[digger manes] well, here we go.
Three champions
Back to compete for one fine prize.
Now I'm a purist,
I like white liquor and I like aged liquor
But you gonna be in this business
You got to know what sells.
We're talkin' about sippin' cream.
Sippin' creams
Are the rage right now,
They outsell anything in any distillery.
I'm telling you, people love 'em.
Digger's sippin' cream even beat
Tim smith's liquor
In the very first competition
That we three had.
Y'all voted for what ya liked
And I reckon everybody liked
Cherry sippin' cream.
Congratulations, my brother.
[crowd cheering]
Well, that's ancient history.
[digger chuckling]
[all laughing]
[narrator] across the countr a handful of
Expert distillers are heirs
To a centuries old tradition
Some operate on the legal side,
Others practice their craft beyond the reach of the law
Now three of the best moonshiners
Will throw down at the still
Are you gonna infuse, josh? You're killin' me.
Hell no, I ain't infusin'.
Whoa.
[narrator] judged by a jury of their peers.
I'm just waitin' for him to add the milk.
[narrator] they'll go head-to-head
In a series of challenges..
Easy, gal. Don't you kick me.
[narrator] ...To determine
Who has what it takes
To earn backwoods bragging rights
And a custom prize
To market their winning shin
That's ridiculous.
Oh, yeah, this is harder than it looks.
[tim smith] all of them's good,
But only one of them's cream of the crop.
So y'all guys you brought your own
Corn mash.
And it's ready to run?
-Yep. -[tim] all right.
You guys are going out to the farm stand
Get your ingredients
To make your flavor base.
The winner of this run
Gets first pick of the cream
For your final challenge.
-Mmm-hmm. -Tickle.
Who we got here today, tim?
Well, we got three champions here.
-Three champions? -[tim] three champions,
And they need to go to the farm stand
And get some ingredients
To make 'em sippin' cream.
I can tell you this, it's gonna take one of these
Champions right here to make a good sippin' cream.
That stuff ain't easy.
Y'all fellas come on with me.
Good luck, fellas.
[narrator] while the term sippin' cream is fairly new
Cream liqueurs have been around for decades
Back in the '70s
Irish distillers
Wanted to make a sweet, lower-proof
Whiskey drink for a wider market,
And irish cream was born.
Whiskey snubs said they were crazy,
But people loved this stuff and now
There are over 200 brands of cream liqueurs.
All right, fellas, I promise you our judges
Want a sippin' cream they need a knife and a fork to drink.
All right, now y'all know we're here
To get your pantry pick
For your flavors for your sippin' cream.
Y'all are gonna have three minutes in there,
But to tell y'all's order
On goin' in
We're gonna draw straws.
All right?
Longest straw goes first,
Shortest straw goes last.
And in no particular order,
Which one would you like, daniel?
[daniel maner] give me that.
[steven ray tickle] give you that one.
Josh, which one would you like?
All right.
Richard,
Okay.
Now which one them's long?
Hey, give me my straw back.
-[laughing] -[tickle] all right,
Our order is going to be
Josh,
Richard,
And then daniel.
-The short straw. -[tickle] all right.
Josh?
You got three minutes.
You time starts...
Now.
Boy, you ain't got but three minutes.
I'd hurry up.
All right.
Look, josh, you got all kinds
Of stuff in there.
Look, josh, like some pomegranate
Right yonder.
I don't even know how to spell it,
But I'm pretty sure it's good stuff.
You know what you remind me of?
Remember when you used to play at little league
And they'd holler the whole time?
Swing batter, batter, batter.
You 'member that?
My name is josh owens. I was born in columbus, north carolina.
I've had a fascination for moonshine in general
Makin' it, drinkin' it, bein' around it most of my life.
I think it run so deep in my veins I just did it.
[slurps]
That can probably kill somebody.
I'm not like your traditional guy.
I'm like the mad scientist,
I'm pourin' this and pourin' that.
I'm gonna say that right there is probably about 100 proof.
Being up against stiff competition means
You better have your game on.
Throw a handful of nuts in there, somethin', josh.
I mean, one minute left.
-[laughing] -you got me so flustered, I can't...
[tickle] all kinds of liquid
-Stuck in there, josh. -Shut up.
You don't realize you make it hard to even think straight.
Okay, yeah I do, that's my job.
You gotta do somethin'.
Look at this, your time is runnin' out.
I really don't know a whole lot
About sippin' creams other than they're
Pretty popular right now,
And that I'm fixin' to try my hand at it.
Five seconds.
Four, three...
If you want it
You better hold on to it, your time's up.
[josh owens] oh, well.
[all laughing]
What did you do?
I don't know what I did.
I got me some oranges.
All right, richard.
You got three minutes, and it starts
Now.
-I'm gonna start walkin' in. It ain't gonna take me long. -[tickle] all right, richard.
My name is richard landry and I'm from new iberia, louisiana.
