- Slow down, son. - [narrator] This time on "Moonshiners"--
- I'm underwater. - I don't care.
I've got to go.
Now, this still site's a little different
than most still sites.
We've actually got to drive up a river.
Drive it, Tickle, drive it.
[Tickle] Uh-oh.
[customer speaking]
You give us a couple of weeks, we can have it done.
[Jerry] I'd like to know where you come up with this idea
we're gonna sell some aged liquor?
Well, we've always pulled through somehow or another.
[Huck] Hey, Mark, come here just a minute.
Look right here.
Right here's a track.
They stoled our liquor.
I'm gonna put 'em out of here for good, and I don't
want 'em back. - Get down, get down, get down.
[two bangs]
This is how we make the moonshine.
[tense music plays]
Are you serious? Tim.
Everything is gone, burned up, Finito.
We need to get the hell out of town, bud.
We don't need to be here anymore, man.
In Culpeper County, Virginia, after a band of
teetotaling arsonists burned down his stash house...
- [Henry] Holy [bleep]. Tim! - [Tim] God-dang.
...along with 800 gallons of corn liquor
destined for Canada,
Tim has no choice but to find a new location to rebuild
his tariff-dodging moonshine operation.
[Howard] Tim, I just...
I'm concerned about the fact of what we just went through, man.
I got half the money, Howard.
I mean, look, I got, like, $20,000, you know?
That's a whole lot of money.
Well, I called my guy in Canada, and I talked to him,
explained the situation of what happened.
And he kind of understands, you know, this is an outlaw
world here. You know, things do happen.
And, I mean, there's a chunk of money here,
and I'm committed to providing
him with a thousand gallons of moonshine.
Oh, way down in there, mm-hmm.
See, he said he'd be back down here working on the still.
The last month now, Henry and I, we've been working
with Tim, trying to get this order out.
And I'll tell you, we got right there at the finish line.
And everything went up in smoke.
Yeah.
Y'all rocking and rolling, huh?
I talked to the guy in Canada, right?
And I told him the situation. He was very understandable.
He said he'd give us three or four more weeks,
we can get it together.
[Henry] We need to cut y'all off right there.
Tickle and I, we've decided that...
we just can't roll with it anymore, man.
We can't lose what we've been building for years.
I can't lose this contract neither.
I understand that Tim's got this big client, and this is
an opportunity for him to make a lot of money, but we're gonna
have to go our own separate ways.
Tim, we just need to get the hell out of here.
I mean, bottom line is, Virginia is not welcome to us
right now. - Well, all I know, you know,
before, when I went legal,
it was the same problem, and I went to Kentucky.
I know people in Kentucky. I know these guys.
You know, illegal guys and legal guys, too.
There's a whole lot of alcohol being made out there.
So I'm pretty sure we can probably make some connections.
- Well, that's all it takes. - Damn good start.
[Tim] I'm saying good luck to y'all, too.
These guys are still out here. They may come after y'all.
Watch your back.
Hopefully they was just on to you, Tim.
- [Tim] Yeah, I mean, maybe so. - I mean, for real.
Henry, thank you for everything, man.
And listen, thank you for carrying us this far.
[Tickle] Good luck. Y'all be careful.
- Alright. - Y'all be careful.
Well, it looks like the plan is Tim's gonna go to Kentucky.
He's got some contacts down there.
Get in the truck, Howard.
That way they can get started up as quickly as possible
getting this 1,000-gallon order out.
And we're gonna stay here.
We're gonna set up our own operation.
We're gonna start satisfying the clients that we got.
- [Mark R. speaking] - Hmm?
- Yeah, boy. - [Huck speaking]
In Graham County, North Carolina,
after making their first dead-drop of the season,
stashing $800 worth of corn whiskey in a secret location
for their customer to retrieve...
[Huck] That'd be good right there, Mark.
...Mountain man Mark Rogers and his outlaw partner Huck
head to their Smoky Mountain still site to fire up
their next run.
We put our first dead drop out and we got our next
10-gallon run ready to go.
All we gotta do is run our liquor.
[ringtone plays]
Who's that?
Hello?
- [customer, on phone] - Yeah.
[customer, on phone]
[dramatic chord strike]
Nothing there?
