In three days, our boat's gonna come down to Ohio River.
This time on "Moonshiners"--
I don't know about this situation.
This looks like the wrong neighborhood for us to be in.
You know, I am sitting dead in the water right here.
I mean, we got 1,000 gallons of liquor right here in these trailers.
We don't have no sight of the boat that's gonna
smuggle our liquor to Canada.
You sure this is the place?
I don't know of nothing, Howard.
The man's there. He just unloaded the liquor.
I say we go in there right now and talk to him,
try to make a deal with him.
I don't know exactly what this place is
or what all the peoples are doing here, but me and Jerry
needs to be making this extra money.
We want you to try some of ours here, if you don't mind.
Is that live?
That's right this very second.
- They coming up here. - So he's right above us.
They're here.
Be quiet.
This is how we make the moonshine.
You ready?
Oh, there it goes.
I mean, I got four or five gallons.
All right, that's it, guys. Let's jug it up.
In Jefferson County, Kentucky, after launching
his first illegal operation in more than a decade, Tim ran
afoul of a local shine boss.
Now, with his own deadline approaching, Tim needs
to finish bottling 1,000 gallons of tariff-free liquor
in time to meet the smuggler arriving by boat from Canada.
Go slow. Don't spill it, Howard.
After a couple of weeks, you know, we're finishing up
like 1,000 gallons right here.
I mean, it's the prettiest picture you've ever seen.
We've done it, man.
Yeah, I talked to the guy in Canada.
In three days, our boat's gonna come down the Ohio River.
So we gotta meet this guy on his boat.
I heard from our buyer, he's got a boat
that's coming down the Ohio River.
Well, you know, this is kind of a roundabout way to get
liquor to Canada, but it's the safest way.
But, you know, right now, all I got to do is get it
to this boat in three days.
You know, this is tariff-free, tax-free.
So that means we're gonna have to get trucks, trailers,
whatever it is, load all this stuff up.
- Listen. - Somebody's coming.
Huh?
Dude, it is three vehicles side by side in the front.
We're sitting there talking, and you hear
side-by-sides, vehicles.
Everything that's not supposed to be there right now
while we're here. - It's the boys.
This ain't cool, Tim. This is them.
It's John popping in to check on us.
Oh, hell no.
- All right. - What about it, fellas?
- Hey. - Hey.
How's it going?
So what's going on?
What y'all doing out riding around?
Well, yeah, it's nice out today, man.
Hey, look over here. Look.
Hey, we got some jugs up here.
I knew you fellas was making moonshine, I didn't know
you was making this much moonshine.
It's actually impressive, honestly.
Now I'm starting to get excited.
- Yeah. - This is nice.
You know, you been running my electric?
You know, I guess word got around,
how much liquor we making in this barn.
Right now, I'm feeling like I'm having a shakedown.
Now the taxes are raised. So I'm thinking,
looking here doing some Kentucky math for you,
I'm thinking 100 gallons.
But look, this is kind of designated for someone else.
This is bought and paid for, fellas.
Yeah, let's just call it like it is, man.
We gonna take 100.
That's the tax tonight.
So let's round it up, boys. Let's load it up.
Let's get our cut.
This right here, this is impressive.
High cost of living, fellas.
Absolutely.
What the heck are we supposed to do now?
I don't know.
I mean, in the legal business, everyone's taking a piece
of the pie here. You got distributors.
You got the state. You got the federal.
But on the illegal, you know, you're getting 100%
of the profits here, but you have no protection.
I mean, at this point,
I don't know what set of problems is worse.
We got 100 gallons that we got to get in three days.
We don't have time to mash in.
We don't have the resources in Kentucky to help us.
You know, right now, we missing 100 gallons.
The boat is coming in less than three days.
What we gonna do?
I think we call Henry Law.
Henry Law back in Franklin County, Virginia.
If he's got it, I'm for sure I can get it.
Hey, man. How you doing?
We got a little dilemma with another group of people
out here. So we're short.
We're short about 100 gallons.
Oh, hell, man. 100 gallons?
You know, that's a whole lot.
I got some, but I'll have to ask around and see if I can
come up with the rest of it for you.
Oh, yeah? And, of course,
you got to come out here to Virginia
to pick it up
if I come up with it. - We'll be on the way.
- All right. See you a little bit later. - OK.
Hey, you know, right now, I got 100 gallons short.
I just got to go right now, and I hope that Henry comes through.
Let's shut this operation down and get the hell
out of here, bud. - All right.
Oh, my God.
I've been working really hard to get things going back here
in North Carolina. I gotta rock and roll.
Last thing I'm gonna do is just sit and idle.
