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This time on Moonshiner.

First run back in this still sight.

And I'm doing it as a tribute to the miners and shiners in my family.

Look how pretty that is.

Two to four carrot magic right there.

What do you want to think I'm seeing on a gift and color?

You know all boats, lagers, each expecting age, whiskings, just a few weeks.

With our flavor of vodka, not seven, we can't afford to lose this sale.

Whoa!

That's too bad, baby.

This guy right here is a mystery.

Representing everything we have hoped.

This ain't home lately.

I ain't home lately.

I'll tell you how you can find it.

I got the right to say a liquor when I won't do that.

Look here, house.

We know where that liquor is coming from.

It's gold.

And this is over.

This is how we make the Moonshine.

Marcy.

How you doing, buddy?

Good.

In Polk County, North Carolina, six years after failing to put his

subterranean still sight into operation, Josh and

list the help of lifelong Moonshiner Henry Law.

In hopes of finally getting his dream off the ground.

Where's this new seal sight going?

You're on it.

I don't see anything here.

Let me show you.

I haven't used this still sight in a few years.

Let's go take some work and get it up and go on.

Chuck had to go back to Arkansas for some family business.

I got to have some help to get this done.

I don't know who else to call, but my partner Henry.

Oh, my God, man.

What are you serious?

We go down these steps straight off the cliff.

You look at his bait.

Why?

Place is perfect.

You've just placed a bunch.

I got a 275 gallon copper pot right over there.

My problem is, I got this at Josh problem.

I can see that.

I've been his home.

When I put this still sight together, one of the things

that we cut the corner on because we was in a hurry.

It was a ventilation system.

I was thinking about running a pop through here.

All of our exhausts will actually go out of here instead of coming in here.

He had no smoke stack on it.

If the fumes can't escape, you can die right there in the cave.

All right, so all we got to do is get that vent up through that ground right there.

Let's do it then.

Let's get this job done.

We've got to dig down through the top of this thing, tie in a smoke stack,

and then hook that steel up down underneath it and draw all the fumes out.

Once we get that stack in, he'll be able to use it with no fumes.

I'm not scared of rats at all.

I look like two stuck together.

Now, nasty something guns.

But I just don't lock it dirty bastards.

You have to go work, guess we'll go up there and cut that hole.

As long as they stay up there and they don't touch me and I ain't touching them

and I ain't got to touch nothing they touched.

We did.

There she is.

Easy, easy.

Let's just get all the mud and dirt cleaned out.

We're going to have to poke a hole through the ceiling.

That means they're going to dig dirt away, cut a hole through it, run it through

waterproof it, put it all back together, and it's still going to be waterproof.

It ain't easy as the jobs in the world.

We got that hole cut out.

It's just perfect.

Let's see what we've got.

So we took that piece of double pipe, stuck it down in the night.

We got that thick, thick, hard.

It goes around it.

You've got to make sure it doesn't leak.

That'll work, figure it in there.

You've got to find this thing.

Now that we've got the hole cut, we're going to make sure it doesn't leak.

We've got the pop in place.

Now we've got to install it to the furnace.

We're going to figure these goods that work in the pot, right?

We're going to go to that lip right there.

We're going to liquor in an underground steel site with gas.

It's lop or death.

It's very critical that we get it right.

Open this.

They ain't going to bite me.

I mean, we're done.

That's good, good, tight.

So we're going to test it or what?

Well, now let's test this baby.

All right.

I'm done to see how this chimney is going to work.

It's going to take a minute to get going.

Yeah.

The only way to test it is a bit of a small fire in there.

Get your jaw on, though.

You're starting to... Yeah, starting to draw.

Check it out, the page.

All right.

That's why it's the fire, man.

He's not going to go up on top.

Yeah, it's working.

We got smoke, baby.

Yeah, man.

It's doing what it's supposed to do.

Thank God Henry Page came down to hit me out.

I'm super thankful.

There's still a lot of work to be done.

Now we've got our chimney in place.

We're going to have to get this thing to seal.

Y'all be careful.

All right, man.

Thank y'all for coming.

All right.

You're wrecking that wing corner.

It's been done.

I hope it is.

It's had long enough.

It ought to taste good once we get her to steal.

