Moonshiners Season2 Ep06
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00:00This time, on Moonshiners...
00:07Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, please don't let me down.
00:11I'm gonna take me a drink, then I'll roam around.
00:17Not good. Not good at all.
00:20Can't believe I just f***ing did that! Goddamn!
00:24There's something going on down my way, and I think it's got to do with liquor.
00:29I need this to make my first run, and once I make my first run, I can pay you.
00:33All right. All right. I think I'm looking for you.
00:38We got water, brother.
00:42No. This ain't good.
00:47Fire!
00:49Moonshine is a part of our history. It exists, but it doesn't. Almost like a myth.
00:55I'm America's most wanted moonshiner.
01:00That's not a good thing, to be wanted by the law.
01:05I live on the edge of anarchy.
01:09It's very hard to catch moonshiners.
01:11Let's get out.
01:12They're very smart.
01:15There can only be one chief.
01:16I'm wondering if we're gonna pull this thing off. Uh-oh.
01:20Golly, that's good.
01:25We could just buy the whole world with moonshine, and everybody would be happy.
01:30If you really love your country, you're gonna have to love moonshining.
01:42With orders piling up, Jeff and Mark hatched a plan for a second still site to run more shines.
01:50But Jeff's had to do what no shiner ever wants to do.
01:55Call the family for backup.
01:57He's recruited his wife, Lynn, to help purchase the key ingredient, barley.
02:03I don't want her caught.
02:04You know, that would be the worst thing I could think of, would be to get your wife caught moonshining.
02:11How much sugar did you order?
02:13125.
02:14How much barley did you order?
02:1650.
02:18Okay, that'll give us about eight or ten runs.
02:21That'll get us through this week.
02:23And Jeff met when we was teenagers up in the mountains of North Carolina.
02:27Moonshining, it's part of our lives.
02:29Jeff's dad and his grandfather have done it, and mom was a moonshiner.
02:32She done it to survive on.
02:36Jeff follows the old moonshiners' practice of buying supplies from a variety of sources.
02:42Today, they're getting their ingredients at a store well off the beaten path.
02:48Okay, you keep a watch on now.
02:57Going to the store and picking up the supplies, you just have to be really careful.
03:02Everybody watches.
03:03How are you doing?
03:04Good, how are you?
03:05You have to really watch what you're doing.
03:08Okay, the shed is open.
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03:58500 kilometers north, Tickle is breaking away from Tim and trying to build his own tax-free fortune.
04:06With Howard as a sland, his first stop is picking up metal sheets to construct a Virginia submarine still.
04:15Well, I need something that I can nail through.
04:17Yeah. Yeah, that looks like that's gonna work.
04:20Because I'm gonna try to form it, and he and I.
04:23That's a lot of stainless steel for an individual.
04:26It kind of set off some bells in my head,
04:29but what he has with us is his business.
04:32Metal's expensive, and I got to start making some money.
04:38I mean, this is peak moonshine of the season right now,
04:41and we are behind eight ball.
04:43I'm looking to take home $1,000 to $1,500 per run,
04:47and that's the whole reason I'm in this game.
05:02Geoff and Mark have moonshine orders stacking up.
05:05With barley in hand, they're ready to start working
05:08on their alternative recipe, scotch.
05:12Corn's really expensive right now, hard to get.
05:15It's brutal out here.
05:17Everywhere you see the brown, the orange on the map,
05:19this is where we're talking about some extreme heat going on.
05:22The heat wave, producing echo temperatures,
05:25combined with a severe drought,
05:27has nearly wiped out this year's corn crop.
05:32Although rain has been plentiful in the Carolina mountains,
05:36a nationwide drought is threatening corn prices.
05:39Due to a short supply,
05:41Geoff and Mark need to come up with an alternative, and fast.
05:47To be a good moonshiner, you've got to be able to adapt,
05:50so we're just doing it with the barley,
05:53which makes a little there for that taste in alcohol,
05:56but it's still real tasty and does its job.
06:00Made with a secret family recipe
06:02passed down from Geoff's Scottish ancestors,
06:05barley scotch not only takes longer to prepare
06:08than traditional corn whiskey,
06:10but it's also a lot more labour-intensive.
06:14When it sprouts, I'll take it in and smoke it.
06:17You get it dry, then I'll grind it and put it in with the mash.
06:21That takes the place of the yeast.
06:23You know, we use a natural yeast.
06:25That's just the way they've done it here in the mountains
06:28for the last 200 years.
06:30The first step is to soak the barley.