That ain't happening.
In Polk County, North Carolina,
with a profitable run of moonshine under his belt,
Josh sets out to secure some grain for his next run
from a trusted black market supplier whose name
also happens to be Josh.
My buddy Josh up at the malt house, he called me today
and told me I needed to come running up here and he had
something I might be interested in.
And Digger told me don't be talking about nothing over
the phone, so we're on our way to Asheville to see exactly
what he's got in store.
Every time I've ever done business with Josh,
it's been in a parking lot or a back alley
or something or other.
I believe we're here.
He assures me that there's nobody else there and that it's OK.
Call Josh. Let him know I'm here.
Think we're all right.
Hey, Josh.
Hey, we're sitting out here. What you want me do?
Aight, right on.
There he is. There he is right there.
What's going on, buddy? How's Josh been?
I've been all right. How's this Josh been?
Ah, hell, I'm all right, man.
So I meet up with Josh, and he's always got
the best grains ever.
What you got cooking today?
Let me show you.
I'm expecting some kind of amazing grain hookup.
What you think about that?
- A bag of peanuts? - Yeah.
I thought I was coming up here for grains, man.
I've heard it's possible to make moonshine out of peanuts,
but that's something I ain't never even put my hands in.
- How much of this you got? - 250 pounds.
But when free ingredients fall in your lap, you gotta
take advantage of it.
How much do you have, 250 pounds?
- 250, but it's all raw. - It's all raw.
So you're telling me I gotta figure out how to
roast peanuts,
'cause you can't consume raw peanuts, and they probably
wouldn't make good whiskey if they were.
So, what do you want for 'em?
If I just get a couple gallons back, that'd be great.
I think we can definitely pull that off.
- Just pull the truck over here? - Sounds good.
All right, Bub.
This is gonna be a total new process for me,
trying to make some peanut liquor.
I know I'm gonna have to roast them to bring out
all that flavor. The problem is that
peanuts are high in fat and protein,
and they have almost no fermentable sugars.
So I got some things I'm gonna have to figure out before
we mash in.
Now the work begins.
I gotta figure out how to make the mash, then I gotta
make the liquor. You know what?
I'm gonna call Henry.
Whenever I get in a jam, Henry's one of the first people
that I call.
Right now, I'm still recovering from my accident, I need
all the help I can get.
I know I'm ready to get old Junior
took care of one more time.
Yeah, that's for a fact, Jack.
In Haywood County, North Carolina,
after developing a multi-step process for rapidly aging
liquor in their column still, Mike and Jerry prepare to run
another $200 a gallon batch for their bootlegger,
who they've hoodwinked into believing is two-year-old
barrel-aged whiskey.
Check this old stuff's ready.
I hope he keeps on wanting to order up.
- Whoo! - Good?
- She's good and bitter. - You ready to pump her over?
I'm ready, man.
We didn't get the tailgate shut good,
Junior's already ordered another batch from us.
Lay her to it.
So that tells me what we just loaded up,
$3,000 worth of alcohol, is already sold.
Me and Jerry's gotta turn in, get another load here
in a week.
Fire in the hole.
Go ahead.
I'mma grab these chips.
The way we're doing this process to make a rapid-age
whiskey, we're using an American white oak chip
that's been charred.
And as it runs through the still, it comes out
with that deep color and that wonderful taste.
I'll tell you what, I've been thinking about something.
What's that?
You know, remember Junior telling us he'd buy as much
as we could produce, as much as we could get him?
Heck yeah.
Isn't that kind of alarming to you, though?
Yeah, it's a little bit suspicious.
If Junior was buying from us and putting boots on
the ground, trying to sell one jar at a time to people,
or, you know, a gallon here and a gallon there,
he wouldn't be placing an order this soon.
He's got it sold before he ever leaves the place that
he loads it up.
There's something fishy going on.
You know, $200 a gallon, he's buying from us.
That's good money to us, you know?
Oh, that's great money.
I wonder... I wonder what he's getting for it.
I don't know, but I'd like to.
Selling to bootleggers keeps us safe, but, you know,
they take a big cut of our profit out of our pocket.
That's mine and Jerry's liquor. You know what I mean?
Well, go ahead and crack that valve in.
- Oh, look at that. - Look how pretty that is.
Dark goodness.
- Boy, that's what I like to see right there. - Shoo wee.
You know, the whole game with a bootlegger is to buy low
and sell high. And, you know, the only reason
we use a bootlegger is to move this stuff.
If we can find somebody to move it ourselves, you know,
why wouldn't we? - There she flies.
Well, let's get us a taste and see what she's like, Jerry.
All right, there we go.