First time I came here
I was a contestant for master distiller
And I actually won.
This is that stuff right here.
My dad never did this,
My grandfather never did thi
His grandfathers never did I
I'm starting my own legacy here
And it's truly important tha I do this the right way.
[tickle] there's whole pineapples over there.
That's what I would use, richard.
I want to do somethin' different with sippin' cream.
-I need some citric. -[tickle] you need some citrus?
I'm not scared to do somethin' that nobody else wants to do.
All right, look, there's nuts over yonder
That'd make a good crunchy sippin' cream.
-All right, what do you think about that? -I just need these berries.
He makes it hard to think.
[chittering]
-[tickle] are you done? -I'm done.
Okay, two and a half minutes left, richard.
That will have to be one of the fastest
Pantry picks, I believe
I've ever seen.
Daniel?
Yes, sir.
[tickle] I promise you, they left you
All kinds of stuff in there.
And your time
Is going to start...
Don't go nowhere yet, I ain't told you.
-Now. -[all laughing]
Here's your straw.
I'm daniel maner from sevierville, tennessee.
This one here now,
I'm likin' what I'm seein'.
Oh, yeah, this mash right here is ready to run.
I've been actually makin' liquor since I was about
16, 17 years old.
I started out carryin' corn and sugar for
Two older friends of mine.
That sound right there is music to my ears.
One of 'em said, "if you keep up
With the interest that you've got," said,
"I'm eventually gonna show you how to, how to make this mash."
Tight shots, them bubbles is leaving fast.
I said, "I already know how to make your mash.
Who you thinks been makin' it for the last two years?"
[tickle] everybody else has chosed a bunch of
Solid ingredients
For their sippin' cream.
All right, big jug of peach cider.
Mix some of that root beer with it.
I promise you it'll be good.
-[all laughing] -tickle, you know what I'm doin'...
[tickle] there ain't nothin' I like better than peach root beer.
-All right. Are you? -I'm tunin' I'm tunin' you out.
Well, you got two minutes left, tune that out.
-All right? -[all laughing]
Get one of them cans that ain't got
No label on it and the dent in the side of it.
All right?
It'll be a good surprise.
You know, moonshine is moonshine.
And corn liquor's corn liquor, but, uh...
You know, there's a whole lot of people that say this
Sippin' cream is real good stuff.
You got a minute and a half left.
That's all I need.
I love peaches, and then I found honey.
And I thought honey peach flavored sippin' cream
Would be real good so I...
I'm just tryin' to make
The best flavor of sippin' cream that I can make.
Hopefully, the judges like it.
I believe we're good.
-God, dawg, you got the stuff. -Boy, you was shoppin'.
-[daniel chuckles] -[tickle] all right.
Let's grab y'all's baskets and head on in, all right?
I want to see what kind of sippin' cream
Y'all come up with.
-You know them thing's just gonna be good, right? -[richard landry] should be.
[tickle] I hope so.
All right,
We made it back.
I'll leave y'all to it, all right?
[digger] adios.
Welcome back, men.
I ain't sure of a lot,
But I am sure that you can't make us
Any sippin' cream if you ain't got liquor.
Time to start runnin'
Your corn liquor base.
All that bein' said
You got four hours.
Your time starts
Now, get busy.
Hey, josh, that little funny lookin' thing over there,
They call that a funnel.
Yeah, I don't need that damn thing.
You don't, but the people that clean up after you do.
[all chuckling]
What are we making?
-[richard] sippin' cream? -Yeah, I ain't never tasted it.
I don't even know what it's supposed to taste like.
I'm very capable of makin' some whiskey, I got that.
So, this whole flavorin' this whiskey cream,
I mean, sippin' cream.
Hell, I can't even...
I can't even hardly say it, keep up with what it's called much less make it.
So we'll see what happens.
Stand by.
Everybody's got lit.
What are you gonna do, daniel?
Well,
I'm gonna try to run some good liquor
While I got a base without scorchin' anything.
Well, I know you gonna make
Good liquor. I made a lot of liquor with you.
[daniel] that's right.
I think this is the easy part
For these guys.
You could turn their
Lights out on 'em.
[digger] yeah, they can do it in an hour.
[mark ramsey] what are you shuckin' out down there?
[richard] this is a pomegranate. You ever had a pomegranate?
Yeah, I think I have.
They've got lots of little
-Seeds inside of it. -Lots of little seeds. Yes, sir.
When you mix the pomegranate with blueberry and a little citrus
It marries together
Real, real well so I'm just gonna try to ge
A little bit of that into the run initially.
Mix it with a little bit of corn liquor
And that'll be the start to somethin' good.
What are you makin' over there, bud?
I'm just muddlin' some of these, uh, blueberries up,
Drop them in the thumper.
What is that?
[daniel] so far, richard, I put peaches,
A little bit of brown sugar,
Just put a little bit of honey, then I put peach cider in it.