Well, listen, we're going to check it out, and we'll get
back with you.
- [customer, on phone] - Alright.
I mean that spot was there at a wide-open stop.
[tense music plays]
Well, that didn't make sense to me that it wasn't there
because I know it was, because I put it there.
[suspenseful music builds]
- [suspenseful chord strike] - [Mark R.] They're gone, Huck.
I just don't see how anybody could've found this.
Something ain't adding up here.
Check around that stump, see if anything's been messed with.
Sure enough, the liquor was gone.
And that just didn't make no sense to me, how somebody could
just come by and just find it.
I'm just looking for some
different boot tracks in there. Find anything, Huck?
Hey, Mark, come here just a minute.
Look right here. Right here's a track.
[Mark R.] Yeah.
I'd say that's our thief right there.
- Looky there. - [Mark R.] Got track.
[Huck] See it?
[Mark R.] Let me go back and get something before we start in there.
- OK. - [Mark R.] I'll be right back.
Huck found some tracks right above where we made
the dead drop is going off the bank, and I'm gonna try to
track it and see how far I can follow it.
It's almost getting pretty late.
There ain't no way I can go to the law if somebody steals
my liquor. For all I know,
it might be the law.
Once I know who took my liquor, I'll know exactly
how to respond.
Let's see what we can find here.
[suspenseful chord strike]
- See here boys, y'all gonna love this spot. - Well, we'll see.
Yeah, we'll see here in a minute.
We'll drop her down in four low and see what we got, right?
Yeah, exactly.
It's such a relief to be back in our neck of the woods
in Franklin County.
Hopefully we left all that trouble behind us.
Now it's time to focus on our customers.
The first thing we got to do, we got to establish us
a secure still site.
Alright, so, I mean, with Tim and them having
all these problems, how are we gonna evade the law
from getting us? - You know, I don't even
believe it was the law hitting Tim.
- I think it was just somebody local, but... - Yeah.
...we get down farther, maybe we won't have that problem?
[Henry] Exactly.
So the plan is, I'm taking y'all over here where Dad and I
worked years and years ago.
We're so far back in this mountain, nothing can come back
in here and find us.
And the best part of it is, we're gonna go up the river.
We're not gonna leave a road, we're not gonna
leave a track, we're not gonna leave anything.
We're gonna offload everything on the bank,
then we'll get through running, we're going to load it back on
the truck, then come right down the creek, and boom,
we're gone. - Now, this still site's
a little different than most still sites.
We've actually got to drive up a river.
What this does is help us conceal our tracks getting to
the still site a great amount. - [Henry] Go right here.
- [Tickle] Right here? - [Henry] Check this out, y'all.
- Oh, alright. - We driving down into it.
- Yeah, baby. - Alright.
[Tickle] No boat. All truck.
- [Paige] Truck-boat. - [Tickle] Truck-boat.
[Paige] This is cool.
- There it is. - No signs.
No road. Nothing.
A little bit rough.
It's alright, it's alright.
We're on the right truck for it.
Right there's where you're messing up.
- You got to stay to the left. - I'm trying, I'm trying.
[Henry] Slow down, son.
- I'm underwater. - I don't care.
I gotta go. I gotta go.
Slow down.
If I slow down, the water's flowing back up
that tailpipe. - I didn't say stop.
[Henry] I said slow down.
- Drive it, Tickle, drive it. - [bleep].
[Tickle] Uh oh.
Well, it looked like it was a little deeper over there
than we thought it was.
I might have got water up in this motor.
- [Tickle] Let's see. - [Henry] Let's see if she hit.
[motor stuttering]
Uh-oh.
- Come on, baby. - Uh-oh, come on.
[Paige] It might work.
- [Tickle] Still site's right yonder. - [Paige] Yeah.
- [Henry] I know it. - [Tickle] I got us to it.
Yes, you did.
- Now, getting us back out-- - Might be a problem.
I'm hoping we don't wind up stuck here,
because let's face it, we are miles down in the woods.
- [engine revs] - [maniacally laughing]
- There we go. - Put it forward there.
Luckily, we got this truck to crank back up.
[Henry] Get it unloaded, y'all. Get the still unloaded.
Here's what we got to do.
