain't
Promised him nothing?
No, we're just going
To meet him.
But the thing about it is
I want you to be on board
Before we make
This little move.
Mark and I, we don't do anything
Unless we're solid together.
I've got to have his blessing,
Or I ain't gonna do it.
Okay. But we will do nothing
Until we both agree.
-exactly.
-fair enough.
We've got to go talk to this boy
And feel him out.
We'll see what he knows,
Who he knows,
And then we'll follow up
Beyond that.
Let's go get some
Damn ice cream.
Hell, ice cream's on the way.
We'll get my ice cream.
Here we go.
♪♪
Narrator: coming up...
Look, that temperature's
Going on up there.
-you better adjust it.
-yeah.
...The unforgiving science
Of high proof distilling.
Tickle: if we boil just
The least little bit of water
Over into this,
We've basically null and voided
This whole thing.
Coming down?
Little bit more,
Little bit more.
♪♪
Mark:
Yeah, I want to talk to him.
I want to check him out.
I ain't big on selling liquor
To somebody I don't know.
But if we don't agree a hundred
Percent amongst ourself...
-we pull out.
-...We're done.
Narrator:
Outside of newport, tennessee,
Two shiners are on the road
To meet up with a bootlegger.
The only catch?
They've never met him before.
Yeah, I can see
A fender down there.
Digger: it's rule number one
In this business.
You just don't go around
Willy-nilly
Selling liquor
To everybody that asks.
I mean, sooner or later
You're going up against somebody
That ain't exactly
Who they say they are.
-you jesse?
-I am.
Get out and talk to us
A minute there, son.
Jesse: all right.
[ grunting ]
So we got to go talk to this boy
And feel him out.
We'll see what he knows,
Who he knows,
And then we'll follow up
Beyond that.
And where'd you
Get our name at?
There's a feller named jamie
Told me to tell you,
He said if you want to,
You could call him.
Oh, we're gonna want to.
Yeah, we'll call him.
You're wanting to buy
A little something?
Yes, sir. I need a hundred
Gallons of the triple grain.
The legacy liquor?
A hundred gallons?
A hundred gallons.
That's an awful large figure.
-wow.
-you got the money on hand?
Yes, sir. I got plenty
Of good customers.
You bootlegged before,
Or you just trying
To get in the liquor business?
Eh? I've done
A little bit.
Well, you're trying
To want to do a lot.
We got regular customers
We're used to tending to,
And that's going
To dry up their supply.
That'll wipe us out.
And we're getting
$200 a gallon.
You might need to think about
Sweetening that pot a little bit
If we're gonna cut
Our regular people out.
♪♪
I'll give you $250.
Damn. $250 a gallon?
You ain't the law
Or nothing?
-no.
-I'm gonna be honest.
When somebody starts
Throwing more money out there
Than what you actually
Been getting for your liquor,
It makes you
A little suspicious.
Scares me a little bit.
The going rate's
$200 a gallon,
And he's offering us
$50 above that,
And you know,
That's a red flag.
If this young man
Even has this type money,
Where's he getting it?
That's usually the way
Law plays games.
They play
That magic number.
We're gonna find out
A little bit more about you,
Jesse, and it ain't nothing --
Yup, it ain't nothing personal,
Son. It's just business.
Just a lot on the line
For us.
And I'm too old
And pretty to go to jail.
You're half-right.
[ farts ]
Phew.
We didn't really agree
On that big fart, but...
[ chuckles ]
Well, we'll be
In touch with you.
That sounds good.
We'll send word to jamie,
Jamie will send word to you.
Right now at this point, you
Don't need any of our contact.
-sound good?
-sounds good.
It's all comes back
On the report on you.
-all right.
-all right, jesse.
-thank you.
-all right.
No matter what happens,
You don't know us.
-nope.
-fair enough?
-fair enough.
-all right, man.
♪♪
♪♪
$25,000.