It's gotta good run goin' right there.
I know it smells like peaches in here.
I knew I was gonna make
A peach flavored drink
So I infused the thump tank
With, uh, peaches, brown sugar, and some honey.
I figured if I can boost the honey and peach flavor
Goin' into the sippin' crea
That I'd have a real good marketable item.
[richard] so josh, you figured out what you gonna do yet?
I'm just gonna make my liquor. I reckon I don't got nothin' to infuse.
I'm not gonna put an orange up in there.
Why? That'd be good.
-It'd be orange creamsicle. -[josh] nah.
-You just gonna run in that straight corn through there? -[josh] yeah.
That's a solid foundation.
The thing about sippin cream...
You can run your base liquor and just leave it,
Then if somebody comes to buy, wants to buy the base liquor just sell it to 'em.
-Yeah. -But if they order sippin' cream
You can do your sippin' cream
At any time because it don't have to wait
-It don't have to age. -Yeah.
Tim, this is somethin' you can work out good
-For your legal distillery. -Yeah.
I'm very interested.
I want to see what they come out with.
[mark] well, I believe these boys is
Damn sure on the way.
I believe they are.
Are you gonna infuse, josh? You're killin' me.
Hell no, I ain't infusin'.
I'm just gonna make my liquor and flavor it later.
I ain't even gonna waste my time.
Really?
I mean, I don't see the point in it.
You will in a minute.
[chuckling]
I'm just gonna make my liquor and flavor it later.
I ain't even gonna waste my time.
Really?
I mean, I don't see the point in it.
You will in a minute.
I come to these competitions
And I don't really come with a plan.
These guys here, they're real stiff competition
And they got a plan.
I'm just an old boy doin' what I love.
[thumping]
[richard] I hear this thumper over here workin'. You thumpin' over there?
[thumps]
-He's singin'. -[chuckles]
Oh, yeah. Here it comes.
He's chuggin' now.
[thumps]
Men, you got two hours.
About got jar two rolled off.
[richard] all right, how does it taste right there?
Tell me if you don't taste honey
Just like you stuck your finger in it.
I definitely smell it.
You know, daniel. That's so damn good.
I may have messed up by not stealing your peaches.
-[laughing] -[richard] yeah.
I hit my mark pretty good and I was
Real, real surprised that the peach flavor
Kicked through as much as it did.
[richard] all peach front to back,
And the honey just...
It stays on top of your tongue.
Here, fill this jar up next?
[all laughing]
That's a good drink.
How you feel about it there, daniel boone?
Well, it's got a strong,
Strong peach smell.
You put three quarts of peaches in there, didn't ya?
-Two. -Oh, okay.
I'm goin' to keep one to make
My peaches and cream.
You feel like you gonna make some fine liquor?
I believe it will.
When I get on down there about
Two more jars, I'll be able to tell the tale.
You're on number five right now, you're movin' right along.
Well, I'm gone move on down the line.
-What are you doin', brother? -Just chillin'.
You ain't doin' no flavor. You went slack.
Yeah, I mean, I don't see the whole lot of point in it.
If I throw them oranges in there, it's liable to
-Make that liquor hotter than crack. -Could make it bitter.
[josh] yeah, it probably will 'cause it's citrus.
Looks like you're under control.
[josh] I'm good, man. I'm here.
What you got, richard?
[richard] man,
I put out a couple of jars of some good
Blueberry pomegranate base.
Get any flavor through from that thumper?
I didn't put a whole lot in the thumper.
I put a little bit of citrus in it
-To kind of balance the two flavors together. -[digger] yeah.
You're run seems to be goin' all right.
-Whoo. -[richard] I'm gonna do one more jar.
Five minutes, guys.
It is what it is, gentlemen.
It's corn liquor,
We know what to taste for we know what to look for.
-[tim] looks good, josh. -[digger] good jar.
-Thank you, guys. -Proud of ya.
Well...
Man, I hope you find
What you're lookin' for.
Gentlemen.
-[digger] mmm-hmm. -That's it right there.
[digger] that's it. That's your final decision.
It's my final decision, man.
Well, I'm goin' out on the porch and meet josh.
-All right, brother, we appreciate ya. -Good luck.
[mark] what are you thinkin', daniel?
I think that...
That it's the best we could do with the mash that we had.
All right.
You run a lot of it.
Run a lot of it, yeah.
Well,
Here you guys go.
Good luck, old buddy.
See ya, pals.
Gentlemen...
Well, look how clear they are.
[digger] every one is just gin clear.
Well, let's see what we're lookin' at here.
Blueberry.
Richard.
All right, that's pretty good.
Good bead, it's a little north of a 100, I believe.
Yeah.
Good smell?
Yeah, smells good.
[richard] now I know, everybody
Wants to win, but this is more
Like a learning experience to me than a competition.
Right tasty.
Very good.
That's pomegranate
And there's a little blueberry.
