Moonshiners
Think the days of bootleggers, backwoods stills and "white lightning" are over? Not a chance! It's a multi-million dollar industry. But perhaps more importantly to the moonshiners, it's a tradition dating back hundreds of years, passed down to them from their forefathers. It's part of their history and culture. While this practice is surprisingly alive and well, it's not always legal. Moonshiners tells the story of those who brew their shine - often in the woods near their homes using camouflaged equipment - and the local authorities who try to keep them honest. Viewers will witness practices rarely, if ever, seen on television including the sacred rite of passage for a moonshiner - firing up the still for the first time. They will also meet legends, including notorious moonshiner Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton.
Seasons
1. Moonshine Season Starts
Air Date: 2011-12-06
As the season approaches, moonshiner Tim and his partner Tickle search Appalachia for the perfect site to set up his operation. Law enforcement agent Jesse Tate is on the hunt for his first big arrest, but runs into a dangerous web of counter-surveillance.
2. Point of No Return
Air Date: 2011-12-07
Moonshiner Tim and his partner 'Tickle' perform a sacred rite that is rarely captured on film - firing up their still for the first time. Everything goes smoothly, until an emergency hits. Meanwhile, law enforcement agent Jesse Tate pursues a hot tip.
3. The Law Comes Knockin
Air Date: 2011-12-14
Equipment failure and an intruder threaten Moonshiner Tim and his partner Tickle's first run of moonshine. Law enforcement agent Jesse Tate busts a nip joint. Moonshining legend Popcorn Sutton runs some 'shine the old-fashioned way.
4. Outlaw Brotherhood
Air Date: 2011-12-21
Moonshiner Tim and his partner Tickle soup up Tim's hot rod when they are forced into a daring, daytime bootlegging run. Meanwhile, a hurricane threatens the still site. Then, a new bootlegging biker legend sets out on an 800 mile run.
5. A Price to Pay
Air Date: 2011-12-28
With the leaves falling, Moonshiner Tim makes a risky move and adds a second pot to the still site to double his profits. Tickle has a bad accident - and Agent Jesse prepares for the mother lode of all busts.
6. A Moonshiner's Farewell
Air Date: 2012-01-04
In this season finale, one moonshiner will come to an untimely end. Tim and Tickle risk it all, running 'shine day and night, making more money than Tim's ever made. Agent Jesse makes his biggest move of the season when he ambushes an active still site.
7. Bootleg Hustle
Air Date: 2012-04-17
It's the dead of winter in Appalachia, and moonshine season is months away. Moonshiner Tim and his partner Tickle are planning a daring 100-mile bootleg run capped with a risky midday moonshine transfer - something Tim rarely does.
1. Rise 'n Shine!
Air Date: 2012-11-07
Moonshine season in Appalachia has begun. Tim and Tickle are back, as we are introduced to some old school shiners - all looking to grab a piece of a $100 million dollar jackpot – tax free. But with a new lawman in town, everyone will be watching their backs.
2. Moonshine Goldmine
Air Date: 2012-11-14
A breakthrough is made on Josh and Bill's underground still; Mark and Jeff build a copper still.
3. Moonshiner Vs. Hogzilla
Air Date: 2012-11-21
Jim Tom helps Mark and Jeff repair a broken still; Mark hunts a wild hog.
4. Storm's a Brewing
Air Date: 2012-11-28
A storm threatens Josh and Bill's underground still; Tickle goes rogue.
5. A Shiner's Last Stand
Air Date: 2012-12-05
Tickle recruits a new partner and tries to find a new site after splitting from Tim; Mark, Jeff and Jim Tom start work on a second still; deputy sheriff Chuck infiltrates a moonshine operation.
6. Prophecy Fulfilled
Air Date: 2012-12-12
Tickle builds a new still. Josh gets angry when he damages the nearly completed underground still site. Mark and Jeff make a risky move when they sell some of their product in town. Jim Tom teaches Jeff's son Lance how to measure the alcohol by volume concentration of moonshine.
7. Tickle Goes Rogue
Air Date: 2012-12-19
Josh and Bill find mold in their underground still; Jeff's wife and son set up a second still.
8. Troubled Waters
Air Date: 2013-01-02
Tickle gets busted by an angry landowner, while Tim devises an ingenious new hiding spot for his back-up stash of shine. Then, Josh & Bill get into a bone-breaking fight at their new still site. Also, Mark bootlegs moonshine by canoe in the dead of night.
9. Adios, Mr. Still
Air Date: 2013-01-09
Gunfire erupts in the bamboo patch just as Josh & Bill fire up their still for the first time this season. Meanwhile, Jeff, Mark & Jim Tom run a batch of President George Washington's rye whiskey. Then, Tickle hits the skids when his still is sabotaged.
10. Moonshine Treasure Hunt
Air Date: 2013-01-16
Tim searches for 200 gallons of moonshine in a lake; Tickle finds his former helper; Jeff protects his still from an intruder; Mike uses horse manure for something other than gardening.
11. Hat in Hand
Air Date: 2013-01-23
Tickle asks Tim for help; Jeff, Mark and Jim Tom battle a swarm of yellow jackets; and Josh rescues Cutie Pie.
12. Last Shiner Standing
Air Date: 2013-01-30
In this season finale, one moonshiner will go down. Tickle devises a bold but risky plan to sell Tim's shine. Then, Josh & Bill's still site is compromised while Jeff, Mark & Jim Tom brazenly run three stills. Finally, Deputy Sheriff Chuck makes his move.
1. Time to 'Shine
Air Date: 2013-11-05
It's the start of moonshine season! Moonshiners Jeff and Mark, and partners Josh and Bill hit the ground running. Meanwhile, veteran shiner Tim Smith will make a life-changing move, and Tickle is forced to realize that his time to shine has just begun.
2. A Shiner in Kentucky
Air Date: 2013-11-12
Mark and Jeff clear their remote North Carolina still site, while an argument between Josh and Bill threatens to destroy their partnership. Tim has a tough time adjusting to moonshining in a legal Kentucky distillery, and Tickle takes a road trip.
3. Swamp Shiners
Air Date: 2013-11-19
Mark and Jeff struggle to set up their remote still site, while Josh and Bill are desperate for cash to build a new copper still. Tensions run high in the Kentucky distillery with Tim and his partner Steve, and a new moonshiner appears in Mississippi.
4. More Shiners More Problems
Air Date: 2013-11-26
Tim Smith hires a person with a checkered past to help at the distillery in Kentucky. Tickle learns how to make moonshine in a copper pot still from one of the best. In North Carolina, Jeff and Mark are surprised by an unexpected visitor.
5. Hush Money
Air Date: 2013-12-03
In North Carolina, Jeff and Mark must pay hush money to the property owner of their still site, while veteran shiner Jim Tom helps Wayne perfect his moonshine recipe. In Virginia, Tickle encounters bad luck when he starts bootlegging his own shine.
6. First Run
Air Date: 2013-12-10
Tickle bootlegs at night, while Wayne comes up with an ingenious drop-off plan for his own bootleggers. Equipment failure threatens the production of Tim Smith's legal moonshine, and Josh and Bill finally begin their first run of strawberry brandy.
7. Blue Moonshine
Air Date: 2013-12-17
Josh and Bill are forced back to their day jobs after their shine runs blue. Chico, under financial stress, makes a hard decision that could risk it all. Tickle struggles to keep Tim's old territory supplied. Mark and Jeff move their liquor.
8. Rival Shiners
Air Date: 2013-12-24
Tim reaches a milestone with his first bottled batch of shine. Jeff and Mark suspect a rival in their territory. Chico takes a risk that could cost him everything. Josh and Bill's only hope at financing their shine operation is to consider bootlegging.
