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Moonshiners Season 10 Episode 10
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00:00This time on Moonshiners.
00:10Boys, y'all did a hell of a job on this steel site.
00:12Josh trucks his steamer still across state lines.
00:15It's hard to run apples, it's hard to run ripe.
00:17To get in on a hundred bushels of free apples.
00:20We got two steel sites, there's plenty of mash, plenty of work to do.
00:24This is a damn good payday, I'm ready.
00:26Yes, sir.
00:27Hello, Susie!
00:29When Jimtom lands a surplus of cherries.
00:32Fire in the hole.
00:33Mark and Huck return to the scene of a lifetime of crime.
00:37I used to lay down around my nose up under the worm.
00:40See how you smell?
00:41Doesn't put lead in your pencil because you ain't got nobody to write to.
00:45It ain't gonna run itself.
00:47And two shiners are busting at the gills with mash.
00:50And nowhere to run.
00:52I was gonna ask you if you're born.
00:54I cannot protect you, please get involved.
00:57We're really out of choice.
01:00This is how we make the moonshine.
01:06Right now we're on our way to meet Tickle.
01:11Henry and Kenny Long, they're running wide open.
01:14And they just ain't got quite enough capacity to run off all the mash we're trying to make right now.
01:20On the back country roads of Franklin County...
01:23What y'all scoundrels up to?
01:25Moonshiner Josh is answering the distress call from the Virginia boys.
01:30What's up Kenny?
01:31What's up man?
01:32Our steamer rig, it's just at max capacity running this rye.
01:36It sure is purdy.
01:37It is nice man.
01:38We've got these apples mashed in.
01:40Multiple barrels.
01:41We don't have any time to waste on this.
01:44So without Josh and his steamer still, we'd really be sunk right now.
01:48No, that's definitely the real thing.
01:51All right, so let me show you how this goes.
01:54This connects to this.
01:56It's just got to be the same height.
01:58Then this comes out and hooks to this.
02:02And there's a union and all that that goes on there.
02:04And it was on it.
02:05It was on it when we brought it over here.
02:06Where did it go?
02:07It's missing one piece that has to be in the truck.
02:10I was going to say it might be on the bed of the truck.
02:12There was?
02:13It might be.
02:14If it was, I would have saw it.
02:15You want to check and see if we can find it?
02:16Yep.
02:17God dang, please don't be gone.
02:19Josh is looking for the part that goes right here.
02:22It connects to right here.
02:24We unloaded it right here, didn't we?
02:26Well, maybe we can improvise.
02:27We can use another kind.
02:28We can use copper pipe.
02:29We can use something.
02:30Everybody took off running like chickens with their heads cut off.
02:34That don't make no damn sense.
02:37It was on there.
02:38And I figured it won't have no sense in everybody running
02:41and looking for the piece that's right here.
02:45It was on that still.
02:47Are y'all playing a trick on me?
02:49It can't be gone.
02:51One of you is with me.
02:53I don't know why they can't find this thing.
02:56Damn it!
02:57There's a lesson to be learned from all this.
03:00And it's always keep your eyes peeled at a still sight.
03:04Something like that could jump up and bite your daddy in the butt.
03:08I know Josh loves making moonshine on his own.
03:13But it just seems to me that when we get together...
03:16Hot damn!
03:17Where was it?
03:18Right there.
03:19Where?
03:20Right there!
03:21Right where?
03:22He's just that much happier of a guy.
03:24What, this piece?
03:25Yeah.
03:26It's right there!
03:27Yeah, y'all were with me.
03:29He stays calm.
03:30I was about to go all to hell.
03:35We're all very productive.
03:37Don't ever do me like that again.
03:40Damn, that was too much energy.
03:42So it really can't get any better.
03:44There we go.
03:46We'll find this boiler.
03:47All right, boys.
03:48And while this water's heating up, then we get to mash in.
03:51Y'all ready to pump this stuff over?
03:52Yeah.
03:55I'm really not sure how these boys come up with so much mash.
03:58But they did, and they needed some help.
04:00And we got two steel sites set up.
04:02We're running on this side of the creek.
04:03We're running on this side of the creek.
04:04There's plenty of mash, plenty of work to do.
04:07Let's get over the other side and get some rye going.
04:09Across the other side of the creek.
04:11I've actually never done that before.
04:12Having two separate outfits running two separate mashes at the same time.
04:16Up on one side of the creek and rye on the other side of the creek.
04:19That's good.
04:20Let's get this one lit up.
04:21I'm anxious to see how this coke does.
04:23I ain't never seen it before.
04:24Yeah, we'll love it, man.
04:25Oh, man, that's handy right there.
04:28I just wish it gets burned and be so quiet.
04:30Get it pumped.
04:34Oh, bless America.
04:35About flew through there.
04:36Looks good, man.
04:37Keep farming it.
04:38Might be a half a bucket left.
04:40Yeah, it might be a half.
04:42All right.
04:43All right.
04:44We got all this grain here.
04:46We don't leave anything behind.
04:47We use these steamers.
04:48We don't have to worry about them burning.
04:49See all the grain?
04:50Oh, yeah.
04:51Yeah, it gets that flavor over in there.
04:53Flavor comes in.
04:54Thank goodness Josh came up, and we're knocking it all out.
04:57Just a waiting game now, ain't it?
04:58How long can you stick around, Josh?
05:00Till the job's done, man.
05:01This is what I do.
05:02I'll be here till y'all ready for me to go home or start hating me one.
05:06Look, man, this is just the beginning.
05:08We got days of this.
05:09That's all right.
05:10This is a damn good payday.
05:11I'm ready.