And it has a little corn in there.
I think he did good.
I can't say nothin' bad about it.
Yeah, it's got some octane in it for the most part.
Probably more than 10.
-I'd temper down just a tiny bit more. -Mmm-hmm.
[digger] I think we'd had tasted a huge difference in
The pomegranate flavor.
-Well... -I wonder who's that one is.
I have no idea.
[digger] but somebody loves orange paint.
Oh yeah, it's josh owen.
Home grown...
-[tim] home grown... -...Backwoods, old boy.
[chuckling]
-[digger] all right. -[tim] she look, a little south of 100 there.
Goin' away quick.
Little low, ain't it?
Yeah.
Here we go.
I know you were thinkin' like,
"hell, I can go any direction
With this if I just leave it alone."
[josh] I just figured that I knew
If I made a good straight liquor
That I could freakin' do
What I wanted to with it.
Gotta great nose
On the corn liquor.
[tim] yeah, it's good.
[digger] plenty of octane,
-Just enough to let all them flavors come through. -Wow.
-Ain't got no fire in it. -No fire whatsoever.
But think about it when he puts the cream in it...
He'll have to be careful
-About his ratios of liquor and cream. -Yeah.
[mark] 'cause maybe bein' 90 proof to start with
It'll be real easy for him to get down...
-Too easy. -...In the 30s.
-Well, let's taste old daniel's. -We'll see.
And it's a clean jar.
And it's pretty good.
Good bead, huh?
It's a little north of 100, I believe.
Now daniel, he ain't no rookie at this either.
This ain't his first time.
-Oh, it has a little peach, yeah. -[tim] okay.
I'm gonna tell you
That right there
Is somethin' else.
It's got a really good taste.
That's that smooth
Peach comin' in.
Damn.
We've got quite a quandary here.
I tasted those peaches, I mean...
Man, you made a better drink than I did, definitely.
I appreciate it.
[richard] and the judges are gonna come back
And tell us that, dude.
He knew exactly what he was doin'.
We've had some
Tough decisions,
But now this one tops 'em all.
What do you think then?
[digger] well, I have no idea which one to pick.
I think you ought to let 'em arm wrestle or somethin'.
Well, I think what we about to pull in is proof.
I mean, we all know 100 proof
Is our benchmark.
But think about it when it puts the cream in it
What are you gonna do with it?
[digger] yeah, but that ain't on
Our cutting board right now.
We can't judge 'em on what they might do.
Yeah.
We good here?
I am.
You good, tim?
Yeah, I'm good.
I'm a go fetch 'em.
Damn, there's some good liquor right there.
Welcome back.
We do this all the time,
And we expect one of y'all
To screw up
And make bad liquor.
Nobody here made bad liquor today.
Every damn one of you could be commended.
Appreciate that.
Daniel?
Well, the hell you did it bring that peach flavor through
And not ferment no peaches and just put 'em into your thumper.
It's right there forefront,
Middle, and end.
It's good.
Yep, peach, man.
That is a real tasteful jar.
I'd love to keep that jar.
You were close
To 100 proof.
You brought it, brother.
Thank you.
Josh,
Flavors right there, brother. It's corn liquor.
It's what it's supposed to be.
Josh, you stayed straight corn
And you made it taste good.
Appreciate that y'all.
I think it's a good bootleg jar.
You made damn fine liquor right there.
Great job, brother.
-Thank you. -[digger] richard,
Pomegranate.
Man, it pulled right through there.
Pomegranates carry a lot of flavor.
If you had got that proof down there about 100
I think we'd have tasted
A whole lot more pomegranate.
That's the only downside
I see to you is your proof.
But that's where you may have the advantage
With your little higher proof.
If you cut yours 50-50
Then just above all
You're gonna be a spot on
Proof for sippin' cream.
Thank you.
Y'all did a fine job.
[tim] all three professional moonshiners no doubt.
But unfortunately, we got
To give you a pickin' order
Before you go to the dairy barn,
And it was benchmark of 100 proof,
We had to put in there as a tie-breaker.
Daniel, you're the first man into the barn.
Josh, you're second.
Richard, you're third.
You fell just like y'all stand.
Tickle.
All right fellas, how's it goin'?
Long time no see.
Yeah, long time no see.
These guys need to go to
The dairy farm.
They need some cream.
All right, fellers, y'all come on with me.
Let's find y'all some cream.
[digger] congratulations to every one of you.
-[josh] thank you. -[richard] thank you.
[tim] watch out what you step in.
[digger] boy, I'm telling you. [laughing]
[tickle] all right, fellers. Here is where we're gonna get y'all's cream.
What in the hell?
[cow moos]
Here's where we're gonna get y'all's cream.
What in the hell?
-[cow moos] -[richard] tickle, that's a cow.
[tickle] yeah.
Wait a minute. We're making this out of fresh milk?
-Yeah. -[all exclaiming]
That's a cow for real, man.
