[dramatic music playing]
To be a moonshiner you're riskin' time in jail
or even worse, bein' hurt.
Don't try this at home.
-[narrator] This time on Moonshiners... -[Josh] Whoo!
Everybody keeps tellin' me, "Josh, you're not ready to drive."
What am I doing right now?
By me scorin' a bunch of peaches,
and being able to drive 'em to Viriginia
even with a wheelchair.
That should prove to these guys
that I'm worthy to be back at work.
[horn honking]
[Josh] Henry!
I gotta pee. I'm boxed in here by a bunch of peaches.
Without being able to get to that chair out of here
and can't get out.
I don't like this look.
[Amanda] Still tastes like beer.
I know Mark and Digger are not gonna be happy.
[Jerry] Let's go give this creep his money.
Unfortunately, we gotta pay this operational fee
just to be here to run it.
[man] See this taken care of.
[man 2] It's gonna take another $700.
[Mike] You full of [bleep], is what you are.
[man 2] Anytime you wanna jump son you come up.
-[indistinct chatter] -[man 3] Come on!
[man] This is how we make the moonshine.
[upbeat music playing]
-[man] Hey. -You guys made it.
[Mark] Most important thing first, what'd you bring us to eat?
Cream and wheat.
We can make some bread, Kelly.
[Kelly laughs]
[narrator] In the hills of Eastern Tennessee,
after unsuccessfully making whiskey
by distilling three pallets of unsold light beer...
[Kelly] It's kinda like swamp ass water.
[Amanda] Mmm-hmm.
[narrator] Amanda and Kelly call in big guns
Mark and Digger to help salvage the run.
You can't be defeated and give up
when you don't have a good run.
You just gotta figure out what to do next
until you have a good result.
[Mark] I took the grinding out of your process
and half the cookin' time.
I got you flake wheat.
Oh, [bleep].
That makes a lot easier.
A whole lot easier to fool with.
[Mark] It is pretty cooked.
Pretty gelatinized, ain't it?
Yup, see it's already rolled out,
steamed and ready to go.
I think the only way
that we're gonna salvage this
is make fresh mash
out of good, fresh grains.
Wheat is very mild.
It's not a very prominent flavor.
So that being said,
it will help eliminate the off flavor.
That's what we're after.
[Mark] That grasshopper gonna die a sweet life.
[Amanda] And a sweet mash.
So the idea here is we make a mash
and we let it work off for most of the fermentation.
Towards the very end, we take our distilled beer
and we add it into the new mash.
Give it a day or two and then we can run it.
So this process doesn't really require
any kinda enzymes either
-to break the starches down, I'm guessing? -[Digger] Nope.
-It's ready to rock and roll. -[Amanda] That's pretty sweet.
I've always loved Mark and Digger.
They're always sharing really cool ideas
and I'm always learning something from these guys.
When this gets to that caps are breaking up and falling,
you start addin' that liquor in there
and stir it up good.
Let that gas come off
-and get it all in there. -[Amanda] Yeah.
When it bubbles off, it might help a little bit.
-[Mark whispers] I bet she already know that. -10-4.
I'd say she does.
[Amanda] I appreciate the information.
-Well, I... -'Cause you never know,
he might say somethin' I didn't know before.
We wanna taste somethin', in it.
We hope tastes better than this.
Yeah, we do too.
I wanna hear good news or bad news immediately.
You'll be the first phone call.
-And that is how-- -We're gonna bring you nothin' except for good liquor.
That's what we're looking for.
-Take me home puss. -I do it.
[upbeat music playing]
[man] Man, I can't believe this bull [bleep].
-Oh, yeah. -Who the hell
does that guy think he really is, man?
If he works for who he says he works for...
we don't have a whole lot of choice but to pay him.
[narrator] In Haywood County, North Carolina,
a tenuous partnership
between Mike, Jerry and Richard
faces a new threat.
[narrator] When a rival shine boss
attempts to extort them
for an extra $700
to sell shine in the lucrative market
of Maggie Valley.
What I don't get is why Robert didn't tell us in the beginning
what the... the dues was gonna be.
Robert is the Godfather of Maggie Valley.
The one who tells everybody
what to do here in this little town.
So now we got to pay up
just to be here to run.
Does it make any sense to you?
Not really. Not a lot.
Why has he got some chump walkin' around working for him?
Why don't he come to us,
face to face, say, "Look, guys.
This is what you owe."
Somebody's opened a damn can of tuna
'cause it smells really damn fishy to me.
Mike, 700 bucks, that's a small price to pay
if we can keep running liquor here in Maggie Valley, man.
That's the truth. That's the truth.
We get the still built,
we get in the woods, we run this mash.
We stand a very good chance
of break even and making some money.
We'll pay it on. We'll do it
so we can stay here and operate.
Like y'all said, $700.
It's a small fee to the money
that we can make in this town.
Needless to say,
we won't be able to pay this guy till we get
our blueberry lemonade run off.
We got a damn still to build. Let's get to it.
Just cut up and get goin'.
What you thinkin'?
I'm doin' a four chambered pot.
We have blueberries here on this half
and lemons are gonna go on this half.
That's almost like running four different little stills in one.