We got to get this still offloaded and put up
onto the bank right here.
Alright, you and Tickle get up on that and set it on there.
[Tickle] Let's see what we can't do here, Paige.
[Paige] We just got to make sure we get it in the middle.
Getting it on this thing is gonna be the job.
Yeah. Alright.
[Tickle] Hey, there you go.
Alright, hold it right there.
- I got it right here. - [Henry] Now, just come on.
[Henry] Keep rolling, son. What are you doing?
- [thump] - [bleep].
I'm coming, Henry, I'm coming,
I'm coming, I'm coming.
[Henry] Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
[Tickle] She's in.
- That was a job right there. - You ain't kidding, man.
- Could be a problem. - [Tickle] It could be.
It's a lot deeper than I thought it was.
We've got a buddy of ours that's got a muffler shop.
Great idea, let's try that.
Look here, Huck, they broke all kinds of stuff
coming through here. - [Huck] They have, ain't they?
Look right here, they's all kinds of boot tracks right here.
I think there's more than one feller here.
That's what I's a-thinking.
The dead drop we made was stolen before our buyer
could retrieve it.
Take it easy. Don't lose our trail.
But we found some footprints.
We're following them so we can try to figure out
who stoled our liquor. - Look here, Huck.
They broke these limbs off.
They're going off a mountain here.
All we need is a footprint.
Take our time, I think we can follow them right up.
[Mark R.] We're getting close, I think.
When you're tracking an animal or whatever, once you get on
the trail, you gotta lay with it to the end, no matter what
it takes, because it could rain, mess everything up.
You just gotta follow it to the end.
[Huck] Yeah, I hear them talking.
That's them, ain't it?
[Huck] Yeah.
[Mark R. speaking]
[Huck] Well, you want to come back in the morning?
- [Huck] Daylight? - [Mark R.] Yeah.
[Mark R. speaking]
[Mike] Right, we'll get here and get this condenser set up.
We'll get rocking and rolling, won't we, then.
In Haywood County, North Carolina...
See how the old mash is doing.
...four days after mashing
in a batch of low-cost sugar shine...
It's got the alcohol in it.
...Mike and Jerry return to their Maggie Valley still site
with fresh berries and their hand-built copper column still,
looking to make a profitable run of raspberry-infused vodka.
[Mike] Don't drop the column.
This still we built last year, man, it's our secret weapon.
It's a combination of all the greatest elements of every
still that we've ever built. - Kind of twist it side to side.
With the big column still, plus the jar rig, it allows us
to infuse any type of flavor of vodka we want to very quickly.
Let's hook it up, get it dead in line, then we'll crimp it.
It's modular so we can take this thing apart,
reconfigure to where we can make any type of liquor known
to man, any proof we want, you name it, we can do it.
I can't believe we got this done where the barrels
are fulled up. - I know it.
- Fulled up. - [Jerry] Fulled up.
Boy, you sound like you from Mississippi.
It's all fulled up.
We're ready to go to-- go to thumping now.
[Mike] It's time to fire this barrel up.
- [Jerry] We're ready to light her up. - [Mike] Give me a little gas.
[Mike] There we go.
Let's get some raspberries in the jar before this alcohol
gets there.
You know, all the flavor comes from the jar rig,
from the infusion that we do.
We just simply take these raspberries, put in them jars.
We basically use just a flavorless, odorless alcohol,
sugar, water, and yeast, and we infuse flavors into that
natural alcohol which people love.
Ta da.
[Jerry] Hey, Mike, we got steam.
- Alright! - About to get that hose put on there.
Get us some alcohol brewing.
[grunting]
[Mike] There we go. We right on time, buddy.
[Jerry] Yeah, I know.
We got to meet old Junior in a day or two.
Well, one of the things I do like about a bootlegger is
we ain't got to do it.
Hey, I'm content making it, getting rid of it,
and staying right here.
As long as I can keep the bills paid and the family fed,
hey, I'm fine. - [Mike] You looky yonder.
We've got liquor in the jar.
Our sugar wash is heated up, starting to condense,
and it's raised up our column here, transferring over
into these jars.
That ain't nothing but raspberry Kool-Aid
right there.
There it is.