That makes me
A tiny bit nervous.
I'm still not 100%,
But he didn't hesitate
To offer us $50 more a gallon.
-exactly.
-that's a flag -- a red flag.
And you told him that,
You know?
We're gonna talk to jamie.
We'll learn a little bit more
About this young man.
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
Josh:
We're gonna take this straw
And put it all around
Our mash barrels,
And hopefully we'll be able
To keep them warm
So the yeast don't go dormant.
Narrator: in polk county,
North carolina,
As temperatures drop,
Josh has to modify
His mash barrels
For a make-or-break sale
To the moonshine bandits.
So we decided we're gonna
Put our mash underground,
Put a bunch
Of damn insulation around it.
So as long as this crazy idea
Pays off,
It could be
A good wintertime spot.
♪♪
I'm building a berm up
So any water
That's running along the ground
There is kind of diverted away
So it don't fill
My hole up with water.
[ gunshot in distance ]
Because if that straw gets wet,
That's gonna sort of
Defeat the purpose.
[ gunshots in distance ]
Goodness gracious.
There's a bunch of shooting
Going on over there.
I imagine everybody's
Sighting their rifles in
Because deer season's
Coming around.
I ain't too worried about
The bullets flying over here.
Most people that shoot like
That don't just
Shoot randomly through the air.
A lot of people hear gunshots
This day and time,
And they go all to hell.
When I was growing up,
You used to hear that
Every single time
You opened the door
Of the house.
It's just a sound
I've heard my whole life,
Gunshots and chainsaws
Echoing through the mountains.
So that's a good sound to me.
That reminds me of my childhood.
♪♪
♪♪
I got to keep this
As dry as possible.
The ground has
Its own moisture in it,
So this straw
Is not gonna last that long.
It's gonna start rotting
And breaking down
And get all wet and soggy.
And if this gets wet and soggy,
Well, there ain't gonna be no
Keeping it warm at that point.
I don't want it to get cold.
If the yeast goes dormant,
Your mash is gonna die off
Or quit working.
Time to to make some mash.
♪♪
♪♪
There it is. Good fresh water
Right off the side
Of the mountain.
It'll be a little while,
But when that fills up,
We'll put some grains in there,
Pour some sugar in there,
Stir it all about, and we'll be
Soon making some shine.
So hopefully this works out
For me. I don't know.
I've seen old time pictures
Of barrels halfway in the ground
With about this much of them
Sticking out of the ground.
But I truthfully thought
That was just for summertime
To keep it
At a lower temperature.
Now it's got a damn hole in it.
Son of a bitch.
But I've had some old timers
Tell me
That they did that during
The winter months, too,
Some of the cold months,
To help them pull off runs.
And, hell,
We're trying it ourselves.
That's all the sugar.
This mash might work off faster
Than we thought it --
♪♪
[ groans ]
You know what's really crazy
About this hole,
Is it sits so well,
I fell in the son of a bitch
My damn self,
And I knew where the hole was at
Because I helped
My brother dig it.
Just fell right in there,
And damn, I thought
I blew my knee out at first.
Thank god that wasn't the case.
Couldn't afford to have any more
Broken bones right now,
Any more injuries.
All right, it ain't perfect,
But it's brushed
In a little bit.
Hopefully in about five days,
We'll have some mash
Ready to run.
This just might be
Crazy enough to work.
♪♪
Narrator: coming up...
Digger: you know a little
Red-headed feller name of jesse?
I do.
Narrator: ...A background check
In tennessee.
Do you think he would
Cause us any problems
If we do sell him
This liquor?
♪♪
♪♪
How's it going,
Fellas?
Come on and tell us
What we're doing wrong.
Narrator:
In franklin county, virginia,
Bringing their cbd-infused
Moonshine to market
Hinges on whether or not
Tickle and the laws
Can distill pure ethanol
On a large scale.
