Memorable Moments Of Mark & Digger’s Moonshine Making Adventures
hello hey David now dick you’re calling me for bail money you’ve already used your get out ja part nope nothing like that you got any barrels we got some two-year-old barrels what could you do me about eight or 10 of those for about $100 a piece I’m going to call that a deal in the Smoky Mountains after discovering a prime source of limestone water very pure very clean bark and Digger are sourcing White Oak barrels to fulfill a lifelong dream of making authentic Tennessee whiskey our water’s good and we can make the best Tennessee
whiskey that East Tennessee’s ever had there he is and look at them barrels oh my look like they’ve been through a damn Congressional subcommittee our friend David he has some 2-year-old barrels man you don’t know what a solid you’ve done us these barrels are perfect that’ll work us a long time puss yeah going to make fine liquor our conscience is only guide we have here you jump these barrels and I roll them if you’ll jump 10 of these you win the princess and it ain’t a princess it’s a JB oh no when we took possession of this
building it had this big old metal rack I think it’ll make a perfect Barrel rack we put these up high store the rest of them down low I think it we can turn this old rack into something really really beneficial to us since this liquor is going straight into a barrel by the time that the barrel Works its magic on it it should be fantastic liquor the change in barometric pressure up and down causes all the liquor to get exposed to the inside Char of that Barrel looking good woo come out of there young fell how’s my hair oh hell
looks like it’s been combed with firecrackers oh up on the wait a minute wait a minute yeah oh you’re wearing me out I fingertips look at son your face is turned R we ain’t as young as we once we and these are heavy let’s spin there you go I want something mean to kill me not a silly ass barrel all right that’s at 12:00 yeah I think the barrel rack looks great but a lot of work to fill in these barrels it’s 585 gallon it’s going to take a long time we can put one more up here one more here and one more there yeah boy Mark and ders Tennessee
whiskey come on in here at least you could have done come out and help me push this up that ramp well we got all our components in here for a steel we’re right here next to everything we need ingredient and Equipment wise let’s get busy all right we’ll get everything set up the way we need it and we can make the best Tennessee whiskey East Tennessee’s ever seen here we go Mark and Digger Tennessee whiskey just rolls off your tongue don’t it well we got all our components in here for a steel got all our Barrels in place now it’s time to
build our furnace get us some Block in here now the furnace itself we’re going to build it a little different than what we build in the woods we’re going to use cinder blocks like we did in the old steel houses back in the day but because this one is temporary we’re not going to Mud it in we’re going to fill the holes up with sand to provide extra insulation it’ll heat up and it’ll keep reflecting that heat back toward the steel pot having this space around through there makes all the difference in the world
yeah none of that heat can Escape out these ends now it’ll come up it saves us time we’re not spending as much money on propane and we’re making liquor a whole lot quicker it doesn’t help the ABV but you’re making it faster which lets you get back to making Mass faster which means you’re making your next pot faster well you know it’ll hold the heat but we just need it to be here long enough to get them barrels filled up come summertime it’ll be tore down we’ll be back in the woods yeah kind of looks like a damn tractor trailer run through
a Brickyard with a Copper Kettle on its ass you know this Old Furnace we did not build it for attractiveness we build it for purpose and I think it will be far more effective than any any furnace that we’ve ever had look at it yeah we have to we can run a shower curtain across through there boy she ain’t pretty around that furnace but I’m going to tell you it’ll be the best it’s ever been well we ain’t going to get done if we don’t get started we only need if we can get about 6 in our poop well I was going to fill it up and then wash it
down as it rushed out get this old rock put it right there we got to get our water source established in the building so we’re going to clean the spring out it just has to be deep enough for our pump to set in so we’re just going to dig out some of the sediment in the bottom of it make sure that it’s flowing down the drain good you hunged up damn it don’t fuss don’t cuss just call us all right all right that’s got us where we need to be right there plan here is to snake H the long on the back of the building it’s no place that people will