You know, our biggest challenge
is to get the proportion of this thing right.
We gotta get the percentage of each one just perfect
to where one flavor don't cover up the other.
[narrator] Jerry's 100 gallon still pot
will consist of four separate chambers.
Two of the chambers will be filled
with fermented blueberry mash
and the other two chambers with lemon mash.
As the pot heats up,
blueberry and lemon vapor
will rise into the cap
where they blend together at the molecular level.
From there the vapor travels down the arm
and into the condenser
where it's cooled down and condensed back into a liquid.
To adjust the flavor profile,
a rotating burner under the pot
will allow them to add or takeaway heat
from either of the two mashes.
[Richard] You know, they got this new thing, Mike?
It's called a plasma cutter.
-They do? -Yeah. [chuckles]
-[chuckles] -[Mike] Richard, to me,
if you can't just take
a handful of hand tools...
and build your own still...
-you ain't a liquor maker... -[chuckles]
...in my eyes.
At least know how to do the old way first.
Oh.
Whoo!
[Mike] Perfect.
Give me some solder.
Just imagine this right here, the...
the burner sittin' right here
and then all of a sudden just turn it... [vocalizing]
[Richard] Heck yeah.
[Richard] Bein' able to adjust the flavor on the fly,
that's a game changer.
No one has that capability.
If you taste something wrong with a run, you gotta stop...
correct it, start it again.
All we need to do is turn up or turn down the flame.
[Mike] What we gonna do for the base?
I'm thinkin', more or less,
let's go with something that's a little close to the shape.
I think let's go 12 sides.
12 sides?
-Yeah. -What do you even call a 12 sided...
-whatever? -A dodecagon.
[Mike] That sounds like a name
of a damn dinosaur or somethin'.
You know, this is not your regular old timer pot still here.
It's got a lot of intricate parts to it.
Potentially stuff that could fail.
But we're crossin' our fingers
and hopin' everything goes great.
Well, it looks like you've done it.
You made a pretty daggum good looking dodecagon.
You can stand an elephant on that thing and it wouldn't go over.
Oh, I'm sure.
[Jerry] We're cuttin' holes in now
to fit on our side glasses.
We'll be able to keep a real good eye
on what's going on inside.
It's a heavy thing.
This thing is heavy, as a pot ain't it?
[Richard] That thing look like it can go into orbit right now.
-[Jerry] It's pretty crazy lookin', ain't it? -[Richard] Man.
[Jerry] I tell you what, now we have this thing together,
man, I'm just so tickled this thing looks amazing.
I think it's gonna function great
and do just exactly what we need it to.
I'm ready to see it warm up
and flow some liquor out of it.
Take her to the woods,
get some blueberry lemonade run off.
[blues music playing]
[Josh] I can't wait to get back to makin' liquor.
This stupid chair work.
There we go.
Henry and Kenny told me
that they didn't think I was ready to come back
out into the woods.
They don't want me to get myself hurt.
I'm bound and determined to go back to work.
Even if that means in a walker or wheelchair,
crutches, whatever it takes.
I gotta get back out there.
Oh, yeah.
Here goes nothing. We're gonna drive to Virginia.
Whoo!
Oh, yeah.
Oh, it feels good, boys.
Everybody keeps tellin' me,
"Josh, you're not ready to get in a van and drive."
What am I doin' right now?
We goin'.
You can take, "I can't, never could"
and shove it where the sun don't shine.
So right now I'm on my way
to see Henry, Kenny and Tickle.
I'mma surprise them, just show up,
but the last thing I wanna do
is go empty handed
and Henry loves peaches,
so we're gonna try to find him some peaches.
All right, here they are.
-Bobby. -Hey, Josh, you made it.
-[Josh] I did make it. Yes, sir. -Good to see you, buddy.
You found a man or two.
We haven't been able to find peaches nowhere.
We've been lookin'.
You came to the right place.
They're short this year.
There's only a five per cent crop.
Well, I'm anxious see 'em.
This has been one of the worst peach seasons
I ever remember in my life.
There was a terrible frost at the beginning of the year.
They're really hard to come by this year.
[Bobby] What you think?
Uh, they're nice and sweet and they're juicy.
40 boxes of peaches,
that's gonna cost me a thousand bucks.
But I've done the math on it,
and I'm standin' to make, like, five grand
off that $1000.
I would like to take 'em off of you.
Okay, you got it.
I can't really help you out, y'all don't mind loading 'em?
No, we got it.
And looking to stay out of it,
we gonna get 'em all in here.
All right. Well, we'll put 'em in there somewhere down there.
Oh, we'll get 'em in there.
I just tryin' to figure out what the hell I need to do.
I'll get in and put my bags and stuff up
and I'll just sit in the driver's seat.
Y'all just load 'em in right here and I'm...
I'll be in for the count, I guess.
All right. We'll take care of that.
Hopefully, nothin' happens.
Oh, yeah.
Wash this damn peach off.
Henry's gonna be happy.
Not only am I showing up,
but I'm showin' up with peaches.
It may not be a truck load of peaches
but it's gonna be a van load.
Man, I'm stuck in here.
[Bobby] You are definitely stuck in there.
Thank you guys for loadin' 'em.