I'm excited about our game plan this season, focused on turning
out as much liquor as we possibly can and getting it
sold to all the bootleggers.
Alright, Jerry, let's get rid of these heads, buddy.
I'll tell you what, I believe that's about enough of that.
Yes, indeed.
We can't afford just to break even like we did last year.
You know, it ain't worth risking our freedom if we can't
make a living at this game.
Yeah, I think we're in the hearts right now, Bubba.
I say let's give it a snort and see what it tastes like.
- That smells awful good. - Let's see here.
- Whoo. - Don't be a hog.
Man, that's raspberry city right there, boy.
I'm gonna tell you what, that does have
a raspberry nose way back yonder.
But it's good. Two or three good horns of that,
we'll be piled up on one of them rocks down there.
If me and Jerry could get this raspberry-infused vodka sold
for 80 bucks a gallon, that's $3,200 in mine
and Jerry's pocket. We right back at work
and we didn't have to go nowhere.
- [steam hissing] - Ya-ha!
First run down, many more to go, brother.
Got the whole season ahead of us.
Yes, sir. Let's go get some money, baby.
[Jerry] Let's get out of here
We got to make sure we take care of the bottom for
the water getting in there. - [Henry] Yeah, pull in right here.
Here's the man here.
We've got to drive up the river to get into
our still site. This creek, it's deep.
Some spots on it, it's slam all the way up to our windows.
Water's coming up over the hood.
- You say we need two 90s? - Two 90s, yep, two 90s.
You got to come down, 90 out, then up.
Henry's come up with a great idea to put a snorkel kit
on this truck.
We're gonna have to modify this truck where we can take
the exhaust and bring it up higher where it'll be
out of the water.
Maybe this will go up under the truck.
This looks pretty close right here.
So we got to go down and then out the side.
[Tickle] That takes care of underneath.
Or pretty close to it anyways.
Now we got the air intake.
The air intake for the engine, that's got to come up and be
extended up outside of the water level as well.
- Looks alright to me. - I say let's roll with this,
if we need any more, we'll have to come back.
Looks like we found some parts that are gonna work
close enough. - I'll tell you, we got it.
- Yeah, it should do it. - Well, we'll see.
Now, it's not a perfect, professional snorkel kit job
on this thing, but it's a still site truck.
And you know how moonshiners are very ingenuitive?
You know what?
If we can't make this thing work, nobody can.
Alright.
This one's gonna be a little tricky up here to get
everything watertight on it.
Now, first things first, the air intake on this thing.
This piece has got to go through from the inside,
so we gonna have to cut a rectangle out of this.
We're gonna take and cut a hole right in the side of
the fender of this truck.
That way, the hood will still open and close normally.
That's so beautiful, man. That's beautiful.
Let's see how she goes in there.
- Beautiful, man. - [Tickle] How's that look?
[Henry speaking]
And then we've got to figure out how to take these exhaust
pieces and mount them up to the air intake in such a way
that they're gonna actually be watertight.
- [Henry] Get it in there good, son. - There you go.
[Paige] I don't see how you can get any more waterproof than that.
We've raised this air intake at least a foot.
I can completely submerge this engine underwater,
and it'll stay running. - Now for the hard part.
[Paige] Yeah, the exhaust.
- [Henry] Y'all ready for it? - [Tickle] Yep.
- Let's do it. - [Tickle] Alright.
- [Tickle] I'll hold it. - Yeah, about right there.
[Tickle] About right there. Mm-hmm.
With all this modification we've got going on here,
this is the very first amphibious still site truck
that I'm aware of in my lifetime.
Yes, sir.
- [Tickle] Looky yonder. - Fire that baby up.
[Tickle] Yeah, fire it up. Let's check her out.
[Henry] Let's see what she does.
- [engine cranks] - [sputtering]
- Oh, yeah. - [Henry] Wow.
- [Tickle] Alright, fellers. - That's good, man.
Sounds great, doesn't it?
Now that we got our still site picked out
and this truck modified... - [Henry] Good, boys.
...we're gonna head up to this apple orchard, and we're
gonna start making us some good apple brandy.
Does it look like flames?
Looks like somebody got run over by a lawn mower.
That's about as artistic as I am.