06:34I can make good liquor off barleys and corn this way.
06:37It's got a different taste. That's all it is.
06:40If they can hold off some orders,
06:42Geoff and Mark will be able to keep the costs down,
06:45saving everyone money in the long run.
06:47We've got several customers now that really likes the scotch.
06:51As long as we can keep our prices down on our product,
06:54that'll make them happier than anything.
06:58Gear V.
07:00Gear V.
07:07You've got to be real careful, you know.
07:09You've got to keep eyes and ears open,
07:11look out for somebody coming that you don't want to see.
07:17Now, when you're moonshining, you always burn all your bags.
07:21Because if they catch you with the bags
07:23and they figure out what you're doing,
07:25they can log you over it.
07:27If they find the bags for every pound of sugar,
07:30they can charge you for a gallon of liquor.
07:36200km to the south-west,
07:38Josh and Bill are less than 24 hours away
07:41from the start of the Plum Hollow Music Festival.
07:49Despite countless days and constant fighting
07:52and tens of thousands of dollars,
07:55they are finally close to fulfilling
07:57their mentor Barney's lifelong dream
08:00of a working underground still.
08:03But for that to happen, they still need to cover the site,
08:07making it completely undetectable
08:09to the law and concertgoers
08:11that will soon be standing right there.
08:16I just wish we had some help.
08:18Think this thing a hobob cat, don't you?
08:21I think I don't want to test it just yet.
08:25Today's our last day before the festival.
08:27If everything goes just right today,
08:29we should get all our dirt pushed around
08:31and the roof covered.
08:33We got a lot to do in a very short amount of time to do it in.
08:36We cut it to the last minute.
08:38Hell with this, I'm gonna try to bob.
08:56I pulled it back just a little bit right there.
09:05Where's that coming from?
09:11Not good, not good at all.
09:15Coming up...
09:17God!
09:19I can't believe I just did that!
09:21God!
09:23I can't believe I just did that! Goddamn!
09:26I just made a fatal mistake on the last day of our project.
09:30We ain't got none of this high-tech equipment here.
09:33No lifts or nothing, we're just working on some wobbly ladders.
09:36Whoa, whoa, whoa, JT, messed me up.
09:38Killed two people.
09:40Now you're wanting 500 for this thing.
09:42That's what we agreed upon.
09:44Once I make my first run-run, I can pay you.
09:46All right, I'll come looking for you.
09:52THE LAST DAY
10:02Not good, not good at all.
10:04Back at the still site, Josh has shredded the waterproof covering.
10:08God!
10:12With the festival less than 24 hours away, the timing couldn't be worse.
10:17If they can't conceal the hole in time, they'll be caught red-handed.
10:21Goddamn!
10:23I can't believe I just did that! Goddamn!
10:29I just made a fatal mistake at the very end of the day
10:33on the last day of our project before the festival.
10:36I'm under so much pressure of getting this done and being...
10:40I just...
10:42Oh!
10:44I can't see straight right now.
10:47I'm so...up, I can't really breathe.
10:49Normally, Josh is a surgeon with his machine.
10:54Today, he snagged our waterproofing membrane,
10:57ripped it up, and we're running out of time.
11:01So there's not too many other options
11:03except for dig it out a little bit and see what we got to fix it
11:06and keep on moving forward.
11:08What are we going to do to fix that?
11:10I don't know. We got to get it dug out first.
11:12See what it looks like.
11:14All my hard work, it was kind of like, you know,
11:16a slap in the face sent me over the edge.
11:25Yeah, let's take five.
11:37With Tickle out of the picture,
11:39Tim is forging ahead on his distillery with his son, JT.
11:45I have no idea where Tickle's at,
11:47but, you know, he's got to do his thing,
11:49and right now we're moving right along.
11:53But there's heavy lifting to be done,
11:55so Tim calls up an old friend, Still Bill, to help.
11:59Hey, Tim, how are you? I'm glad to see you.
12:01Yeah, man, it's been a long time, man.
12:03It's been a while, been a while.
12:05Whoa-ho! Wait a minute now.
12:07Last year, Still Bill came through when Tim hit a roadblock.
12:10Yeah. See that? Oh, yeah.
12:12Me and JT's running a little shorthand,
12:14and we're working on a project here.
12:16I went ahead and called Bill,
12:18and he just johned me on the spot,
12:20showed me right up, right on time,
12:22and you can see this big 24-foot truss
12:24is going to be a job for three people.
12:26It's manual labor here.