05:12Yes, sir.
05:13Anybody got something good for us to eat?
05:15Oh, man.
05:30What the hell are we going to do now, old Jerry?
05:32First of all, we got to find us a new place to set up.
05:34Because this is saddening right here.
05:36We got basically run off from our still site.
05:39I come to find out we was on the wrong side of a property line.
05:43These people gave us till dark to get our stuff out of there,
05:46and they was calling the law on us if we didn't.
05:48It was doing so good, and then it all goes away in the blink of an eye.
05:53I'm heartbroken.
05:56Now we got to find somewhere else to go.
05:58Me and Jerry, we're very fortunate and blessed that we didn't get busted.
06:01But we've got to hurry up.
06:03Time is working against us.
06:04We got orders coming in by the book hoodl.
06:06We got some corn mash working off,
06:08so me and Jerry's got to have a place to set up and run it off.
06:12Let's get out of here and go find us a new spot.
06:17Yeah, that's another thing, Jerry.
06:18We can't let nobody know we're down right now.
06:21The Biker Club, them boys right there buys a lot of alcohol from us.
06:25We got to put our nose to the ground and sniff out a good place to get,
06:29and that's what we're going to do.
06:30Mercy, mercy, mercy.
06:32Jerry, we'll slip on up in here and take a gander around.
06:35You know, Jerry, I'm pretty familiar with this area.
06:38Yeah?
06:39We got the creek.
06:40I mean, it's secluded.
06:41We got plenty of laurels, and it gets really dense right back over in there.
06:45This holler looks pretty daggum snazzy.
06:47It's nice and flat.
06:48We can put our barrels up here on the edge of the bank.
06:50Let's go up the brink and see what the water looks like.
06:53I've got to have some kind of fall so I can feed mashed barrels in my wine barrel.
06:58Oh, yeah.
06:59She's starting to rise up a little bit now.
07:01Sure enough, about 100 yards up, it starts tearing up a little bit.
07:04It starts getting some rise in it.
07:08What do you think?
07:09It's good water, and it's cold.
07:11And there's enough here to feed the steel side.
07:13What the hell is that?
07:15Look at that.
07:16Damn horseshoe.
07:17What are we doing?
07:18Well, this is a damn good luck charm right here, Jerry.
07:19This just might be our steel side, Bubba.
07:20Hey, look at that.
07:21What is that?
07:22I know you're damn dogs.
07:23You recognize people living that close, or you're going to see?
07:24Probably somebody that lives over that way.
07:26Right.
07:27We hear dogs off in the distance.
07:28This is no hunting dog.
07:29This is a house dog.
07:30We actually thought we was so damn deep in the woods that nobody would be around, but
07:36sure enough, come to find out, there must be a house just right over there.
07:41I like the sight.
07:42I like we got water, but I like the fact that we may have people that close in on us.
07:45Yeah, dogs always alert people when they don't shut up.
07:46You know, people come walking around.
07:47What do you think?
07:48You know it's a no?
07:49I think it's a no.
07:50We don't want to be hasty.
07:51Haste makes way, so let's go look around and see if we can't find something else.
07:54That's all we can do.
07:55That's all we can do.
07:56We can do.
07:57We can do.
07:58We can do.
07:59We can do.
08:00We can do.
08:01We can do.
08:02We can do.
08:03We can do.
08:04We can do.
08:05We can do.
08:06We can do.
08:07We can do.
08:08We can do.
08:09If we can't find something else.
08:10That's all we can do.
08:11I'll carry that home with me, though.
08:12I would.
08:13Maybe you can turn it upside down, hang it on the wall somewhere.
08:16Hold in some of that luck.
08:25Boss?
08:26That's you, Jim, Tom?
08:27Yes, boys.
08:28There's a fella who brought me a lot of good cherries.
08:30Help me my shoes in.
08:32Let me get to work, Tom.
08:33We'll run.
08:34Okay.
08:35We'll be there in a little bit.
08:36In Graham County, North Carolina, after getting a call from their old friend, Jim, Tom.
08:42Hey, Jim, Tom.
08:43Hello there, Mark.
08:44Mark and Huck hightail it over.
08:47Well, one of them is pretty.
08:49Them looks good, Jim, Tom.
08:50Yeah, them's pretty.
08:51Yeah, you don't come to them every day.
08:54No.
08:55No, that ought to make some real stuff, wouldn't it?
08:57It ought to.
08:58If you've got cherries, you can make jelly out of them, or you can make moonshine.
09:02I ain't never seen Jim Tom make any kind of jelly or anything like that.
09:06It's always been alcohol.
09:07You ever made no cherry liquor, or wine, or whatever?
09:10I never have out of cherries.
09:12I'm gonna try one of them.
09:13What do you think about them?
09:14Good and sweet.
09:15I just leave the stems on them.
09:17You know what I do with them?
09:18Use them as toothpicks.
09:21A cherry brandy, or any brandy, it's a different process than it would be for corn.
09:25It takes a little longer to work your brandy off, and you just got to be patient with it.
09:29Squeeze a little of the juice out of there.
09:31It'll work like the dickens, I'd say.
09:33Oh, they'll break down.
09:34We had plenty of sugar and yeast on the truck, so we just set him up some mace.
09:39You know, Mark, just everybody can't do this, can they?
09:42That's right.
09:43Oh, they got to get educated.
09:45The way Jim Tom wants to do this brandy, it's a pound of sugar to the gallon of cherries,
09:50and it'll be good to go.
09:52Oh, that'll make good stuff, I'll guarantee it.
09:55Oh, it will.
09:56You better around.
09:58Who knows that?