Whew, that tastes just like the first one, buddy.
I mean, this stuff tastes like it's been in a barrel for
a couple years.
And perhaps, you know, as far as just good,
smooth-tasting alcohol, whiskey, this is
possibly the best that me and Jerry has ever put
on the table.
As good as that is and as hot as it's selling, it leads me
back to this whole middleman thing.
- I'm telling you. - I'm thinking we're gonna have
to figure out where Junior's taking this stuff.
We need to take this to Junior, deliver it like
we said we would. - Get our money for it.
Get our money for it.
And I think we need to slide in behind old Junior.
Find out where he's taking it.
Me and Jerry can find out
who Junior's selling to directly,
maybe we can go to that man and cut a deal with him
personally, you know, and cut the middleman out.
There's nothing personal here. It's just business.
We'll follow him. We'll be very cautious.
And we'll get that extra money and put it in our pocket.
- I'm down with it. - Let's do it.
Howard, look, if Henry don't have this moonshine,
we're gonna have some bigger problems.
Because we're supposed to deliver,
and I always deliver.
My word's good as gold.
You know, right now, I only got a couple of days to deliver
1,000 gallons to a boat
that's gonna smuggle it into Canada.
The big problem we got here, the big shine boss in Kentucky,
you know, he just stole 100 gallons from us for rent.
I'm gonna head over to Virginia, meet up with
Henry Law, and hopefully, you know, he's gonna score,
and he's gon' found 100 gallons for us.
I just hope he's got it and don't have to, like,
be going to get it or find it, or make it, you know what
I'm saying? I don't know.
No, we need to pull up, load up, and get the hell back
on the road to Kentucky. - 'Cause I know how Henry is.
Sometimes he's got it, like, stashed or, you know,
different places, you know? - Yeah, yeah.
And I don't wanna be driving all over the country.
You know, if Henry doesn't have 100 gallons, you know,
we're in trouble.
I mean, we're really in trouble because I have run out of time.
The boat is gonna arrive in, like, the next day.
We've gotta have this 100 gallons.
- I need some moonshine, Henry. - Well, you know what?
You're awful short notice, man.
I mean, dang, you didn't give me a whole any time to
get anything. - I gave you like 10 hours.
- 10 hours? - For us to get here.
He's been on the road for what, two days?
- Two days. - Yeah.
10 hours, I think it was a little shorter than 10 hours.
I mean, I need this stuff bad.
Is that what you was wanting?
Oh, my God, Henry, what are you doing to us, man?
- You know we're already there. - Messin' with me, man.
I had to taunt you a little bit, man.
I had to make you a little nervous there.
We were a gallon away from a heart attack here.
Man, we done drove 500 miles without eating anything.
- Check that out. - Ooh.
They gon' be happy with that.
We had to go call in some favors from some buddies of
ours up in Farnham.
But we got here, what, an hour ago?
That'll work.
Look, let's put it in the truck, Henry, and stop
playing around, man.
Well, you know, when that tarp comes out and there's
100 gallons sitting there, I mean, I'm happy now.
Let's just put it up in there, man.
Watch out, Howard. Come on now.
Stop playing around, man.
Now all I gotta do is concentrate on getting back
to Kentucky.
So y'all not headed back to Kentucky tonight, are you?
- Yeah. - Holy crap.
We gotta get gas, and we gotta go.
All this stuff's gotta get loaded and ready to go
on a boat. - A boat?
- You ever heard of a boatload? - Yeah, I have.
Well, this is a boatload. You know what I'm saying?
We got 100 gallons, but now, you know, we got
500 miles to go.
I mean, in 500 miles and different state lines,
you know, different laws, a lot of things can happen.
Now, how much I owe you right now?
We won't worry about that right now.
When times change, man, 20, 30 years pass by, your dad,
my dad, me, you, you know how it goes when you call me...
- Mm-hmm. - ...I'm ready to roll.
Well, you know, I'mma be there for you.
You know, this is what moonshiners do for each other.
It's a brotherhood any way you add it up.
Once Tim's loaded up, I got to help another moonshiner
in need. Josh has got a problem
he needs help with down in North Carolina.
All right, bud.
- Thank y'all so much. - All right, now.
Well, you know, right now is where the risk comes in.
One thing is putting 100 gallons of moonshine in
the back of a truck and transporting it.
But now taking 1,000 gallons and putting it onto a boat,
that's something I've never did before.
- All right. - That's the first step of this
ride right here, we gotta be law-abiding citizens.
I'm just glad that we got it.
I can't believe he teased us like that, what the hell?
Man, we just got 250 pounds of peanuts.
These peanuts are raw, so we're gonna have to roast them.
