Moonshiners
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. 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.
Episodes
1Born Tax-Free
42 minJan 6, 2026
In the season premiere, Tim rejoins Tickle on the outlaw side as Canadian tariffs open a new market. With police on their trail, Mark and Digger revive old-time tactics. Josh heads to the Carolina hills to reinvent his family recipe with a new ingredient.
2Outlaw Redemption
44 minJan 13, 2026
Tim and Tickle bottle their first illegal run together in 14 years. Mark and Digger reintroduce their infamous hand-made corn liquor to the outlaw market, only to find their price undercut by a mysterious competitor. Josh gets a wakeup call about the law.
3Proof or Consequences
44 minJan 20, 2026
Mark and Digger reverse-engineer a counterfeit jar of shine that is flooding the outlaw market. When Josh discovers footprints near his still site, he reopens the underground bunker site he built a decade ago. Jerry helps Mike design a giant waterwheel.
4Stashes to Ashes
44 minJan 27, 2026
Poised to bootleg their first tariff-free liquor to Canada, Tim and Tickle encounter armed opposition hellbent on torching their plans. Mark and Digger call on Amanda to confirm their suspicions, while Mark and Huck make the first dead drop of the season.
5Dead Drops Don't Lie
44 minFeb 3, 2026
When Mark and Huck's shine stash vanishes, the hunt for culprits sparks explosive plans for revenge. Tickle and Henry create a snorkel kit to drive through floodwaters to their still site. Soaring prices for aged whiskey tempt Mike and Jerry to defy time.
6Goldshiner
44 minFeb 10, 2026
When Josh finally completes his decade-long bunker project, he fires up the still for a first-ever run of gold flake cinnamon shine. Mark and Digger deliver some backwoods justice to an unscrupulous man selling industrial alcohol as pot still liquor.
7A New Tariff in Town
44 minFeb 17, 2026
After rivals destroy Tim's Canada-bound moonshine, he relocates his tariff-dodging operation to Kentucky, where neighbors follow their own unwritten code. Tickle and Henry target the lake house crowd, while Amanda crafts a new Manhattan-style corn liquor.
8Kentucky Kingpin
45 minFeb 25, 2026
Tim goes full outlaw in the Bluegrass State only to uncover the dark side of working with a Kentucky shine boss. Mark and Digger enlist Amanda and Kelly to procure a truckload of hail-damaged peaches. Mike and Jerry pressure test their rapid-aging system.
9Run for the Border
45 minMar 4, 2026
Tim and Howard race to complete a thousand-gallon order before the Canadian tariff-running boat docks. Josh takes cover as surveyors set stakes above his underground still site. Mike and Jerry tail their bootlegger and uncover a backroads speakeasy.
10Confiscated Copper Conundrum
Mar 10, 2026
When police raid his underground still site, Josh joins Tickle & Henry in a shine run for a stock car legend. Mark & Digger contend with a rotten-egg taste in their blueberry brandy. Amanda & Kelly try to stop bears from doing what bears do in the woods.
11Penny Wise, Impound Foolish
Mar 17, 2026
Josh constructs a decoy in a daring plot to retrieve his confiscated copper still from the police impound lot. Mike and Jerry promise to deliver something they've never attempted before. Mark and Huck face off with their own backwoods bear problem.
12Braking Badly
Mar 24, 2026
When the brakes fail on Mark and Huck's bootleg vehicle, their luck and their shine quickly hit rock bottom. Mike and Jerry cross police lines to get their shine back. Mark and Digger score a prized strain of wheat made famous by Kentucky’s best bourbons.
13Spirit Animal
Mar 31, 2026
Tim, Tickle and Henry confront the rogue shiners who torched their stash house. Mike and Jerry make liquor from candy roaster squash. But when they fail to return Mark and Huck's copper still cap, it's the mountain men who deliver their just desserts.
14Cocke County Crackdown
44 minApr 7, 2026
A cop confronts Mark and Digger with knowledge of their outlaw operation, forcing the veteran shiners to team up with Josh to identify a police informant. Tim and Tickle plot revenge on rival shiners who incinerated $20,000 worth of their liquor.
15Wanted Drunk or Alive
44 minApr 14, 2026
Tickle makes tariff-free apple brandy to help resolve the shortage of American liquor on Canadian shelves. Mike and Jerry learn they're wanted men. Josh discovers the source of industrial ethanol that's fueling a glut of fake moonshine across Appalachia.
16Outlaw & Order
44 minApr 21, 2026
In the season finale, Tim enlists Tickle to smuggle tariff-free shine by airplane and rallies a band of fellow outlaws to take back his family's turf. Mark and Digger turn the law against a counterfeiter. Mike and Jerry push Mark Rogers past his limit.
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