Moonshiners

Tickle launches a campaign to legalize home distilling, while Mark and Digger devise a plan to distill pallets of unsold light beer into liquor. Hobbled by racing injuries, Josh plots his return to making shine. Then, Digger makes a shocking revelation.

An unshackled Digger leads Amanda to where he last saw Popcorn Sutton's stainless steel still. Richard and Mike's uneasy alliance faces a common threat when an extortionist shine boss demands payment. Josh modifies a vehicle, returning to the woods.

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Digger and Amanda's plan to distill beer in Popcorn Sutton's old still hits a wall. Jerry designs an innovative still that combines multiple shine recipes in a single run. Josh's mission to surprise his partners leaves him trapped in a vanload of peaches.

Tickle unearths an exceptional source of spring water for Josh's peach brandy. Tim sets out to resurrect a spirit that fueled America's most intoxicated president. Mike convinces Richard to ignore an extortion attempt and risk angering a local mob boss.

Amanda and Kelly attempt to reinvent an Appalachian apple brandy made famous by a 500-pound woman. Mark and Digger lend Popcorn Sutton's condenser to an ambitious new team of shiners. Richard and Jerry find a common cause, putting Mike in the hot seat.

When Amanda tracks down a lost apple variety once famous for making outlaw brandy, she and Kelly turn out an extraordinary liquor that Mark and Digger find themselves too deep in the bottle. Tim and Howard invent a novel double-distilling device.

Accident-prone Josh attempts a solo fix to his still site, while Tickle heads to the West Virginia State House to launch his legalization campaign. Arkansas double cousins Big Chuk and Joe Boy risk bootlegging their shine by boat downriver to Louisiana.

On the mid-season finale, after losing $11,000 in stolen liquor, Mark and Digger surveil their bootlegger on a second delivery to Memphis. Tickle preps to open his own restaurant, but outlaw habits die hard as he makes it a distribution hub for shine.

Under cover of Tickle's new restaurant and Josh's new towing business, the Virginia boys attempt a 500-gallon bootleg. When the creek runs dry, Jerry designs what he hopes will be a revolutionary waterless still. Tim and Howard make rum from corn stalks.

Mark and Digger challenge Amanda to distill brandy and grappa from the same grapes. The Maggie Valley trio scours the scrapyards for a stolen copper still.

Mark and Digger invent a patriotic corn whiskey recipe using red, white and blue corn. Jerry's stolen still threatens to drive a wedge between partners. Accident-prone Josh returns to the safety of his home, only to crash his minivan into his own house.

When their bootlegger suggests putting shine in pods, Mark and Digger enlist Amanda to innovate a product they can sell for $5 a shot. Jerry confronts the thief who stole his waterless still. Big Chuk and Joe Boy price themselves out of their own market.

When kitchen trouble forces Tickle to shut down his restaurant, Josh proposes they make carrot-apple moonshine to raise the $8000 needed to reopen. Mike, Jerry, and Richard secure a secretive location to run apple pomace brandy in their waterless still.

Mark and Digger invent a high-proof thump keg. When news breaks that their friend Cowboy has been killed, they hurry to retrieve a barrel he was tending. Tickle puts faith in an unproven recipe to save his restaurant. Jerry designs a solar mash fermenter.

Tensions brew in the backwoods, pitting centuries of tradition against a budding movement to legalize home distilling.