Look, I'm good at making liquor, not drawing flames.
[Henry] Well, I tried to tell you.
Is this the place we're looking for, Henry?
- This is it, son. - [Tickle] Alright.
They got good winesaps?
[Henry] That's what we're looking for.
I hope so. They better have some.
You know, helping Tim out in the beginning of this season
put us really far behind.
And we got our customers breathing down our necks
right now. - [Henry] Man, it smells good.
[Tickle] Biggest thing they ever want is apple brandy.
Henry's got him a connection with this local orchard,
and they got a whole bunch of apples that they stored away
from last season.
Our plan is to get us a crate of some good, old winesap apples.
Anybody knows anything about apple brandy knows winesap
makes the best. - [man] Morning, fellas.
What's up, hoss? How you doing?
Alright. How about y'all?
Doing good.
So you got those winesaps for us?
- That's all of it? - That's all of it.
Can we have it?
No, I gotta have this specific variety for the blend
that I'm making now.
What do you mean, a blend? What kind of blend?
This variety needs to go into a blend that I'm making
back into cider. If I don't have this variety,
the blend's not gonna taste right.
Man, we came a long way for these winesaps, man.
I know, Henry. I apologize.
I'm a little disappointed that we can't just get us a crate of
winesap apples. He's got one right here.
But he's telling us he's got to mix this in with a blend so all
his cider is consistent.
Can we take some of this cider with us?
Yes, sir. I can get you a blend
that's probably pretty close to the same sugar.
We're here. We might as well check it out.
- Let's check it out. - [man] OK.
- We'll follow you over. - OK.
Now, I'm really concerned about using this cider.
Our customers, they love our brandy made from
winesap apples.
Now, that's what we've been supplying them for years,
and that's what they're used to.
Consistency is key.
You throw it off one time, and you might lose your
customers for a lifetime. - [Henry] So what's in there?
I've got five different apples in there.
I've got Pink Ladies, goldens, Harrisons, Black Twig,
and winesaps.
We know winesap produces, like, a bitter taste.
What about those apples are they?
[man] The Harrison's a sweet, cider variety.
Everything else is, uh, dessert fruit, common apples.
I tell you what, we just never used sweet apples before.
You want to try it?
I guess we could.
I'll tell you one thing I learned from my dad was
not to change a thing.
I wasn't told how to make liquor.
I was told how to make liquor. I was told how to make brandy.
All I know is my dad said, "Son, we're gonna use
winesap apples, and I'll never argue with you."
[Henry] Man, that was quick.
[man] Seven or eight minutes, and it's all, it's all in.
Oh, my God.
[Paige] I don't really see how you could get much better than that.
- That is good. - [Henry] I think that blend might be the trick.
What's really gonna tell the tale is when it comes out
the wine. - That's gonna tell the tale.
So, uh, can we get this loaded up?
Of course.
Our winesap apple brandy sells for around $100 a gallon.
Now, if this mixed cider brandy doesn't taste quite as good...
Come on back.
...well, we're gonna either have to sell it for less, if we can
even sell it at all.
And if we can't sell this stuff, not only are we out
thousands of dollars that we put into it, we're out
the time, the effort, and the money that we could
have been making.
[Jerry] I can tell we're getting closer to the quarry.
- Yeah, bud, those rocks. - [Jerry] I'm seeing more rocks.
[Mike] Maybe old Junior will be down here where he said
he'd meet us. - [Jerry] I sure hope so, man.
[Mike] Yeah, me and Jerry just got through making our 40 gallons
of raspberry vodka,
and I'm hoping like the Dickens to sell
all 40 gallons to Junior.
He's usually pretty good with us, you know.
[Jerry] He likes to beat us up a little bit sometimes,
but he knows the value of it.
We know amongst ourselves what this stuff will go for on
retail, at least $100 to $110 a gallon.
So we're looking to get between $80 to $90, maybe $95 a gallon
for this stuff.
- What do you say, Junior? - Hey, buddy.
- How are you doing? - Good.
- Long time no see. - Yeah, good to see you.
Come on over here and check out what we got for you.
- [Jerry] Doing alright? - Good, how are you, Jerry?
- [Jerry] Good to see you, buddy. - [Junior] Good to see you.