09:59Oh, yeah.
10:00Leave the good stuff in there.
10:02That'll put it to jumping.
10:04That'll make it tick, won't it?
10:06I'm going to leave just a little room for it.
10:08Oh, yeah.
10:09So when it won't run over when it starts working.
10:11There you go.
10:13Put it right under here where nobody can't get it.
10:15Of course, I've got hidden cameras around here.
10:18If they sneak in, moped, he'll reach and get them away.
10:21But now when you're brandy, you know, you've got to be real careful and keep up with it and watch it,
10:26because especially when it gets almost worked off, if you let it go too long, it'll turn the vinegar on you.
10:31Listen, you call us when it's ready.
10:34I'll say, she's off.
10:35Bring that copper rig out there.
10:37Let's run that stuff.
10:38I'm wanting a horn of it.
10:39Yeah, boy.
10:40It's a pretty thin line.
10:41We left that up to Jim, Tom, you know, because we knew that he would know when it was ready.
10:46Okie doke, Mark.
10:47I appreciate you putting that up for me there.
10:50If you need anything else, holler.
10:52Tell everybody I'll set a big handy.
10:54I'll do or say.
10:55Yeah.
10:56Don't matter who it is.
10:57Yeah.
11:01This wood is a lot like your mash.
11:04Is this the flavor?
11:05Yes, sir.
11:06Moonshine and barbecue are both a huge part of our southern culture.
11:10Check that out.
11:11That's a lot of heaven to write you under.
11:18I'll tell you that, this heats up what can you think?
11:20It won't be long.
11:21All right, Tickle.
11:22You know what my uncle would always say, don't you, to get to drinking?
11:25The law.
11:26I am the law.
11:30Tommy law.
11:31Tommy law.
11:32Tommy law.
11:33In the woods of Franklin County, Virginia, Tickle, The Laws, and their new partner in crime, Josh,
11:39begin a long string of rye and apple moonshine distillations.
11:44So in this operation, this time, we're running my steamer still, and they're still two.
11:49Boys, I got to tell y'all, y'all did a hell of a job on this steel site.
11:52It looks good because it's camo.
11:54Perfect.
11:55How much better would that one on yonder look with some camouflage painted?
11:57Blend right in, honey.
11:58Ah, damn.
11:59I'm telling you, boy.
12:00I want to tell you right now.
12:02She's too pretty the way she is.
12:05Their steel site was camouflaged and tucked away in this hollow so good, and then here
12:10I am with this big ol' bright, shiny, frickin' stainless rig.
12:14Kinda sticks out like a mirror.
12:16Boy, if you ain't using it, what's it gonna need to paint it?
12:19If I ain't using it, why's it gonna need to be painted?
12:22But we are using it.
12:23I'm just saying.
12:24But we are using it.
12:25Alright, that makes sense.
12:26These boys want to paint my steel, and you know what?
12:28I'm almost down with it because we are in the woods doing something illegal, and it makes
12:33sense to be camouflaged.
12:35If y'all can make it look this good, we'll camouflage her.
12:38You can teach him, can't you?
12:39That's right.
12:40You can teach him.
12:41You just have to drill it in.
12:42What are you saying?
12:43I'm hard-headed?
12:44Well, there ain't no saying to it.
12:45You are.
12:46He's agreed to let us camouflage his nice, pretty steam outfit.
12:51There you go.
12:52Hit it right there.
12:53Spray it on there.
12:54He's like a little kid, ain't he, man?
12:57It's so red-furty like it is, ain't it?
13:01I'd rather paint this than this.
13:02I'll tell you what, don't worry about it, and I'm going to give you the directions
13:05to the prison.
13:06So you'll know how to get down.
13:07No.
13:08I'm good on that.
13:09Yeah.
13:10He's got cold feet on us.
13:11If you want to stay out of jail, you better camo it up.
13:13And that's what I'm trying to convince him.
13:15You know, he just can't see that that camo will save your butt.
13:19You won't need no can of paints.
13:20You'll have time to color them with crayons.
13:23You can do what you want, big boy.
13:26I can tell Josh is really not sure about it.
13:28Yeah, I'm good.
13:29He's been great coming up, helping us.
13:32And at the end of the day, it's his steamer still.
13:35Well, we tried.
13:36I don't know why I don't want to paint it, but I just can't seem to do that to it.
13:40It's just so pretty the way it is.
13:41It's perfectly camouflaged now.
13:56Oh, gosh.
13:57Right.
13:58Look, Jenny, she's running.
13:59Damn, that there's got the smell, too.
14:00I don't know.
14:01This thing went well.
14:02What here with that spice there?
14:04Oh, yeah.
14:05Just give him a sample.
14:07Yeah, see what you think about that.
14:09It's hard to run apples.
14:10It's hard to run rye through regular steels.
14:13You've got to use a steamer.
14:14I've never successfully made rye.
14:15You've got to use a steamer?
14:16It's the hottest crap ever.
14:17I don't have the right recipe.
14:19Just hypnotize me one night and get the recipe that we've got for three generations.
14:24Do I have to hypnotize you to get it?
14:26You're going to have to kill me to get it.
14:29No rye.
14:30I need to know your rye recipe.
14:32You've got no rye.
14:33Smells good.
14:34I can hear it bubbling and pumping.
14:35What do you got there?
14:36It's a finished product right here.
14:38We've got that right on the nose sitting there.
14:40Mm-hmm.
14:41Mm-hmm.
14:42Got some rye there.
14:43That's what you don't want to buy more.
14:46That's rye?
14:47Yes, sir.
14:48Pretty rye looking.
14:49Any rye I ever made tastes like fire.