9. Bootlegging Blowups
Air Date: 2014-01-02
Tim enlists Tickle's help to investigate his new still hand, Chico. Josh and Bill take on new risks as they try to stay alive in the moonshine game, as bootleggers. Jeff, Mark and Lance look to take out the competition.
10. Moonshine War
Air Date: 2014-01-07
Tickle goes undercover to learn what Chico has been doing; Josh and Bill travel to a music festival; Mark and Lance seek to eliminate the competition.
11. Firewater
Air Date: 2014-01-14
Josh and Bill suffer the consequences of bootlegging. Darlene goes against her best instinct and lights up her still indoors. Jeff, Mark, and Lance find their competition is still out there. Tim takes final measures to protect his legal shine business.
12. Aftershock
Air Date: 2014-01-28
Jeff and Mark look to cash in on one final run of the season. Tickle and Chico's still site is compromised. Mike is desperate to complete his New Orleans order, and turns to Darlene. Josh and Bill might get to sell some of their own liquor after all.
13. Liquid Courage
Air Date: 2014-02-04
Jeff and Mark reach a roadblock; Deputy Chuck is in hot pursuit; Mike travels to finish off his biggest sale of the season; Tickle attracts unwanted attention.
1. Shine On
Air Date: 2014-11-05
Tim is on the run after his operation was set on fire. Jim Tom prepares for his second coming as a moonshiner. Tickle & Tyler take their partnership to a new level. Josh & Bill sell last year's surplus shine. Jeff & Mark survey an indoor still site.
2. Moonshine Cascade
Air Date: 2014-11-11
Tickle and Tyler need to fix a bad feed line and get back to work at the moonshine cave. Jim Tom and Roy build the still that will carry them to greatness. Josh and Bill are sidelined with a crushed still. Sheriff’s Deputy Chuck gains ground on Lance.
3. Bullet Proof
Air Date: 2014-11-18
Josh & Bill pick up the pieces of their broken still. Lance tries to brew a moonshine game changer as Sheriff's Deputy Chuck closes in. Tickle gets stranded miles from civilization. Tim sets out from Kentucky in search of greener pastures.
4. Risky Whiskey
Air Date: 2014-11-25
Josh and Bill rebuild bigger and better. Lance takes a risk on a new kind of whiskey, while Jeff and Mark prep their indoor still site. Tickle and crew battle the elements in Kentucky. Tim gives the North Carolina distillery a backwoods makeover.
5. Tennessee Rising
Air Date: 2014-12-02
Two former still hands of moonshine legend Popcorn Sutton emerge from the shadows. Tim learns that getting out of the illegal liquor business doesn’t get you out of the woods.
6. Moonshine Takedown
Air Date: 2014-12-09
Tickle nails down a stash spot. Josh and Bill butt heads in the backwoods. Jim Tom and Roy are back in action. Mark and Digger's still goes from old school to state-of-the-art. And Mark and Jeff put the bells and whistles on their new shine spot.
7. White Lightning Wars
Air Date: 2014-12-16
Mark & Jeff feel the heat as the law closes in. Tim's plan to give a backwoods makeover to Troy's distillery will cost him big. Tickle flirts with disaster as he tries to sell his Kentucky made white lightning.
8. Liquid Assets
Air Date: 2014-12-23
Tickle has his hands full keeping track of his liquor and Chico and Tyler are becoming suspicious. Bill and Josh build an underground bunker to hide their shine. Tennessee shiners, Mark and Digger, test an invention that could revolutionize moonshining.
9. Shine Jacked
Air Date: 2014-12-30
Josh and Bill have a close call with authorities; a new lawman visits two shiners in Tennessee; Tickle learns a lesson the hard way.
10. Moonshine River
Air Date: 2015-01-06
Josh and Bill have a triple batch run; Tickle makes a sacrifice to save his partnership; Tim is ready to see if the Asheville distillery can produce his moonshine.
11. Shine Overboard
Air Date: 2015-01-13
The final weeks of shine season are here. Josh & Bill's liquor gets stuck six feet under. Chico & Tyler brew a sweet & sticky moonshine game-changer. Tickle gets trumped by his old buddy. And Mark & Jeff's first sale on the water ends in disaster.
12. Bootleg or Bust
Air Date: 2015-01-20
Josh and Bill secretly sell their shine; Tim returns to Virginia to fill an order; Mark tries to make a delivery by boat; Tickle's deal nearly breaks down.
13. Bros Before Hooch
Air Date: 2015-01-27
Tickle takes risks to stay true to his old partner; Josh and Bill make a last run in the woods; Mark and Digger's season is in danger when their deal backfires.
14. The Shining
Air Date: 2015-02-03
It’s last call in shine country. Deputy Chuck takes to the water to catch Mark red-handed. Tim & Tickle work together to make a rush delivery of 2,000 cases of liquor in their home state. The cops close in on Josh & Bill with shocking consequences.
1. American Spirits
Air Date: 2015-11-17
In the Season 5 premiere, moonshine is in demand and the law is on the hunt. Included: Tim faces a dilemma that jeopardizes his legit business; Jeff, Mark and Lance aim to double their profits; and Josh and Bill find themselves on shaky legal ground.
2. Whiskey Burn
Air Date: 2015-11-24
Mark and Digger come up with a revolutionary still design in the first weeks of shine season, during which the outlaws are eager to turn a profit before the cops close in. Josh and Bill's first run leaves a bitter taste. Jeff, Mark and Lance scope out the competition.
3. Gone A-Rye
Air Date: 2015-12-01
Shiners attempt to stay off the grid as the outside world encroaches on the backwoods. Tim breaks the news about the fate of Climax Moonshine. Jeff, Mark and Lance search for a new site before rivals can grab hold of the market.
4. Still Life
Air Date: 2015-12-08
Shine season is in full swing as Josh & Bill find themselves with no still, no home base and no shine. Mark & Digger enlist a whiskey legend to find out why their first run went awry. Mark, Jeff & Lance undertake construction on an ambitious still site.
5. Rain or Shine
Air Date: 2015-12-15
Weeks into moonshine season, Josh & Bill race to finish their still site and make their first run. Intruders interrupt Mark & Digger's rye test. A deadly disaster leaves Tim rattled and rethinking his plans to expand.
6. A Very Moonshiners Christmas
Air Date: 2015-12-22
Christmas in Appalachia finds the shiners embracing the Yuletide spirit as they gather with friends and loved ones, wrap themselves with new traditions and create new flavors of liquor.
7. Scotch on the Rocks
Air Date: 2015-12-29
It's one step forward and two steps back for Josh and Bill as they near the completion of their bunker. Meanwhile, Jeff, Mark and Lance are $6000 in the hole after losing a batch of mash before starting work on their Highland Scotch.
8. Six Feet Undercover
Air Date: 2016-01-05
Mark and Digger craft 150 gallons of brandy with Jim Tom's help and must get it into the hands of their customers.
9. Out on a Limb
Air Date: 2016-01-12
In North Carolina a behemoth threatens to undo months of construction for Josh and Bill. A nocturnal prowler threatens Patti and David's clandestine operation and battle lines are drawn in Kentucky as Chico and Tyler clash over creative differences.
10. Trouble Brewing
Air Date: 2016-01-19
As the summer winds down, the shiners double their efforts to make a profit. Tim Smith heads out on a quest to dominate the international shine market.
11. Caved In
Air Date: 2016-01-26
Patti and David work on a fiery, new brew. Elsewhere, the feud continues between Josh and Bill.