Well, we got you 40 gallons of raspberry vodka
right there, man. - Wrap your lips around that and see what you think.
See what you think about that.
- It's good stuff, man. - [Junior] Smells good.
As it should.
- Tastes good. - That's good, ain't it?
- Yeah, it is. - Shoot, yeah.
How much you got to have?
Well, we figure 100 bucks a gallon is what we need to
have for it, for sure.
[Junior] Well, the best I could do is $60 a gallon.
- Almighty. - I ain't seen $60 a gallon
in 20 years.
Making flavored vodka?
Aged? There ain't no aged out there on the market?
I mean, how much are you willing to pay for some aged?
Alright.
- [Mike] $200 a gallon? - Yep.
Well, I tell you what, you give us a couple of weeks,
a couple to three weeks to see if I can't find some.
We understand you're looking for aged whiskey.
You know, Junior's wanting aged whiskey right now.
And it's not like I can, you know, snap my fingers
and make this stuff overnight.
So I don't know what we're gonna do.
We'll see you in a couple of weeks.
[Junior] Alrighty. It was good to see you guys.
Thank you, Junior. Appreciate you, buddy.
- Sorry we couldn't work a deal. - Maybe next time for sure.
Yeah, me too, buddy. I hate it.
But 200 bucks a gallon is good money for any kind of whiskey.
I don't care if it's clear, brown, yellow, or green.
And that's the way that cookie crumbles.
[Jerry] I tell you what, that was disheartening.
[Mike] And by some kind of chance, I'm gonna see if I can't
make this happen.
There's a way out there some way, and we're gonna do it.
- [Mark R.] Got them found, Huck, I think. - [Huck] Yeah.
[Mark R.] Last 100 yards, we got to sneak in there.
Yeah.
We tracked these two fellers who we think stoled our liquor
back to their campsite.
Be quiet as you can.
[Huck] Yeah.
Now we have to confirm whether it's our liquor or not.
- [Mark R.] How you doing, boys? - [man speaking]
[Mark R.] We're lost.
[man] You're lost?
[Huck] At least you got a good fire going.
[Mark R.] Well, we was trout fishing over there,
lost our way.
- He's about busted. - [Huck] I'm about busted.
We've been trying to fish a little bit.
Yeah, just a little bit.
We figured we was lost and didn't know what we was
doing, so we just figured we'd try to get out and go back
and get our rods later. Is that shine on the table?
[Mark R.] Oh, does he? Well, that looks good.
[Huck speaking]
I pretty well knowed it was our liquor because of the
two buckets was sitting there.
But I wanted to taste it and make sure that it
was our liquor.
[Huck] Did you make that?
[Mark R.] What proof is it?
[Mark R.] What do you think, Huck?
I think both of them's so full of [bleep] it's oozing out their eyes.
- [Huck] That's what I think. - [Mark R.] You made this liquor?
[Huck] You think you're man enough to put us out of here?
See you later, boy.
They stoled our liquor.
If you don't stop something like this real quick, it'll be
a bigger problem later, so we're gonna deal with it.
[Mark R.] What do you think about them fellers, Huck?
Yeah, I'll tell you something, Mark.
If we don't go ahead and just go ahead and take care of this
and nip it in the bud real quick like,
get them out of here, it's just gonna get worser.
These fellers, I know they stole my liquor.
Now, I'll tell you something, that don't work with me.
I still don't know how they found our liquor,
but they did. - That's what's puzzling me.
Outside the point.
But they've got it, but they ain't gonna have it long.
I'll tell you something, we need to do this quick before
they sell it and get rid of it.
What you got on your mind?
[Mark R.] Well, you don't steal from nobody.
I don't care what it is.
I've told fellers like this before.
There's one way to get rid of them for good.
Blow their ass up.
Well, we could just make sure they wasn't there.
Then just slip in there and blow her up.
Go on about our business.
I've got the dynamite. Let's go get her rigged.
These two fellers can't talk to nobody like that.
You can't reason with them. It's just trouble.
You gotta deal with them.
I want them out of here and never be back.
[Mike] Come on back, you're good.
Alright, that's good, right there.
I tell you what, Jerry, this is the last thing I wanted to
do, man. - [Jerry] Well, at least it should be
secure right here for a few weeks.