14:50There's a definite difference in steam whiskey.
14:53Steam whiskey is never scorched, and if you've got your mash build right,
14:58you're going to make smooth whiskey.
15:00These boys make some of the best rye in the world.
15:03All right, y'all.
15:04It's already rolling.
15:05I can smell it.
15:06Yeah, sir.
15:07I feel like apples.
15:08Yeah, baby.
15:09Throw it a little bit off.
15:11That's going to be some good there.
15:15That's apple brandy, baby.
15:17We're pumping liquor out on both sides of this creek right here.
15:21We've got rye coming out on one side and apple brandy coming out on the other.
15:27Yeah.
15:28Damn she ain't clear as a bill.
15:29Mmm.
15:30It's pouring out some of the best apple brandy I've ever tasted in my life.
15:34But you know, this is just the beginning of this operation.
15:38We've mashed in a hundred bushels of these apples.
15:41There's going to be a long time to come.
15:43I'm going to be here quite a while.
15:44I'm hungry.
15:45Every time Kenny's stomach growls, I think the law is getting rid of Raiders.
15:48I done about had enough eating these beans and crackers.
15:50I've got a darn plan where we won't starve to death.
15:53We've got to set that sun gun up.
16:03It ain't going to run itself.
16:04Trust me, I love you.
16:05Whew.
16:06The mash that we've got, it's ready to run.
16:09We've got to find somewhere to run it off quick.
16:11I've been up and down every damn holler in this county.
16:14I cannot find the right spot to set this big massive steel up on.
16:17If we don't get it run off within the next day or two, it's going to be spoiled.
16:21We just need somewhere to set that thing up temporarily, just run and run off.
16:24I mean, don't you know anybody that's got a carport or a shed or a...
16:28You know what?
16:29I know a damn farmer that buys some alcohol from me, but he ain't my best friend by no
16:34damn means, you know?
16:36We don't need him as a best friend.
16:37We just need his barn.
16:39I know a guy that's got a barn and a farm.
16:42As far as asking this guy, can I run on his property, that's never crossed my mind.
16:47He knows who I am and what we do, but...
16:50Hello?
16:51Hey, Jim.
16:52What's up, buddy?
16:53I'm doing good, Mike.
16:54How you doing?
16:55Oh, pretty good, man.
16:57Look, I've got a damn big favor to ask of you.
17:01What's that?
17:02Well, make a long story short, we got run off from our damn steel site, and we got a
17:09big order to fulfill, and we need somewhere to run a quick, fast, and in a damn hurry
17:14run, and I was going to ask and see if you would be willing to let me use your barn over
17:19there.
17:20Well, the thing is, I do own the land and everything, but I'm renting it out to a farmer
17:27right now, and I don't know if he's using the barn or he's got something going on in
17:33the barn.
17:34Right.
17:35If he catches you and he calls the law, this phone call never happened now.
17:39I mean, I cannot protect you if police get involved.
17:42Okay, then.
17:43But you know nothing anyway.
17:45Yeah.
17:46Well, just keep it like that.
17:48I reckon we've got a decision to make, man.
17:51So, I appreciate it, buddy.
17:52Talk to you later.
17:53Take it easy.
17:54Oh, man.
17:55Me and Jerry's got to slip in there, do what we do best, and try to get out of there with
18:00the skin of our teeth.
18:01It's a lot of damn money on the line.
18:03If we don't get this stuff run off, we're going to lose all of this.
18:05Not just losing the mash, we're going to lose all the customers.
18:07We're really not a choice.
18:08Well, if we're going to do it, we're going to do it at night.
18:11Oh, that's for a fact.
18:12Be too risky during the day.
18:13I mean, we've got to get in there right at the crack of damn dark and get out.
18:18Before they lock.
18:19Being moonshiners, me and Jerry takes a risk every day of our lives.
18:23Hell, let's go get it done.
18:25But we ain't done nothing yet to what we fixing to do.
18:28Hope like hell we don't get caught doing it.
18:32Today, I'm going to fix me up a barbecue grill.
18:39Josh, Henry, Kenny and myself, we're spending long hours in the woods running a lot of good moonshine.
18:46And you know what?
18:47Man can only eat so many cans of beans and packs of nabs.
18:50So I'm going to build us a smoker so we can eat at the steel site.
18:55I got Howard coming over today.
18:57Two heads is always better than one, even if one of them is Howard.
19:00I'm here for the meats and eats, baby.
19:03A whole lot of folks wouldn't think that moonshine and barbecue are so closely related.
19:08What's up, my brother?
19:09Where's the food?
19:10But they're both part of our southern culture.
19:13Hey, look, there's a line on that barrel right there, right?
19:16All right, that's my first cut.
19:18When you're running these stills for days, weeks, even months on end, you've got to keep your strength up.
19:26This right here.
19:28This is going to keep us full, going to keep us happy, and keep this moonshine pumping out.
19:33That's a barrel cutting out.
19:36We've got to join these two barrels together.
19:39I got some stovepipe over there, and I'm going to put a damper in it.
19:43The damper gives me the ultimate control over my temperature right here.
19:48Uh-oh, there we are.
19:50Moonshine and barbecue, you really have got to watch your temperature when you're cooking both of them.
19:56That's one of the key points right there.
19:59You've got a damper.
20:00I can control my heat now.
20:01You're a damper dam man.
20:02Yes, sir, I'm a damper dam man.
20:04What's up?
20:05This is kind of like my cap on a still.
20:07The cap's going to connect the furnace and the pot.
20:10The meat that I put on here, that's my mash right there.
20:14Where's the worm?
20:15The worm?