12. Cherry Bounce
Air Date: 2016-02-02
It's the final weeks of summer and shiners are putting it all on the line. Tim must create a way to fill a massive international order and it’s judgment day in Virginia as Tickle puts on a brave face for court.
13. Shine 'Til You Drop
Air Date: 2016-02-09
The stakes get higher as shine season nears its end. Mark and Digger leave disaster behind for a new still site as Patti and David's jalapeno whiskey drives them to sell in unfamiliar territory.
14. Still Regretting
Air Date: 2016-02-16
Josh is down his right hand and his right hand man. Snags at the distillery have production at a halt and Tim's future in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Chico and Sandra set out on horseback for some mountain shining.
15. Virgin Whiskey
Air Date: 2016-02-23
Chico & Sandra are anxious to get back in the saddle and make their first run. Tim's behemoth tank might not be the ticket to fulfilling the Poland order after all . With Jim Tom by his side, Josh churns out a family heritage spirit.
16. Presidential Shine
Air Date: 2016-03-01
Patti & David rush to sell off their stash before a local fracking operation ends their season in a bust. Jeff, Mark and Lance hope that a classic recipe will save their season. A calling card from the law may bring Mark & Digger's season to an end.
17. End of an Era
Air Date: 2016-03-08
It’s last call in shine country. Tim is thousands of cases of shine away from delivering the order of a lifetime. Mark & Digger receive the surprise of their lives in the middle of a shine sale. Josh is working on one last score and making amends.
18. Need For Speed
Air Date: 2016-03-15
Josh aims to take his dirt track skills to the next level with the help of a speedway pro. Tyler searches for the perfect bootlegging car. Mark & Huck take their haul off-road to deliver across state lines. Mark & Digger aim to revive a heritage car.
1. Whiskey Rebellion
Air Date: 2016-11-15
It's moonshine season in Appalachia. Josh has hit the ground running but working solo can lead to catastrophic results. And former outlaw Tim Smith is training his son JT to help run his legal outfit.
2. Take Me to the River
Air Date: 2016-11-22
Patti & David scramble to locate a clean water source for their operation. Mark Rogers ventures into unfamiliar territory to secure new buyers. Mark & Digger use an old moonshiner's trick to spook intruders from their still site.
3. Hard Start
Air Date: 2016-11-29
Josh finds himself in desperate need of help following a catastrophe and Chico and Sandra's moonshine partnership puts strain on their relationship. Mark and Digger get innovative with their still, but the operation attracts an unwanted visitor.
4. Luck of the Irish
Air Date: 2016-12-06
A rookie mistake could ruin Josh and Chuck's operation and Tim travels across the Atlantic to teach an old Irish distillery about making moonshine. Mark and Digger's mash test is interrupted by an unwanted visitor.
5. Big River Redemption
Air Date: 2016-12-13
Mark and Digger struggle with a special recipe for a shine legend. Big Chuck tries to redeem himself after destroying Josh's operation. Chico and Sandra continue working on their still site, but disaster strikes.
6. Making Spirits Bright
Air Date: 2016-12-20
It's Christmas time in shine country! Mark & Digger get in the holiday spirit by playing Santa Claus for kids in need. Patti & David prepare special treats for a festive holiday feast. Bill and friends prepare for Christmas caroling the Carolina way.
7. Whiskey Time Machine
Air Date: 2016-12-27
Tim needs to rescue his operation, challenging the laws of nature and time. Mark and Digger implement a high tech addition to their operation that could double their output, if it doesn't blow them up. Jeff and Lance make a once banned liquor.
8. Dog Days of Shining
Air Date: 2017-01-03
Josh and Big Chuck find a new still site in hopes of reviving their season; and Mark and Digger test their still design. Later, Mark and Mike check out new territory.
9. Smokey Mountain Gin
Air Date: 2017-01-10
Tim Smith aims to put a whiskey time machine to the test; Chico and Sandra switch gears with a new recipe in hopes of jump-starting their stalled season; Mark and Digger opt to experiment with distilling an old classic on their high-speed rig.
10. Green Dragon
Air Date: 2017-01-17
Josh and Chuck work to reclaim their place at the top. Later, money threatens an old partnership for Jeff, Mark and Lance; and Mark and Digger craft a special brew for a high-rolling customer.
11. Big City Bootleg
Air Date: 2017-01-24
With liquor stockpiled, Carolina shiners Josh and Big Chuck start digging for a new stash site. The pressure's on as backwoods distillers Mark and Digger haul 60 gallons of premium gin to Nashville the sale of their career. In the Louisiana swamplands, father/daughter duo Patti and David follow nature's harvest to make a sweet new brew.
12. Big Wheels Keep On Turning
Air Date: 2017-01-31
Mark and Digger bring in a moonshine legend to rev-up production; Josh and Chuck turn to an old power source to prolong their operation; Chico and Sondra gear up for their first big sale of the season; Tim puts money on the line.
13. The Green Devil
Air Date: 2017-02-07
Jeff and Lance attempt to salvage their absinthe recipe; Mark puts his new partner to the test; backbreaking labor and a lack of profit threaten to leave Josh up the creek without a paddle or a partner; Patti and David lack their key ingredient.
14. Thunder Pumpkins
Air Date: 2017-02-14
An ingredient has Josh and Chuck ready to quit the biz; Mark and Digger band together with JB to run their signature spirit; Tim puts his turbo-aged whiskey to the test; and Chico and Sondra have their sights on a new brew.
15. Two Pot Bang Bang
Air Date: 2017-02-21
Josh and Chuck struggle to finish winterizing their site; Mark and Digger bring their two-pot still out of retirement; Mark and Mike have enjoyed a string of successful runs, but delivering the goods could land them in the crosshairs of the law.
16. Intruder Alert
Air Date: 2017-03-07
Winter closes in and shiners aim to finish their seasons strong; Mark and Digger clash with the law; a breach from an intruder leaves Josh and Chuck deep in debt; Chico and Sondra's operation is burned.
17. The Legend of Tim Smith
Air Date: 2017-03-16
Jeff, Mark and Lance head their separate ways; Tim gets to spend time with an old friend; Patti and David end their season with a boatload of shine.
18. Last Call
Air Date: 2017-03-28
Jeff, Mark and Lance's legendary partnership comes to a bittersweet end.
1. Snake Bitten
Air Date: 2017-11-14
Moonshine season is back and the demand for white lightning is higher than ever. Tim Smith has a visitor from his outlaw past, Mark and Digger get a sign from above in Tennessee, and Josh's favorite still hand has a brush with death.
2. Shine in the Sky
Air Date: 2017-11-21
Moonshine season is underway & shiners are eager to get product to market. Josh mashes in while awaiting Cutie Pie's fate. Mark and Digger struggle with materials building an experimental 3-Pot still. Chico and Sondra build a still high in the trees.
3. Lightning Strikes
Air Date: 2017-11-28
Moonshine setbacks are the order of the day. Josh hopes to take on a partner while Mark and Digger erect the cornerstone of their massive 3-pot still. Patti and David hunt for clean swamp water and Mike works solo to fulfill and order.
4. Pony Express
Air Date: 2017-12-05
In Tennessee, Mark and Digger are ready to test out their 3-pot still. Chico and Sondra employ a four legged still hand. Josh rides under the radar in South Carolina. And Tim hopes to teach JT about his backwoods roots.
5. Second Chances
Air Date: 2017-12-12
After a disastrous first run Mark & Digger seek redemption on their 3-pot still. Tim enlists Tickle as JT's moonshine mentor. Patti & David build a second still in hopes of doubling their production & Lance tries to regain Jeff's trust running solo.