You're welcome. No problem.
[Josh] Let me see if my door will shut.
[Bobby] It will shut.
That worked.
-Bobby. -Hey... It's been a pleasure.
-I appreciate you. Thank you. -Thank you.
-I hate to eat and run. -[Bobby laughs]
[Josh] Hey, I'm havin' a peachy day.
By me scorin' a bunch of peaches,
and being able to drive 'em to Virginia.
That should prove to these guys
that I'm worthy to be back at work.
I may not be able to pull the same weight
that I've pulled before my accident.
But that don't mean that I can't still pull weight.
[horn honking]
-[Josh] Henry! -[horn honking]
I'm here.
[call ringing]
[automated voice] After the tone...
[horn honking]
[Josh] I was wanting to surprise everybody.
Without getting these boxes
the hell out of here with all these peaches in 'em...
I'm not gonna be able to get my chair out.
[shouts] Henry!
That wide neck on it, like I just a little.
Yes. We can get in and out of this.
That ought to do it, shouldn't it?
[man] Little loud that dude.
Our situation's a little bit different
at the beginnin' of this season.
We are down a man.
Josh, in his mind, he's ready to be out here.
As far as his body,
he's just not physically able to do it.
Well, let's see what we can do to get something built.
[Tickle] What I need to do is add about
-a four foot peach to each one of them. -[man] To each one of 'em.
That oughta stretch us right across there...
is what we need.
[narrator] In Franklin County, Virginia,
while their partner Josh
is recovering from his injuries,
outlaw shiners Tickle, Henry and Kenny
start their season a man short
constructing a still site and wood soaked
by spring rains.
[Tickle] There's a great, big, ravine
between where we can get the truck in
and where our still site's gonna be.
We've got two 400 gallon pots
that should make us a whole lot of liquor.
But we can't just drag these things
across this ravine,
so we're gonna have to build us a bridge.
-Now where do you want this, over here? -Just slide in on over
a little bit. Yeah, there you go.
[Tickle] We gotta walk across it.
We ain't tryna hang drywall on it.
[grunts]
[Tickle] Hey, what do y'all think, fellas?
-[Henry] Try everything out with stills with y'all. -Yeah.
Yeah, let's see if we can't get a darn pot up in here.
[Henry] Let it go down.
Beautiful.
[grunting]
[Tickle] Keep going.
[grunting]
Come on, come on.
-[Henry] Oh, we're there. -[Tickle] Yes, sir.
You can take it down, man, can't we?
-Yup. -Yeah, we step it down, man.
-[Henry] Hey. -[Tickle] Let's get those.
[Henry] You get all three of them full, just gather like one compliment the other one.
[Kenny] I sure as need to shut up and listen sometimes.
[Henry] Kenny, are you gonna help us
or are you gonna talk all day long?
[Kenny] Just stick it up your ass.
[Tickle] I'm digging it like a dirt mule.
[Henry] Yeah, we good. Just calm down.
[Tickle] Yeah. [grunting]
[Tickle speaking indistinctly]
[Henry] Holy [bleep]
-Somethin' broke. -[Tickle shouts] Ah!
-[Tickle] You hear that? -[Henry] Did it break?
[Tickle] Yes, sir.
All right, I got it. I got this thing.
[Henry] Perfect.
[Tickle] Right. Well, let's see what in the world we got
-over here on this bridge. -[Henry] My whole life flashed in front of me.
Who's isn't there on this deal?
[Tickle] Our boards broke.
How did a board break like that?
If I put us a leg going down...
we'll be just fine.
Let's get the hell out of here.
You know, we gotta pull in grain and through
and stuff across this thing in a wheel barrow.
That's gonna be another heavy load.
[Kenny] I agree with you.
Think about them sick guys.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Just stop.
Go.
Take it slow. Take it slow.
-So we can try... -[Tickle] It's flat, I'm flat.
-I'm flat. I'm flat. -[Henry] Okay. Take it easy.
We've got a great still site here.
But if we can't get in and out of it,
it's worthless.
-[Tickle] She ain't gonna move. -[Henry] Everybody crunch it.
-[Tickle] She ain't movin', is she? -[Kenny] No.
[Tickle] We's caught right here.
[Henry] Man! [bleep] It's just so muddy.
[blues music playing]
[Mike] Y'all ready to get her set up boys?
-[Richard] Yeah, this is the real deal. -Mee too.
Today is game day. We're fixin' to run
our blueberry lemonade
on our brand new four chamber pot.
Never been tested.
This damn thing may not work.
It might blow up or do something
that we're totally not expecting out here.
It looks like it'll function.
I hope it does.
Oh, let's see what she looks like.
-[all] Oh! -[Jerry] Look at that cap man.
Ooh, my God. That's good.
[Mike] That's wine right there, my friend.
[Richard] What about this one right here?
That's that lemon.
As strong as it already smells,
-we know we gotta run this thing really slow. -[Mike] Real slow.
We gotta take our time with this.
'Cause that mixed in with this
will overpower it big time.
We gotta have that blend just perfect.
The deciding factor in all of this
is gonna be our capabilities
to handle the flame.
Man, I'm ready to watch this stuff make.
-Let's get this stuff pumped over. -[Richard] We'll get it going.