12:28We ain't got none of this high-tech equipment here.
12:30No lifts or nothing.
12:32We're just working on some wobbly ladders.
12:34I got this up here.
12:38Whoa, whoa, whoa, JT.
12:40Won't let it go nowhere, then.
12:42Messed me up. Killed two people.
12:46From the highest point of the structure,
12:48it's nearly a 5-metre drop onto a concrete floor,
12:51and whether you're building a legal distillery
12:53or an illegal one,
12:55Zicks doesn't change.
12:59Let me jump down in it.
13:01Last season, Tickle found out
13:03just how dangerous this job can be.
13:07Watch, watch, watch, watch!
13:10Three broken ribs made it a lesson
13:12he'll never forget.
13:14The cause and the remedy
13:16was one and the same.
13:18So what do you have to do different
13:20to make the legal moonshine than to do
13:22what you make in the wood?
13:24That's what the ABC agent's job is,
13:26is regulate, they come check.
13:28When you're doing illegal moonshine,
13:30you don't want nothing to do with them.
13:32Right.
13:34So now they got to know everything.
13:36But before, you didn't want to see them at all.
13:38Now you got to see them,
13:40got to build a relationship, you see.
13:42We only got so many people.
13:44It's a small group of people.
13:46Well, the legal side,
13:48you got a big group of people,
13:50and they all coming in all different angles,
13:52and hell, you can't trust nobody.
13:54Tim is working with a bare-bones crew
13:56under intense pressure.
13:58He's got to finish the project by mid-season
14:00if he ever hopes to start making moonshine.
14:02He's already got $20,000
14:04of his own money invested,
14:06not to mention the $200,000 bond
14:08he'll need to put up
14:10in the next two months.
14:12So far, so good.
14:14Nobody got killed yet.
14:18See that plane flying over?
14:20I'm just worried about if somebody
14:22finds out about backup plan.
14:32Mark, let's get this stuff
14:34spread out to where it goes sprouting.
14:36In North Carolina,
14:38Jeff and Mark are making headway
14:40on their special brew,
14:42barley scotch moonshine.
14:44Ain't nothing better than barley.
14:46The process is as old as the dirt they stand on.
14:48Jeff and Mark will lay out the barley
14:50on two large sheets of burlap.
14:54Well, let's get this barley spread out here
14:56and get it started.
14:58The burlap works
15:00to create a moist environment
15:02for the seeds.
15:04You want it thin.
15:06Thinner and you get it better.
15:08Get it too thick.
15:10I don't top and the bottom are sprouting
15:12and the middle won't sprout.
15:14After sitting out in the sun
15:16for several days,
15:18the barley will sprouted and ready
15:20for the next phase of the process.
15:24In a couple days,
15:26there'll be sprouts sticking through that everywhere.
15:28That'll make several gallons of moonshine.
15:30That'll make several gallons of moonshine.
15:36Jeff and Mark press on.
15:38200 kilometers away,
15:40two moonshiners hit the wall.
15:44I'm really hoping and praying
15:46we get down before the festival.
15:48After shredding the waterproofing brain,
15:50Josh has hit a new low.
15:52With less than a day before the festival,
15:54Bill knows there's only one person
15:56who could put Josh at ease.
15:58We've been under a load of stress,
16:00so I suggested we go to somewhere
16:02I knew we could both clear our minds.
16:04I'm going to go see Barney.
16:06Josh and Bill's mentor, Barney Barnwell,
16:08had his own plans of building
16:10an underground still cut short
16:12by a serious illness.
16:14This throat cancer I just got
16:18is really going to set me back
16:20a few years.
16:22Tomorrow, they're going to make me cut my beard
16:24and shave.
16:26I ain't cut this beard
16:28or touched it in over 30 years.
16:30They're going to give me some kind of treatment
16:32or something or other, though.
16:34I'm going to have to do it.
16:36So if y'all see an ugly fella,
16:38it sounds like
16:40he's one of Louis Armstrong's
16:42cup singers,
16:44it'll be me.
16:46Barney passed away in 2011
16:48and never got a chance to finish
16:50his underground still.
16:52So Josh and Bill decided to turn Barney's dream
16:54into reality.
16:56I was still in kind of a transitional period
16:58when I first started hanging out with Barney.
17:00I had some anger issues in my life
17:02about 20 or so years ago.
17:04One of his greatest attributes was helping people
17:06find their purpose, and he was instrumental
17:08in helping get me pointed back in the right direction.
17:10Thank you a lot, what we're doing down in the hole.