6. Legends of the Shine
Air Date: 2017-12-19
Mark and Digger test yeast strains to get the most out of a new shine recipe. Tim and JT visit moonshine legends. Mark Rodgers sets up a new still site and runs without a partner. Chico and Sondra start their season with a run of strawberry banana brandy.
7. Pass the Juice
Air Date: 2017-12-26
In North Carolina, Mike brings back an old family shine recipe. JT is eager to start running on his own. Mark and Digger try to troubleshoot a stalled fermentation while Patti and David deal with a deadly intruder at their still site.
8. Stash and Grab
Air Date: 2018-01-02
In the Great Smoky Mountains, Mark and Digger recruit a retired shiner. In South Carolina, Josh and Chuck run an old family recipe. In Tennessee, Lance enlists the help of a bootlegger to move his product. And in Kentucky, Sondra has to think fast.
9. Arrested Development
Air Date: 2018-01-09
In Virginia, Tickle mentors JT at Belmont Farm while Mark & Digger receive an impossible shine order. In Louisiana, Patti & David secure their still site after spotting a deadly intruder, and Lance & Jeff scramble when their bootlegger goes missing.
10. Skins in the Game
Air Date: 2018-01-16
Tim tries a centuries old method for finding water. In Tennessee, Mark & Digger source ingredients for a unique liquor that could make their season. As pressure mounts, Mark & Mike reunite while Chico and Sondra risk it all in Kentucky
11. Curse of the Blown Cover
Air Date: 2018-01-23
In the Great Smoky Mountains, Mark & Digger prepare for the first run of hillbilly grappa. In Louisiana, Patti & David bootleg on the bayou. At Belmont Farms, an experimental shine recipe mashes in while Mike seeks out a new still hand in Tennessee.
12. Highway to Hell
Air Date: 2018-02-06
On the cusp of his biggest moonshine deal yet, Josh embarks on a harrowing cross-country delivery. Rain threatens the final run of a special seasonal shine recipe. America's first "Shiner in Chief" inspires a top dollar batch of malted rye whiskey.
13. From the Flames
Air Date: 2018-02-13
Josh must make good with a biker gang after a trailer fire leaves them empty handed. Tickle's first run of legal rye whisky tempts him to return to the illegal side. In Louisiana, a sassafras shine experiment puts a massive delivery at risk.
14. High and Dry
Air Date: 2018-02-20
Approaching a massive season sale, Josh becomes a mad moonshine scientist. Mark and Digger scramble to complete a technically challenging run while Mark risks a solo run of sour mash whiskey. Patti and David hit the Gulf for their biggest sale yet.
15. Lighted Up
Air Date: 2018-03-06
Mark & Digger confront a shiner who's been edging into their territory. Red and blue lights flash. Josh makes a split second decision. Lance hopes a big sale could rectify past bootlegging blunders while Mike risks his sale, reputation and freedom.
16. Not a Crook
Air Date: 2018-03-13
Tim considers a permanent role for Tickle at the Distillery, while Sondra convinces Chico that a unique recipe will seal their season. Lance surprises Jeff with an unorthodox moonshine ingredient, and Patti and David risk a supersized mega run.
17. Foraging for a Long Winter Ahead
Air Date: 2018-03-20
In Tennessee, Mike sets himself up for a career high with a run of specialty liquor but faces a devastating setback. In the last run of the season, Sondra takes charge, and Rodgers tampers with his final run in an attempt to cash out
18. Nail in the Coffin
Air Date: 2018-03-20
In this explosive season finale, backwoods rivalries reach the breaking point! Cops stop Mark and Digger during their last big bootleg. Josh risks a $20K sale with an unreliable biker gang, and Mike lights the fuse on an Appalachian turf war.
1. High Proof Holidays
Air Date: 2018-12-11
It's Christmas in Appalachia and Tim Smith is 4000 miles away in Alaska making a special delivery to his northernmost customer. In Tennessee, Mark and Digger cook up a plan to make a holiday run of liquor for two legendary shiners from a bygone era.
2. Legacy on the Line
Air Date: 2019-01-02
Moonshine season is on and the shiners must step it up to stay ahead of big liquor and the law. A 100mph wipeout puts Josh's operation in jeopardy, Tim takes a risk on rye, and Mark and Digger are hell-bent on backwoods justice after Mike's betrayal.
3. Backwoods Justice
Air Date: 2019-01-08
Tensions boil over in Tennessee as Mike must answer for blowing up Mark and Digger's still. With Tickle in jail, JT answers the call when two outlaw shiners show up looking for help in the woods. Josh faces more bad news in the form of a bear.
4. Wrong Side of the Law
Air Date: 2019-01-16
Legal shiner Tim finds himself on the wrong side of the law after son JT spots an agent near a still site. Mike designs a unique still to make high-dollar shine. Mark and Digger make an in-town run and Josh discovers what bears do in the woods.
5. Popcorn's Secret Stash
Air Date: 2019-01-23
Ten years after Popcorn Sutton's death, his widow reveals a clue that could lead Mark and Digger to a hidden stash. Mike must gin up his brandy game to pay off his debt to Mark and Digger. Donnie and Teresa build a secret still in a Kentucky cave.
6. Burden of Proof
Air Date: 2019-01-30
Booted off his backwoods still site, Josh turns to his stock-car racing roots to invent a whole new way of making moonshine. Old-timer JB comes to the rescue as Mark and Digger fall short on a run. Mark Rogers faces a close encounter with the law.
7. Breaking the Laws
Air Date: 2019-02-06
When their still site gets compromised, Virginia shiners Henry and Kenny enlist the help of bootlegging legend Amos Law. To pay off his debt to Mark & Digger, Mike runs his still to the breaking point. Tim doubles down on JT and Tickle's double rye.
8. Mid-season Secret Summit
Air Date: 2019-02-13
Midway into the season, America's top moonshiners gather to deal with unfinished business. Mike tells his side of the Mark & Digger feud. Josh reveals scars from his checkered past, and the shiners put their skills to the test in a whiskey showdown.
9. Moonshiner’s Apprentice
Air Date: 2019-02-13
Mark and Digger's new apprentice proves talent can't be taught. Josh tempts fate converting a new race car trailer into a mobile moonshining masterpiece. Mark Rogers enlists a retired lawman to bootleg 30 gallons of shine into a music festival.
10. Hillbilly Ingenuity
Air Date: 2019-02-20
As Josh gets set to fire up his hidden mobile still at a biker rally, law enforcement gets wise to his illicit plan. Mark & Digger's backwoods potato vodka hits a sweet spot. Short on payback cash, Mike and Daniel invent a new way to get out of debt.
11. Bootlegger's Bounty
Air Date: 2019-02-27
Tracking down an old-time bootlegger, Mark and Digger uncover treasures Popcorn Sutton left behind. In debt, Mike and Daniel engineer a split pot still to upgrade their shine, and its price. Patti and David convert pontoons into a bayou still site.
12. Full Throttle Throwdown
Air Date: 2019-02-27
Fast cars collide with backwoods tradition as Moonshiner Josh Owens puts pedal to the metal on the Carolina Dragway. Gasser rules mean vintage cars and parts only, but in skilled hands heritage pays off in horsepower. These gearheads race for glory.
13. Mobile Moonshiner Madness
Air Date: 2019-03-06
Josh debuts his mobile still at a North Carolina biker rally. In the Great Smoky Mountains, Mike gets burned by a taste of his own medicine. There's a reason Franklin County, VA is the Moonshine Capital of America, and someone there is above the law.
14. 100 Proof Heritage
Air Date: 2019-03-06
Mark and Digger's first run of barrel-aged bourbon gets interrupted by a bear. Scaling up Tickle's double rye tests Tim's backwoods engineering. Mark Rogers builds a malt house to make corn whiskey. In Kentucky, Donnie and Theresa come up short.