In Haywood County, North Carolina, after hearing their bootleggers say he

paid $200 a gallon for true barrel-aged whiskey.

Mike and Jerry are determined to earn his business.

Even though they have no-aged whiskey to sell.

Everybody knows how to use wood chips to give whiskey a barrel-aged taste.

I mean, it's called Rapid Agent.

But Rapid Agent ain't going to fool this customer.

We've got to come up with a process that's better than Rapid Agent to convince this

guy that the liquor we actually running here today

has actually been aged for two years in a barrel.

I'll tell you what, we got a good start.

Our plan is to take some light, charred wood chips and some dark charred

wood chips and put them in our jar of red and run them through the liquor.

Get her fired up, Jerry.

Got the gas.

Ready?

Yep.

There we go.

Put some steam to it, boy.

You know, running the alcohol papers through the woods in the jar of eggs was

to help soften the woods and extract the flavors a lot faster.

Perhaps then putting it in a barrel that's set.

There ain't no bubble action going on because of them chips.

This is so cool.

It's so porous in there.

I can see a little bubbles going on.

You see it right here, you see it good.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yes.

She's bubbling that on that bottle, man.

That's a getting after it.

Hey, we got liquor coming out of here.

Well, y'all, I reckon.

Yeah!

Look at her.

Yeah.

Oh, my goodness, Jerry.

Man, I think we've got a chance to hail the smell anyway.

It's there.

Oh, my God.

That's a charred whiskey for sure, right there.

The liquor's coming off of the worm right now.

You can smell that oaky, charred flavor.

It actually smells like some barbecue ribs on the grill.

Hey, I just probably trapped into wood chips.

Well, me would be a good filter.

But she's crying, so it'll kill him, Jordan.

We'll get some bubble action going on here a little bit.

Yep.

Break it down and give us some of that flavor.

That's hot.

That is hot.

You know, on bootleggers, he's expecting AIDS whiskings.

With our flavor, if I could not sell him, we can't afford to lose his sale.

Yeah, let's get rid of him heads.

Yeah, my way.

Yeah!

The smell's great, but we haven't tasted it yet.

But we're about ready.

Yes.

Oh, yeah, that ought to be enough.

Oh, there it is.

Whoo.

What do you think?

It's woody.

Got the woody too, huh?

Yeah.

That's too bad, baby.

What in the head?

That is straight up like pine bark or something.

Now that makes perfect cut it off.

We've got to cut that off.

That's nice.

Yeah.

That is extremely too much wood flavor.

Running alcohol with a wood chip is not going to work.

It happens way too fast.

The vapor is way too hot.

It just brings out all the bad tannins and stuff with the wood.

That right there won't sail until it barely goes.

I might as well had a crushed up like a thousand peeps pits in there and ground

them up and soak alcohol in because that's exactly what it tastes like.

Gotta get the alcohol out of the pot.

So I'm out of this dumpies jar.

Let's strip all the alcohol out of the pot and we'll carry

it back to the shop and see what we can do with our flavor.

And we'll figure out some kind of other soaking method

or a shaking method or a rolling method or something.

We've got to figure out another way to wrap it up at age whisk.

So we're going to run the rest of this mash without the

wood chips and try to come up with another game plan.

You're all hoping this didn't work right now.

It's already disappointing about it.

You know what I mean?

Oh, yeah.

Hey.

What you gonna do?

You try, try, try.

How do you come in playing buddy yet?

Anybody you even think might be a move in this league.

Whoever this guy is, he's just misleading people with this GNS.

In Cock County, Tennessee, after discovering an unknown bootlegger,

flooding the outlaw market with an industrial

alcohol called GNS or grain neutral spirits.

The grain neutral spirits, they run them on those big

stills and they strip all the flavor in a room out of it.

So that I can basically be flavored to taste like anything they want.

Mark and Digger are determined to hunt down the unscrupulous party before the

cheap imitation product undermines their centuries-old craft of backwoods moonshine.

And they're representing it as backwoods pot still run corn liquor.

And it ain't.

Now, Stan's true blue.

He's old climbing.

He's not no snitch.

And, you know, he wouldn't tell me where he was getting in.

And Digger, we're going to meet up with Stan.

He's a good friend, not only has he been a loyal customer for years.