-I mean, what do you expect? -I thought we were going to get some cream, tickle.
[tickle] you are going to get some cream, richard.
[richard] we gonna work for some cream.
-So we're gonna milk a cow? -We're gonna milk a cow.
-You're gonna milk a cow, yes, you are. -All right. Easy enough.
[laughing] this is crazy.
-You ever milked a cow before? -Uh, no.
Now I know why there was no milk products or anything at the farm stand.
Tickle takes us back out to the farm stand, and there's a cow out there for us to milk.
I never saw that coming.
[tickle] moonshiners don't take shortcuts. Y'all know that. To get the best cream,
It needs to be as fresh as possible. And it ain't gonna get no fresher than this.
All right, fellers. Y'all are gonna have two minutes each
To get what milk you can get out of that cow right yonder.
All right, now, if you're real good at it, save your buddy some.
Daniel, you ever been around cows?
-I have. -You know anything too much about 'em?
I do.
I've milked a cow several times, but I've not done that
Since I was probably 14, 15 year old,
Something like that.
Well, you have got two minutes, all right? Your time starts now.
-We really, really about to milk a cow. -Yes, we are.
[tickle] you know, the thing about daniel is I just wish he'd slow down sometimes.
Now, now, back here, josh. Back here. Back here. Uh-uh.
Tell you what. I... I'm hearing milk going into that bucket.
I bet it's harder than it looks. [laughing]
[richard] yeah, he knows what to do, that's for sure.
This is gonna be a pretty cool experience. It's been a while,
So it don't hurt to refresh your memory,
And, uh, just like I remembered,
It's harder to get that milk outta there than you think it is.
-[tickle] one minute left, daniel. -[richard] I hear splashing,
I don't hear ting, ting, ting no more.
[daniel] easy.
You have to push up on it, let it fill up, and then squeeze it from the top down
Toward the bottom to get it to come out. And two, if you squeeze it too hard,
She'll let you know. She's got hooves. She can kick a forehead in.
[richard] some people think about milk when they see cows. I see the brisket.
Well, don't think about that when you go up there.
-No, I... No, and I... I hope... -You better think...
-I hope she don't think I'm thinking about that. -Yeah, yeah.
Don't be thinking about brisket or hamburgers or steak
When you go over there. You think about milk.
Milk.
[tickle] that cow's gonna stomp you into the...
Into that there, uh, milking seat. Daniel?
-[daniel] yes, sir. -[tickle] you have got 30 seconds.
-[daniel] how much? -[tickle] 30 seconds.
[josh] you got three swallers.
-[richard] you enjoying that a little too much, daniel. -[tickle] well, tell you what,
I'm hearing some nice milk flow coming over in there, hitting that bucket all right.
[richard] yeah, he might have that bucket about done.
He might be done filled it up. How you gonna know?
Daniel seems very comfortable there around that cow.
All right, daniel, your time is up now.
All right.
[tickle] all right, how'd you do there, boss man?
Looks like I got breakfast milk.
Oh, well, there you go. Let's see what you got going on there, boss.
-Oh, I tell you what, it looks good. -Look pretty good.
-[daniel] yeah. -[tickle] all right, josh, you know what time it is, right?
Yeah, it's time for me to give this baby the nine-and-a-half finger tug.
All right, get at it.
-[richard] yeah. -[tickle laughing]
[josh] oh, yeah. This is harder than it looks.
-[tickle] do you need all ten fingers? -[josh] uh, yeah.
You need a hand? You want me to show you?
[tickle] he at least needs a half a finger.
[laughing] she's gonna punch me here in a minute. Yeah, show me.
-[richard] from the top. -[daniel] look here. Bit like that.
-[josh] yeah. -[daniel] and squeeze from up top and down.
[josh] all right, all right.
-[daniel] oh, yeah, I got you. -[josh] yeah, there you go.
[tickle] all right, josh, there you go.
-Are you getting her in there, bub? -I'm trying. [laughing]
Josh's sippin' cream is really gonna be a sip, ain't it?
[richard] hey, there you go, there you go.
Easy, girl. Easy, girl.
[tickle] take, take, take, take your hand...
He's had all them bones broke, he's fixin' to get his nose broke by a cow.
[all laughing]
Easy, girl, don't you kick me.
When I was a little kid at a petting zoo thing, I got to milk a cow a second or two.
But not like we did it today.
[laughing]
[tickle] he's gonna get it. I ain't never seen josh give up on nothing.
[daniel] it's all right over there.
[tickle] I imagine he's gonna get this.
Oh, yeah. I just needed that finger...
Hand with the cut off finger. It's that hand right there's built.
Built for it, uh-oh. Josh, that's your next profession right there.
[richard] oh, yeah, josh.
[tickle] all right, get it in the bucket, now. All right, josh,
You have got ten seconds, brother.
All right?
Now you got five, four, three, two, one.