Sounds crazy to be able to say,
if we have too much of somethin'
in our mash,
we can dial it down.
We'll be able to adjust on the fly.
That's something that you can't normally do
when you're makin' alcohol.
[Mike] Ready for some blueberry now?
[Richard] I mean, we're gonna follow Jerry's lead with this,
I'm really hopin' he's right,
because it's gonna cost us a whole lot of money
if he's wrong.
-We're ready to lock up. -We're... We're gonna let you
-the first lot of the seasons, huh? -Yeah.
First lot up of the season, baby!
[Jerry] Oh, yeah.
Hope the split pot does the trick, guys.
[Jerry] We're puttin' half the heat on the blueberry,
we're leavin' half the heat on the lemonade.
How many BTUs you got comin' out of here?
400,000.
-400,000 BTUs. -[Mike] It ain't gonna take long.
[Richard] Oh, boy, you could run
-a steam engine with that. -[laughs]
-Well, go ahead and cap it. -Yeah, might as well.
-Might as damn well. -I got it.
[Jerry] We got a lot of money tied up in this run.
It's a little bit nerve-racking.
Nobody wrote the book on this.
We don't know how much heat it's gonna take on the lemonade
versus how much heat it's gonna take on the blueberry,
make these things run like they're supposed to.
[Mike] Is it gettin' hot?
It won't be long now, will it?
We better put a cane rod in it, right?
That's all she was missin'.
That's all she's missin'.
I'mma see if I can smell anything.
Oh, Lord, yes.
-[Jerry] Oh, yeah. -[Mike] There it is.
First daggum dribbles of the season.
That's what I'm talking about.
Leave the heads off there.
[Mike] Methanol vaporizes at a way lower temperature
than Ethanol does.
So it comes off very first out of the still.
It can potentially make you go blind
and kill your ass,
so that's the first part that we wanna pitch off
and be safe about.
[Richard] Taste some of that liquor.
[groans]
God almighty, that's--
That's gasoline, son.
Lemon! [scoffs] Damn gasoline.
[vocalizing]
[speaking indistinctly]
Smells like a good lemonade.
I'm gonna taste it.
This is my first drink of the season.
I tell you what, we gotta back off of that lemon.
You can't taste blueberry in it.
No damn way.
[Jerry] So we need less lemon.
Little bit more blueberries.
So we'll just move this burner out over here to the blueberry.
Get that heat more on the blueberry.
Hopefully, should get very, very little on the lemonade.
Very little, because it... I mean,
it'll still be steaming over some,
-you know? -Oh, yeah. The heat transfer thermally.
[Mike] So we'll just taste us another jar,
see where we're at.
Give me that.
I taste a damn lot of blueberry.
With some lemonade in it.
Man, that smell like blueberry pie right off the top.
That's a blueberry lemonade right there, ain't it?
Now, do you know what you done and what time you done it?
-[laughs] -We gotta keep it that way, brother.
I'm tellin' you, it's right on the money.
[Richard] This is good.
I'll tell you what I'm tickled, as punch,
man, I mean, this blueberry comes through
just crazy good.
Yes, sir. We got ten gallons worth right there.
You can still taste the lemonade,
it's still there.
But the blueberry is on top right now.
The way we got this thing setup,
we got the ratio runnin' perfect
for what we need.
It's gonna make us money.
We're gonna get the stuff sold and pay Robert off.
[Jerry] I couldn't be happier with our run
the way it turned out.
[Kelly] Moment of truth, Amanda.
If this doesn't work,
I don't know what to do.
Well?
[dramatic music playing]
[car horn honking]
[Josh] What the hell?
I figured I'd get here.
If I had trouble, I'd call somebody.
Well, now I'm here and ain't nobody here
and I don't know where the hell they are.
[Josh] I gotta pee.
I've been in this damn vehicle for hours.
Without been able to get to that chair out of here,
I can't get out.
I'm boxed in here by a bunch of peaches.
If they don't come on,
it's just gonna be peaches for dinner.
Don't know where these boys is at.
Well...
I'm havin' a peachy day.
Son of a bitch!
They can't be far 'cause...
Tickle's car's over there.
Henry's truck's right there.
The tractor's right there.
There's no way for me to get the hell out.
There ain't nobody here.
I don't know where everybody's at.
Ain't nobody answerin' the damn phone.
And honestly, I gotta pee.
All right.
[urinating]
[Josh] I was about to burst. I had to go.
I went.
Henry gonna kill me.
[dramatic music playing]
[Henry] I can't believe that dumbass
drove thins thing down
and he should put chains on it.
I need a shovel,
so I can get some of that mud off.
[Tickle] Well, that's a tangled up knot.
[groans]
We're couldn't pull up on 'em, could we?
-[exhales] -[Tickle] She looks to mean
with a chain around the tires.
-[Henry] Oh, that much adds beauty to her doesn't it? -[Tickle] Yeah.
[Henry] You have some of those sponges?
[Tickle] Uh-huh.
I'm gonna take the smack out.
[Tickle] Rope is down here.
If it don't come out with chains on it.
We might have chose the wrong still site.
-[Henry] All right, do it. -[Tickle] Okay.