He's the reason I found out about this cheap liquor.

Well, man ain't living up to what he's supposed to be fulfilling.

He deserves to be turned out.

That may sway Stan to help us a little more.

True mountain people are spending this business,

whether you're making liquor or just buying liquor.

Whatever, there's a mountain coat.

And we don't ride each other out unless there's a good reason to.

And this is one of the times that we feel there's a good reason, too, because this

guy's misrepresenting himself and his product.

He'd be.

We'd come in a while.

They don't let me out much.

Anything good?

Yeah, man.

What's going on?

Well, the last time I was here, when I asked you who you were getting out

of there, or you wouldn't tell us, right?

You've been doing me a long time.

You know how I am.

I have.

That's Admiral.

But, we did get a jar of it.

And we've got some news.

This guy right here is misrepresenting everything we up hope.

He ain't making no liquor in the backwoods.

This right here is grain neutral spirits.

My ass produced alcohol that you can make anything out of it.

You tell me that that ain't.

This ain't homemade liquor.

That's something that's coming off of some factory.

It's an industrial alcohol.

What y'all want?

I ain't got no use for no law or no plea.

Yeah.

And I can know.

You let us know who he is and we'll take care of that.

Once we're explaining to stand about the proud and them being misrepresenting this

product, he's a little bit pissed off about it himself.

I'll tell you how you can find it.

If you're heading on the towards Gatlinburg, y'all know we're at it.

I don't know why the dirt road is.

It turns off right there past that bridge.

With that big bridge up there.

He's got a little deal set up.

Wednesday evening.

It's place up there on Spring Creek Road.

You just pull up there and meet with him.

That's how I better do him business with him.

I hold him, y'all's out of the game.

And, you know, he's pretty much here.

If you kind of want liquor, he'll sell it to you.

I ain't had a problem with it.

You know, Stan tells us this guy sets up on a

Wednesday evening at the end of an old dirt road.

And people know to come find him.

So, we may just go find this young man.

Spring Creek Road.

Yeah, you just pull up there and flash your lights at him twice.

And he'll come on down to you.

And we got to put a stop to it.

Not only for ourselves, but all the other legitimate moonshiners in the area.

You and my friend have just turned yourself a case of genuine corn lately.

Actually, backward to meadly.

I appreciate that.

That's a good look, all right?

Yeah, really.

Well, we got a lot of good clear corn and wheat liquor here.

Now, we just got to figure out something to do with it.

You know, we just tried running our good alcohol vapor through all these wood chips

like we would be infusing some type of flavor.

It's the most done-offless, snastiest taste you ever want to do.

We've got a bunch of clear whiskey.

We're going to start all over.

Figure out what we can do next.

We've tried about everything we used to do.

Set and waitin'.

Well, I mean, the whole idea in a barrel is the fact that

it's soaking in that barrel and it's breathing in and out.

So I figure if we just run the alcohol over the chips, we'll get that same reaction.

You'll soak it up and then continue some movement and rinse it out.

I don't see why not.

Let's do it.

All right, damn.

We do that.

Let's get this on.

So we've come up with another method to try to color

this alcohol and get the flavor that we're looking for.

All right, comes.

We'll figure in what if we take the alcohol and do it like a waterfall,

but it flow over these chips and continuously cycle

back over and over again until we reach that flavor.

And that color profile... I can actually see a little bit of tinge in it already.

Oh, yeah.

I'd say let's heat it up.

If you'll grab our little stove top, I can make us a little cap to go on a jar.

And we'll be ready to rock and roll.

We're going to stove top.

We're going to try to heat up this alcohol in line with our pump.

We've got to find that happy medium.

We can't steam it through the jars like we did.

That was way too much.

They heat up gradually.

We're getting darker there, Jerry.

It is getting darker.

I'm starting to get this aroma coming out over here.

You know, we're about 120-ish degrees so far.

All you're talking about is tasting.

It's getting better.

You know, our goal is to be able to hit right around the 150-ish degrees.

We don't get much higher than that because we don't want our alcohol vaporizing.

We vaporize our alcohol.

We're just going to put it right back in the atmosphere.

It's going to be gone forever.

And it's looking real good, ain't it?

It's good or true.