[josh] I'm ready to rock and roll.
I'll be dogged, you did a good job there, boss.
-Yeah, you did. -All right, richard, you got two minutes.
Don't be thinking about brisket, steak, burger, nothing.
Only good cream, all right?
-All right, we got that. -Your time starts now.
-[richard] I'm milking a cow. -[tickle] yes, sir. You're milking a cow.
-[richard] oh, wow. -[tickle] don't tell me you can't ever do anything.
-[richard laughing] -[tickle] you can. All right.
[richard] yeah. There's a first time for everything.
I never touched a cow's teats before in my life. But I got some cow hides that I bought,
I just think they look good, you know, something on the floor, or on the sofa,
But never, ever, ever have I touched a cow like that before.
Get in there close, richard. Make that cone shape up there and work it down.
[richard] this is one step in the process that I know I need to do to win this competition,
So I'm gonna milk this cow.
Come on, baby. Gimme some milk.
-[tickle] uh-oh. -[richard] I think she's dry.
It's really not easy to do this.
[daniel] hell, no. Push up. It'll come down.
You can feel the milk coming from the top of this thing, and you gotta push it out,
And you gotta do it again.
Oh, yeah, she's dry. Josh.
-What? -You milked her dry, brother.
[tickle] she gives 70 pounds of milk a day. You just gotta get it out of her.
I see why there are machines to do this. This is real hard to do.
-[tickle] 30 seconds. -[richard] come on, baby. Gimme some more.
-Come on, baby. Gimme some milk. -30 seconds.
You gotta load that teat up and then squeeze her outta there.
I've seen it done a thousand times on television. I can take care of this.
-[daniel] do you got it, rich? -[richard] I got it.
[tickle] he's got it. All right. She went from being dry to back full again.
[all laughing]
I had to push the choke in.
[tickle] yeah, you had to push the choke in. All right, I see.
[daniel] yeah, push up on it a little.
Yeah, there you go. You have to fill the teat back full of milk, right?
-[daniel] yeah, that's right. -[tickle] how's it going?
[richard] oh, it's going pretty good.
-[tickle] going pretty good? -[richard] oh, yeah.
He said, oh, yeah.
-[tickle] yeah. -[josh] oh, yeah!
-[all laughing] -[tickle] rich, you're gonna quit moonshining
-And go into the dairy business. -[all laughing]
[tickle] he done figured it out.
You're a professional.
-[tickle] well... -[richard] oh, yeah, I can do it now.
I'm gonna put an ad on the internet.
-[tickle] there you go. -[daniel] cow milker.
[richard] professional cow milker.
[tickle] professional cow milker. Don't put it in your personals, richard.
-[all laughing] -all right, richard, we're down to ten, nine, eight,
Seven, six, five, four,
Three, two, one.
All right, richard, drop your cow.
-Drop... Drop it. -[all laughing]
[richard] I got a good bit of milk out of this cow, man.
[tickle] all right, fellers. Y'all grab y'all's milk buckets,
And let's get y'all milkmaids back in here
And see what we can't do about making us some sippin' cream.
-[daniel] all right. -[richard] let's go.
All right.
-[richard] milkmaids. -[all laughing]
[cows mooing]
[tickle] all right, fellas. We found these boys some cream.
-[all laughing] -I'ma leave these fellers in y'all's capable hands.
-[mark laughing] -I'm gonna see if I can't get this cow back home, all right?
-[mark] all right. -[tickle] all right.
[digger] I'm pretty sure you all are sitting there letting this whirl round your mind,
How am I going to use this milk to make me some sippin' cream.
-[josh] yeah. -[digger] you ain't gonna use that milk.
That is just a little trick we pulled on you three just to see if you could milk a cow.
-[all laughing] -you [bleep].
[tim] I got the real milk over here that you gonna be using. Nice and cold, lotsa options.
[digger] so that being said, daniel, you got the most milk off the cow. You going first.
Josh, you got just a little bit more than richard, so you're going in second.
Richard, you get to pick last. Lot at stake, here. The winner's gonna get a full box
Of some custom made jar labels. You got daniel maner's tennessee's own,
Richard landry's definitely different louisiana sippin' cream,
And josh owens' I can't believe I lived through that nine finger sippin' cream.
-[all laughing] -that is ridiculous.
[all laughing]
[digger] take your time and do things right. Daniel, you're up first.
[richard] I see you looking at that vanilla, huh?
When I got over there, I picked non-dairy french vanilla liquid coffee creamer.
You're up, josh. Get up here and lay it to ya.
What I got from the milk selection was
I got some half and half and some kind of, uh, almond cream.
[digger] richard. You can get everything else if you want to.
[laughing]
-[mark] whole milk? -[richard] yeah, I'm gonna sit this down right here.
[josh] nah, you can bring me the half-and-half.
You want the half-and-half?
[josh] yeah.
[digger] be kind to your neighbor day.