So obviously, me and Jerry did not make the sale with Junior
with our raspberry vodka, man. We just couldn't meet nowhere.
I mean, a few months ago, any drop of flavored vodka that
me and Jerry could make was sold before it
come out the spout. Today, it's just not the case.
I didn't think we was gonna have to handle it three times.
- Phew, yeah. - I tell you, man, it's disheartening.
It's sad to unload 40 gallons of some of the best
flavored vodka that we've ever made and stick it in
the stash house. It's good liquor.
- [Jerry] There we go. - Got it?
[Jerry] Yep.
- [Jerry] There we go. - But you know what?
While this is sitting in here,
I can't help but be thinking about that $200 a gallon
stuff, buddy. - Dude, $200 a gallon.
I'm gonna tell you what.
I'd like to know where you come up with this idea we gonna sell
some aged liquor?
Well, I've been racking my brain from here to yonder about
how we gonna keep up with this aged whiskey game.
I tell you what, $200 a gallon for aged whiskey,
that's a heck of a lot of money.
We've got three weeks to make it happen.
We've always pulled through somehow or another.
- That's true. - It's worth it, ain't it?
You know, me and Jerry, we don't have no two years to
age it in a white oak barrel.
We got to find a way to do this faster.
All I can keep my mind on right now is $200 a gallon for some
aged whiskey, baby. - I mean, it can't hurt to try.
[Jerry] My mind's a clicking. I got some ideas.
Hey.
That was a heck of a haul.
Ain't nothing to it now but to get her mashed in, is it?
- Yeah. - We got 300 gallons of apple cider right here,
which should make 30 gallons of brandy.
At $100 a gallon, that's a $3,000 payday.
- I ain't never messed with no apple cider before. - [Henry] I ain't either.
But let's just hope that we get a turnout.
- [Henry] That's the key. - Yeah, see what it does.
- Let's get this pump here. - [Henry] Alrighty.
If this recipe don't turn out great, we're gonna be done
and lost a whole lot of time and money on a season when
we ain't even made a sale yet.
Tell you what, if that liquor smells anything like this
apple cider does, we'll be hitting something.
- Exactly. - This warm weather is gonna be perfect for it.
I think you're right.
Who you gonna blame if it don't turn out?
He'll be blaming you.
No, no, what are you gonna blame me for?
Paige younger than I am, we're gonna have to blame Paige
if it don't turn out.
- He's the new man. - Yeah, yeah.
I've never actually made apple brandy without having to grind
the apples first up.
Then I've got all the skins, the flesh,
the seeds, everything that I know takes to make
a quality brandy.
I ain't gonna get no more out of that tank.
One thing's for damn sure, I'm used to doing things
the old way and working a whole lot harder at it.
[Henry] Tickle's got the move with that hand.
He goes a little bit to the right, halfway,
then he comes back to the left.
Well, you got to keep it stirred up.
- [Henry] He got the move. - [Tickle] That's right.
[Henry] I bet he's good on the dance floor, too.
After about a pint, I think I'm good on the dance floor.
- Well, you are not. - Whether I actually am or not,
I sure do think I am.
I'll have to say, this is the easiest mash process
I've ever done in my life.
It almost feels like we're cheating, but now I hope
we just ain't cheating ourself out of some flavor, too.
Hopefully, our customers like this mixed cider brandy just as
good as they like the winesap brandy, because we gotta get
paid, and we gotta get paid, like, now.
[Henry] Well, let's get this cleaned up.
What do you think, Huck?
Let me send a drone up right here.
Let's check it out before you start in there.
Make sure there ain't nobody there.
OK. Good idea.
How you gonna see them through all this timber with that thing, Mark?
You just wait and watch.
Plan is, I've got me a drone.
I think I can fly in there and get them found
and everything and watch them and make sure
they leave the camp.
I don't want to blow nobody up.
- Yeah. - I just want to get rid of their camp.
- Camp. - [Mark R.] We need to send them a good message.
Fellers like this here, they're hard to deal with.
You can talk to them, threaten them.
Whatever you do, you know, it don't help nothing.
You got to deal with them pretty rough.
Let me see if I can get in there and check it out before...
you go in there.