I'm pretty excited, man.

See how this works.

Yes, us.

Oh, it spoils good.

Got the nose on.

It does.

That's got a real good nose on.

It's better.

Okay.

It's just not where we're where we need to be.

That's for sure.

You know, this alcohol may not be exactly where we

want it to be, but it's got a very good body to it.

It's got a really good nose.

A customer that drinks a lot of age whiskey would

definitely know that's not a two or three-year-old whiskey.

Me and Jerry want to take the extra steps, the colons, and time to make this right.

We go give up, man.

That's $200 a gallon.

We can get for the slicker.

Yeah.

That's money we can afford to lose.

You know, we've definitely learned something here today.

We feel like we're making good progress.

You know, we need to keep working.

This is not what we want to sell to the customer,

but we're definitely in the right direction.

Well, you've got it done there.

We've got the pipe in.

Now it's got to build some deer stand.

It's going to be eight feet tall on the front end, seven feet tall on the back end.

I can't have this chimney just taking out the ground.

Nobody's taking out like a sore thumb.

That is not going to work.

Get this done.

I won't run this pipe through the floor.

It's got the deer stand over it.

You know, smoke stack comes out of the ground.

You can't see it.

Runs right up through the wall.

Fucking wood stove right there.

Pop right into it.

If you get up here to look in it, it's an ultimate cover.

We're ready to rock and roll, man.

Let's build it.

Let's get it, baby.

Well, everything that's going on right now with Mark

and Digger and our other still stop being compromised.

The last thing that we need to worry about is someone walking up on us.

Let's get these babies screwed together.

We're going to build what looks to be a deer

stand on top of the underground still side.

That way, you know, he can run his exhaust

up through there and it can come out the top.

Ah, mighty.

That's oak.

We're in the south.

Coming across the deer stand out in the woods and the country.

It's not out in place in any fashion.

That's where I work belongs.

Let's stick a wood stove in place.

One, two, three.

We got the roof and two walls.

Now, we got this bad boy doing.

Looks pretty good.

Oh, we got to put some paint on it.

It's good to go.

Let's just stop it from a rock.

It's fast, you know?

Make it blend in a little bit better.

I'm quickly realizing that this ain't no deer blind that I'm used to.

So far, I've been a contractor, a painter.

I was afraid we were going to start plumbing this summer if we kept going.

Usually, when I build a deer blind, it's made out of scrap lumber that you

find laying here there and you just kind of slap it up together, as long as it

blocks the wind off of you and kind of covers you up.

When's the tile guy getting here to lay tiles?

Hey, kiss my butt.

You're very on the camouflage house.

I've never seen this much construction put into a deer blind, but hey, you know,

maybe that's how they build them in North Carolina, I don't know.

All right, so now we need to put that pipe in, and we should be good.

The whole reason to build this is to damp chimney.

This is how we're going to do this right here.

The rest of it's just a facade.

I feel pretty good about it.

It's coming out from the floor.

And this is going to be able to pass right on through and go out to ceiling.

Chuck, this is going to work so perfect.

I know we went around the world to get some smoke out of the hole.

But at the same time, I'm going to be able to kill deer turkeys right here.

I'm going to be able to get rid of any of the gases that's in our steel side.

You're going to be able to be able to fire here and stay warm when I'm hunting.

You'll be able to spend a night here for want to do hell.

You know what I mean?

This is going to work good.

Let's make some liquor.

This thing turned out pretty good.

It's the perfect camouflage for our steel side.

Kind of proud of it.

Now that we've got all this done, now it's time

to make some mice and put this thing to work.

All right Chuck, let's go get some corn.

Good police.

Popo, you know, though.

I ain't speaking to get him.

I'm only doing 45 on our 25.

We're good.

Now that we finally got this dog gone deer stand done, now we can make some mice.

Well, we're going right now.

So all the places I get my corn from and my dad used to go here.

It's been around forever and ever.

I got a really good hook up for corn around here in my buddy Nathan.

He's got a lot of it.

Somebody.

Somebody.

Well, you ain't hiding there.

You can see, man.

I ain't seeing you now.

There just ain't nowhere else to go on my opinion.

My buddy Chuck.

Yeah, nice to meet you.

Nathan, nice to meet you.

