The worst episodes of Moonshiners
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- 01
Mark and Digger deploy an old-world innovation to bring their barrel-aged reserves to market, while Tim attempts to make Tickle's CBD moonshine on a commercial scale. Josh puts himself at the mercy of the mountains' greatest peril -- a rookie shiner.
- 02
Josh breaks into his secret stash to build a new still site, and breaks out his shotgun when a drone invades his airspace. Daniel hits the jackpot selling for Mark and Digger, while Mike finds his steady customers mysteriously less thirsty than usual.
- 03
Josh drives a tractor trailer full of stills across state lines to help Tickle and the Laws run two tons of malted corn. Mark and Digger christen their own secret Tennessee Whiskey distillery. Richard builds a copper Virginia-style submarine still.
- 04
Josh, Tickle and the Laws build a still farm the likes of which Virginia hasn't seen since the heyday of Amos Law. Jerry misses a day of work and Mike lets down his guard. Mark and Digger discover a rival moonshiner faces a reckoning with the law.
- 05
When Tickle returns to the outlaw side, even Tim can't resist the call of the backwoods; Mark and Digger rediscover a lost recipe from a legend; Mike finds the ultimate secret mountain still site, if only he can build a way to access it.
- 06
Tim joins Tickle on a journey through the backwoods of Virginia to rekindle their fiery passion for the outlaw life; Josh Owens dives headlong into the season hoping to make bank while leaving law enforcement none the wiser.
- 07
Tickle mashes in his first large scale run of outlaw shine in years. Mark and Digger scramble to save their Popcorn legacy mash from runaway livestock. Mike ditches Daniel for a new full-time partner. Mark and Huck double their proof and their price.
- 08
Teaming up with a former competitor, Mark and Digger sell their legacy shine in a neighboring county. Mike and Jerry double their shine output only to find customers are getting their shine from another source. Mountain man Mark tracks an intruder.
- 09
Mark and Digger attempt their first backwoods miracle, turning wedding cake into moonshine. Tickle scrambles for cover when aerial surveillance threatens a return to jail. And Appalachia's most accident-prone shiner is back operating heavy machinery.
- 10
Tickle's carpentry skills shine as Virginia outlaws plan a risky modification to their still; Mark and Digger take a big swing on a small ingredient that can't pass the sniff test; Josh uncovers the worst way to foster a toxic work environment.
- 11
In the season finale, Tickle gets a life sentence -- to the marvelous Mrs. Tickle. Mark and Digger risk delivering both moonshine and justice.
- 12
Mark and Digger go across county lines to bootleg their triple-grain shine. Mark Huck uses bear scent to track down an intruder while Mike and Jerry fire up the 24-jar rig and discover the downside of backpressure.
- 13
Tickle answers the call when Josh needs help salvaging an abandoned submarine still and his season. Mark and Digger take on a specialty bourbon made from Indian corn. Facing jail time, Van and Ewok gamble their freedom for another run.
- 14
Mark and Digger attempt to rescue a former apprentice from a moonshine calamity; an unknown competitor invades Mike's turf, forcing him to change his shine strategy; Mark and Huck bank on backwoods survival skills to fuel their high-proof run.
- 15
Tickle announces his engagement, and Tim discovers why his best friend can't quit the outlaw side; unable to sell any shine, Mike attempts a long-distance bootleg that puts him in the cross-hairs of the law; Josh thinks Sin City needs one more vice.
- 16
Tickle and Tim put fire to their first backwoods run in a decade; with 250 gallons of mash on the brink of expiring, Mark and Digger torpedo their own operation; a minor oversight for Josh triggers a domino effect that threatens his entire site.
- 17
A young outlaw with an old pot still earns an apprenticeship with Mark and Digger; Mountain man Mark tackles a week-long run to hit an $18K order that includes special delivery; in a desperate attempt to fix his worm barrel, Josh dives in headfirst.
- 18
Tickle and the Laws infuse a batch of shine with anxiety-reducing CBD, Josh digs into a secret stash to cure his blues and a mystery bootlegger encroaches on Mike's turf.
- 19
Mark and Digger heads to Georgia to visit an old-time shiner and restore an important piece of Popcorn Sutton history; Tim and Tickle plan on how to sell their new shine; Mike finds out about a rival on his turf.
- 20
Hard Times Make the Best Shine
With national supply chains disrupted, Mark and Digger unearth a ton of free ingredients, Tickle helps Josh build a submarine still farm and Mike designs a first-ever backwoods column still, perfect for endless runs of high-quality low-cost liquor.
- 21
When Josh lands a windfall of peaches, he and Tickle forge a peach brandy-making alliance. Mark and Digger's plans dry up when their surplus corn supply mysteriously disappears, and Mike and Jerry's column still spews ethanol vapor, causing a panic.
- 22
With his partner in quarantine, Digger has much more on the line than shine. Mike and Jerry's moonshine Frankenstein turns on its creators. After decades in the backwoods, mountain man Mark Rogers enlists his dad to run with him for the first time.
- 23
Tickle and the Laws unleash a 700-gallon run on a whisper-quiet steamer still. Mark and Huck traverse Appalachia's roughest terrain to run liquor with moonshine legend Jim Tom. Mike and Jerry engineer a high-tech solution to a backwoods problem.
- 24
Mark and Digger's plan to employ an out of work friend backfires on payday. Tim invents a low-cost way to make his first single-malt moonshine. With their backwoods column still cranking out liquor, Mike discovers Jerry isn't carrying his own weight.
- 25
Mark and Digger attempt oatmeal raisin shine for a high-flying Nashville customer; Mike and Jerry find themselves under the gun when they over deliver on proof to a biker gang; Mark and Huck forge a lifeline to old-time shiners deep in the mountains.