be there is no benefit at all for anybody to be back there what you got a paint them barrels up yeah pretty it’s going to look good and make us feel proud but if anybody comes in here and gets a looking we’re dead ass guilty right off the bat our name is on you know I’ve always heard every good artist signs his work so you know I’m okay with it of course if we get caught with it we can’t lie out of it either cuz our names are stamped on it oh oh I’ll be damn I ain’t never seen nothing that pretty in my life I don’t
believe well surely to God we can find enough stuff to put that thing together well you know the Tennessee whiskey it has to be filtered over charcoal so just so happens Digger and I we we made one sometime back so we’ve got a charcoal fill we’re looking at what close 500 gallon we running 5 gallon over this we got to have something for 500 I just don’t think it’s long enough we really need to be close to tripling the size of this filter tube we need more charcoal surface area it’s longer that will hold more charcoal simply because of the
volume of liquor we’re going to use hell Western crooked here it comes this filter it’s going to be built out of a thump arm it’s it’s about a 4 in in diameter copper tube about 3 ft long we’ll pack it with felt copper discs that are cause the liquor to separate and trickle down in different areas instead of being one solid stream and it Mellows the liquor a little bit we ain’t got no staves burnt they say that Maple’s the best to put in them we ain’t got none we ain’t got no sugar maple around here but I got some fire coals
White Oak so with 3 ft of charcoal in addition to having more copper it’s going to pass over and some felt that’ll filter anything that might be in there out is it getting hot on the ire puss I’m tougher tonight in jail you just lay it to the soldering couldn’t be better it’s looking good the joints are nice we’re going to put a a tube in in it we’re going to put a bell reducer and a/2 in copper pipe to it to where it can it can just filter out all right and know to stay there puss you know it’s it’s a very simple build it’s nothing
extravagant but it’s a step that must be done to make a Tennessee whiskey put on there goes on there a little smoother there so much slick them on there don’t it we’ll put a ball valve on it that’ll throttle the flow of the liquor down and let it hang out let the charcoal do its work now we got to do we’ll cut us some fresh felt we’ll put about four of them down here we’ll leave it alone we’ll let it leak test we’ll prop it up and if it’s still in there when we come back to check it and put it up we’re in good
shape let’s go make some liquor here you go Hatty boy why are you bringing me here well look around what do you see I mean I’ve been here before I see cars traffic middle of downtown and spring yep what’s this got to do with us moving Digger he’s got an idea for a new steel site but we’re in the middle of downtown at the spring we’ve got water before here we’ve talked about it it’s sweet it’s sweet yeah it’s wonderful water but it’s downtown there’s nowh that we can do anything here we can’t set no damn still up here of course we can’t we’re
going to pump water right into this building you’re full of crap that ain’t got a thing to do with it this building in my opinion was built to make liquor I mean look damn trucks tractor and trailers parking lot it’s right in the middle of town close to everything we would ever need and from everything I’ve been told all my life this is limestone hard water I don’t see any reason why this won’t be a damn Fine Place to make liquor yeah I know I’ve been here before puss I know about this yeah you know what’s great about this spring it’s got
potential of putting us on the map as making true Tennessee whiskey if we’re going to make Tennessee whiskey we got to have this water tested we got to make sure that it’s hard water you know you always hear songs about Tennessee Whiskey and Water like this I feel like is why that was able to be get that big old root ball out there while you bent over water like this bubbles through Limestone it’s good and hard which is a prerequisite for yeast to be able to to thrive I mean it’s hiding in plain sight I mean I I get it and I like hiding in
plain sight I do I mean that’s okay because you know what’s so say you can’t see the forest for the trees exactly but you don’t know if we can get the building or not I mean so right now it’s just an idea right yeah it’s my idea and it’s a damn good one well ain’t no need of doing nothing not a damn thing till you find out about the building Mark’s been a little bit resistant to the idea I don’t see any problem with it it’s safe has been in your mama’s arms I’m out I mean if I let you down more than seven times in the
last two weeks well all right Digger he’s got an idea for a new steel sight inside a building and beside a great water source the thing about it is he tells me oh I don’t know who owns it you know I don’t know really anything about it what did you have did you just go give the address yeah just give them the address and they’ll pull your property right up are you kidding me ain’t that something really unbelievably it is somebody that we do know now whether we can get it that we don’t know well let’s get him on the