17:12How many times do you think he would have yelled
17:14at me, digging out everything so perfectly?
17:18He'd done cussed me out
17:20and ran me off, wouldn't he?
17:22What's really crazy is he told me all this would happen.
17:24The prophecy fulfilled.
17:28He's dancing right now.
17:30I'd give anything if he was here today.
17:34Let's get back to work.
17:40Coming up...
17:42That's something you ain't gonna learn in shop class, that's for sure.
17:46That right there is gonna go down as one of the
17:48all-time dumbest things that I've ever done.
17:50Once I make my first run, I can pay you.
17:52What, are we gonna lay away with this thing now?
18:16After time in the North Carolina sun,
18:18Jeff and Mark's barley has nearly sprouted.
18:20But as they get ready
18:22to turn it into barley scotch,
18:24Jeff's having second thoughts about letting his
18:26wife Lynn and son Lance
18:28run the second still site.
18:32While getting supplies,
18:34Lynn already risked a run-in
18:36with the law.
18:38But actually brewing is a whole new level of danger.
18:40One that could land the entire
18:42family behind bars.
18:44I can't come up with
18:46nobody that I really trust
18:48besides you and Lance.
18:50But at least one thing,
18:52if I get caught,
18:54it'd be real bad if I got us all caught.
19:02If I do have to step in there,
19:04if Lance has to step in there
19:06and help out, Jeff will make sure
19:08that we're safe.
19:10You know, this is not our first rodeo.
19:12We've done this before.
19:14I know. Okay.
19:20Alright.
19:26Tickle and his
19:28novice still hand Howard
19:30need to start building if they plan on running
19:32any shine.
19:36Before you can even make any moonshine,
19:38you gotta learn how to build a still and stand it up.
19:40You can have all the knowledge in the world about making
19:42a run, but if you don't know how to build a
19:44still, you can't make moonshine.
19:46Yeah, they make
19:48a nice picnic table, but they make an even better
19:50pot.
19:52Hard to make money with a picnic table.
19:54That's right. The still Tickle
19:56is building is a Virginia favorite.
19:58A submarine pot still.
20:00It's made by tacking sheet
20:02metal around the edges of two oval
20:04wooden sides and holds enough
20:06mash to produce about 70
20:08gallons of moonshine.
20:10That's $10,000 tax-free dollars
20:12per run.
20:14Tickle's had the training for years and years now
20:16with him, and Tim is known
20:18for his liquor. We got it pretty
20:20close to centered on there.
20:22He learned from the best.
20:24And he might as well run with it,
20:26because I'd be dumb not to.
20:28Alright. They ain't teach me this in shop
20:30class, brother. No, no, it's something
20:32you ain't gonna learn in shop class, that's for sure.
20:34My daddy
20:36had always been into carpentry.
20:38Anything that needed to be done
20:40carpentry-wise around the house, he did.
20:42But this is really the first one of these
20:44I've ever made by myself.
20:46Without Tim,
20:48I wouldn't have this knowledge.
20:50It makes it harder when I'm the one
20:52that's got to know all these things,
20:54and I'm still learning about this myself.
20:56And I'm gonna drink a beer while you work.
20:58You do
21:00gotta make sure you get it right, because if you don't,
21:02then your pot's gonna leak.
21:04And a leaking pot don't make no alcohol.
21:16With just six hours until the festival,
21:18Josh and Bill are digging themselves
21:20out of yet another mess.
21:26If the tear in the waterproof membrane
21:28is too deep, they'll have no time
21:30to repair and camouflage their still site.
21:34But like their late friend
21:36Barney, they're determined to see it through.
21:38Got about a two foot by two foot
21:40little chunk taken out, but
21:42we'll get something back on it.
21:44I think we can fix it.
21:46That right there's gonna go down in the history
21:48books as one of the all-time dumbest
21:50things that I've ever done. Not the
21:52dumbest, but one of the dumbest.
21:54I know I ain't never seen you that mad.
21:56No, you ain't.
21:58Well, it turned out that it was a
22:00relatively small hole that
22:02was fairly easy to fix, so
22:04I may have overreacted
22:06to the situation just a bit.
22:08I kind of let my emotions override
22:10my ass.
22:22Right now, from
22:24the air, our hole
22:26looks like red dirt.
22:28If we throw some grass on it
22:30from an air view, it's like it never even
22:32happened. Our hole is covered up!
22:42At least we got our hole covered up.
22:44And after all we've been through, I'll take that.
22:48Here's the long life of this project.