20:16That's me and you.
20:17When it gets done, we're going to eat it up.
20:18And I can't wait to get to that point.
20:19That's right.
20:20Because I'm hungry.
20:21All right.
20:23That's not going to fit.
20:26That's not going to fit snug as a bug.
20:31Actually, it fits pretty doggone good, does it not?
20:34Hey, man.
20:35This smoker, just like a steel, has got to be transportable.
20:39I take my rack.
20:40It's an easy light piece to carry.
20:42Set it over top of the furnace.
20:44All right.
20:45Then I set my grill box right on top of it.
20:50All right.
20:51Lock this thing together.
20:52Like this.
20:53So you're building this to break down.
20:55This is a moving smoker.
20:56Yes, sir.
20:57This whole top will come right up.
20:58I've only got four little small bolts that are holding them straps together.
21:03I undo them and bam.
21:05In just a second, this grill can be a part and be moved.
21:08Just like a steel.
21:09We are ready to drill some holes and put some grates in.
21:12Look at this.
21:15I'd be damned if that ain't starting to look like a damn smoker right.
21:21John, isn't it?
21:22It is the top to the smoker now.
21:24That's it.
21:25That's functionality.
21:26All right.
21:27Now that'll work.
21:28Man, you see this?
21:31When we go to cooking on it, we got to be able to open it up and check on it.
21:38I don't want to wait until the grill cools down to be able to get my food out of it.
21:42With barbecue and moonshine, it's really important to be able to keep your temperature consistent.
21:47If you don't keep your temperature right, you're not going to wind up with a good product.
21:51It's not official until I can tell how hot it is in there.
21:55All right, Howard.
21:57It's official.
21:58You know what it needs now?
21:59Meat.
22:00And the fire in it.
22:02Wanting to make some cherry brandy, ain't it?
22:14Yeah.
22:15Old Jim Tom gave me a call.
22:16We told him when we'd be there.
22:18We pulled up there and he sat in the same old spot, just like always.
22:22Like in front of his bus.
22:24Hello, Jim Tom.
22:25Hello, Huck.
22:26Sat in the shade, ain't you?
22:27Yes, sir, bud.
22:29Hedrick's the name.
22:30I guess you know yours.
22:32I made so much dang liquor.
22:33I know that's what I'm supposed to do, but nobody make no cherry liquor.
22:36Yeah, boy.
22:37It smells good.
22:38I'd say it smells good.
22:39I can smell it from here.
22:40I got a whole old mark.
22:41I said, Mark, my mash is ready.
22:43They come over.
22:45Doggone right, it's ready.
22:47I think we ought to set us a tariff up.
22:49It's giving like 100% rain.
22:52Yeah, I'm feeling the rain in the air.
22:54By the time you get a run, halfway run, it can go to raining.
22:57Yeah, it'll turn black as dungeon.
22:59Start condensing back into the steel.
23:01Mine's been in the business as long as you have a stretching tent over your liquor steel.
23:06Looking good, Mark.
23:07Set that steel out.
23:09Jerry, come with me, snuffer guy.
23:11The cow.
23:16What you doing, old man?
23:17You playing?
23:18I said, you're rolling like a horse, don't you?
23:21Does he get that excited every time you're going to run a run?
23:24Oh, yeah.
23:25One day he got a wine bottle and he had his tongue around in it.
23:27I said, Moped, you're going to turn that into a wino.
23:30I'm going to be disappointed if it don't rain.
23:32It might not, Ben, as we stretch that tariff.
23:34Sure is heavy, ain't it?
23:35Yeah, they're heavy.
23:42Feel that steel full?
23:4310 gallons right there.
23:45Yeah, that's where you want to feel it.
23:46Right there.
23:47Fire in the hole.
23:49No.
23:50We just sat back.
23:51Hey, old ped, you want to chew a biker?
23:54You can try it all around.
23:56I'll give you a chew if you want it.
23:57You want to sit up here with me?
23:59You want to raffle, don't you?
24:00You want to raffle, you?
24:01Well, I wish I felt that good, don't you?
24:07It's fixing to run.
24:08It's in the bumper now.
24:10I can smell it from here.
24:11I used to lay down around my nose up under the worm.
24:14See how it smells?
24:15I'd run my head down the bottom.
24:17It's about got a high on it.
24:18That's right.
24:20Get this north of the bull.
24:24It's dripping.
24:26Did you pour the heads off of that?
24:28Yeah, I did, yeah.
24:30Yeah, boy, it tastes good.
24:31Does it?
24:32When I seen that start dripping,
24:33every bit of these memories come back.
24:35For years and years, me and old Mark,
24:38we'd run a lot of liquor.
24:40We had to make it to feed our family.
24:43I'm going to save us a little bit of this high.
24:45Yeah, always save at number one.
24:47Ain't that right?
24:49That's right.
24:50I'm using this water bottle.
24:51I'm going to catch some of this high proof stuff.
24:53Whenever we proof it,
24:54if we want to get it lower than what we want,
24:57we pick it back up with it to the right proof.
25:00That put lead in your pencil
25:01that you ain't got nobody to write to.
25:04Jim Thomas, he always makes me laugh.
25:06He's something, I ain't kidding.
25:08Do all you do for me.
25:09Do you want me to turn her straight up?
25:10Yeah.
25:11I just want to hold that jug up there
25:12so I can get to it.
25:17Hello, Susie.
25:19I'm going to tell you that I bring tears to a glass eye
25:21and life to a wooden leg.
25:25Well, there you go, Jim, Tom.
25:26Yeah, send him right here.
25:27You think that'll hold you a little while?