What you think, big boy?It's a hell of an upgrade
From that little glass one,
Isn't it?
You know, I come back in,
There's a whole brand-new
Still for us.
The amount that we
Can put in here,
It's really going
To up our production.
Let's line all this up,
And let's get on with it.
For this, we have to have
Electricity.
This ethanol is way
Too dangerous
To put a flame underneath,
So we're gonna use
Electric burners.
If this thing goes wrong,
We could blow ourselves
Off of the map.
-be careful with that now.
-yeah, I know, I just...
-slowly.
-yeah.
Four gallons of 100-proof
Moonshine.
Well, that's
Three-and-a-half gallons.
We'll drink that off
The top of it.
-good job.
-good job, tickle, damn.
That's moonshine
Over in your pot.
Put some heat
Under this thing.
Don't get no shorter
Till you light it.
Let's put this column
On here.
See what this thing's
Gonna do.
Oh, she's warming
Right on up.
Yeah. I got my knee against it,
Too, over here, henry.
A little bit more,
Right there.
All right.
If this thing does what
I hope it's gonna do,
We'd be in the money,
Fellas.
What we're doing here is
We're distilling the ethanol
Out of 100-proof moonshine.
That should be far enough.
We have our fractional
Distillation column.
All the water winds up
Back in the pot.
All the alcohol winds up
Coming right back out the worm,
And we have pure ethanol.
This is another one of the most
Important pieces here
Is this thermometer.
What we're trying to do
Is stay
At the boiling point
Of the ethanol.
That's between
72 and 78 degrees.
-right there between that.
-yeah.
So we're gonna have to
Adjust these burners
While we run it.Yeah, constantly.
We get over the temperature,
We're getting water.
If we get under it,
We're getting nothing.
We're not getting nothing.
All right, yeah.
♪♪
You know, ken and I got
To talking how good you been,
You know?
-we're proud of you.
-you're proud of me?
Ken:
Real proud of you.
Oh, yeah? What I got here?
You're our angel baby now.
[ laughter ]
Went from being a devil
With blue eyes to an angel.
At one time, hell, I was
One hell of a son of a bitch.
But now, I guess I'm
A little angel now, I reckon --
A moonshine angel, if you will.
Something's happening to it,
It's like it's coming apart.
It's breaking apart? Yeah.
See? Look at it.
It's falling all to pieces.
Yeah. It said, "Uh-huh,
Don't put me over him."
It'll probably blow up
Over kenny's.
Reckon it'll blow up
Over kenny's head?
Oh yes, yes. He'd be
Pulling a knife on it.
Yeah, he will.
[ laughs ]
It shouldn't be
Too much longer now.
Look, that temperature
Is going on up there.
You better adjust it
A little bit.
Yeah.
Turn it down slowly.
Coming down?
Little bit more, little bit
More, little bit more.
Coming down?
Coming down?
Hold it right there,
Hold it right there, hold it.
Just rest there for a sec.
It is a very,
Very tight temperature
That we've got to keep this at.
If we boil just the least little
Bit of water over into this,
We've basically null
And voided this whole thing.
Looks like it's --
Is she holding or she
Gonna drop too far?
She's holding. She's holding.
She's holding. She's holding.
That's good, man.
I think that's perfect,
But we need to keep
An eye on it, though.
Yeah.
There she comes. Yep.
There she comes, shooting
Out there at the end.
Coming out again.
That's a nice stream.
Check it out.
Nice stream.
Thing's pumping it.
♪♪
That's a heck
Of a dern stream there.
You know what?
Yes it is.
Get the board over there
And hold it.
Eh, I tell you what boy,
That stuff burn your eyes
And everything right yonder,
Won't it?
We've got something high proof
Coming out of this worm.
We don't want to taste it
Because this isn't stuff
That you drink.
This is stuff that can seriously
Hurt you if you drank it.
I use that,
Drop it in there.
Go down, sink, sink,
Sink, sink, sink.
