Moonshiners: American Spirit - Episode Guide

The guys unravel a Prohibition-era mystery involving a presidency. Together, they assemble clues following in FDR's tracks to recreate his outlaw booze for the first time in 90 years.

Tim and Tickle head to Kentucky to investigate the legend behind Elijah Craig's invention of bourbon whiskey in 1789. Sourcing old-school ingredients and equipment, they attempt to become the first in two centuries to taste America's original bourbon.

Tim and Howard trek north to Philadelphia in search of Ben Franklin's 250-year-old recipe for spruce beer prized by George Washington's troops. But when Tim enlists Tickle's help to distill it, they re-discover a spirit that may have been lost to time.

Tim and Tickle head to Chicago in search of Al Capone's lost Prohibition gin. As Howard builds a prohibition-era pot still and barters for a 1920s clawfoot bathtub, the three shiners start a run hoping to taste the lost spirit a century after its heyday.

In Boston, Tim and Howard go back in time in search of the recipe for the lost colonial rum that started America's outlaw liquor legacy. With help from Tickle and a few other patriots, they recreate the spirit that was a favorite of Paul Revere.

Tim and Howard scour Pennsylvania for pre-prohibition rye and a colonial-era grist mill to recreate a spirit that sparked the Whiskey Rebellion in 1791. During their search, Tickle builds a unique still to help them distill this lost American rye whiskey.

Tim lures Tickle to Kentucky on a quest to unearth the origins of sour mash whiskey and why it changed American distilling forever. With help from Howard and Art, they build a period-correct pot still to recreate a recipe nearly two centuries-old.

Tim takes Josh to California's American River in search of the liquor James Marshall distilled before his discovery of gold changed the country forever; the shiners re-create a spirit that fueled the 1849 gold rush.

Tim and Tickle search for a legendary ingredient that fueled Charleston's moonshine resurgence after the Civil War but when they taste Jimmy Red Corn for the first time, they realize they can make a run of moonshine with a flavor like no other.

Tim and Howard head deep into the Texas borderlands in search of Pancho Villa's lost recipe for Sotol, the rural Mexican moonshine that fueled revolts and revolution. To recreate the cleanest, high-proof spirit, Tickle designs a UFO-shaped copper pot.

Tim takes Josh to Abe Lincoln's boyhood home in Kentucky to uncover evidence the 16th President may not have been entirely honest about his liquor-selling past. Using local sorghum, they recreate a whiskey that Lincoln would have tasted as a young man.