I've been telling Chuck all kinds of stories

about coming down here and getting corn and stuff.

Come down here with dad.

He was a character.

Yeah, that was a trip.

They broke up mold, didn't they?

Yeah, dang right there.

Yeah.

Poyons up through the day.

When he's some ground corn.

You cooking?

Yeah, maybe.

All right.

How'll get your fucking ground?

All right, then.

We've been buying corn from Nathan my entire life.

Good.

You made it to you.

Got a cooking head.

Smells like money, don't it?

Haha.

My dad used to go there.

Barty used to go there.

I said, get the shit right there.

But the most important part is, is I can go get whatever I want for Nathan.

And I know he's not going to tell anybody anything.

He's got a tight lip.

Good to see you.

Take care of that, man.

You don't want that.

You don't want that.

Same.

I don't know what's the corn looking.

So it's just straight up corn there, huh?

Well, the last liquor I ever made in my dad.

We made it in this still side.

And I have made a run of liquor there since.

Now we're back all of a sudden.

I'm going to do it as a tribute to the old man.

I'm here there.

I like it.

Being back here in North Carolina, got me thinking a lot about my family,

especially my dad.

I want to do a special run of liquor that brings

all the things we are as a family together.

He've heard the stories about my family being monitors and shotters.

You know that liquor's got the gold flakes in it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I don't want to worry anything about some

moonshine with some gold flakes floating in it.

All right.

Kind of a novelty type thing, but... Yeah.

No.

I bet that turns to my head, you know what I mean?

How are you?

Yeah, they like that.

Make it the color of the liquor's gold.

When we coming from a whole long line of monitors

and shotters, it's going to only make sense.

And I make some moonshine, put some gold in it, and sell some liquid gold.

This is about my heritage.

This is about my family.

This is about keeping traditions alive.

Hey, man.

You got to do it right.

He's back in the old neck of the wood.

Get your old steel side.

Why not make a big run and honor you there, you know?

It's kind of how I feel about it.

I'm with it.

Let's do it.

What Stan tells us that this guy's selling in my golf corn

liquor, he has a spot that people come and meet him at.

It's on a dead-end road called Spring Creek Road.

Boy, ain't it nice up here.

We have to absolutely confront him, and we've got to put a stop to this.

Not only for our own livelihood, but for all the other legitimate

moonshineers, I've got to try and make a living.

The Stan shed some light on this forest, but it's pretty heavy light.

We know who to find him now.

So, I say we approach him.

You know what we do know about GNS, that it is strictly regulated.

We know that whoever is obtaining it, and making this fake corn

moonshine liquor out of it, they're not getting it legally.

We could just try to buffalo him and just

tell him, we know you're stealing this liquor.

I know where you're stealing it.

They've asked me about it.

So, you've got 24 hours to go dump your **** on the ground and get out of business.

If you don't stop, then we're right in your ass out.

Not to the lower mind, but we're telling the people that

you're getting the stolen GNS from where it's going.

So, diggers come up with a plan that we're going

to make him think we know more than we really do.

Kind of buffalo him, so to speak, or run a bluff on him.

I think we can smoke him out and run him back home.

We've got to be careful.

We've got to handle this with kid gloves.

We've got tread lightly.

I mean, our dog ain't got no teeth, so they ain't no bite there.

Our information is zero.

This is just all the blood.

So, we've got to be prepared for whatever comes out on no side of the tongue.

Hopefully, it'll do what it's intended to do, and shut him down.

He'll get spooked and he'll get out of bed.

I'll get you slept much last night.

I've been out here all night.

I couldn't sleep.

I put in the chimney here.

I put this all back together.

Dude, it's been a chore.

Now, we've got to do this for this thing.

The water puts fire to it, and let's make some ice.

Let's do it.

The creek we got on hands dirty as I'll get out.

We ain't using that.

So, we're having a bring in fresh water.

What's we got plenty of?

Good news is, we're bringing in high quality water.

That's the least we can do to have the coverage

we got in the security we got with the steel side.

If all we got to do is bring it with water in, I'll take that.

Cut it off, Jeff!

All right.

This is the moment of truth.

It's time to find a steel-up, make some ice,

and make some motion, and make some money.