25:28That'll hold me right around.
25:29I'm going to leave this high proof here with you
25:31to proof it with.
25:32To proof it with, yeah.
25:33Well, I appreciate that.
25:34Yeah.
25:35It ain't all about just, you know, making moonshine.
25:37It's being friends and getting together
25:40and bringing back old memories.
25:42Well, boys, I'll tell you right now,
25:44you're just two of the best.
25:46Old Mark, he's the number one, and old Steer is, too.
25:49We're going to get on down the road, Jim,
25:51and give us a ring.
25:52I will.
25:53Yeah, this is important.
25:54This runs Jim Tom.
25:55I like to see him happy.
25:57Hey, keep those powders dry.
25:59Okay, bud.
26:00Okay.
26:01Well, he's my buddy, and I just like being around him.
26:04Okay, Mark.
26:05Drink cherry whiskey.
26:08Are you ready for this nerve-wracking night?
26:10Oh, let's go check this bar now.
26:12I've never done this kind of thing before,
26:13but sometimes you got to do what you got to do
26:15to get something done.
26:17We'll hurry up and get the hell out of here
26:18and be gone from this place.
26:24All right, Howard.
26:25What I've got here is a hickory tree that has been laid down.
26:29She's not really on the ground.
26:30You can see these few limbs that were touching the ground.
26:33They're no good.
26:34This stick right here, that's going to smoke the meat,
26:36and that's going to do real good.
26:40We've got the smoker built.
26:42Now, our next step is to get the correct firewood for this
26:45so we can test it out.
26:46And then I'm going to take this thing down here
26:48to the distill site, and I'm going to feed Henry, Kenny, and Josh.
26:53This wood is a lot like your mash, too.
26:56It's the flavor.
26:57Yes, sir.
26:58It's the flavor.
26:59Barbecue and moonshine share a whole lot.
27:02They're both passed down from generation to generation.
27:06And just like moonshine, when you make barbecue,
27:09you can take very inexpensive ingredients
27:12and turn them into something that's just fantastic.
27:15Look, you can't just throw any old type of wood in there
27:18and expect the food to come out right.
27:21All of these woods impart flavor through the smoke.
27:25Look.
27:26Check it out.
27:27If your lobes, right, when it hits the ground,
27:30the bark comes right off of it.
27:32You don't really want that bark, not a whole lot of it.
27:35I've got hickory right here.
27:37This is your marinade.
27:38I have apple over here.
27:40That's your seasoning like the salt and pepper you put on top.
27:45And I have oak over here.
27:47This oak is going to be the main fuel source.
27:49It burns hot.
27:50It makes very nice cooking coals.
27:53When you learn to blend them all together just right,
27:56it's a mighty fine eat.
27:58All right.
27:59I got a little bit of straw.
28:00Put that on in there.
28:01We'll take some of this little straw.
28:03Stand back.
28:04Stand back.
28:05Oh, never mind.
28:10Yes, sir.
28:11There's a fire.
28:13Where's the smoke going?
28:14It's going this way.
28:15It should be going that way.
28:16All right.
28:17Well, here.
28:18Here's what we'll do.
28:19My flue is right here.
28:22What that's got to do now is burn down to some coals.
28:25Look, Howard.
28:26Bring that meat over here.
28:27I'm carrying meat.
28:28My name is heavy.
28:29I got this hickory that I'm fixing to put on here.
28:32Now let that thing lay on the ground
28:34till it dried slam out
28:36and then started soaking up a little bit of water.
28:39What that's going to do
28:40is going to make this stick of wood smoke a lot.
28:45All right.
28:46I'm seasoning it with the fire and the smoke.
28:51If you can make the meat taste good
28:52with nothing more than the meat and the smoke,
28:54that's when you are a true barbecue master.
28:57Now it's time to add the seasoning.
28:59Come check this apple wood out.
29:01I'm going to throw this in here.
29:04Close her down and let her bake.
29:08This is a test run on this smoker.
29:10And if it works out like I want to,
29:12I'll have the best barbecue on the face of the earth.
29:15You ever seen that much smoke come off a grill?
29:17I'm going to take this thing out to Josh, Henry and Kenny,
29:20and we're going to make moonshine and barbecue.
29:23Check that out.
29:25Smells good.
29:26I'll tell you what.
29:27This has got to cook all night long, man.
29:29But in the morning,
29:31I promise you some of the best barbecue
29:32you ever ate in your life.
29:33Sounds good.
29:34Let's go see what Carol's got to eat.
29:52This is it.
29:53Are you ready for this nerve-wracking night?
29:55Yeah.
29:56It's going to be definitely a nerve-wracking night for sure.
30:00You know, we got miles of masks ready to run,
30:02rock and roll, right now.
30:04This is just a plain old simple corn mash,
30:06but we've got to get this stuff run tonight.
30:08If we wait any longer, it could potentially spoil.
30:12Damn.
30:13Let's go check this barn out.
30:14The only place we've got to run is inside this barn.
30:16I've never done this kind of thing before,
30:18but we've got to fulfill these orders.
30:20If not, we're going to have a lot of pissed off customers
30:22and we'll be out of business.
30:24Check this out.
30:28We just set that thing up right in this area right here.
30:30Let me just pump it off the trailer.
30:33Good thing.
30:34This old barn, it was once used to hang the backer in
30:36and it's got tall sailings in it.
30:38Get it in the damn dirt.
30:39Because this rig is tall, it's got a lot of connections.
30:42We've got to take every precaution to make sure everything's tight,
30:45leak-proof, sealed off, no steam, no drips,
30:48no nothing going on with it.
30:50That's it, baby.