[Tickle] I'm drivin' down in one.
Keep on rollin'. Give 'em some gas.
Give 'em all the way. All the way.
-All the way. All the way. -[Henry] All the way.
[Henry] Alright, you go all the way.
Keep on goin', man.
[man speaking indistinctly]
-[Henry] Take it to the back. -[Kenny] Get back down and turn
and then we'll get goin' this time. Kick it.
[Kenny] Watch and learn bro.
[Tickle laughs]
[Henry] All right. Hold it, hold it, hold it. Right here.
[Tickle] Doesn't matter how much treads you got on the tires,
once you get 'em full of mud,
you might as well have racing slicks on.
This still site does us no good,
we can't get in and out of.
I say let's cut these trees out of here with the Sawzall.
Get a good runnin' start,
get back in on this flat part,
somethin' I can do.
Right now we need to cut some of those trees down
and hopefully,
hopefully he can back up another five or ten feet
and get a runnin' start and get us out of here.
Lot of moonshine has to do with manual labor.
You ain't kidding about that.
All right, watch your head, Henry.
[Henry] I can now, thank you.
Any moonshiner knows that.
-The rougher it is -And... [groans]
[Henry] ...the more money you end up making
for some damn strange reason.
[Kenny] That'll be good, Tickle.
-All right. Yeah. -[Kenny] It should come back.
[Tickle] I just don't know how much steering I got.
Straighten' it up.
Come on back.
-Go. -Oh.
[Henry] That's good.
-Oh, yeah. -[Henry] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
[Kenny] Oh, that's good.
Tickle, this time when you start,
don't let up on that sumbitch
-all the way through here. -Yeah.
All right.
-All right. -[Henry] Hold on.
[Tickle] All right, go.
[Henry] Don't let up.
All right, go, baby.
Let go, light 'em up.
Keep on goin'.
Easy, easy, easy.
[Tickle laughs]
We got the [bleep] licked that.
[all laughing]
-[Tickle] Nothin' to it. -[Kenny] Beautiful.
[Tickle laughing]
[Mike] I'm not liking this crap one daggone bit, man.
Havin' to pay this man $700
from our hard earned money.
I mean, if we can get him off our back
this running season and don't have to worry about it,
I think we should just do it and do it.
[Mike] Yeah, we just kept it runnin'
our blueberry lemonade shine off.
Unfortunately, we're gonna pay this operational fee.
We'll kinda look at this as the cost of doing business.
We pay this fee off,
we can continue doing what we're doing in Maggie Valley.
[man clears throat]
All right, guys.
Let's go give this creep his money.
Get it over with.
[Richard] He got us in the middle of nowhere.
Ambush territory.
Man...
You got us out here in the middle of nowhere.
[man] Well, that's how we like it.
-[Richard] That's how we like it. -[man] Yeah.
Good mornin'.
-[Richard] Mornin'. -[man 1] How're y'all?
[Jerry] Uh, well...
Seein' how we created the ruckus last year we felt it was time
to pay our dues and settle things up, so...
We're men of our words, we're here...
and we got you $700.
You're just taken care of.
-[man 1] Well, we do appreciate you. -[Jerry] Mmm-hmm.
[man 3] We got... We got work to do.
-[man 1] Yeah? -[Mike] Yeah, it's time for us
to get the hell out of here. You done?
-[man 1] Am I done? -[Mike] Yeah.
[man 1] No, sir. I'm not.
Matter of fact, time's change.
And I appreciate y'all adaptin' to that.
[Richard] Yeah, well...
[man 1] Well, there's a...
Another adaptation, I should say.
It's gonna take another $700.
-[man 2] Oh, we're gonna-- -[Mike] You're full of [bleep], is what you are.
-[man 1] No, sir. I'm not. -[Mike] You... You said...
[man 1] No, I'm really not.
You told us $700, on this day, at this time.
Here we are, and you've been paid.
-[man 1] Yes, well, we appreciate y'all -[man 2] So...
-[man 1] ...for the half. -[Mike] I don't what additional half.
[man 1] Half of the rent.
[Richard] How many times we're gonna have to go through this?
[Mike] Listen, I can tell you what the hell's going on here, guys.
He's got his money.
Whatever this $700 come from,
I'm not sure, but we paid our damn debts.
I don't know about y'all,
but I'm freaking done.
I'm done with your ass.
I've got a notion to take that $700
-out of you damn ass buddy, you know. -[man 1] Yeah. You know.
[Mike] Okay, don't you threaten' me.
You don't come here talk to me
like I'm a damn kid.
I don't owe you jack [bleep], buddy,
-but a ass whooping. -[man 1] I'm just--
-Sir? -[man 1] You need to take
-that trash attitude... -[Mike] Yup.
-[Mike] Um... -[man 1] Send it to the garbage.
-To the rubbish pile, son. -[Mike] Then we'll slap
-that waney washer for you. -[man 1] Well, anytime you wanna jump, son,
you come on and get it.
-And I'm telling you right now. -[man 1] Come on. Come on.
-Come on! -[Mike] We here.
-[man 1] Come on, bud. Come on. -[indistinct chatter]
-[man 1] Come on. -[Jerry] Hold up, hold up. Hey, hold up!