What I'm thinking is to make like a rotisserie,
like a tumbler.
I'm gonna scrounge up some parts and pieces
and build a roaster.
Building a roaster is the easy part.
Figuring out how to ferment these things, that's gonna
be the job. But first things are first.
I gotta get home, get all my supplies together, and get to building.
Considering we're gonna be messing with peanuts,
this is a stainless barrel, so
this will probably work right here.
Got a lot of scraps from a lot of different projects.
We ran around my property and grabbed just about every
doggone piece of metal we could find.
This might work for a frame right here, maybe.
Now that I got the stainless barrel and all the metal,
now we're going over the shop, hopefully get
this thing done.
All right.
So now I gotta get these things in the middle of this
and fairly straight up and down.
Now I gotta put the arms on it that's gonna hold
my 50-gallon drum up in the air.
Run a stainless rod through it, weld it together,
and, man, we're on our way to having a peanut roaster.
GorillaWeld, ugly but strong.
Now that we got all that together, now we gotta drill
some holes in the barrel, and then we can run a shaft
through and put it all in place.
Looks like the price is right!
The very last thing I gotta do to it--
this thing's gotta have some kind of vents in it.
Whoo, it's hot.
We're roasting peanuts.
If it's completely sealed and it can't breathe,
hell, it's gonna blow up.
"Shine time."
We got us a roaster.
Now it's time to roast some damn peanuts.
There should be enough rocks.
We gotta get this thing set up and get this fire lit.
Who in the world is this?
What? You told me you wasn't coming.
I know it. Oh, man.
You jerked my chain.
Well, we got things taken care of at home.
You know, I know I told you I couldn't come down.
So, now we're here. So, put us to work, man.
One thing about Henry, when he shows up, there may be
a little fist bump and a, "Hey," but it's like, "Let's get
"to work. What are we doing, son?
- We gotta get her done." - All right, so what's step one?
What do we gotta do first?
Well, I never operated this thing myself, but I'd say
first thing to do is probably put the peanuts in there
and then start building a fire and then put it all back
together and start roasting.
Yeah, boy, you know, peanuts aren't nuts.
- They're legumes. - What the heck is a legume?
A lagoon or legume?
- Legume. - Legume.
Yeah, yeah, it's like a bean. I mean, everybody knows that.
Le-- what? OK, well, let's roast these beans.
- All right, let's do it. - All right, then.
The first thing we gotta do is put some peanuts in here
and start getting 'em roasted.
If I was back home roasting some peanuts, it'd be in a pan
in the oven for like 30 minutes.
Hell, yeah. I'm ready to go.
We're using a lot more heat than that and roasting a lot
more peanuts. - Oh, I can hear them.
Did you hear that? Did you hear it dump 'em?
So we're gonna do it for, like, 15 minutes
and then check 'em.
All right.
Good gosh, it smells good. I'll tell you that much.
You can tell by the sound of that.
Yeah, man, no burnt spots.
See how hard that-- easily, they're cracking.
Look at that. They are perfect.
They roasted. Look at that.
I mean, is that not gonna do exactly what we want?
After 15 minutes, we pull the peanut roaster off
and check 'em, and the peanuts are roasted perfectly.
We're gon' keep on rocking, get all this done.
That's all of 'em innit, Josh?
Yeah, that's every bit of it.
So how we gonna smash 'em?
Told ya I had something up my sleeve.
I'll be right back.
Now we've got all these peanuts roasted, and they're laid out
even on this plywood. Now we've gotta crush 'em.
And boy, oh boy, do I got an idea.
Ay, dog, it's shine time now!
I'm known for being wide open, and with 200 pounds of peanuts
to crush, I can only think of one way to do it, and I got
10,500 pounds that says it's gonna crush the [bleep] out of it.
It's working.
- Are they busted, Henry? - Looks pretty good.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, they busted up good.
Josh, you know, these peanuts look good, but we gotta add
something else to it. - Problem with these here peanuts
is they don't have any sugars
to work off. It's all fat and proteins.
I guess we could extract the oils out of it, do some
sort of infusion, but that's not the way
I wanna go. Instead, I'm gonna add
the peanuts right to the mash,
and it's gonna make more of a peanut butter flavor.
But we want it to taste like peanuts, and we want it to
break down.
We're gonna have to add something to the mash
to make it work off.
Peanut butter and honey is pretty good.
Honey's expensive, ain't it?
Honey is so expensive, though, by the time you get
done messing with it, you got so much money in
the liquor, it's just...
Man, we got peanut butter jelly,
just like the sandwich.
What about, what about peanut butter and bananas?
