The BEST episodes of Moonshiners
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Think the days of bootleggers, backwoods stills and "white lightning" are over? Not a chance! It's a multi-million dollar industry. But perhaps more importantly to the moonshiners, it's a tradition dating back hundreds of years, passed down to them from their forefathers. It's part of their history and culture. While this practice is surprisingly alive and well, it's not always legal. Discovery Channel's all-new series MOONSHINERS tells the story of those who brew their shine - often in the woods near their homes using camouflaged equipment - and the local authorities who try to keep them honest. Viewers will witness practices rarely, if ever, seen on television including the sacred rite of passage for a moonshiner - firing up the still for the first time. They will also meet legends, including notorious moonshiner Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton.
#1 - It Takes Amanda
Season 11 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/16/2022
Amanda joins Mark and Huck in an attempt to make shine from a rare corn.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - Moo Shine
Season 11 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/9/2022
When Digger scores a tank of fresh milk, he and Mark attempt to solve the mystery of turning milk into moonshine; Tickle and Josh ramp up underground operations at the Law's rental house; hunting dogs invade Mike and Jerry's mountain still site.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - Mountain Mayhem
Season 11 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/15/2021
Mark and Digger search in an unlikely location for the ideal spot to sea-age their Tennessee Whiskey. A wrong turn earns Josh his next broken bone. When Jerry gets rushed to the ER, his partner is forced to figure out a complex recipe without him.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - Last Call
Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/14/2017
Winter hot on their heels, shiners aim to cash in. A legendary partnership comes to a bittersweet end as Jeff, Mark and Lance head their separate ways. Tim gets to spend time with and old friend. Patti and David end their season with a boatload of shine.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - Like Water for Moonshine
Season 11 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/24/2021
When Mark and Digger ask to run on commercial property, the answer is as shocking as the results. Mike and Jerry turn blueberries into top-shelf brandy, but it's the mash that's worth celebrating. Richard chases the green fairy to make backwoods absinthe.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - Too Much of a Good Thing
Season 10 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/12/2021
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - Burning Down the House
Season 11 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/30/2022
In the season finale, just as Mark and Digger undertake their large-scale bootleg to Nashville, the law makes an unwelcome return.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - Tennessee Royalty
Season 11 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/9/2022
Mark and Digger team up with Danielle Parton to run the first moonshine in decades on her legendary family property. Tim heads to the highlands of Jalisco to harvest blue agave to run Tequila. Richard invents a flammable recipe for a New Orleans chef.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - Popcorn's Secret Stash
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/23/2019
Ten years after Popcorn Sutton's death, his widow reveals a clue that could lead Mark and Digger to a hidden stash; Mike must gin up his brandy game to pay off his debt to Mark and Digger; Donnie and Teresa build a still site in a Kentucky cave.
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#10 - Moonshine Takedown
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/9/2014
Tickle nails down a stash spot. Josh and Bill butt heads in the backwoods. Jim Tom and Roy are back in action. Mark and Digger's still goes from old school to state-of-the-art. And Mark and Jeff put the bells and whistles on their new shine spot.
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - Another Man's Mash
Season 10 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/2/2021
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 colonial whiskey.
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - Hard Times Make the Best Shine
Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/24/2020
With national supply chains disrupted, Mark and Digger unearth a ton of free ingredients; Tickle helps Josh build a submarine still farm; and Mike designs a first-ever backwoods column still, perfect for endless runs of high-quality low-cost liquor.
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#13 - Bootleg Hustle
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/17/2012
It's the dead of winter in Appalachia, and moonshine season is months away. Moonshiner Tim and his partner Tickle are planning a daring 100-mile bootleg run capped with a risky midday moonshine transfer - something Tim rarely does.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - Mobile Moonshiner Madness
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/6/2019
Josh debuts his mobile still at a North Carolina biker rally. In the Great Smoky Mountains, Mike gets burned by a taste of his own medicine. There's a reason Franklin County, VA is the Moonshine Capital of America, and someone there is above the law.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - Sweet Corn Revenge
Season 10 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/19/2021
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - Arrested Development
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/9/2018
Tickle mentors JT at Belmont Farm; Mark and Digger receive an impossible shine order; Patti and David secure their still site after spotting a deadly intruder; Lance and Jeff scramble when their bootlegger goes missing.
Watch Now:Amazon#17 - Hemp Shine
Season 9 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/25/2020
Tickle and the Laws infuse a batch of shine with anxiety-reducing CBD, Josh digs into a secret stash to cure his blues and a mystery bootlegger encroaches on Mike's turf.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - Bottle Shock
Season 11 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/8/2021
Mark and Digger retrieve their sea-aged whiskey only to discover how easily it slips through their fingers. Richard and Craig run into trouble upsizing absinthe production. Tickle and the Laws look to moonshine history to get their season on track.
Watch Now:Amazon#19 - Moonshine of Mexico
Season 11 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/26/2022
Tim treks to the town of Tequila in search of the moonshine of Mexico; Tickle, Josh and the Laws build an assembly line of submarine stills for a large-scale run of pricey cherry shine; Mark and Digger take backwoods rye to a whole new level.
Watch Now:Amazon#20 - Georgia on My Shine
Season 9 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/3/2020
Mark and Digger heads to Georgia to visit an old-time shiner and restore an important piece of Popcorn Sutton history; Tim and Tickle plan on how to sell their new shine; Mike finds out about a rival on his turf.
Watch Now:Amazon#21 - Backwoods Justice
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/9/2019
Tensions boil over in Tennessee as Mike must answer for blowing up Mark and Digger's still. With Tickle in jail, JT answers the call when two outlaw shiners show up looking for help in the woods. Josh faces more bad news in the form of a bear.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - Mid-Season Secret Summit
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/12/2019
Midway into the season, America's top moonshiners gather to deal with unfinished business. Mike tells his side of the Mark & Digger feud. Josh reveals scars from his checkered past, and the shiners put their skills to the test in a whiskey showdown.
Watch Now:Amazon#23 - Secret Summit: Unfinished Business
Season 8 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/13/2019
Moonshiners share their tricks for running shine and how they avoid the long arm of the law. Tim reveals a visit with Tickle behind bars, and Mark & Digger reveal an unexpected twist in their search for Popcorn Sutton's shine, stashed a decade ago.
Watch Now:Amazon#24 - Appalachian Ambrosia
Season 11 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/5/2022
Mark and Digger whip up a high-gravity southern dessert while Tim puts a backwoods ritual onto store shelves; Amanda helps Mark and Huck...
Watch Now:Amazon#25 - Hard Seltzer
Season 11 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/12/2022
When Josh devises a formula for a profitable hard seltzer, he must convince Tickle and the Laws to contribute their valuable peach brandy to a risky enterprise; Mark and Digger attempt to turn a windfall of scuppernong grapes into Appalachian cognac.
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