-Hold up! -[man 1] Oh, no, come on.
[man 1 grunting]
[man 2] Stop, man.
[Richard] Stop this. Stop this, now.
Come on, stop.
[Mike] I'll beat your damn whites off!
[man 1] Look. Here's your hat, buddy boy.
-You wanna come get it? -[Mike] Ah, you damn right
-I come get that [bleep] -[Richard] I got my...
[Jerry] Come on, look.
[Mike] I ain't paying this son of a bitch nothin' else.
[Jerry] We're not gonna pay him.
-We're not gonna pay him. -I'm done paying.
[Richard] Let's get out of here.
-[Jerry] You take your stuff and have a good day. -[Richard] Yeah.
-You get on with that. -[Mike] You ain't got to get on me, man.
-[Mike] [bleep] punk! -[man 1] Oh, that was fun.
And I ain't even had breakfast yet.
You ain't gettin' your damn money, are you?
-[man 1] Yeah, we'll get it. -[Mike] Bastard.
[man 1] One way or the other.
[speaking indistinctly]
Yeah, we gotta go talk to some people now.
[man] See y'all ladies later.
Do something. 'Cause he ain't gettin' another damn dime
out of my ass, I can tell you that right now.
How about that, another $700?
There's somethin' going on about this whole ordeal.
I don't like it worth a damn.
Yeah, that guy's a damn idiot he thinks
I'mma give him any more money.
[Josh] What the hell?
[vehicle approaching]
[Tickle] Somebody got here.
[Kenny] Whose van is that?
-[Henry] Josh's van. -[Kenny] I believe it is.
-[Tickle] Josh's van? -It's there.
Look at this [bleep]. Who in the world?
You look young.
-[Henry] Damn, man. -A stranger.
[Henry] How did you get up here in Virginia house?
Man, can't he walk, yet and he's driving.
[Tickle] Can he now?
[Henry] Damn good to see ya.
[Josh] I don't know too many folks
who can't walk who can drive.
How're you workin' the gas pedal and brake?
Gas, brake. Gas, brake.
-I got this [bleep]. -[Henry laughs] How long you been here?
You got peaches all over
-Henry's driveway. -Oh, don't be worried about the peaches.
If I was here,
I'd be bringin' me water hose out here
so I could spray that area off
because I pissed right there.
What you mean?
-[Henry] What'd you mean? -[Kenny] Oh, heck.
[Henry] You pissed in my damn lawn.
I... I been here for hours.
-On the driveway. -[Josh] You don't understand.
I can't go nowhere.
I'mma open the door over here.
I want y'all to look inside.
Look inside? What, did you just take a dump in there?
-I brought you somethin'. -[Kenny] He took a dump on that one.
-[Henry] You took a dump in there? -I brought you somethin' look.
You want us to clean that up?
[Josh] I brought you somethin'.
[Tickle] Damn.
Oh! Look here, Henry.
I thought you lied, Josh.
-Don't worry about it. --Oh, my God. Yeah.
-[Kenny] Yeah, don't worry about it. -Hey, look. Get them
sumbitches the hell out of the way.
I've been tryin' to find peaches
all the way from Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina...
and nothin'.
-I done eat about a dozen of 'em. -Yeah.
-They make it look good, don't they? -All right, look.
Look, look.
Man, is stuck in the van,
you over here eatin' peaches.
You did good, Josh. I need to take a break.
Take a break's ass.
I'm ready to get the hell out of here.
[Tickle] I'm tryin' to get you out.
Can you get out of there now?
-[Kenny] Can you get out of there, bruh? -We're gonna find out.
[Kenny] Holed in that van.
[Josh] Hell, yeah. I've been here for hours.
Oh, my lord.
Out of the van.
I tell ya what,
from Florida to North Carolina,
and now here, it's unbelievable.
It's a lot of travellin' for a man
that ain't supposed to be able to get around.
You shouldn't have been doin' that alone, man.
You should have called one of us.
-[Tickle] We'd be glad to come get you. -I made it.
You can't take risks like that.
I about suffocated waiting on y'all.
[all laughing]
[Josh] These peaches are, like, freakin'
really expensive right now.
You know what that means, don't you?
-Means this brandy gonna be worth gold. -Gold.
Now with Henry being known all around these parts
for his peach brandy,
not only is this gonna be the only peach brandy around,
it's gonna go for a premium price.
We got one hell of a site for these peaches.
-Oh, yeah. -Yeah, man.
Am I gonna be able to get in and out?
That's what we're gonna have to try.
You can fix me in some sort of sash,
wanna tote my ass now,
I don't give a [bleep]. You can get me that.
I'll freakin' do whatever.
I ain't gonna lie to you.
We've been having a hard time getting that thing out of there
even with chains on the tires.
I'm super excited that Josh is here
and ready to help out down here at the still site.
But I can't help but wonder,
it was all we could do
to get us in and out of that still site.
Tomorrow we roll in the site,
-we'd see what needs to be done. -Yeah, you'd had
a long day today, ain't you?
Oh, man.
[Kenny] Well, uh, them peaches are so good,
as far as I'm concerned,
you could've took a dump on Henry's driveway
and I'd been fine.