I loved nothing more when I was a kid than
peanut butter and bananas. What would go better than that?
- Peanut butter, banana. - Peanut butter, banana.
I like that.
Bananas are gonna be perfect to go in here because, first
of all, they complement peanuts very well.
Second of all, they got a lot of sugar in 'em, and I think
people are gonna go crazy for it.
- Sounds pretty good to me. - Right?
Henry, let's get all this load up.
We'll go find some bananas tomorrow.
We'll get mashed in, and we'll make some shine.
- Right here, big guy. - Sounds good.
You know, I kind of hate to have to do this
to old Junior, man.
I've grown to have a little soft spot for him,
but, you know, with him ordering the way he's ordering,
he's not selling to a whole bunch of people.
He's not putting boots on the ground selling
one jar at a time.
You know, you don't sell that kind of quantity
in one week's time. - No, you don't.
You know he's making good money on the other end.
Yeah, he's making way more money than $200 a gallon on it.
So if we can find out who it is, cut them a better deal,
we can make more money. I mean, we're idiots for not.
So we got another 15 gallons ready for Junior.
He don't know that it's possibly his last time.
We're fixing to follow him out and see where he's going.
- What's up, man? - Got me another load?
- Yes, sir. - Here we are.
We're here, man. We're ready to go for you.
Exactly, we got exactly what you asked for, the same stuff.
Reach in there and get you a sample.
Another 15 gallons.
- What do you think about that? - That's it.
- Get you loaded on up. - I'll tell you what,
this stuff is selling.
- I mean, it's selling. - Is it getting gone?
It's getting gone, and it's getting gone quick.
- That's what we like to hear. - I guess that's a good thing, ain't it?
It's a good thing. Helps my pocket,
helps your pocket.
We're talking to Junior, he's telling us good news.
He said people is loving this stuff.
He's just singing music to mine and Jerry's ears.
I'm glad that everybody's liking it.
I truly am.
But I can't wait to see who he's selling it to.
- Appreciate your business. - Thank you, buddy.
- Appreciate you guys. - Take care of yourself.
- I'll see you. - See you in a week.
All right. Maybe sooner than that.
You never know.
Old Junior don't know it, but this may be the last time
he meets with us.
If we can follow in on him and find out who he's selling
to, we've made our last deal with old Junior.
I kind of feel sorry for him in a way, Jerry.
- But not really. - Not really.
I think I like the money better.
You know, poor, old Junior, he just don't know it yet,
but his gravy train's about to run dry.
All right.
We're here now.
Oh, yeah, it looks like you've been working a whole lot
since we've been gone. - I have been, buddy.
- Wow. - Last time Henry and Paige
were here, there was an underground still site here,
but it wasn't like what it is now.
This deer stand is the perfect thing to hide this.
The chimney comes out the roof.
I got cameras up and down the trail.
Yeah, you got that owl up there.
They keep all the birds away.
That wise owl right there knows everything.
I've got us on video standing here talking about it
right now.
I get messages sent to my phone.
You got those cameras, we should be good to go.
- You know what I mean? - Yeah.
But you know what? We need to get mashed in.
All right.
We got these nanners we gotta carry down there.
Now we got a ton of bananas and all the peanuts are
crushed, now it's time for us to be mashing in.
- All right, Henro. - All right, buddy.
You know what we need now, don't you?
- We need water. - Yeah, hot water.
We got all this stuff underground ready to
rock and roll. First thing we got to do
is get this water heated up.
Yeah, baby.
We're rolling now.
So we're gon' get some of that water in that still,
throw that propane to it, get that boiling,
and then we'll be ready to mash in.
I guess we're gonna be busting some nanners now.
Man, it is on.
We're about to have some peanut butter banana moonshine,
and ain't nobody else gon' have it.
My main concern is with any mash barrel is
if it'll turn out.
You know, Josh, he come up with that
peanut butter banana idea. This is all new to me.
I've never used peanuts before.
When we run this stuff, that's gon' tell the tale.
So, we gotta wait and see.
That's about all the bananers there, ain't it?
- Let's get the peanuts. - I think you had a good idea
of putting the shells in there.
I think by putting it all in there, we're gon' be able
to pull out the most flavor out of it
like that. - That's what we want.
I wanna be able to get all the full flavor out of
all these peanuts. So, we're smashing 'em up.
We're gonna put the whole shell, peanut,
everything in there.
Hot dog, man! That smells good!
Golly, all I can smell is peanut.
It better be.
You know what peanut butter and banana reminds me of?
- What's that? - Daycare.
You not been to no daycare.
Yes, I have.
I ate a lot of peanut butter and banana sandwiches
at daycare.