30:51We've got it hooked up.
30:52All we've got to do is pump over and fire it up.
30:55All right, let her fly, Jerry.
30:57We've got mash coming, Bubba.
30:59You're going to go ahead and fire up so it'll be warming up.
31:04Now we've just got to wait for it to get going.
31:12.
31:15Sit down low.
31:17Jerry.
31:18Yeah.
31:19We got us a friend.
31:21A damn ghost.
31:22Oh, my God.
31:23It's haunted.
31:27I tell you what, it's down through the wire now, son.
31:29I hope nobody comes in this down barn,
31:31because we've got a fire going, we can't hear nothing,
31:33and now all we've got is our eyes.
31:37That son of a bitch is fixing to run, brother.
31:39I'm going to go ahead and tell you right now.
31:40Yeah, buddy.
31:43There it goes, buddy.
31:47That looks about like a number we're looking for, don't it, Bubba?
31:49Looks damn good right there, what that looks like.
31:51Well, I tell you what.
31:52People don't realize how long it takes to run.
31:55That there's about full, Bubba.
31:56Let's swap that out.
31:57You know, if we got paid by that or hell,
31:59we'd never make no money.
32:03Pump her over, baby.
32:04Let's get this thing going.
32:06There she comes.
32:07I feel it, baby.
32:08You know, we've got one run of two down.
32:10We've got to start right back over,
32:11we've got to pump over with more barrels,
32:13fire it right back up,
32:14and sit through the whole process yet and again.
32:19I don't see nothing, which is a good thing.
32:22We hurry up and get this second run done,
32:23we can get the hell out of here and be gone from this place.
32:27It's nerve wracking.
32:28I'm not quite sure if we're going to make it to get out of here by damn daylight or not,
32:34but we're going to be pushing it hard.
32:39Now, I can't help wondering what can we do to make this come out faster,
32:43but it's not going to come out no faster than what we're doing it right now.
32:46There you go. Good boy.
33:01All right, Jareb, dump these heads.
33:05Second run, we get this done, man.
33:07We can get out of here by the skin of our teeth
33:09and hopefully we don't get caught.
33:15Damn, daylight's going to catch us.
33:18I turn around and I look up through these cracks in this barn.
33:21I can see dawn.
33:23Oh my God, son.
33:25The stakes get a lot down higher when the sun comes up.
33:28We know people work here and the birds are starting to chirp.
33:31Everything's starting to come to life except for us.
33:34We're still sitting right here like two sitting ducks on a nest
33:37waiting on this down plane to get through running.
33:41Well, now your truck can actually be seen.
33:43Yeah.
33:44The wrong person sitting behind there.
33:45You got to get it run off and get the hell out.
33:49Ugh.
33:51That's my radio shack and a big school bus,
33:54the Moonshiners Express.
33:56I sleep out here sometimes, get drunk out here sometimes,
34:00make love out here sometimes.
34:02Don't care who knows.
34:04Hey, like the looks of these babies.
34:06But my radio, they got to be old.
34:08I had to build about four months in the chain gang one time back in 1959.
34:13I made me a radio that she hadn't been in so long.
34:17My mama slipped me enough stuff over there.
34:19I kept it hid.
34:20One night I was listening to the old guard and said,
34:23What do you got back there, Hedrick?
34:25Hey, I jerked my ear plug out, whoop, under the cover.
34:28He unlocked that cell door.
34:30What do you got there, he said.
34:31I said, it's my radio.
34:33Well, he snatched it out of my dang hand, put it in the trash.
34:37I've never been that mad in my life.
34:38Ha, ha.
34:39Yeah.
34:44Food ought to be done.
34:45Howard and I, we built us one hell of a smoker.
34:48So we can have some good food at this still site.
34:52We tested this thing out on some nice Boston butt.
34:55250, right, Chandra?
34:57Looking good.
34:58The true test of a good barbecue man is if he can flavor this meat without using anything but his fire and smoke itself.
35:08Check that out.
35:11Holy hell.
35:12Yes, sir.
35:13That's a lot of heaven right, Chandra.
35:15Let's get them things off, man.
35:16I'm sorry.
35:17Well, here.
35:18You hold this.
35:19All right.
35:20Just a little taste.
35:21Make me smack you with a spatula.
35:24God, that's a big piece of meat.
35:26That's what she said.
35:27No.
35:28No, she didn't.
35:29Not to you.
35:30All right.
35:31Yes, sir.
35:33Perfect smoke ring right around the outside of her.
35:37Holy moly.
35:38Oh, yes, sir.
35:39Divine heaven.
35:40Ah, look at the juice.
35:41There you go.
35:42Dip that in there.
35:43Holy .
35:44That's it, right, Chandra.
35:45That's delicious.
35:46Mm-hmm.
35:47Something like this just don't happen.
35:48I might be able to make some moonshine, but you know what else I can do?
35:49Make some barbecue.
35:50I can make some barbecue.
35:51Ain't nothing left to do now, but take this smoker.
35:52Standard is still safe.
35:53All right.
35:54Let's feed a couple of horses.
35:55All right.
35:56All right.
35:57Let's feed a couple of horses.
35:58All right.
35:59All right.
36:00All right.
36:01All right.
36:02All right.
36:03All right.
36:04All right.
36:05All right.
36:06Let's feed a couple of hungry moonshiners.
36:08When we get up here to the steel site, these fellas, they the real deal.
36:11I'm going to let him know that we on your way up here.
36:14Hey, Henry, y'all still at the steel site?
36:19Damn, son.
36:20Where do you think we're going to go?
36:21I got a surprise I'm bringing up for you, Kenny, and Josh.