22:50That's good.
23:02With their pot nearly complete,
23:04Tickle and Howard are still seeking out
23:06a copper cap.
23:08You just stay out here, all right?
23:12It's the most expensive part of the still,
23:14and moonshiners are picky about who
23:16makes it.
23:18Because variations in the cap's shape and size
23:20can affect the quantity of the liquor it produces.
23:24How y'all doing?
23:26I'm doing all right, man.
23:30I know you're wanting $500 for this thing.
23:32That's what we agreed upon.
23:34I need this to make my first run.
23:36And once I make my first run,
23:38I can pay you.
23:40Well, what are we doing?
23:42Lay away with this thing, then?
23:44I know copper prices are up.
23:46I know copper prices are
23:48way through the roof right now.
23:50But, I mean,
23:52you know, you know me.
23:54It won't be no problem.
23:56I'll tell you what.
23:58I'm putting mine in half-gallon jugs.
24:00I guarantee you
24:02about four of those.
24:04On top of the $500?
24:06On top of the $500. Sound good to you?
24:08Well...
24:12All right, all right. We'll come looking for you.
24:14No, you won't have to worry about that.
24:40While Jeff,
24:42Mark, and Jim Tom wait
24:44for their barley to sprout,
24:46they have a plan to make some fast cash
24:48with the last of their corn.
24:50We have a street dance
24:52in the middle of town
24:54on every Friday night.
24:56And we peddle off a little moonshine
24:58while we're there.
25:00Mark, guess you better get a smoke rolling.
25:04During the warm summer nights,
25:06their town turns out for a dance.
25:08It is a tradition which has existed
25:10since the community was first settled.
25:12It's also the perfect time
25:14to sell booze to the local residents
25:16thirsty for shine.
25:18We decided to run today
25:20before we'd have plenty of moonshine
25:22to distribute.
25:24Believe it.
25:26Every ATF in the United States,
25:28Canada, and Russia, and everywhere else
25:30could never stop moonshining.
25:32They're gonna do it as long as time lasts.
25:40The next thing comes out,
25:42that worm should be out.
25:44Sometimes so much heat
25:46gets in there,
25:48and that stangles up pressure,
25:50it'll blow the calf off.
25:54You know, if it was to,
25:56and you're standing here close,
25:58it'd stall you. All that beer would come right on you.
26:00It'd stall the daylight out of you.
26:02So that helps hold the calf down.
26:04I've seen them blow off.
26:06Mark, you ever seen one blow?
26:08Yeah, boy.
26:10I've seen the whole back split out before.
26:12You talk about a four.
26:14I had one split down the back
26:16when I went to catch a whiskey.
26:18You can't put that alcohol out.
26:20It'll burn. It's gone.
26:22Just a few minutes, it's gone.
26:24That's what'll burn you up.
26:26If it blows up and gets on,
26:28it'll burn you up, too.
26:30Hot.
26:32Start climbing out right here, we'll be in business.
26:34That's where that steam goes.
26:36It's got to go somewhere. It'll come up through there.
26:38And yonder it goes,
26:40and when it hits that cool water,
26:42it's going to condense.
26:44Down it goes.
26:46Your steam's got to escape.
26:48I mean, it's simple, isn't it?
26:50You know, really.
26:54A few more minutes, not too many.
26:56Then the money goes to blows.
26:58Uh-huh.
27:00It won't be long.
27:04There she comes.
27:06There you go.
27:08Let me catch me some right here.
27:12See them big, pretty beans?
27:14That's real hot.
27:16Let me just taste a bit.
27:20Wow!
27:22Boy, that's good.
27:24Just right.
27:28Just catch me enough previously,
27:30and we'll see what it is.
27:32Pour in there.
27:38125.
27:40That's about right to drink.
27:42Let's see how good it works.
27:44Oh, I've done had three drinkies.
27:46Pretty good.
27:48That's a little hot, yeah.
27:50That'll make you like your great-mother-in-law,
27:52won't it?
27:54Ha-ha-ha.
27:56Ha-ha-ha.
27:58♪
28:00Rye whiskey,
28:02rye whiskey,
28:04please don't let down.
28:06I'm gonna take me a drink,
28:08then go roam around.
28:12Check on my stills
28:14and see if they're okay.
28:16Rye whiskey,
28:18rye whiskey,
28:20these last all day.
28:22I don't want to run out
28:24of my rye today.
28:28I won't have no more,
28:30or that's what they say.
28:32Rye whiskey,
28:34rye whiskey,
28:36please don't let me down.