All right, Chuck, get me some gas.

Hello, damn this.

It's been a long, hard road that we've been on, but we're

finally at the point where we're about to make some moonshine.

And for a moonshine, that means everything.

I'm just going to do some corn whiskey, and we're going to add some cinnamon to it.

Yeah.

And you know as well as I do, when you use

cinnamon, it can go either way on there real fast.

Yeah, we want the flavor not to fire.

Oh, she ready.

She's balling.

I'm going to go ahead and cut the baller off.

All we've got to do now is transfer a bucket to water.

I hate what happened to do this the hard way.

It is what it is.

This first run is made in five years, but she's working.

The next step is now that we've got some hot water, pour some grain in there.

This cool new we're about to use and it's got

quite the reputation in the moonshine world.

Don't from sugar to it.

A lot of moonshines have used it to make liquor in the past,

so I feel like we're about to make a premier moonshine.

Then we're going to find out if we're going to make your

thing worth having and I'll go down some cinnamon to it.

I've made corn whiskey a hundred times.

You can smell it, big tough.

That's not the problem.

Today we're experimenting with cinnamon.

The difference between two months, and not enough is about this much,

but when you get it right, it makes a great drink.

Man, that's good.

Tastes just like cinnamon toast.

Does it not?

Greet some cinnamon in it.

I can't wait to see how this turns out.

All right, I'm going to grab the yeast here.

All right, yeah.

While this mash is working off, I'm going to go

pay for some gold flakes to Chris in the first jar.

This is my way of honoring all the miners and the shiners in my family.

Hey, we've got a mix of liquor, bro.

While this is going to go mash and working off, we're going to find some gold.

We're going to try to find some gold.

Gold nuggets.

Very rare.

What we do have plenty of is flakes and splatter gold.

Yeah, you're down the paper.

I tell you one thing.

I guarantee those miners back in the day.

They didn't have no fancy equipment like this.

They just dug in the creek and had a pan or something.

And so I found what they needed.

I found a determined to find some real gold.

This one is for all the miners and the shiners in my family.

Like it's important to me.

It means something.

To be in the same hills, digging for gold.

And I'm making moonshine.

Let's see what we can come up with in this thing.

I'm carrying on a family tradition.

Miners and shiners.

They don't get no better.

I'm excited.

I hope we got something here.

I'm no matter for sure.

But we'll see what happens.

I've never seen no mica that go before.

Look at that.

It's going to be gold flakes right there.

Hell yeah.

That's what I'm talking about.

That ain't no mica.

Little bit of flakes and gold right there.

If I had a whole bunch of them, we'd be in business.

That's what we're looking for.

I ain't crazy enough to think that we're going to drink real gold.

I don't have to come up with some edible stuff.

But man, oh man, am I going to be on with something?

Everybody's going to want to jar this.

Can I taste something else?

Is this right?

I got a lot of work to do.

When we're getting close to our mark, man, but, you know, this

octa hall right here ain't going to cut the mustard sauce.

You know, man, Jerry's been busting our butts trying to come up with a way to make

her clear liquor taste like it's been in the barrel agent for two years.

So this whole time, our boot leather genius thinks we've

been out there trying to source two-year-old barrel agents.

But anyways, we've got all these little beauty poems.

We've got to find a way, Jerry, to get the

alcohol in these chips and back out of them.

It's quick, it's possible.

Maybe, maybe put them under pressure or something.

Well, if we used high pressure, that would

actually force that alcohol into that wood.

And then if we put it under a vacuum, that would actually extract it back out.

I've actually got a vessel we can do that in.

Put them chips under some kind of pressure, along with this alcohol,

and force it into those chips.

Let it sit for a little while.

We're going to take a look and see what I can come up with.

Don't bring something back's going to blow us up, man.

I'll show you.

You know what to do there.

So the plan is, we're going to put our alcohol and our chips inside this little

tank, put the pressure to it, and let it sit.

Could use a good house connection for our vacuum.

For a pressure and vacuum.

Mm-hmm.

You know, we're going to try our vacuum as well.

You know, pressure, you're putting something in real, real time.

Vacuum, you're sucking it out real, real time.

Your collapsing with our vacuum, and you expanding with pressure.

Good going in, better coming out.