You about like me, you was born in prison.
Well, it has been kind of a wild life now that
you mention it.
Now we basically got everything done.
We got our hot water in there, we got our peanuts,
we got our bananas in there, some wheat bran.
Straight from the fields of Virginia.
- Hard to beat that wheat. - That's good stuff.
Dump some yeast to it, wait on this mash to get done.
When it's ready, we'll come back, make some peanut butter
banana moonshine.
I'm damned excited!
Yeah, baby.
All right, boys, we're mashed in.
Let's go home and get some, get some fiddles.
- Something cold to drink. - Hey, I'm down with that.
Don't get too close to him.
I ain't getting too close to him.
I'm trying to keep him in sight, it's getting dark.
Yeah, you know, he's got a pretty distinct vehicle,
Junior does. We're gon' follow him from very far.
We don't want him to know we're nowhere in sight.
We're just gon' keep his taillights in the distance.
I can't tell where he's taking us to.
Well, where he's going, we're following.
Ain't no telling.
There he goes, going under that bridge.
He's where he's gonna be, because look how slow
he's going. - What is that going in there?
Look, he's going up. There's motorcycles and stuff.
You know, me and Jerry, we don't wanna blow our cover
at all, we're just gon' pull off to the side
and kind of Peeping Tom through the bushes.
- You ready? - Let's do it.
Let's go.
Yeah, right there's the guy we need to talk to.
You know, me and Jerry needs to be making this extra money.
I mean, my goodness.
That could be me and Jerry pulling up, giving this man
a sip of our liquor.
So what you wanna do? You wanna go in now?
I'm ready. I mean, look, the man's there.
He just unloaded the liquor.
I say we go in there right now to talk to him, try to make
a deal with him. - I'll tell you what.
I got that little old camera in the truck.
I'm gonna go stick it in my pocket real quick.
- Yeah. - And let's get in there.
Let's do it!
I don't know exactly what this place is or what all
the people's are doing here, but Junior's here.
There's no advertisement nowhere.
There's no welcome sign, that's for sure.
And don't look like they're inviting nobody to come on in.
- Howdy, sir. - Hey.
- Where'd yuns come from?
We know old Junior. You know who that is?
- One moment. - OK.
- Ken. - What you got there?
They know Junior.
- How you know Junior? - He's a friend of ours.
All right, let them in.
Thank you, bud.
What can I get you guys?
Well...
what you got back there for us?
I got about everything you could ever want, what do you want?
How about a good, aged whiskey you might have?
Good, old, backwoods stuff.
Yeah, I got some of that.
You know what we're talking about?
Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
Let's see what I can find.
That's some of my good, old .
Appreciate it.
You want another one of them little, red things?
Oh my goodness.
You know, we're buying a shot of this whiskey from the bartender.
You know what that is, don't you?
I know exactly what that is.
Take a little sip of it,
there's no question about it. It's ours.
That's pretty good stuff right there you got.
- Well, thank you. - Where you getting it from?
I never tell anybody where I'm getting [bleep] from.
Oh, well, we don't blame you.
No, we understand that totally.
- I tell you what. - Tell me what?
Since you were so generous in letting us try your stuff,
we want you to try some of ours here if you don't mind.
Put your lips around that right there and say what you think.
What are you doing bringing this [bleep] in my bar?
We want you to try some of ours here, if you don't mind.
What are you doing bringing this [bleep] in my bar?
We want you to taste it.
You know, me and Jerry's spent all this time trying to
rapid-age this whiskey, and we're selling it to Junior,
and he's just taking it down the road.
Come on, man. This has got to come to an end.
What is it?
- Aged whiskey. - How old is it?
- You tell us. - You tell us how old it is.
Tell us what you think about that.
It's good stuff as well.
Where you getting this?
Maybe we ought to take this conversation outside.
How about it?
Tony, watch the bar for me, would you?
As soon as he takes a sip of this whiskey out of this flask,
he knew why we were there.
So I'm thinking this guy, he's ready to make a deal.
He's wanting to talk outside.
You know, obviously we know that Junior's stopping by here
and unloading liquor.
I figured that maybe if we could talk with you,
we might can make a deal with you.
I mean, what do you think, you know, would be fair to you?
Well, you got to beat $300. Can you beat $300?
I think, I mean, I think me and Jerry would be comfortable
with around $275 a gallon.
Yeah, but, you know, I got overhead.
I got all this [bleep].
Um, how about $250?
Yeah, I mean, we're not far off, are we, Bubba?
- No, we're not far off. - I tell you what,
it ain't too far over here, and we're the source.
If you can do $260 a gallon, I think we can be good.