28:38I've got to go
28:40make another round.
28:48Back in South Carolina,
28:50the long-anticipated music festival
28:52has finally arrived,
28:54and for Josh and Bill, it all comes down
28:56to this moment.
28:58We got people coming in the festival.
29:00There's RVs pulling in,
29:02tents being popped up, everybody getting set up.
29:04Although the still site
29:06is finally built and covered,
29:08one last task remains.
29:10They need to get rid of Barney's old rusty still
29:12to make room for their new
29:14Carolina steam still.
29:18One thing that we can definitely agree on,
29:20this is not the right piece of equipment.
29:22Anybody needs to be making liquid.
29:24Definitely not.
29:26You can see plain as day that it's rusty water.
29:30That still is poisonous,
29:32because you get iron and stuff in your body.
29:34Stainless or copper is the way to go.
29:36I'm ready to get it out of here.
29:38Let's bust it down and drain that liquid.
29:50There you go.
29:52Is it coming out now?
29:54Yeah, here it comes.
29:58If we would have started this
30:00two weeks ago when I suggested it,
30:02we wouldn't be doing it right now.
30:04We're at crunch time.
30:06We'll still be lucky to pull it off before the festival.
30:10See that rust coming out of there? Look at that.
30:12Man, it's an example
30:14of why liquor should never
30:16be made in carbon steel barrels.
30:18Look at that rust.
30:28We got that one out.
30:30I was glad to see it go.
30:32We got another rig.
30:34We're going to get it down the hole.
30:36We got to do it quick. Time's running out.
30:44Damn, Bill!
30:48Oh, God!
30:50Popped out of the load.
30:52We got this big stainless beauty
30:54sitting out in the open.
30:56Easy!
30:58And people driving by.
31:00We're trying to get this thing put underground
31:02as quick as we can before anybody else sees it.
31:04I'm back!
31:06With only minutes before festivities begin,
31:08they'll need to move cautiously
31:10to avoid any suspicion.
31:12Let's get the rest of them up here.
31:18Ugh!
31:22It's in the hole.
31:24Ha!
31:28The festival's here.
31:30The band was loading in while we were
31:32hauling our stuff off. I mean, we cut it down to minutes.
31:34Barney sure would be proud.
31:36He would have already had some mash running somewhere.
31:38He would.
31:40What we're doing here is a lot bigger
31:42than just building underground liquor still.
31:44This was Barney's last project,
31:46and it was something that Barney wanted to do
31:48and that he physically wasn't able to complete.
31:50Barney's gone,
31:52but this project stands.
31:58They may be relieved, but they feel short
32:00of their larger goal...
32:02to have Shine Brewing before the festival.
32:08When we get this thing rolling,
32:10we're going to be working 100 gallons of mash.
32:12To pull it off,
32:14it's going to cost us a fortune to make that much mash.
32:16That's a lot of corn.
32:18That's a lot of sugar.
32:20I'm ready to make it happen.
32:22Good enough.
32:28In Graham County, North Carolina,
32:30three generations of Moonshiners
32:32gear up to proof
32:34and bottle their shine for the local dance.
32:36A great opportunity
32:38to bring in some extra bucks
32:40with the remaining corn whiskey.
32:44The art of moonshining
32:46has passed on from one generation to the next.
32:48Jim Tom taught Jeff,
32:50and together,
32:52they're passing that wisdom
32:54onto Jeff's son, Lance.
32:56If you're going to learn
32:58some kind of a trade,
33:00you need to start while you're young.
33:02We're going to get ready for the dance tonight.
33:04You're going to check the proof.
33:06Under Jim Tom's watchful eye,
33:08Lance takes aim
33:10to make sure that final proof is perfect.
33:12I never did use a proofer in my life.
33:14I'd watch it, pour it a little at a time,
33:16and shake it.
33:18Well, we check the overall proof
33:20to see how much water we've got to bring it down
33:22to where you can get it down
33:24to a good, smooth proof to drink.
33:26I like to eyeball it.
33:28Then that learns you more.
33:30A time-honored moonshine tradition
33:32is to use the lids of the mason jars
33:34to gauge how much water is needed
33:36to proof down whiskey,
33:38one apple at a time.
33:40How much water do you think this will take, Lance?
33:42I figure about one lidful.
33:44Yep.
33:54What do you think, Jim Tom?
33:56Check it and see what it is there.
34:00.105.
34:02Looking good, Mr. Hans.
34:04Well, I appreciate that, Jim Tom.
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