It just pretty much seals it like a vault.

Is it those from pressure to it?

I guess.

Can I go outside for that?

No, no, it's got a pop-off over here.

I know what it does, but it's going to pop off and hit somebody, right?

I just won't be standing right over.

You ready?

Well, it too.

That's about a month, huh?

Well, it's got it, don't it?

You know, once we've lit this subset under pressure for a

good little while, then we're going to reverse that process.

The pressure hasn't been done to our vacuum.

We're just going to put it under a vacuum, and we're going to try to see if we can

suck all the air we can back out of that, and it

hopes it'll pull the alcohol out of the chips.

I say it's a pool in the liquor out of that wood, but we're getting up on that.

Yeah.

So...

You know, I think we're, you know, reached our

max here, and then it darkened it up a bit.

We've got a good color change.

We're going to see what this stuff tastes like.

We own something, baby.

It tastes a lot better than it did before it went in there.

Juniors won't start eggs rescue the taste like it's been in the barrel for,

at least a couple of years.

It's going to be a game changer.

This is moving in the right direction.

We know that using heat across the chips works.

And we know that pressure and a vacuum is working.

So now what we've got to do is we've got to make this a whole lot bigger.

The next time junior calls, I want to be able to tell them we're on our way.

I've got my wheels and spinning, man.

That's my dears.

Yeah, that's that turn around at the beginning.

Damn total.

Yeah, this spring-free road.

Yeah, spring-free road didn't just log or go.

It ain't little plants.

We do have word from Stan that this guy's selling the mock-off corn liquor.

Once a week, he sells here.

There he comes.

He even bashed him.

He didn't come up here just to set and part by himself and keep himself company.

So we think, you know, this is this is definitely the right spot.

And, you know, I'm sure customers will be showing up.

I hear something else coming.

Damn pick-up truck first.

Yep.

There's something for pick-up truck.

Look on it.

He been here before he pulled around there and back and right up to the door.

He knows the deal, though.

And he knows the ropes.

Low and low.

Here comes the pick-up truck.

Seems like this guy knows the drill.

Another $80.

Mm-hmm.

The other $80.

The other $80.

You know, far, it's like watching the gas pump turn.

Mm-hmm.

There comes another one.

Yep.

It knows the routine, too.

It ain't your first time.

And absolutely, it's your first time.

It's your first time of selling it, though.

I mean, this is just kind of like a drive through there.

Just pulling up, placing her order and putting it in

her car, paying for it, and going on about her business.

I have to give him credit.

He is very bouncy.

I didn't have no idea what was happening on this.

You see that.

Well, that's disheartening.

You know, what this guy's doing is beyond illegal.

It's immoral.

I mean, he's telling somebody that this is something that's not.

I mean, yeah, we might make a little illegal

liquor, but we don't lie to people about it.

So to say that it's going to be a pleasure to make his man's acquaintance,

it is in fact.

Addy, I ain't going to take no lip off his son's lips.

He better come round our way thinking we're the quick.

We're going to wait till it gets a little darker, then we'll slide in on him.

This son, it's been a thorn in our side all year long.

It's time that he goes someplace else.

Hey, TF3!

Damn, you scared to piss out of me.

Well, you're done.

You got a little liquor, so.

Well, I'm getting ready.

The car shows are coming up.

I know how much liquor these cars are.

Oh, I'm seeing how many this old Ford hope.

I mean, it's a perfect place.

That's 450 other cars are.

Nobody'll notice.

And three or four loud men walking through.

They like old cars just like we do.

Well, we won't try to sell them no liquor.

No, they stupid.

It don't take a rocket scientist to see jars coming up and trying to car and

figure out somebody doing something illegal over there.

I ain't have no part of this.

I look here.

If it was April, I'd call you an M.A.

for food.

But obviously, you're a food all the time.

You son of a bitch.

Have your empty cases back.

I'm just saying how many boxes it'll hold, am I?

Let's make some liquor.

Yes, sir.

He no way it ain't ready.

Oh, it's all.

We are finally here.

We have massed in.

Oh, I'm third base slide down there.

It's time to finally run some liquor.

Seems like it's been forever.

I'm a big dog.

It's all now.

There it is.

I've been in this still side six years.

