The BEST episodes of Booze Traveler
Every episode of Booze Traveler ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Booze Traveler!
In 15 1-hour episodes of Booze Traveler cocktail connoisseur Jack Maxwell travels around the world, one drink at a time. Maxwell grew up in south Boston where bars served as the neighborhood living rooms, hosting family dinners, birthdays and weddings. In this new series, he will take his respect and appreciation for specialty cocktails to explore new locales, seeking out the people, places, customs and cultures behind drinks across the globe.
#1 - Spirits of Ol' Mexico
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/12/2016
Jack Maxwell learns the meaning of Mexican immortality when he gets blindfolded and thrown into the back of a truck to taste some award-winning mezcal, works the agave fields for tequila, almost gets burned alive in an ancient Aztec ceremony and has a first date with the Saint of Death.
#2 - Turkey Is Stirring
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/24/2014
Beer, rebellion, soccer, Islam and fiery brandy stir modern Turkey. Although drinking is highly restricted, Turks drink defiantly and patriotically across the country, from bustling city streets to ancient islands. Jack Maxwell finds that every glass comes with a very big twist.
#3 - Peru Is Magic
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/1/2014
From Machu Picchu to the fiery capital of Lima, Peru serves up strange magic at every turn. Jack is in the Land of the Inca to discover the culture behind many of Peru’s most popular drinks, including canazo, a sugarcane liquor, and masato, a traditional Peruvian beverage also known as “spit beer.”
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#4 - Last Call of the Wild West
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/3/2017
From shootouts at high noon and drinks with Nevada's wildest secret society to Sin City showgirls and a booze cruise on Lake Tahoe, Jack Maxwell meets the people keeping the West wild.
#5 - A G'Day Down Under
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/9/2017
In this former penal colony, Jack Maxwell has a mussel-diving, sheep-shearing, brothel-crashing, vegemite-swallowing good time in Australia. With the best drinking buddies in the world, it's no worries mate!
#6 - German Precision Und Schnapps
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/27/2017
Jack Maxwell drinks with the Germans who engineer the world's finest brew and booze. He tries his hand at playing an Alphorn, watches a traditional Bavarian whipcracking contest, sips on anti-aging beer and is introduced to a giant robot dragon.
#7 - Siberia: Ice-olated Spirit
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/20/2017
A bundled-up Jack drills holes in Siberia's icy Lake Baikal and sips vodka from a straw on the surface. Then, he takes a shot from a Cossack's sword, sips deer blood and tries Polugar bread wine, the national drink of Russia.
#8 - The Force of Madagascar
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/13/2017
Jack Maxwell taps into the mysterious energies of Madagascar and drinks its most potent spirits. He meets mystical monkeys, concocts a snake blood cocktail, shakes his booty with a local tribe, eats pig face for breakfast and makes a boozy offering to the spirit of a king.
#9 - Playing the Booze in Portugal
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/6/2017
In his quest to understand why the Portuguese can feel so homesick, Jack Maxwell dives for a rare seafood delicacy, visits Dr. Frankenstein's liquor laboratory, unearths the Wine of Death and tastes the crown jewel of Portuguese booze, Port wine.
#10 - Cuba: Kings of Cocktail
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/27/2017
After more than 50 years of being cut off from America, Jack Maxwell visits Cuba! He gets cleansed in the country's oldest religion, drinks rum, sees Hemingway's beloved Havana and sips on the national drink, an iced mojito.
#11 - Legendary Croatia
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/20/2017
Jack discovers the most epic booze-soaked tales of Croatian legend. He drinks wine with monsters, sieges a centuries old castle, drinks truffles in the land of giants, curses like a sailor in a traditional balote game and finds the cave of Odysseus.
#12 - Arak-ing Trip Through Israel
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/30/2017
Jack Maxwell heads to Israel, the Land of Milk and Honey. He takes a dip in the Dead Sea, drinks Arak, enjoys a beer with the Speed Sisters and runs into some rowdy rabbis before ending his trip with pomegranate and almond wines at a Shavuot festival.
#13 - Colombia: Wayuu Wahoo and The Golden One
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/13/2017
Intoxicated by Colombia, Jack Maxwell visits a Wayuu village where women rule, uncovers El Dorado's smoky truth, breathes in the rum culture and detoxes in a devil's volcano.
#14 - Drink in the Zen
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/6/2017
After a long, dark past, Cambodia is on the rise. Jack Maxwell drinks Special Muscle Wine with his new friend Chun and hunts spiders for a drink with bite. He visits the holy site Angkor Wat and floats to a village to make some fish paste.
#15 - On the Rocks
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/26/2016
The hunt for a mysterious cocktail in Siberia made from Russia's national spirit, cooled by special ice, comes from a holy place and is blessed by a shaman.
#16 - South Korea: Mind Your Manners
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/16/2017
In South Korea, Jack has a lot to learn when it comes to drink etiquette - all while eating live octopus, taking a punch at an ancient fortress and seeing North Korea, the most isolated country in the modern world.
#17 - Florida's Free Spirits
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/2/2017
Jack Maxwell lets his freak flag fly in the Sunshine State, Florida. He joins a wacky rebellion, drinks whiskey out of a dead alligator, dabbles in Haitian Voodoo, sails a floating Tiki Bar and finds his favorite Miami vice.
#18 - Twain's Mighty Mississippi
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/23/2017
Jack Maxwell follows Mark Twain's path up the Mississippi river, hitting Louisiana's Mardi Gras, Minnesota's Beer Dabbler Festival and drinking a cocktail in Missouri created by Twain himself.
#19 - Wet And Wild Pacific Northwest
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/23/2018
Jack heads to the Pacific Northwest to follow in the footsteps of great explorers. He drinks beers in a hot tub boat, takes a seaplane to microdistilleries on the San Juan Islands and tries a drink made with bacteria and yeast.
#20 - Planes, Trains and a Chicken Bus
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/10/2017
Jack looks back on the crazy adventures he's had in pursuit of a drink. Dragon Boat racing for beers in Hong Kong, rompopo on a chicken bus in Guatemala, roadside hooch in Armenia and snowshoeing for mulled wine in the Andes.
#21 - Tahitian Dream
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/18/2017
Maxwell immerses himself in the culture of Tahiti; he has an authentic tamure dream, a drink named for a traditional dance; he tastes brut d'ananas, a pineapple champagne, and pia uru, a local beer brewed from breadfruit.
#22 - Viking In A Bottle
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/1/2018
Jack searches fjords for old Viking magic in a bottle; he clinks glasses with Vikings, discovers powerful and ancient ingredients and learns the booziest myths left behind by the fearsome people of the Frozen North.
#23 - The Roarin' Rockies
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/8/2018
Jack wants to see how the rugged Rocky Mountains became a world-class playground. He learns the ways of the mountain men, experiences the wildest winter festival, and finds his favorite drinking game.
#24 - Costa Rica's Pure Life
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/15/2018
Jack wants to learn the true meaning of "Pura Vida": the Costa Rican secret to true happiness. To find his happy place, he dodges a stampede of bulls, comes face-to-face with a deadly snake, and drinks an ancient beer made from mold.
#25 - The Common Crown
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/22/2018
Jack meets the everyday men and women who've held up the crown. He travels back in time to the English Civil War; sings a shanty song in the Caribbean of the UK; goes toe-to-toe with a toe wrestler; and drinks with Robin Hood in the oldest pub.
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