[Huck] Whoa.
[Mark R.] There we go.
[suspenseful music plays]
Take me a minute to get them found.
- With so many leaves, they hard to find, ain't they? - Mm-hmm.
May have something found here.
I think right in here is where their camp's at.
I think I found them.
It's so green, it's hard to tell.
This thing's got everything on it.
- [Mark R.] Got thermal. - [Huck] Oh, thermal.
Turn this infrared on and see.
[Huck] The drone's got thermal on it, and that way, you know,
it'll pick up the image of anything putting off heat,
and that's the way he's gonna see if anybody's around the camp.
- Yeah. - [Huck] There they are.
[Mark R.] I found them. Yeah.
- [Mark R.] Yep, see them there? - [Huck] I see them.
Alright Huck, they're at least 200 yards from the camp.
You think you can sneak in there and I'll keep a watch,
and I'll radio you if anything changes?
It'll take me a few minutes to get in there.
Alright, just be listening.
I'll keep an eye on them, you just
sneak in and don't let them see you.
He's gonna light the fuse.
[suspenseful music plays]
[theme music plays]
[Tickle] Alright, get this up here as tight as we can get it.
Dang man.
Painting this damn truck.
Painting it while we're working on it.
Look at you. I mean, really?
Really, you gonna paint my damn hands, Henry?
I thought I had it turned around the other way, but...
Oh, is that right? Look, done did my nails.
[Tickle] Get this crap off my hands.
[Henry] Get it off your hands, son.
[Tickle] It's not coming off.
He gets all excited.
Somebody take that damn can of spray paint away from him.
[Henry] I got some gas.
Actually, this towel of yours is soaking it up
right nicely, Henry. - Don't use my towel.
Yeah, this towel here soaks it up real good.
I can go home and pat the old lady on the butt now and not
leave a handprint.
[laughing]
[suspenseful music plays]
[Mark R., on radio] OK, Huck.
Go ahead.
Mark, he gets the drone up in the air and he locates them
with that thermal and it's time for me to slip in and throw
a little dynamite in their camp.
- You there yet? - Just now made it to the camp.
They're still right in the same spot.
I don't know if they're picking blackberries or what
they're doing.
[Huck] Alright, I'm gonna light it.
Alright, Mark, it's lit.
Then we'll get this liquor and get out of here.
[Mark R.] They're moving back towards the camp.
What do you want me to do?
[Mark R., on radio] I don't know.
Just cut the fuse or something.
He lit the fuse.
All of a sudden, they started back down there
towards the camp.
Cut the fuse, Huck.
That ain't gonna give me time to get out of here
before it blows up.
Well, yeah, you gonna have to cut it or blow everybody up.
Cut it and run.
Just cut it shorter.
[Huck] Alright, the fuse cut, and it's short.
- I got to light this other one. - [Mark R.] Get out of there.
They're right on you.
[suspenseful music plays]
[Huck] Get down, get down, get down. Hurry, hurry, hurry.
Phew.
- [two booms] - [dramatic music plays]
[boom]
- [rumbling] - [dramatic music plays]
Yeah, it was really too big of an explosion, you know,
for that little of a site and everything, but after
I seen everything going up like that, I was happy.
[thunder crashes]
[Mark R. speaking]
- Let's get out of here. - Let's go!
There's no way these fellas could keep on doing what
they's doing, you know.
They ain't got no ride and they ain't got no camp.
And sure ain't got no liquor.
Goddamn, rats.
First run back in this still site, and I'm doing it as
a tribute to the miners and shiners of my family.
- Look how pretty that is! - [Huck] 24-karat magic right there.
I'll tell you what, I think I'm seeing a difference in color.
You know, our bootleggers, he's expecting aged whiskey
in just a few weeks.
With our flavored vodka not selling,
we can't afford to lose this sale.
Hoo! That's too bad, baby.
That right there won't sell to a billy goat.
This guy right here is misrepresenting everything
that we uphold. This ain't homemade liquor.
That ain't homemade liquor.
I'll tell you how you can find him.
I got the right to sell liquor when I want to now.
Look here, hoss, we know where that liquor is coming from.
It's stolen, and it's [bleep] over.
[dramatic chord strike]