Yes.
Hoo-wah!
Good god.
That's stronger than what we did
Off of the small one,
Isn't it?
Wow, baby. Yeah.
That's good 90%, 95%
Right there, isn't it?
That's what
I'm talking about.
Nailed it.
95% pure ethanol.
We've hit the mother lode.
We could make
A pile of money
Off of just this one
Distillation process.
I bet we're some of the few
People that can do this.
We need to keep this
Hush-hush between us.
We can't tell a soul.
I'm talking nobody.
Because once everybody else
Gets a hold of it, it's over.
You're right.
-prices drop.
-yep. You're right.
Right now we'll be able to get
Anything we want for it.
I'm getting right excited
About this.
This could mean
A lot of money for us.
And also this
Is something different
Than any other moonshiner's
Ever done.
So we got a little bit
More off of there.
-yeah.
-we're getting a little bit more
Than what we'd anticipated
On here.
Two quart.
I tell you what,
We did a fine job right there.
What do you think, kenny?
I'm satisfied
If you are.
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
Mark: I believe that's the
Reason that people gain weight
When they quit smoking.
Their damn food tastes
So much better to them.
No. I'm 300 pounds,
Smoke four packs a day.
Now, don't ever quit!
Narrator:
In cocke county, tennessee,
After receiving an offer
Above market value,
Mark and digger
Are meeting a friend
To do some recon
On the potential buyer.
Thank you, baby.
Keep track how much we bet
You out of if you don't care.
♪♪
-what's up, slim?
-big cold beer?
-why, yeah.
-get me one too.
-believe me.
-sit down there, cuz.
Did you clue him in on any of
This, what we needed with him?
No, you know me and telephones,
I ain't real fond of them.
Hence,
That's why he's here.
Exactly.
Mark: we don't want our buddy
To feel on the spot.
We just simply need to know
What kind of person
He knows this boy to be.
Let's go out here
And talk.
Yeah, we'll be back, tammy.
We need to talk
To you, man.
We've got a couple
Of questions.
We're just gonna quiz you.
You ain't being graded.
I'm gonna get us a little
Jar liquor I set in here.
Mark: all right.
By the way, if that's
Something you want,
Feel free to take that jar
Home with you.
Well, that's good.
I'll take it.
Whatever's left of it
Anyway.
Yeah, there may not be
Much to take home.
We love to come bearing gifts.
You know a little redheaded
Feller the name jesse?
-I do.
-up jones co?
I do.
Well, when he came to us,
He said he got the contact
Number from you.
And he recommended to us
That we talk to you.
Yeah.
He's wanting to buy
100 of our favorite
Gallons of liquor,
And he's offered us
50 more dollars per gallon
Than we've normally
Been getting.
And I don't know whether
The boy was that damn eager
To be in the liquor business,
But our main objective
Is we want to stay out
Of damn handcuffs.
We want to sell him
This product,
But we can't sell it to him
If he ain't the right kind,
And that's why
We come to you.
He ain't been no trouble,
Has he?
Not that I know of. He seems
To be a pretty good boy.
Well, big question is,
Would he be able to
Come up with $25,000
If he needed to?
Well, I mean, I know him,
But who can come up
With $25,000 nowadays?
You can't say for sure
If he's got $25,000
Or not,
But if he did have,
You'd be surprised?
He might have money.
I don't know.
Let me ask you this,
In your heart of hearts,
Do you think that
He is the kind
That would cause us
Any problems
If we do sell him
This liquor?
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No, I don't. He's...
Okay. Fair enough.
...A good boy and...
Your word's
Good enough for me.
If you've got that much
Confidence in him,
Then I feel okay with it.
I do. I do.
He's a good man.
Okay. We agreed?
I'm good with it.
We'll sell him the liquor.
We've checked this boy out
Just as thorough
As I think we can.
We're pretty much at ease.