Gonna bring the both of them, josh, just in case you...
Thank you.
I'm a person that really doesn't care for milk, but non-dairy is something
That a lot of people are going to these days, so I grabbed that non-dairy creamer,
And I grabbed the whole whipping cream. I mean, I know that can make what I need.
[digger] all right, guys. One hour. Make us some delicious sippin' cream.
Ya time starts now. Get with it and good luck.
[richard] all right, what's your plan for something you've never done before, josh?
Well... I gotta use this oj, so I'm gonna start heating it up
And I'm gonna stir some sugar into it and pour some milk into it.
And I've never done this before and I don't have a recipe to go by,
But that's about the best way I can think to do it.
[richard] you on the right track, I think.
I gotta do something different.
I would pick the hardest fruit out there to be dealing with.
Pomegranate's a real good fruit, but real hard to deal with.
Daniel's dealing with peaches and josh's dealing with oranges. I mean,
I do have to worry about these guys,
Because they do have much simpler recipes than I have.
But muddling this up, I can smell the real good juice coming out of there.
So the better flavor, the more chances that you can sell this product easily.
I'm not sure whether the ratio should be a lotta oj or a lot of milk.
[richard] hmm. You could do a 50-50 ratio.
Then you gotta consider the fact that you're putting this into it, too.
If I get a good flavor with this, then I can flavor my drink with that.
Well, you wanna bring your alcohol down to a manageable level in it, too,
So you might be on the right path right there.
Damn it, get in there.
[singsong] dan's back to the blender. Dan's back to mixing again.
[mark] they look like a bunch of mad scientists, don't they?
Mmm-hmm.
[richard] is that that honey?
That's that honey.
[richard] honey came through so well in the alcohol.
Long as I don't overpower it.
Yeah, it has the potential to do that, also.
This is sippin' cream, guys. Keep that in mind.
I'm just waiting for 'em to add the milk.
So we went to all this trouble to get the milk and they playin' with oranges.
[laughing]
Is it supposed to be clabbered? Whipping cream?
-Whipping cream's real thick. -Yeah.
-Like chunky? -Well, maybe.
See what it tastes like.
-Well, that ain't chunky. -[bleep].
That's just the cream gathering at the top.
Ain't nothing wrong with that.
-Why is that chunk? -That's fat.
They's 20 million calories in that little baby bottle. [laughing]
[josh] aight, then.
I'm a country boy. But I didn't grow up drinking the milk off the cow,
That was the generation before me.
-[tim] now we seeing some milk go in. -[digger] uh-huh.
I know that you have to have the ph balance exactly right and everything on that.
And you know, I never even checked it.
I hope this tastes good. This is not my thing. I'm lost.
[mark] guys, you ain't never done this before, so really and truly,
You don't know if you're making a mistake or not.
[daniel] I don't think that the sipping cream is my cup tea. It's a little too thick
This is one of the times in life you learn
Just when you think you've got it figured out,
You don't.
Hell, I may pour it out and start over.
How thick is it supposed to be?
-Like buttermilk? -No, like, just like whole milk.
You know, just whole, sweet milk.
Got you.
-[daniel] no, like bear milk. -[richard] like bear milk?
-[daniel] yeah, bear milk. -[richard] tell me you've milked a bear before.
[daniel] yeah. They're hard to hold, though, I'll go ahead and tell ya.
[all laughing]
Somebody way over yonder threw the [bleep] flag on that.
[all laughing]
[daniel] yeah, that old cow was standing still. That bear won't.
[daniel] I'm lost. I may pour it out and start over.
Making this sipping cream is not as easy as people thinks it is.
You can't just mix ingredients together and get it right.
You getting right shiny on the end of your nose
And around your cheeks there with every sip you take.
-Is that right? -So that's a good sign, ain't it?
-Yeah. -I don't believe you're gonna have to start over.
I believe you'll tweak that right there.
[digger] you're right about 30 minutes spent, 30 minutes left.
[tim] josh, he put it on the burner, and he put his orange juice in there.
He got sugar. Then he put some milk in it.
I don't know if he's making a cake or making us something to drink.
This stuff's killer.
Here I am making a drink with orange juice and some kinda dairy product, kinda a no-no,
But it has to have some kinda dairy product in there so you can get that thickness to it.
You sure all these chunks floating in here ain't clabbered?
If you get to bellyachin' here in a minute, then we won't drink it.
[richard] that's pretty good right there.
[mark] richard just saw a little gleam of happiness come across his face.
I can combine flavors on another level.
And put together things that people haven't tried before.
-[josh] that blueberry? -[richard] try this blueberry, man.
It's pretty.
[richard] I'm putting some love into what we doing. When I mix all this together,
This really does come together really well.
Thank you, brother.
-[mark] five minutes, you all. -[digger] I believe everybody's right on time.
All right, boys. I ain't never made any sipping cream, but hopefully,
-That's the winning jar. -Well, it looks purty.