-[Josh laughing] -[Kenny speaking indistinctly]
[Kelly] Alright girl, let's check this stuff out.
Today's the day, it's our final run.
So I'm really hoping that the flavor of the wheat grain
is enough to overpower
any bad taste we were getting from that beer.
Should be still nice and sour.
[Kelly] I mean...
I ain't somethin' I wanna drink but...
I don't ever like stale beer.
Maybe when we run it it'll take all that out.
[Amanda] Tastes better, though.
Tell you what...
We've taken a lot of steps
to try to perfect this recipe.
Sour as hell.
That's a good thing.
So fingers crossed that this works out.
'Cause if it doesn't, all of this work
and all of this time that we've spent
is for nothing.
And I know Mark and Digger are not gonna be happy.
[Kelly] We're pretty cool, Amanda.
That's just about the end I have over here.
Before we lay it and cap it off,
don't forget we're out of salt.
That goes against everything I believe in, but okay.
Listen, you don't want salt
because it'll stall your fermentation.
Like, if I were to put the salt right in the mash
-while we're working, -Yeah.
...it would've slowed it down or killed the yeast.
But that's all done with now.
So all the salt's gonna do is...
attach to the hop's oils
and keep them from carrying over
through this distillation.
It's gonna lessen that flavor of that beer a little bit.
I hope Amanda really does know what she's doing.
She's doin' stuff
that I'd never thought about.
[Amanda] I mean, he salt's not gonna hurt it.
As long as we rinse the pot out really good, when we're done.
[Kelly] All right, Amanda.
Oh, you think big old caps,
they will bust your butt.
There we go.
Like a glove.
[Kelly] the old boy that built this pot...
he is a dang professional pot builder.
[Amanda] Oh, this one's beautiful.
I really respect Kelly, Mark and Digger as distillers.
And if I'm capable of fixing this nasty beer,
then I'm sure they're confident
that I can do pretty much anything they need me to do.
Well, I can smell a little bit comin'
out of the worm, so...
It smells better than it did the first time.
-It's real hot, damn. -Good.
[Kelly] Uh, it's runnin', Amanda.
This is the big moment.
I definitely smell the wheat.
[Kelly] We're gonna have good liquor.
I hope so.
You think we've got enough for the heads there?
[Amanda] Yeah, you can toss that.
I'm comfortable tasting it now.
I don't like the taste of when it's too high proof.
[Kelly] I wouldn't have cared to taste it
when it first came out
so with the notes on 'em.
Say a prayer.
-To the liquor Gods. -Mmm-hmm.
I don't like this look.
Tell me what you think.
I mean, there's not anything that I'm gonna say
is, uh, terribly wrong.
Yeah, but it still kinda taste like,
little bit like beer?
We've spent all this time and all this extra effort
doing and re-distilling and, you know,
I'm pretty disheartened right now
and we're gonna be able to get anything good out of this.
So what do we do to make it right?
The pressure is definitely on right now.
I'm not here to do an okay job
or a good job.
I'm here to do a great job.
And that's what we have to come out with
at the end of this run.
I have an idea but you're probably not gonna like it.
It's a little crazy.
Well, you're probably right,
but I'm okay with crazy.
All right. Let's run into town.
We'll get some new ingredients.
This is kind of a Hail Mary
and it's a crazy idea.
But sometimes, you need a really crazy idea
to save you in a bad time.
[Kelly] We just let a little alcohol escape.
[Amanda] The quicker we get back...
[Kelly] The quicker we're going again.
Look at these mushroom, guys.
Good lord.
[Jerry] The biggest mushroom I've ever seen before.
Think you can eat that?
[Mike] I don't know. I'm not sure if you can eat it or not.
Why don't you peel a piece off and try it
-and find out? -[laughs] Definitely not.
I've heard mushrooms could have some psychedelic effects
See green elephants and pink balloons.
And some of 'em have cotinine effects to 'em to.
-You had shrooms? -Never. I love mushrooms
but I don't want the kind
that make me see damn clowns
and [bleep] runnin' around.
I'm too damn paranoid
for that man, son I'mma go ahead and tell you.
[Amanda] You got the extract?
[Kelly] I got whatever you said is in these bags.
We had to cut off our run
because the flavor we were getting
was just not good enough.
So my quick fix is to make a cherry wheat whiskey.
We got some fresh ingredients,
cherry wine concentrate and wheat malt extract
to put into the pot
and then a lot of fresh cherries
go in the thumper.
This has to work for us.
Or else we're beat.
[Kelly] Yeah, what's the plan?
-[Amanda] Okay. -[Kelly] You want me
-to put these in the pot? -I would love these in the pot.
Because the more heat...
we put on that,
it's gonna make what's comin' out of that pot
taste like fresh wheat.
And when you're done,
put this cherry wine concentrate in there too.
-[Kelly] And just the cherries in the thump thing. -[Amanda] Yeah.
[Kelly] All right.
[Amanda] I like a challenge.
And when someone tells me I can't do something,
I, like, try to figure out how we can.
We might drop one or two.
[Amanda] If you incorporate cherry into a spirit,
it comes off on the back end of your palate.
And that's what you're picking up
instead of the stale beer.
