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Each week’s episode will focus on a single libation — from Benjamin Franklin’s liquor in Philly to Franklin Roosevelt’s secret moonshine in Georgia.
2022
The guys unravel a Prohibition-era mystery involving a presidency. Together, they assemble clues following in FDR's tracks to recreate his outlaw booze for the first time in 90 years.
Tim and Tickle head to Kentucky to investigate the legend behind Elijah Craig's invention of bourbon whiskey in 1789. Sourcing old-school ingredients and equipment, they attempt to become the first in two centuries to taste America's original bourbon.
Tim and Howard trek to Philadelphia in search of Ben Franklin's 250-year-old recipe for spruce beer prized by George Washington's troops. But when Tim enlists Tickle's help to distil it, they re-discover a spirit that may have been lost to time.
Tim and Tickle head to Chicago in search of Al Capone's lost Prohibition gin. As Howard builds a prohibition-era pot still and barters for a 1920s clawfoot bathtub, the three shiners start a run hoping to taste the lost spirit a century after its heyday.
When Tim and Howard arrive in Boston in search of colonial rum, they uncover the spirit that inspired America's original bootleggers, outlaw liquor men and patriots. With help from Tickle, they recreate the recipe that was a favourite of Paul Revere.
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2022
Tim lures Tickle to Kentucky on a quest to unearth the origins of sour mash whiskey and why it changed American distilling forever. With help from Howard and Art, they build a period-correct pot still to recreate a recipe nearly two centuries-old.
Tim takes Josh to California's American River in search of the liquor James Marshall distilled before his discovery of gold changed the country forever. With Howard building a period pot still, the shiners recreate a spirit that fueled the 1849 Gold Rush.
Tim and Tickle search for a legendary ingredient that fueled Charleston's moonshine resurgence after the Civil War but when they taste Jimmy Red Corn for the first time, they realize they can make a run of moonshine with a flavor like no other.
Tim and Howard head deep into the Texas borderlands in search of Pancho Villa’s lost recipe for Sotol, the rural Mexican moonshine that fueled revolts and revolution. To recreate the cleanest, high-proof spirit, Tickle designs a UFO-shaped copper pot.
Tim takes Josh to Abe Lincoln's boyhood home in Kentucky to uncover evidence the 16th President may not have been entirely honest about his liquor-selling past. Using local sorghum, they recreate a whiskey that Lincoln would have tasted as a young man.