15. Legend of “Popcorn” Sutton
Air Date: 2019-03-06
Mark and Digger find a decade-old jar of Popcorn Sutton's shine and vow to re-create their mentor's infamous last run; with help from old-timer JB Rader, they rebuild Popcorn's pot still and recount the antics of Appalachia's most legendary outlaw.
16. Unfinished Business
Air Date: 2019-03-13
Moonshiners share their tricks for running shine and how they avoid the long arm of the law. Tim reveals a visit with Tickle behind bars, and Mark & Digger reveal an unexpected twist in their search for Popcorn Sutton's shine, stashed a decade ago.
17. Whisky Deception
Air Date: 2019-03-13
When a dead drop goes sideways, Mark Rogers deploys backwoods justice to straighten out a thief. Kelly's massive sorghum haul puts Mark and Digger's pot stills to the test. Mike & Daniel's clear apple pie has buyers calling from across county lines.
18. Free Tickle
Air Date: 2019-03-20
A year behind bars, Tickle transfers to Culpeper County, and Tim concocts a plan to get him out. Breaking the shiner code can come at a steep price for Mark Rogers. Mark & Digger's handmade vodka is on a hot streak until a cold snap puts profits at risk...
19. Breaking the Code
Air Date: 2019-03-20
Mark and Digger's handmade vodka is on a hot streak until a cold snap threatens their run. For Mark Rogers, breaking the moonshiner code can come at a steep price. Tim Smith risks a big run of Tickle's double rye to put the woods back into his shine.
20. Hillbilly Hack
Air Date: 2019-03-27
Mark and Digger build a hillbilly hack to save their handmade vodka. Pam may know more than she thinks about Popcorn's lost shine. Nothing but trouble for Josh running a still outside of the woods. Patti and David risk a seaplane bootleg on the bayou.
21. Risky Whisky
Air Date: 2019-03-27
Tickle gets out of jail and Tim must keep him busy, but Tickle has ideas of his own. Mark and Digger make a discovery at Popcorn's boyhood home. On a midnight bootleg, Mark Rogers finds having the law on your side doesn't make you any less of an outlaw.
22. The Trouble with Tickle
Air Date: 2019-04-03
Tickle returns to Tim's legal distillery and discovers he's traded one prison for another. Mark and Digger unearth a trove of Popcorn's shine. Josh finds an untapped market at a biker rally, but learns the cost of entry is more than the ticket price.
23. Tickle Unshackled
Air Date: 2019-04-04
Tickle’s back and funnier than ever after a year in jail; Josh, already in stitches, reveals an unexpected twist to his season, and Mark and Digger uncover how Popcorn’s shine-hoarding ways will pay off for Pam.
24. Master Distiller
Air Date: 2019-07-10
A subculture of distillers across America carries on the backwoods tradition of moonshining. Now, judged by legends Mark, Digger and Tim, America's top legal and outlaw shiners go head to head to see who wins the right to be called Master Distiller.
1. Back To The Woods
Air Date: 2019-11-19
When Tickle returns to the outlaw side, even Tim can't resist the call of the backwoods. Mark and Digger rediscover a lost recipe from a legend. Mike finds the ultimate secret mountain still site, if only he can build a way to access it.
2. Proof is in the Payoff
Air Date: 2019-11-26
Tim and Tickle return to the scene of past crimes and rediscover their passion for outlaw moonshining. Mark Rogers designs a custom pot still to double distill shine he can sell for twice the price. Mark and Digger hand-build a copper mailbox still.
3. Tickle's Big Run
Air Date: 2019-12-03
Tickle mashes in his first large scale run of outlaw shine in years. Mark and Digger scramble to save their Popcorn legacy mash from runaway livestock. Mike ditches Daniel for a new full-time partner. Mark and Huck double their proof and their price.
4. Enemy at the Gates
Air Date: 2020-01-07
Teaming up with a former competitor, Mark and Digger sell their legacy shine in a neighboring county. Mike and Jerry double their shine output only to find customers are getting their shine from another source. Mountain man Mark tracks an intruder.
5. Wedding Cake Shine
Air Date: 2019-12-17
Mark and Digger attempt their first backwoods miracle, turning wedding cake into moonshine. Tickle scrambles for cover when aerial surveillance threatens a return to jail. And Appalachia's most accident-prone shiner is back operating heavy machinery.
6. Drone Vs. Shotgun
Air Date: 2019-12-31
Josh breaks into his secret stash to build a new still site, and breaks out his shotgun when a drone invades his airspace. Daniel hits the jackpot selling for Mark & Digger, while Mike finds his steady customers mysteriously less thirsty than usual.
7. Busted By The Law
Air Date: 2020-01-07
Tim devises a plan to make backwoods shine with Tickle for the first time in years. Short on patience and a key ingredient, Mark and Digger's bootleg operation comes under threat. In a series first, two Tennessee shiners get busted by cops on camera.
8. Toxic Work Environment
Air Date: 2020-01-14
Tickle's carpentry skills shine as Virginia outlaws plan a risky mod to their still. Mark and Digger take a big swing on a small ingredient that can't pass the sniff test. Josh digs deep and uncovers the worst way to foster a toxic work environment.
9. Tickle to the Rescue
Air Date: 2020-01-21
Tickle answers the call when Josh needs help salvaging an abandoned submarine still and his season; Mark and Digger take on a specialty bourbon made from Indian corn; facing jail time, Van and Ewok gamble their freedom for another run.
10. Run For The Hills
Air Date: 2020-01-28
Mark and Digger attempt to rescue a former apprentice from a moonshine calamity. An unknown competitor invades Mike's turf, forcing him to change his shine strategy. Mark and Huck bank on backwoods survival skills to fuel their high-proof run.
11. Say Yes To The Mess
Air Date: 2020-02-04
Tickle announces his engagement and Tim discovers why his best friend can't quit the outlaw side. Unable to sell any shine, Mike attempts a long-distance bootleg that puts him in the crosshairs of the law. Josh bets that Sin City needs one more vice.
12. Murphy's Law For Outlaws
Air Date: 2020-02-11
Tickle and Tim put fire to their first backwoods run in a decade. With 250 gallons of mash on the brink of expiring, Mark and Digger torpedo their own operation. A minor oversight for Josh triggers a domino effect that threatens his entire site.
13. Rolling Down The Mountain
Air Date: 2020-02-18
A young outlaw with an old pot still earns an apprenticeship with Mark and Digger. Mountain man Mark tackles a week-long run to hit an $18K order that includes special delivery. In a desperate attempt to fix his worm barrel, Josh dives in headfirst.
14. Hemp Shine
Air Date: 2020-02-25
Tickle and the Laws infuse anxiety-reducing CBD into their shine but the science is anything but stress-free. Josh digs into his secret stash to cure his subterranean blues. A mystery bootlegger dominates Mike's turf and it's about to get incendiary.
15. Georgia On My Shine
Air Date: 2020-03-03
Mark and Digger head down to Georgia and uncover "Elvis," Popcorn Sutton's most prolific still. Mike plots payback after discovering a rival's liquor stealing his customers. Tim and Tickle are torn over what to do with their new backwoods shine.
16. Unexpected Offer
Air Date: 2020-03-10
Mike and Jerry confront Daniel about how their rival's liquor is invading their territory; Tickle, Henry and Kenny scale up their CBD-infused moonshine operation; a new bootlegger makes Mark and Digger an offer they can't refuse.
17. The Marvelous Mrs. Tickle
Air Date: 2020-03-17
Tickle gets a life sentence and Appalachia turns out for his first walk down the aisle. Mark and Digger risk delivering strong shine and sweet justice. Josh smashes obstacles that stood in his way all season. Mike gets a taste of his own medicine.