It's like a finishing flavor.
And, hopefully, this is gonna save us.
[Kelly] We're back in business.
She's crankin'.
Cherry wheat whiskey is one of my favorites.
It's a really delicious flavor
and I know it'll be something easy for us to sell.
[upbeat music playing]
[Kelly] It's gettin' hot.
-[Amanda] I'm-- -It'll push liquor in a few minutes here.
I'm gettin' anxious now
because if this doesn't work,
I don't know what to do.
This is, like, my saving grace right here.
My Hail Mary.
[Kelly] How about Hail Amanda?
Or we may say, "Damn it, Amanda."
Hell, Amanda.
[both laugh]
[Kelly] Damn it, Amanda.
Oh, [bleep], it's runnin' again.
That means we're pushin' liquor over.
[Amanda] This is my last hope here.
I can't think of any other way
to save this run at this point.
We're smellin' awful good.
-It is. -Moment of truth, Amanda.
[sighs]
Hmm. Well?
[laughs] [bleep]
-[Kelly laughing] -That is not funny, Kelly.
-It's delicious. -So yes, okay.
Our final product has a really good wheat flavor.
It's got malted barley
and you get a lot of sweet cherries on the back end.
Ooh, okay.
All the flavors are comin' through. It is fantastic.
Damn, we done it, girl.
-Oh, [bleep] -[laughs] Whoo!
I think at this point,
anyone who tastes this
would never think that we'd use stale beer
to start off with.
This is somethin' that I'm excited
to show to Mark and Digger.
[Amanda] Yeah. Me too.
[upbeat music playing]
We've turned 700 gallons of nasty beer
into 50 gallons
of some of the best cherry wheat moonshine
anybody's every gonna put their lips on.
So Amanda and I decided we'd go ahead and bottle it up, box it up.
Hope Mark and Digger like it.
[Kelly] Brought in somethin' special.
We're what you call,
hundred proofed confidence that you guys
are gonna love this.
You're gonna want some more.
My gosh it looks a lot better.
Look how it's clear.
-I can see Amanda right through that jar. -[Digger] Yeah.
See Kelly... [screams]
Damn.
Now if it's just worth a damn.
Uh, all that old funky smell is gone puss.
All that funky taste is gone.
[Digger] Hmm.
That's nice.
I'm not surprised Amanda and Kelly outdid their self.
Not only is this drinkable now,
this is something that we can make good money on.
They produced 50 gallons of it,
So at a 100 bucks a gallon,
that's $5000.
Kelly lined up this beer for free.
Basically all of this is profit.
Thank the lord for young people
and fresh eyes and fresh ears.
[Digger] Takes the pressure off us.
We're gettin' off to a good start here.
We're gonna keep on puttin' teams together
every time we can find somebody we trust.
Thank you.
[Digger] If they're gonna make the money for us
it's gonna be the best season ever.
[upbeat music playing]
[indistinct conversation]
[Tickle] That thing four wheel drive?
[Kenny] It's gonna need to be.
Then we might have to put some chains on the tires of it.
Can you reach that thing above the dash?
-[Josh] Oh, no. -Get the handle up over your head, uh...
[indistinct chatter]
-[Tickle] Uh, you all right? -Yeah.
I've been stuck for months in this room, that room,
a hospital room.
I'm so sick of being stuck in rooms,
I'm goin' crazy.
[all grunting]
[Henry] Lord almighty!
Oh, Josh is still in it.
But finally I'm back with Henry, Kenny and Tickle.
They've got a still site they're takin' me to.
I can't wait to get to it.
Whoo!
-[Henry] How's it feel, Josh? -[Josh] I feel good.
It worries me a little bit gettin' Josh
down at this still site.
Because, well, we built it for...
people who could walk to get down there.
[indistinct conversation]
-Keep it straight as you can. -Yeah.
[Kenny] He's gonna lose a chain.
-[Tickle] Tried both side of this hill. -[Kenny] All the time.
[Tickle] But now, Josh, he's our brother.
He's our partner.
We're not gonna leave him out of this.
[Josh] This is cool [bleep].
[man groans]
We're gonna figure a way out that he can work at this still site
and still help us
and still get his cut of liquor and the money.
[Josh] I'm back in the damn woods.
[Tickle] Right now you're in a truck.
You ain't in the woods yet.
[Josh] Ah, that [bleeping].
Man, this house is built right on this rock?
[man] Yes, a limestone aquifer.
This water makes the best liquor there is.
We got a problem with this right here.
Water's just not cool enough.
[Tickle] We're gonna have some hot ass liquor
till we figure out what to do.
If you don't make the payment
your little organization will be shut down.
We don't do this.
We pokin' the bear.
[Mike] You know, we all paranoid tonight.
because man'll do just about anything
to get his money.
All right, get your phone.
Find out what this Geneva is.
[man] We need to find out how they made it
so we can make our own version of this.
Do you not feel a little out of place here?
I mean, most people got shirts on.
-[Tim] So it's like rye whiskey with gin? -Exactly.
[Tim] If this is something that was good back then,
maybe it could be somethin' good now.
Oh, lord. Very good finish.
[Tim] There's somethin' different. We need to recreate that.
This could be the next thing out.