36:25Josh, he just pulled out.
36:26All right.
36:27Well, look.
36:28I'll bring him for you and Kenny.
36:29I'll see y'all in just a few minutes.
36:30All right?
36:31Sounds good, brother.
36:32Good God it's slick down here, son.
36:34Hell, I'm getting sideways here.
36:36That's all you can do.
36:38As far as I can go.
36:39All right.
36:40.
36:41Man, it's slick and ill .
36:43We're going to carry this stuff in?
36:45Yeah, we're going to carry it in.
36:46Just follow this trail right on in.
36:48Hurry up now.
36:49Don't leave me down here by myself.
36:50I'm slipping and sliding down the hill, getting into the site.
36:53I walk upon probably the biggest site I've ever seen in my life.
36:57Who are you, man?
36:58What's that?
36:59I'm Howard.
37:00He's going with Tickle.
37:01Yeah, yeah, yeah.
37:02He's with me, fellas.
37:03Tickle, you should have came in first.
37:05You should get the out of us, man.
37:06Look, he's a fellow moonshiner.
37:07We go way back.
37:08Aw, dang, Tickle.
37:09We don't bring people to the steel place.
37:11I thought you would have told him I was coming down here.
37:13We don't even know this guy.
37:14I've been knowing this guy for years.
37:16Tickle, you say he's okay?
37:18Yep.
37:19Grab this thing and let's tote it on across there, huh?
37:22It's Howard, huh?
37:23Howard, yes, sir.
37:24Most of the time, steel site eatin', it's cans of beans, packs and abs, stuff like that.
37:31We got plenty more runs of this apple and rye to make.
37:35So now we could really stay down here.
37:37We don't have to leave to eat now.
37:39Looks like a damn steel to me.
37:41Just like an old fired steel.
37:43Once we get this smoker together, Henry and Kenny are lovin' it.
37:48You know if you use like that heap of wood, it's just gonna have that flavor in it.
37:51See, I got some kill bosses.
37:55Let's close your own.
37:56That damn thing is hot.
37:58We finally got our smoker set up and I get to lookin' around the area.
38:01And my God, this is the coolest steel I've ever seen in my life.
38:04Look, watch her climb.
38:05That's when we dropped her.
38:06Look at her climbing.
38:07I don't know about the smell now, man.
38:09I'm gonna attract people from far and near.
38:11That'd be healthy.
38:12Left a diner up here and come down here and bite it right here at the steel place.
38:16You know what?
38:17Sell a jar of liquor and a dog at the same time.
38:19One-stop shop, baby.
38:21That's right.
38:22Even though throughout the steel site this stuff smells great, you're at least overpowering the smell of our alcohol.
38:29Oh, yeah.
38:30Look at yonder.
38:31That's a good sign, right, yonder?
38:32That's a danger.
38:33You could really prefer anything you want.
38:35Barbecue, holy sausages and them.
38:37Well, that'd say if you was on your last run and gettin' ready to get your money, a man might want to get him a big ol' T-bone steak, you know?
38:44Yeah, it's good.
38:45It's a darn good if the law was to run in.
38:46We'll bribe him with a dog.
38:47Yeah.
38:48Tell him just leave us one at least.
38:49We can't stop it, daddy and hunt.
38:51We've got good food on the grill.
38:54We have got shine runnin'.
38:56Man, give it a try.
38:57This right here, it's a moonshiner's dream.
39:00Dinner and dessert, boys.
39:02Yes, sir.
39:03All in one shot.
39:04God, that's good.
39:05The barrel is full and the barrel is full.
39:06Yep, get in the barrel full.
39:17We're really under the gun now.
39:19You know, we're out here sneaking in there running in this man's barn when the sun comes up.
39:23And I was hoping like hell would be done, man, by now, by daylight.
39:27I mean, damn, it takes so long to run this son of a bitch.
39:31Hell, it feels like a damn brick sitting in the pit of my damn stomach.
39:38Hey, listen.
39:39Hear that?
39:40There's someone on a damn tractor.
39:42Get your murders.
39:50That's a damn tractor coming around here.
39:52He's coming in here.
39:53Oh, my God.
39:54He's coming in here, honey.
39:55This is the time you do not want to get caught right now, because we've got finished product.
40:04What the hell is this guy doing, Jerry?
40:05I hope he don't go back there towards the back of the building.
40:11Don't walk behind this damn barn and see our damn ash barrels, man.
40:12We're into it.
40:13What the heck's he doing?
40:14Get the hell out of here, dude.
40:18Looks like he's taking some leaves, Jerry.
40:19No.
40:20No.
40:21Whoa.
40:22Whoa.
40:23I hope you don't go back there towards the back of the building.
40:26Walk behind this down barn and see our down mash bars where we're into it.
40:32What the heck's he doing?
40:37Get the hell out of here, dude.
40:43Looks like he's taking some leave, Jerry.
40:46No.
40:48Get out, get out, get out.
40:55He sees us.
41:00Next time on Moonshiners.
41:02We got good news and bad news, killer.
41:0472 gallons of liquor.
41:06I may see some of the bad news right now.
41:09Jars are unavailable right now.
41:11Man, I've got 20 customers.
41:13I don't know how I'm gonna get it to them without jars.
41:16You got it now, Tim?
41:18Yeah, we got some thick stuff, Chuck.
41:20Today is our first run of polymorph.
41:22We need to make big quantities of it.
41:25There's a lot of steam going up here.
41:29I don't know if that's working like it's supposed to work or not, Chuck.
41:31It's all blowing out the roof right there.
41:33I don't know if that's going at the roof right there.
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