We don't feel like this boy
Is gonna set us up.
We got to move forward with it.
We don't have enough
Of our legacy liquor
To sell this boy
A hundred gallons.
We've got to pull up our stakes
And go make another
Quick little run.
-good deal.
-let's go drink some more beer.
Thank you, man.
Appreciate you coming.
We'll buy you another.
-well, I'll take another.
-get everybody a beer on tammy.
♪ trouble, welcome home ♪
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I told it if it ever
Flooded my house again,
I was gonna kill it.
You're talking to a machine,
Not a person.
You don't understand.
It was practically brand new.
It was just out of warranty,
And it flooded the house again.
And you killed it?
And I was sitting
In the living room
And there was
A shotgun there.
Boom!
It don't give me
No more trouble no more.
What about your harley?
If your harley don't crank,
You're gonna shoot it?
No, that's my harley.
That's a different story.
Oh, okay.
Narrator: mark and digger
Make it look easy
As they glide past their
Season goal with 2,050 gallons.
Connubial bless is close at hand
For tickle as he and the laws
Hit 2,000.
Success without reward
For mike and jerry
As they near 990.
And at 65 gallons,
Josh might want to consider
Another line of work.
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All right, guys.
Let's see what we got.
See if that ethanol has done
Got all that cbd out of it.
Narrator: in virginia,
After soaking their hemp
Overnight in the pure ethanol
From their last run,
Tickle and the laws are ready
To extract cbd from the mixture.
Tell you what, we're gonna
Take this cheese cloth
And we going strain
Some of it off.
-strain it?
-look at how green that is.
Yeah, I swear I believe
That's the color of the dye
They use to color
$100 dollar bills.
-cha-ching, baby.
-look here.
Our hemp has been mashed in for
A little while with our ethanol,
And it's given it plenty of time
To start extracting the cbd
From the hemp.
God them fumes. Whew!
Damn, that's strong.
Y'all don't want me to catch
A buzz off of this.
I imagine.
The way you stand over it,
It won't be long.
Our next step is to strain
This off
And to start pressing what
Last little bit of ethanol
And cbd that's in this hemp
Back out of it.
Heck, yeah. We did good
With this thing.
Cleaner we can get it now,
The easier it'll be
To work with later.
We get it on the burner,
Cook this ethanol off,
And we can start
Our infusion.
Moonshine is just like
Any other business.
It has to progress
With the times,
Or it's doomed
To be left in the past.
And that's what
We're doing here.
We're pushing the boundaries
And the limits
Of what moonshine could
Possibly be in the future.
And this right here is going
To be a draw for customers.
-god, that looks good.
-it sure does, gracious.
I never thought I'd look
At a bowl
Of boiling black tar goop
And say, "Mmm, mmm, good."
All right, guys.
It's ready.
-yeah, it looks real good.
-looks great.
I bet we can infuse a whole lot
Of moonshine with that.
-let's do it.
-yeah.
Here we go.
This stuff's thickened
Right up, man.
This the pure form
Right here
So we know we've got
One more step.
We got to dilute it.
Oh yeah, she's thinning on
Down some, isn't she?
This is 100% pure cbd.
We're gonna dilute that down
Into our peach brandy moonshine
Because it's actually soluble.
It's like something
From the swamps.
The swamp monster.
-oh, look a yonder.
-it's breaking it on down.
It's sure enough is,
Isn't it?
I know I got 10 gallons
Of shine sitting here.
-let's see.
-and we got customers waiting.
We've taken a whole lot of time
And went through a whole
Lot of pains
With this cbd extraction,
And we're at the point now
Where it's time to infuse
It into our moonshine.
But if we mix them together
And this is something
That doesn't have
A good taste,
Let's face it --
All of this was for nothing.
I think we've done
A fair deal to everybody.
If every shot they take,
They're gonna get
A dose of cbd.
We want that person to know
When he takes that shot,
He's getting his dose...