18. Shiner Showdown
Air Date: 2020-03-25
Tickle introduces a new Mrs. Tickle; A top spirits expert scores the shiner’s shine.
1. Hard Times Make the Best Shine
Air Date: 2020-11-24
With national supply chains disrupted, Mark and Digger unearth a ton of free ingredients, Tickle helps Josh build a submarine still farm and Mike designs a first-ever backwoods column still, perfect for endless runs of high-quality low-cost liquor.
2. Interstate Alliance
Air Date: 2020-12-01
When Josh lands a windfall of peaches, he and Tickle forge a peach brandy-making alliance.
3. Mark and Digger's Big Test
Air Date: 2020-12-08
With his partner in quarantine, Digger has much more on the line than shine. Mike and Jerry's moonshine Frankenstein turns on its creators.
4. Backwoods is Booming
Air Date: 2020-12-15
Mark and Digger deploy an old-world innovation to bring their barrel-aged reserves to market, while Tim attempts to make Tickle's CBD moonshine on a commercial scale.
5. No Ordinary Run
Air Date: 2020-12-22
Tickle and the Laws unleash a 700-gallon run on a whisper-quiet steamer still. Mark and Huck traverse Appalachia's roughest terrain to run liquor with moonshine legend Jim Tom. Mike and Jerry engineer a high-tech solution to a backwoods problem.
6. Single Malt Moonshine
Air Date: 2020-12-29
Mark and Digger's plan to employ an out of work friend backfires on payday. Tim invents a low-cost way to make his first single-malt moonshine. With their backwoods column still cranking out liquor, Mike discovers Jerry isn't carrying his own weight.
7. Overproof and Under the Gun
Air Date: 2021-01-05
Mark and Digger attempt oatmeal raisin shine for a high-flying Nashville customer; Mike and Jerry find themselves under the gun when they over deliver on proof to a biker gang; Mark and Huck forge a lifeline to old-time shiners deep in the mountains.
8. Too Much of a Good Thing
Air Date: 2021-01-12
As Tickle and the Laws start a massive rye run, a mysterious tip results in too much of a good thing. Jerry gets rushed to the hospital and Mike finds himself shorthanded. Tim innovates a backwoods process for his single-malt shine.
9. Sweet Corn Revenge
Air Date: 2021-01-19
After Mike asks the wrong shiner for help, Mark and Digger land a skilled new partner. On a mountain run, Mark and Huck nearly meet the barrel of a gun. Jerry attempts a comeback as a land sale forces him and Mike to abandon their column still site.
10. Smoke to the Fire
Air Date: 2021-01-26
Facing more rye and apples than the Laws can run, Josh moves his steamer still to Virginia and Tickle adds smoke to the fire. Mark and Huck help Jim Tom turn cherries into shine. Mike and Jerry risk a huge run in the barn of an unsuspecting farmer.
11. Mason Jar Shortage
Air Date: 2021-02-02
A Mason jar shortage puts a lid on Mark and Digger's distribution plans.
12. Caught Red-Handed
Air Date: 2021-02-09
Mark converts a free load of sugar beets into high-proof moonshine.
13. Hog Heaven
Air Date: 2021-02-16
Tim and Tickle's friend Howard recreate the first whiskey made in America.
14. Ice Shine
Air Date: 2021-02-23
Tickle and the Laws attempt to produce freeze-distilled apple liquor.
15. Another Man's Mash
Air Date: 2021-03-02
Tickle and the Laws invent a new recipe with master distiller Richard Landry. Mark and Digger crack their thousand jar problem while mashing in their most profitable run in years. Tim and Howard make a ceramic still to rediscover a colonial whiskey.
16. Basement Bust
Air Date: 2021-03-09
Josh gains access to a cellar still site, but even help from the Laws can't keep trouble from surfacing. Mark and Digger innovate a way to cut the cost of water cooling, and bayou shiner Richard makes a medicinal moonshine from wild-grown manglier.
17. Tennessee Whiskey
Air Date: 2021-03-16
Mark and Digger discover a rare limestone spring to make Tennessee Whiskey.
18. Two Tons Of Fun
Air Date: 2021-03-23
Josh drives a tractor trailer full of stills across state lines to help Tickle and the Laws run two tons of malted corn; Mark and Digger christen their own secret Tennessee Whiskey distillery; Richard builds a copper Virginia-style submarine still.
19. Moonshine Capital Returns
Air Date: 2021-03-30
Josh, Tickle and the Laws build a still farm the likes of which Virginia hasn't seen since the heyday of Amos Law. Jerry misses a day of work and Mike lets down his guard. Mark and Digger discover a rival moonshiner faces a reckoning with the law.
20. Backwoods Bonanza
Air Date: 2021-04-06
In the season finale, with eight stills running full tilt, Tickle enlists Mrs. Tickle to stash too much shine. Mark and Digger devise a way to age their Tennessee whiskey at sea. Tim gets drawn into an epic bootleg, while Mike and Jerry face the law.
1. Boom Time for Moonshine
Air Date: 2021-10-27
Mark and Digger get raided by cops forcing them to flee across state lines. Tickle and the Laws assemble a new mega operation as Josh heads their way with a truckload of fruit. Mike and Jerry build the courage to return to the scene of their own crime.
2. Holy Grail of Moonshine
Air Date: 2021-11-03
JB leads Mark and Digger to the secret site of Popcorn Sutton's infamous last run; Mike and Jerry's attempt to make a still from a used whiskey barrel blows up in their faces; Tickle, Josh and the Laws get ambushed, forcing them to run for the hills.
3. Oh Josh, Where Art Thou?
Air Date: 2021-11-10
Tickle and the Laws escape from a raid on their still site only to discover that Josh is missing; Tim and Howard tackle a gas shortage with a high-proof solution; Mike and Jerry rebuild their oak barrel pot still after blowing up their first attempt.
4. Backwoods Old Fashioned
Air Date: 2021-11-17
Mark and Digger hit a wall transporting Tennessee water to Popcorn's North Carolina still site. Mark and Huck attempt to make fortified wine the old-fashioned way - with their feet.
5. Like Water for Moonshine
Air Date: 2021-11-24
When Mark and Digger ask to run on commercial property, the answer is as shocking as the results. Mike and Jerry turn blueberries into top-shelf brandy, but it's the mash that's worth celebrating. Richard chases the green fairy to make backwoods absinthe.
6. Champagne or Shine Pain?
Air Date: 2021-12-01
Mark and Digger attempt to reroute a limestone creek over a mountain and onto private property; Mike drops a bombshell on Jerry while making backwoods blueberry champagne.
7. Bottle Shock
Air Date: 2021-12-08
Mark and Digger retrieve their sea-aged whiskey only to discover how easily it slips through their fingers. Richard and Craig run into trouble upsizing absinthe production. Tickle and the Laws look to moonshine history to get their season on track.
8. Mountain Mayhem
Air Date: 2021-12-15
Mark and Digger search in an unlikely location for the ideal spot to sea-age their Tennessee Whiskey. A wrong turn earns Josh his next broken bone. When Jerry gets rushed to the ER, his partner is forced to figure out a complex recipe without him.
9. Young Guns
Air Date: 2021-12-22
Mark and Digger revisit the abandoned theme park of their misspent youth and convert a carnival ride into a whiskey-aging machine.
10. Appalachian Ambrosia
Air Date: 2022-01-05
Mark and Digger make a high-proof version of a favourite southern dessert; Amanda wows Mark and Huck with a new method to infuse flavour into shine.
