Episode 1
Aired Nov 24, 2020
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; Mike designs a first-ever backwoods column still, perfect for endless runs of high-quality low-cost liquor.
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Episode 2
Aired Dec 29, 2020
Master Distiller Holiday Showdown
In the spirit of Christmas and a new season of Master Distiller, Tickle challenges fellow moonshiners Josh, Mike and Daniel to compete to make the tastiest Christmas spirits. Mark, Digger, and Tim judge who wins a special backwoods prize.
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Episode 2
Aired Dec 1, 2020
Interstate Alliance
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; Mike and Jerry's column spews ethanol vapor, causing a panic.
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Episode 3
Aired Dec 8, 2020
Mark and Digger's Big Test
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, Mark Rogers enlists his father to run with him for the first time.
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Episode 4
Aired Dec 15, 2020
Backwoods Is Booming
Mark and Digger deploy an old-world innovation to bring their barrel-aged reserves to market; 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.
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Episode 5
Aired Dec 22, 2020
No Ordinary Run
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.
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Episode 5
Aired Jan 16, 2021
Navy Strength Rum
Distillers compete to distill true navy strength rum, but the bar for entry is 114-proof; with Tickle as honorary pirate and judged by Mark, Digger and Tim, only one distiller can earn the title of Master Distiller.
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Episode 6
Aired Dec 29, 2020
Single Malt Moonshine
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.
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Episode 7
Aired Jan 5, 2021
Overproof and Under the Gun
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.
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Episode 8
Aired Jan 12, 2021
Too Much of a Good Thing
As Tickle and the Laws start a massive rye run, a mysterious tip results in too much of a good thing; Jerry gets rushed to the hospital, and Mike finds himself shorthanded; Tim innovates a backwoods process for his single-malt shine.
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Episode 9
Aired Jan 19, 2021
Sweet Corn Revenge
After Mike asks the wrong shiner for help, Mark and Digger land a skilled new partner; on a mountain run, Mark and Huck nearly meet the barrel of a gun; Jerry attempts a comeback as a land sale forces him and Mike to abandon their column still site.
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Episode 10
Aired Jan 26, 2021
Smoke to the Fire
Facing more rye and apples than the Laws can run, Josh moves his steamer still to Virginia, and Tickle adds smoke to the fire; Mark and Huck help Jim Tom turn cherries into shine; Mike and Jerry risk a huge run in the barn of an unsuspecting farmer.
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Episode 11
Aired Feb 2, 2021
Mason Jar Shortage
A Mason jar shortage puts a lid on Mark and Digger's distribution plans; Mike and Jerry must return to land they've been warned away from; Tim's scheme to repurpose a massive tank as an oversized pot still pushes his steam boiler to the limit.
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Episode 12
Aired Feb 9, 2021
Caught Red-Handed
Tickle and the Laws recruit Josh to build a winter-proof still site; mountain man Mark converts a free load of sugar beets into high-proof moonshine; Mike and Jerry crack a few nuts to turn their column-distilled liquor into Southern pecan liquor.
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Episode 13
Aired Feb 16, 2021
Hog Heaven
Mark and Digger find a solution to the jar shortage but the juice may not be worth the squeeze; Tim enlists Tickle's friend Howard to help re-create the first whiskey made in America; Mike and Jerry distill vodka from surplus restaurant supplies.
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Episode 14
Aired Feb 23, 2021
Ice Shine
Mark and Digger invent a new recipe, turning hundreds of jars of expired mandarin oranges into marketable liquor; Tickle and the Laws face headaches in their attempt to produce freeze-distilled apple liquor; Mike and Jerry make birch bark moonshine.
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Episode 15
Aired Mar 2, 2021
Another Man's Mash
Tickle and the Laws invent a new recipe with master distiller Richard Landry; Mark and Digger crack their thousand-jar problem while mashing in their most profitable run in years; Tim and Howard make a ceramic still to rediscover a Clonial whiskey.
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Episode 16
Aired Mar 9, 2021
Basement Bust
Josh gains access to a cellar still site, but even help from the Laws can't keep trouble from surfacing; Mark and Digger innovate a way to cut the cost of water cooling, and bayou shiner Richard makes a medicinal moonshine from wild-grown manglier.
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Episode 17
Aired Mar 16, 2021
Tennessee Whiskey
Mark and Digger discover a limestone source to make Tennessee whiskey right under their feet; the Laws pull Tim back in to cross state lines in search of a key ingredient; Richard turns cotton candy into moonshine.
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Episode 18
Aired Mar 23, 2021
Two Tons of Fun
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.
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Episode 19
Aired Mar 30, 2021
Moonshine Capital Returns
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.
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Episode 20
Aired Apr 6, 2021
Backwoods Bonanza
In the season finale, with eight stills running full tilt, Tickle enlists Mrs. Tickle to stash too much shine; Mark and Digger devise a way to age their Tennessee whiskey at sea; Tim gets drawn into an epic bootleg; Mike and Jerry face the law.
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Episode 21
Aired Apr 13, 2021
Code and Conflict
With no recourse to official law enforcement, outlaw shiners must resolve conflicts through a centuries-old code; Tim, Digger, Mike and Josh reveal secrets of how the unwritten rules of the backwoods play out in real life.
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