-[digger] all right, boss. -[josh] all right.
-[mark] good luck. -[josh] thank you.
-[richard] let's go together, man. -[daniel] let's do that.
-Comes a little unity. -This ain't competition
-When you with a man like this right here. -[laughing]
Ah, boys, we love yas right here, 'cause everybody gets along.
So chase on out after josh.
-[judges] good luck. -[mark] good luck, fellers.
-[daniel] thank you. -[richard] thank y'all.
[mark] that is a pomegranate blueberry love, I think is what he called it.
[tim] blueberry? Okay. Yeah.
Yeah, it's got a few seeds in it.
[digger] that's all right. That's just roughage.
[mark] yeah, there ain't no worryin' about checking no proof.
-[digger] no. -[mark] and clarity.
I think we're gonna need a lot of this.
[mark] this ain't a high proof deal.
40 of 50 proof is standard pretty much for sipping cream.
But they's alcohol in it.
-[digger] you can tell it's in there. -[mark] lil' bit of blueberry.
[mark] I think I'm gonna say blueberry ice cream.
Well, that's the best sippin' cream I've had today.
That is really good.
-I think you got it. -No. I... I kinda wanted to just get a little
Flavor or something, kinda assist myself, 'cause blueberry's hard to do anyway.
-Yeah, it is. -So I kinda wanted to just jump it up a little bit.
-Wild man here. -Yeah, you never know what josh has got.
[tim] it got big old chunks.
They're just oranges. The whole thing there.
[mark] yeah. Oh, yeah. He crammed that whole thing down in it.
You know what orange sherbet is?
-Yes. -Yeah.
When I went in there and I saw those oranges,
All I could think about was orange sherbet.
-It's orange juice. -Almost like the orange creamsicle.
It's not as sweet as sipping creams are supposed to be.
Pretty good.
He needed more oranges and less orange juice.
-But I would buy that. -Josh is a little bit light compared to richard.
But he's still got plenty.
This is honey peach.
Sure looks like cream to me.
Oh, yeah, he blended, blended.
Ruh-roh.
[digger] he might not have blended enough.
-[mark] all right. -[tim] this oughta be called thick peach.
Ooh.
[mark] it's good. Honestly, it ain't real peachy to me and he put a lot of peach in it.
-But it's creamy and good. -It's good. But it needs to be thinned out a little bit.
-It's a little thick. -When it doesn't pour out of the spout, that's thick.
And I think he's lighter yet on alcohol than the other two.
-Good luck, fellas. -[josh] good luck, y'all, too.
-But I still hope I won. -[all laughing]
Are we all rock solid on that?
-I am dead rock solid. -That's easy. That's easy.
I'm gonna stagger out here and get 'em. Here I go.
Whoa.
-You know, all of 'em's good. -Yeah.
-But only one of 'em's cream of the crop. -Exactly right.
[digger] welcome back, guys. You can see your jars are a lot lighter than they were.
You could take every one of those and make money off of 'em, they're that good.
Daniel, creamy, thick, smooth. A little lacking on peach,
It could have used a little bit more peach in there.
[daniel] thank you.
Daniel, wonderful taste. A little bit thick,
But that was because of all the pureed peaches, I think.
-What I had to work with. -Great job.
Josh, it's good. It's a little bit orange juicy, I wanna say, but proof,
I think you're right on the money with that. Good job.
Richard. You brought the love. Man, it was fantastic.
-Thank you. -Rich, I really do like your flavor.
I really like where you're coming from.
To me, perfect on the alcohol. And I... I... I loved it.
I think it's really good. You taste the alcohol in it really well. You blended your flavors
The correct sweetness. I promise ya, all of you,
There's a place in every household
For a jar of any of those. So, congratulations. Top shelf.
-[all applauding] -[josh] thank you, guys.
-[mark] thank you. -[richard] mark, thank you.
-Everybody's top shelf on this one, I'm telling you. -Mmm-hmm.
It was a tough decision. So we had to taste and retaste and retaste.
You can't tell that by looking at us, but, uh... [laughing] we did our research on it.
And, uh...
Once again, rich, you are the next master distiller.
Thank you, sir.
[mark] congratulations.
[tim] you have a lot of master distiller certificates up there.
I don't mind adding onto the wall.
Winning doesn't get old. When you hearing these professionals tell you
That you can make liquor and it's really good, that never gets old. I mean...
Richard. Your prize is a box full of these labels.
[richard] I mean, just looking at this prize,
And there's a label with my name on it, actually,
A lot of people don't ever get to see that when they're making alcohol.
-Congratulations. -Thanks.
Y'all chase on outta here and get to drinkin' one another's and see we...
We ain't lyin' to ya. Every one of 'em's delicious.
[laughing] I know they got some good stuff.
Congratulations, all of you boys.
-[josh] thank you, guys. -[richard] thank you. Thank y'all.