11. Hard Seltzer
Air Date: 2022-01-12
Mark and Digger make a high-proof version of a favourite southern dessert; Amanda wows Mark and Huck with a new method to infuse flavour into shine.
12. Under Pressure
Air Date: 2022-01-19
Amanda helps Mark and Huck use science to infuse fresh-picked pears into their traditional corn shine. Richard teams up with Mark and Digger to make cherry cognac.
13. Moonshine of Mexico
Air Date: 2022-01-26
Tim treks to the town of Tequila in search of the moonshine of Mexico; Tickle, Josh and the Laws build an assembly line of submarine stills for a large-scale run of pricey cherry shine; Mark and Digger take backwoods rye to a whole new level.
14. Sweet Home Appalachia
Air Date: 2022-02-02
Mark and Digger break the sound barrier finishing a run of straight rye for a Southern Rock customer; Richard makes a Big Easy classic for a demanding New Orleans chef; Jerry gets his shine groove back helping Mike reinvent a taste of the South.
15. Tennessee Royalty
Air Date: 2022-02-09
Mark and Digger team up with Danielle Parton to run the first moonshine in decades on her legendary family property. Tim heads to the highlands of Jalisco to harvest blue agave to run Tequila. Richard invents a flammable recipe for a New Orleans chef.
16. High Proof Highlands
Air Date: 2022-02-23
When Josh moves into a remote farmhouse, Tickle and the Laws help devise an underground transport operation.
17. Broken Spanish
Air Date: 2022-03-02
Tim heads south to Oaxaca to uncover centuries-old secrets of making Mezcal; with costly sweet corn mash about to expire, Jerry jury-rigs auto parts to help speed the flow of liquor; Richard and Craig attempt a crystal-clear Bloody Mary moonshine.
18. Moo Shine
Air Date: 2022-03-09
When Digger scores a tank of fresh milk, he and Mark attempt to solve the mystery of turning milk into moonshine; Tickle and Josh ramp up underground operations at the Law's rental house; hunting dogs invade Mike and Jerry's mountain still site.
19. It Takes Amanda
Air Date: 2022-03-16
Amanda returns to the mountains to help Mark and Huck crack the recipe for making shine from a rare breed of corn. Tim gets hands-on making old-school mezcal with volcanic rock and a horse-drawn stone wheel. Mike and Jerry attempt to make gin from quinoa.
20. Spirit in the Sky
Air Date: 2022-03-23
Digger gets Daniel to attempt the first large-scale run of his innovative milk-based liquor recipe. Richard combines Digger's sea ageing with his own award-winning recipe to attempt his best liquor yet.
21. Burning Down the House
Air Date: 2022-03-30
In the season finale, just as Mark and Digger undertake their large-scale bootleg to Nashville, the law makes an unwelcome return.
1. High Price Of Success
Air Date: 2022-11-09
Josh flees the law in the wake of a fire; Richard invades Mike's turf; Mark and Digger face a police detective who is hellbent on taking them down.
2. The Harder They Fall
Air Date: 2022-11-16
After losing their water source, Mark and Digger attempt to dig out a centuries-old spring; Josh tells Tickle and the Laws he can fell big timber for a 1,000 gallon still; Richard and Daniel form a Master Distiller dream team.
3. More Cops Less Copper
Air Date: 2022-11-23
Evading the law, Mark and Digger attempt to make Scotch on a Popcorn Sutton-designed pot still. Amanda joins Mark and Huck in the hills only to find all their copper stolen. Richard and Daniel deploy game cameras to protect their own valuable stills.
4. Long Arm of Kenny Law
Air Date: 2022-11-30
Fed up with canned food and hiding in the woods, Josh gets into trouble with Kenny Law. Popcorn's son proves as unpredictable as his notorious dad. Tim and Howard rediscover a lost recipe for log still whiskey invented by a Kentucky teenager in 1836.
5. Hell-Bent Detective
Air Date: 2022-12-07
A police detective confronts Mark and Digger at the pump and doesn't mince words about his intent. Tickle and the Laws attempt to help as Josh's sanity erodes surviving in the woods. Tim and Howard construct a 19th century wood still from a giant log.
6. Rock Out While the Cop's Out
Air Date: 2022-12-14
Mark and Digger score ten tons of sugar only to find a tracking device on their truck; Richard and Daniel devise a rum recipe to dominate the outlaw market; Mike and Jerry hit the jackpot with sweet-smelling mimosa liquor.
7. The Weevils in the Details
Air Date: 2023-01-04
When weevils infest Mark and Digger's pricey grain, they must get rid of the bugs without killing their malt process. Tim and Howard fire up a log still with explosive consequences. Josh breaks out of his backwoods prison only to find himself up a creek.
8. Still Imploder
Air Date: 2023-01-11
In a rare lapse of judgment, Richard implodes Daniel's $3,000 copper still. As the fire marshal ramps up his investigation, Josh makes a tough decision to flee the country. Tim's solution to a centuries-old still build is going to sting a bit for Howard.
9. Caffeinated Moonshine
Air Date: 2023-01-18
Seeking advice from Mark and Digger, Richard attempts to salvage the $3,000 copper still he imploded before Daniel returns. On the run from the law, Josh motors deep into the Brazilian highlands in search of a new recipe for caffeinated cachaça moonshine.
10. Foreign Exchange
Air Date: 2023-01-25
When Josh finds an outlaw operation in Brazil, he gets a hands-on lesson in how quickly he can turn sugar cane into high-proof liquor. In Maggie Valley, Mike and Jerry prepare to fight back when Richard and Craig start a backwoods operation on their turf.
11. Brazilian Bootleg
Air Date: 2023-02-01
Josh feels the heat when a Brazilian moonshiner pressures him to attempt an illegal bootleg run far from home. Law enforcement ambushes Mark Ramsey in his own garage. In Maggie Valley, Mike and Jerry deploy a tracking device on their newfound competition.
12. Above the Law
Air Date: 2023-02-08
As the Maggie Valley moonshine market shifts in favor of Richard and Craig's recipes, Mike and Jerry devise a plot to push the newcomers out of town. Mark and Digger convince Killer Beaz to take on the riskiest parts of Mark's illicit activities.
13. Mystery Moonshiner
Air Date: 2023-02-15
When Josh encounters a mysterious moonshiner in Brazil, he learns a method for making liquor that breaks all the rules. Richard and Craig take precautions to protect their operation from bears. Mike and Jerry attempt elderberry shine and light sabotage.
14. Party Like It's 1999
Air Date: 2023-03-01
To beat inflation, Mark and Digger attempt an old-school run of liquor they can sell at a 1990s price. Danielle Parton teams up with Henry and Kenny to make legendary Franklin County moonshine. Richard and Craig discover a rival's stash house.
15. On the Road Again
Air Date: 2023-03-08
Facing time on the road, Tickle asks Tim to help convert a bus into a mobile moonshine rig. Digger and Beaz scramble to save a big sale for a rising country star who happens to be Willie Nelson's granddaughter. Richard and Craig abandon their still site.
16. Hard Evidence
Air Date: 2023-03-15
Josh returns from Brazil only to discover an emboldened fire marshal with pressing questions.
17. Maggie Valley Mayhem
Air Date: 2023-03-22
With permission from 95-year-old Cecil Love, Josh and the Laws recreate old time Franklin County moonshine with Love's hidden still. Craig and Richard find a fix for their still's missing arm.
18. Disappearing Act
Air Date: 2023-03-29
Digger pulls a disappearing act after a combat veteran helps him with a supernatural rye apple recipe. Richard and Craig keep their mash warm in cold weather while Jerry goes into winter with some backwoods tech.