He's got it.
He's got it. It's in there.
-that's right.
-of cbd.
Let's try it and see
What we think.
That's one thing about it,
You got to keep working with it
Until you get it
The way you want it.
Gonna put a pint
In each one.
Make sure that
Everything's even.
Everything's even. I'm going
To give y'all the honors.
-all right.
-one in each one.
All right.
One in each one.
-look at how thick that is.
-it's like lemon syrup.
Oh, yeah. She just went
Right on in it.
-it mixed good.
-it did.
We ain't done yet, boys.
Color looks great.
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You know what?
I like it.
No comparison right there.
Hit it on the head there.
I think that's about
The mixture we got
That that we need to have.
That there is great.
When you first take
A little sip of it,
You get a little bit of green,
Earthy note of the cbd
And the hemp,
And it pairs very well
With the peach
In our peach brandy.
We took a big gamble on this,
And I tell you what --
I'm extremely happy
With the outcome.
Like I said the brandy's,
But you've got a little...
Where you can tell it --
On your tongue.
You can tell it
That cbd is in there.
-it's in there.
-yeah.
That right there
Should be a winner.
I'll guarantee you
It's a winner.
You've got that right.
Narrator: tickle and the laws'
Revolutionary new moonshine
Should be able to fetch
North of $60 per quart.
Well, you know,
Here's what it boils down to --
We figured this out.
We built
Our fractionating column.
We figured out how to
Infuse it into moonshine.
We've got it, and we're not
Compromising this liquor.
Way I see it,
The sky's the limit from here.
I hear you.
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Mark: can you see
Where you're going?
Digger: I'm gonna call that
Wonderful right there.
Narrator: in tennessee,
In order to fill their
New 100 gallon order,
Mark and digger
Need to mash in
Their legacy liquor
One last time.
Digger and I've come
To an agreement.
We're gonna go through
With the deal,
But we don't have enough
Of the legacy liquor,
So we're gonna have to do
A mash in, do another run.
Clean all this *bleep* off.
Don't want many leaves
In their liquor.
Digger, hattie, this guy,
He's wanting in the neighborhood
Of a hundred gallons.
Why is it we're giving him
All this liquor
And we're not letting
Daniel have it?
It's a ridiculous
Amount of money
That he's offering
For this liquor.
I mean, he's offering us
$250
For every gallon of this liquor
We bring to him.
Daniel's bootlegged this liquor
For us all season,
And to cut him off,
You know, kind of --
It don't sit well with me.
It's business,
Hattie boy, I mean.
Call him.
If he's like me,
I want to hear bad news
Immediately.
[ ringing ]
-hello?
-hey. What are you doing, man?
Piddling around a little.
What about you?
I'm gonna cut to the chase
First and foremost.
We told you we was going have
A little bit of liquor for you.
Yeah.
That ain't gonna be
The case, brother.
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Narrator: next time
On the season finale
Of "Moonshiners"...
Smith: I stashed
Just a little bit.
You never know when you're
Gonna have a special occasion.
...In virginia...
It's okay,
You're stressed out
Because you're getting ready
To get married.
This is a first time,
I understand.
...Pre-wedding jitters
Threaten to become
A full-blown case of cold feet.
♪♪
Josh: what in the hell?
In north carolina...
They got me completely
Blocked in.
...After a season filled
With obstacles,
Josh finally makes
A breakthrough.
Damn!
Mark: I really didn't
Expect to see you here
This evening, buddy.
And in tennessee...
I promise you that
That legacy liquor
Is gonna end up
In mike's hands.
Mark and digger get a tip
That shines new light
On their biggest sale
Of the year.
Do you remember what popcorn
Did to that boy back '83?
-we'll do it.
-all right.
If little mikey wants to buy
A hundred gallons of liquor,
We'll sell him
A hundred gallon of liquor.
-it's gonna be interesting.
-oh. Yes, it is.