- Is that fair enough? - See, I don't know you boys.
I ain't gonna give you a bunch of money and then not
see you again, OK?
You're gon' have to give it to me on consignment.
You bring me the liquid, and I'll pay you when
I sell it. - Consignment.
- OK? - Hey, I think we can do that.
We've made a deal on ga-- per gallon.
We'll get you a load over here, and you ain't got to pay us
a dime until you sell it. - You got a deal.
You know, we're selling the best liquor we've ever made
at the highest price we've ever made, and nobody else is making
this liquor out there.
So me and Jerry, we feel like we're the kingpins of moonshine
right now.
Looks like we got us a deal, don't we?
Hell, yeah.
So, y'all think this stuff's gonna be ready?
Man, it should be.
- I hope so. - Me too.
It's been a number of days.
I guarantee you that mash is ready to run.
We're going to the still site to get to work.
All righty, let's see what we got.
This barrel here don't seem like it's doing much.
- Listen, hold on, listen. - I don't hear nothing.
I don't hear anything sizzling, neither.
It still tastes sweet.
Ain't worth [bleep], is it?
It ain't done [bleep] man, it's still sweet.
- No bitter. - No bitter at all.
- It's sweet. - I've been making moonshine
for years, and normally, I don't have problems
with my mash working off.
For some reason, it looks like our yeast has stalled out.
Never made anything out of peanuts before.
I don't know what the heck is happening.
What about you?
- Who'd you get 'em off of? - They were raw.
They were-- they were raw.
Maybe where the processing plant.
They have to clean the machines.
You gotta make sure whatever they ground before that didn't
have sodium in it.
I even tasted 'em, like, before I started with 'em,
and I didn't taste any salt on 'em, so it don't
make no sense.
What else could make it not work?
Maybe the yeast wasn't no good.
All right, well, maybe something else.
I've never used nuts before. Something's wrong.
We can't just let all this mash go to waste.
Even though the peanuts were free, we still got a lot of
time and effort into it.
We've gotta give this one more shot.
I got some in the truck. I'll go get it.
- Cool, good deal. - All right.
The rest of these peanuts off.
Come here, Henry.
Henry, come here.
- Is that live? - That's right this very second.
- Is that our road? - They coming up here.
- Can you tell who it is? - It looks like a regular truck.
They coming around that curve right there right now.
I see one, two, three.
There's three of 'em, three of 'em.
They're coming right up the path too, man.
They're coming right up.
So he's right above us.
They're here. They're here.
we'll see what they're doing, hold it.
That's a survey.
So what's gon' happen when he sees the truck?
- That's a good question. - We'll find out later.
Right now, we need to keep quiet.
Maybe they'll leave.
He's putting a stake in right there.
I see it. Look, look, look, look.
There he is driving up another one.
Be quiet.
Looks like they're gon' be here for a while, we gotta lay low.
Let me see that again.
I think they're leaving.
They're pulling out.
They're out of here, bro.
Thank God.
You know what, Josh? I think we need to watch it.
Let's cover this thing over.
Well, it seemed like forever. They finally left.
Right now, it's too risky to be in the still site.
But we're gonna keep our eyes on the cameras,
and when we feel like the coast is clear, we're gonna come
back and try to fix our mash.
I'm ready for a cold drink.
Howard, this is the place, man.
Where in the world you got us going, Tim?
There's the marina.
Out here?
Yeah, it's behind these condos, I reckon.
Right now, the day has come.
Finally, we're gonna get this thousand gallons out of
this trailer, get it on this boat, get it en route to get
these guys going to Canada, and I'm gonna get
my $20,000.
I don't know about this situation.
I mean, this is like going to the water, but it's like a...
like the wrong neighborhood for us to be in.
I mean, I'm following the GPS, you know.
It's taking me to these fancy houses, not really
what I'm expecting.
We're on a high-end neighborhood.
I mean, we get caught with this thousand gallons of moonshine,
it's not like we can run off into the woods.
We're kind of trapped.
I mean, nobody's home, it looks like, in this place.
You sure this is the place?
I don't know nothing, Howard.
All I know is this is where he told me to come to.
I don't know if it's that house or this house.
I mean, I'm standing in somebody's driveway,
you know, looking out between houses,
and I'm seeing the Ohio River.
I see some boats out there,
but there's no sign of my contact.
I don't know what to do right now.
Mike, I'm not sure how much further you gonna drag us,
but this pot's still empty.
I know it, man, they've got to be ramps around here
some daggone where.
I'm for one, it loves me some ramps.
This time of the year, it's ramp season right now.
So you're just gonna pull that out of the ground and eat it?