19. The Box from Brazil
Air Date: 2023-04-05
Josh's special delivery has him convincing the Laws to try a speedy shine method he saw in Brazil. Digger and Killer Beaz cash in on a whole new market after a meeting with a Pittsburgh shiner. Mike catches wind of Richard's massive final run.
20. Shine for End Times
Air Date: 2023-04-12
In the season finale, when Killer Beaz closes a sixty-gallon sale, Digger opens the door to his partner's secret. Tickle completes his mobile still build only to learn the law will stop a school bus. Mike digs in his heels and possibly his own grave.
1. Moonshine is a Miracle
Air Date: 2024-01-02
Tickle launches a campaign to legalize home distilling, while Mark and Digger devise a plan to distill pallets of unsold light beer into liquor.
2. Try That in a Shine Town
Air Date: 2024-01-09
An unshackled Digger leads Amanda to where he last saw Popcorn Sutton's stainless steel still.
3. Beer Before Liquor
Air Date: 2024-01-16
Digger and Amanda's plan to distill beer in Popcorn Sutton's old still hits a wall.
4. The Drunkest President
Air Date: 2024-01-23
Tickle unearths an exceptional source of spring water for Josh's peach brandy.
5. Quarter Ton of Backwoods Fun
Air Date: 2024-01-30
Amanda and Kelly attempt to reinvent an Appalachian apple brandy made famous by a 500-pound woman.
6. Tennessee Spirit
Air Date: 2024-02-06
When Amanda tracks down a lost apple variety made famous by outlaw brandy, she and Kelly distill a liquor so extraordinary that Mark and Digger find themselves a little too deep in the bottle.
7. Legalize It!
Air Date: 2024-02-13
Accident-prone Josh attempts a solo fix to his still site, while Tickle heads to the West Virginia State House to launch his legalization campaign.
8. Highway Robbery
Air Date: 2024-02-20
On the mid-season finale, after losing $11,000 in stolen liquor, Mark and Digger surveil their bootlegger on a delivery to Memphis.
9. Tickle's Restaurant
Air Date: 2024-04-02
On the midseason premiere, Tickle and Carol open their new restaurant while Tickle contends with conflicting priorities; Mark and Digger enlist Amanda to improve their wildly popular hazelnut rum; Josh shocks his outlaw partners.
10. Boldest Bootleg
Air Date: 2024-04-09
Under cover of Tickle's new restaurant and Josh's new business, the Virginia boys attempt a 500-gallon bootleg.
11. The Grapes of Grappa
Air Date: 2024-04-16
Mark and Digger challenge Amanda to distill brandy and grappa from the same grapes.
12. Carolina Crash Course
Air Date: 2024-04-23
Mark and Digger invent a patriotic corn whiskey recipe using red, white and blue corn.
13. Shine Pods
Air Date: 2024-04-30
When their bootlegger suggests putting shine in pods, Mark and Digger enlist Amanda to innovate a product they can sell for $5 a shot.
14. Don't Call it Crapple
Air Date: 2024-05-07
When kitchen trouble forces Tickle to shut down his restaurant, Josh proposes they make carrot-apple moonshine to raise the $8000 needed to reopen.
15. Cowboy Legacy
Air Date: 2024-05-14
Mark and Digger invent a high-proof thump keg. When news breaks that their friend Cowboy has been killed, they hurry to retrieve a barrel he was tending.
16. The Curse of Oaked Bourbon
Air Date: 2024-05-21
After tasting their best barrel yet, Mark and Digger try their luck and make a run to rival $2,000 bourbon.
1. Backlash from the Backwoods
Air Date: 2024-11-12
After Mark and Digger sell a $20,000 barrel of whiskey, they realize someone has been siphoning their liquor for years. Mark Rogers plots backwoods justice after finding Mike on his turf. Josh lands a lucrative deal, but Tickle and Henry have other ideas.
2. Code Enforcement
Air Date: 2024-11-19
Mark and Digger spot their liquor thief on camera as Tickle, Josh and Henry strike gold in Philadelphia with their Peach-Rye recipe. Mike adds insult to injury when he buys out Mark Rogers' sugar supplier, pushing the backwoods shiner to the brink.
3. Knockout Punch
Air Date: 2024-11-26
Backwoods shiner Mark Rogers delivers a decisive blow to Mike and Jerry, forcing them to rethink their strategy from a distance. Tim Smith faces a crisis and recruits Howard to help revive his flagging sales. Mark and Digger identify their liquor thief.
4. Bootleg Bottleneck
Air Date: 2024-12-03
Tickle's crew resurrects a 400-mile bootleg route from the 1980s, but a shine spill puts them face-to-face with the law. Richard attempts a risky liquor that uses mold to aid in fermentation. Tim turns to honey to get his shine sales buzzing.
5. Vengeance Is Shine
Air Date: 2024-12-10
Mark and Digger corner a man who stole 175 gallons of their barrel-aged liquor and Mike and Jerry retreat to Mississippi to raise cash for their vengeful return.
6. Unintended Consequences
Air Date: 2024-12-17
Mark and Digger recruit Patti Bryan to help make hot pepper moonshine and nearly blind themselves in the process. When Tickle over-orders blueberries for his restaurant, he has some explaining and shine-making to do. Mark and Huck build a bootleg boat.
7. Respect Your Elderberries
Air Date: 2025-01-07
Mark and Digger task Amanda and Kelly to find a poisonous berry they can turn into tasty, safe-to-drink shine. Tickle builds a "dead man's" still to keep himself out of the doghouse. A bootleg river journey takes Mark and Huck into uncharted waters.
8. Bolt Action
Air Date: 2025-01-14
Mark and Digger recruit a young Kentucky moonshiner to help craft a profitable outlaw bourbon. After tracking Mark and Huck to their mountain still site, Mike and Jerry initiate their revenge plan until a well-aimed shot unexpectedly turns the tables.
9. Smokin' Barrels
Air Date: 2025-01-21
Mark and Digger spot an unmarked vehicle surveilling their barrel house. A friendly run of liquor with Big Chuk lands Josh in a high-risk environment.
10. Floodwater Runs Deep
Air Date: 2025-01-28
Mike and Jerry's new submarine still gets washed away by Hurricane flooding. Tickle attempts to persuade accident-prone Josh not to return to racing.
11. Strange Brew
Air Date: 2025-02-04
Mark and Digger turn a strange barrel of mash into game-changing shine. Tickle tries an old-school tactic as cold weather stalls an apple brandy mash.
12. Spousal Privilege
Air Date: 2025-02-11
Mark and Digger enlist a new team member who can't testify. Tickle and the Laws must rely on an unproven recipe to turn free sorghum seeds into shine.
13. Poaching Pumpkins
Air Date: 2025-02-18
To save his run of sorghum liquor, Tickle poaches pumpkins from his wife's patch. A hippie commune stumps Mike and Jerry with an unconventional order.
14. Persons of Interest
Air Date: 2025-02-25
Realizing they may be targeted by a police stakeout, Mark and Digger prepare for the worst. Howard drinks Tim's last bottle of decades-old rye elixir.
15. Imposter Syndrome
Air Date: 2025-03-04
Desperate to discover who is surveilling them, Mark and Digger set a trap while Tim and Howard attempt a new path to recreating the family's high-proof elixir recipe.
16. Resisting Arrest
Air Date: 2025-03-11
Mark and Digger scramble to hide illegal evidence, only to discover the law is a step ahead. In his final run, Kenny lends a hand to a legend in need.
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Rating
7.2/10
Release Date
2011-12-06
Episodes
235 (14 seasons)
Status
Returning Series
Cast
Videos
Production Companies
Magilla Entertainment