It feels pretty damn good to be coming back.

We've done built the stairs stand.

We've got our exhaust figured out.

And we're back to make it liquor.

For the jars of liquid gold that I'm going to come up with, I've got some edible gold.

Every jar is going to be beautiful.

Let's give this a fire, big dog.

I've got 250 gallons of mashing here.

The fire's under it.

It's nothing but a waiting game now.

We're about to make some moonshine, baby.

We're a business.

Yes, sir.

We're running in cats and dogs, bro.

Yeah, it is.

Four.

Four, right.

We've got a steel side in a storm shelter.

I'm OK with it.

I'm a dying chug.

Don't get much better.

No.

Here it is.

Rain, sleet of snow.

The shine is going to flow.

This smelling that storm will send me the name.

You got gold.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

That means we're probably going to have a good turn out.

Get some try.

I'm getting clear at it.

Yeah.

That's what I'm talking about.

Yes, sir.

Hey, to the miners or the shiners or the past that made us who we are.

You're welcome to the first shot, sir.

Ooh.

Hey.

Fire and I approve it.

I'm going to tell you that is good.

Wow.

Wow.

That's good.

Yeah.

The cinnamon totally carried over, but it don't feel like it's like overbearing.

We actually did it.

The cinnamon toast has got a really good flavor profile.

And we're going to do this for the miners.

I've got some gold.

Oh, why don't you look at that?

What we have come up with as a tribute to my family for the miners and the shiners

just turned out to be one of the most amazing things that I've done.

Look how pretty that is.

Oh, yeah.

I'd buy it.

Holy crap.

And that gold and that jar, that sparkly, beautiful, little

bit of hands and that cinnamon flavor that it comes off with.

We're on to something.

This is going to be a game changer.

Let's cut this off and get the heck out of here.

I'm with you there.

You know.

That's $900, $900 on all this.

I thought he's putting any damn potty up over the base of my iron mining.

I've watched better all this like a bear to watch.

Well, we're getting over the face.

Let's do it.

Let's get with you.

Let's now or never.

I ain't looking forward to this.

I hate doing this kind of thing.

I hate confrontation.

But if we're going to make a living at our

profession, we're going to have to confine it.

How you doing, our boss?

How you doing tonight?

Doing all right.

We eat too late by a little liquor, are we?

No.

I'll take you on to that right there.

See what you think.

I'm making myself.

Well, that tastes like something we've tasted here lately, don't we?

It's familiar.

That's mountain-made creekside pot liquor.

Yeah.

I'm throwing the bull of a **** flag.

I just want to see if you want to face up to making a jar of liquor.

They ain't that great.

Oh, that's good, look.

Well, it might be to you.

But that's GNS.

Oh, no.

I mean, that's five liquor.

Don't blow smoke up my ice at tickles.

That's creekside pot liquor.

You're getting that from a legal facility.

Oh, no.

You ain't got no **** hurt me.

That's good liquor.

Look here, how she looked me in the damn eye.

That's good liquor.

We know where that liquor is coming from.

It's stolen.

They've been blaming it on us.

And it **** over.

Y'all come up here.

I'm trying to make a living.

Well, that's what we're all trying to do.

I've got work trying to make a living.

We can't sell a jar of liquor because you're

selling it cheaper than anybody needs a mouse.

And it's pilfered, stole liquor.

And what you're going to do right now is getting that damn trailer and that truck

time you get to hell out of here and be done with this business.

Got us?

It's time.

Dark traction.

We have no idea who he's getting in front of.

But the look on his face tells us that he believes us.

I think it's going to take.

I believe it will.

They're better.

We don't see him on the one.

You know, he knows that if work were to get out, not only would his bootleg in

operation take a big hit, but between stealing the GNS and

selling it without a license, he'd be in some serious trouble.

Let's get the hell out of here.

Our job's done.

Well, y'all just show me where to go.

We'll get this stuff here.

The best thing we can figure out to do is stash our brandy

over here on one of these small islands and then yourself.

There's some pretty wealthy people that live here on the way.

Somebody's gone up to the island, y'all.

I lost everything ahead for junior.

I come here.

I'm starting all over again.

All we need to do now is get back and mash in.

Get the lights up, guys.

Come on over here!