No, I'm gonna dig 'em with my digger first.
Ramps are like a cross between an onion and a garlic flavor.
Their scientific name is wild leeks.
And they grow wild here in the mountains in patches.
- You wanna try one? - Dude, I don't know about that.
- Eat you one of them. - Whoo!
I don't know how Jerry can grow up around the mountains here
and have never dug a ramp and eat one.
You know, I guess the only thing Jerry basically eats is
mashed potatoes, meat, and sweet cakes.
- You know, that ain't half bad. - It ain't bad, is it?
No, not nowhere near as bad as I thought it was gonna be.
You know, I think I've converted Jerry now to be
a ramp digger. I'm gon' catch him on
his freaking knees everywhere we go now.
This is what he told me he's gonna come right here,
but I'm trying to figure out now
which one of these boats is him.
Let me signal out there. Cut your light off.
Yeah, move over there and make sure nobody coming up
on us, Howard. - I don't see nobody.
This is not looking like a good situation right now.
You know, I am sitting dead in the water right here.
I'm looking for the boat, I got a thousand gallons of moonshine.
I mean, I'm looking at prison time.
- Uh, I'm... - There we go.
Wait a minute, that's a light, oh, yeah.
OK. Well, we gotta let him know
where we're at, you know what I'm saying?
Go at there, How, so he knows where
that dock's at, 'cause we ain't got no lights here.
John, is that you?
- Yeah. - All right.
Can't you, like, get beside it?
Can't come beside it with too much mud.
Guess this ain't, like, the normal docking
situation here.
Keep coming, if you just gets close enough where we can
hand them to y'all, we just gotta get it where
we can get outta here.
That's about all you got right there, buddy.
How are we gon' get the moonshine on there?
We're in a little bit of a challenging spot where
we're gonna have to hand these up, man.
- It's gonna be tight. - Normally, in the illegal business,
I'm in the Appalachian world.
You know, out in the woods, on the creek somewhere.
All right, let's get the jugs.
This delivery has got us in the middle of a neighborhood.
Nowhere to go. Where are we gonna go?
We're on a dead end road, and we're between some
big houses.
Watch that step down right here, too, Tim.
There's a science to this right here, buddy.
- Howard, you doing all right? - Yeah.
I think we need more hands, boss.
Howard, can you get on the boat and help?
It's taking longer to get it up on the boat than me and DJ
to get it off the trailer.
I can get up on that boat somehow.
I mean, I mean, I can scale it.
I'mma tell you, it sounded like a great idea on paper.
When you put this plan in action, it isn't going.
- Get on the boat, Howard. - I'm trying.
- I'm trying, buddy. - Help!
Come on. All right.
Let me get your knee, here you go, oh, man.
See, I told you you could get on a boat.
Thank you for having me aboard.
We got to roll.
Wait a minute here, now.
All right, I'mma get it to you.
All right.
Haul them back here, and then we'll start packing
everywhere else.
We got the top full. We got the back full.
We're gonna start bringing them inside now.
This is the last, last truck, man.
- Oh, thank God. - Last truck.
That's what I was telling them.
Last truck, and then you can jump off the boat.
- All right, now, this is it. - Thank you, Jesus.
- John. - Yes, sir.
Give Howard the money and then throw Howard off the boat.
I mean, it's been 14 years, you know, since I returned back
to the outlaw side.
I do appreciate doing business with you, sir.
I mean, you know, I mean, rewards are great, but I forgot
how risky it can be.
Fellas, next time we work together, I hope
you have a ladder.
Yeah, I mean, it's the dark side of this, you know?
People can threaten you.
They can burn down your property.
And you can't go to the law.
All right, come on down, Howard.
There you go, come on, put your foot right here.
Let go. Easy, easy.
Right there, right there. There's your other foot.
Hold, hold. Here, grab my hand.
I mean, you always gotta look over your shoulder.
You know, you can't let your guard down.
But I just earned $40,000 tax-free, and I ain't about
to give that up. - Fellas, have a good one.
All right, see y'all.
Taking my still, Henry. We are so [bleep].
Everything I've built, gone.
We outta here. Let's roll, come on.
Looks like we're on our way to Virginia.
- Hot dog! - Ooh!
That might leave a mark.
We've got a really big order from the son of legendary
stock car racer Buddy Arrington.
So what I'm gonna do is make us a big net.
Hopefully these bears can't get to it.
This is the moment of truth.
Just don't kill me from above.
Peaches is good. Blueberries is good.
Why wouldn't they be good together?
Digger and I, we can use a payday.
- You smell that? - What in the hell?
Sulfur dioxide.
It may have cost us a whole run of damn liquor.