phone hurdle number one cleared easy found out who owns the property now hurdle number two we’re going to call him and see if he has any problem with letting us rent this or use this building hey Digger hello John how you doing well we were going to talk to you about a little business all right we’re looking at a little uh small Warehouse down downtown and I learned lo and behold you had bought it okay yeah I know the building have you done anything with it I haven’t been there for quite a while I know there’s a bunch of junk in
it if you’ll let us look at it and see if it’ll suit us do you care to rent it for a couple of 3 months maybe I don’t normally rent the building it’ll be like you make a little bit of money and nobody will ever know anybody’s in it well yeah there’s a door around back that I know that you can get into so look at it see if it’ll do what you need it to we can always work something out but far as I’m concerned you do anything it’s not good and this conversation never even happen I understand all right talk to you later right buddy thanks bye
the only stipulation he doesn’t want to know a damn thing about what we’re doing with you which is fine with us we’re in business oh yeah it ain’t going to be no fun but we can get back through here we just got to get back here one time yeah it’s a little bit mushy back here whatever was holding it it wasn’t much well damn Hatty boy look bigger from outside you fine not horrible bad wow this will be all right how you doing our CZ what’s going on well he something about people named Mark you got a nice new truck and he got
a nice new truck if you get off your butt and get a job you can have one a little bit more work you can get that done well Welly there’s a lot of things worse and not having a new truck having a damn job one of them we need a favor old buddy I kind of feur you just needed something we need that water tested see if it’s got anything bad in it see about the mineral content make sure there’s no chemicals in it that’s what I’d worry about more than anything I don’t think it’d be anything Upstream from here but you
never know never know I’m not going to ask you what you’re doing with it I got I kind of got an idea well you know we we know you and and we know you’ll keep quiet about it but we really need this done and and we didn’t know who to ask okay no problem I’ll take care of you let me get my test kit and we’ll we’ll go at it yeah boy he brought his lunch bucket this is kind of interesting now all right what I’m going to do is I’m going to fill this Ladle up and I’m going to put 100 Ms in that I’ll take it and run it the
lab we’re interested in hardness I can I can I can check out pH and I’ll let you know if it’s got any color forms or any color that’s the stuff that gives you a bad belly don’t it oh yeah real quick okay through a keyhole Digger if you can do me a favor let me take that lid off 100 Ms in here we don’t want to counter chickens for the hatch but we want to make sure this water is perfect if that’s the case then we’ll probably produce the best Tennessee whiskey that East Tennessee has ever seen when can we expect to hear
back from mess in 24 hours hey we appreciate you brother one of these days I may need a favor we’ll do never know we’ll fix you right up you ask around we know how to return a favor d coron d coron we got to get some lights up cuz that door can’t be open after we get started doing business hope this thing’s rated for fat boy we want to get a jump start on making this Tennessee whiskey so we’re going to get started cleaning on the warehouse while we’re waiting for Mark’s call uh concerning the water test
if it’s not just right then you know we’re we’re out of luck here hey there’s our boy hello there Mark what’s going on well I’m trying to talk Mark in to not jumping off his ladder you better not let him fall off that thing yeah he’s got enough padding on him he won’t bounce real high okay I got your results back wonderful Y what we looking like believe it or not that’s probably the best water I’ve tested around here in this town anywhere sure enough everything come out good and clean clean and clear and good hard water yeah it’s
real hard it’s got a lot of limestone in it oh pH is about a 53 we hit the jackpot our friend Mark he said the calcium and magnesium is as high as he’s seen in this region those are the two main ingredients we need to make fine MH for Tennessee whiskey I have a feeling I know what your boys are up to and it should some damn good Tennessee whiskey Welly if we get in that business we’ll see if we can’t run you up a little dose of that all right man I appreciate you anything else just all right you do the same brother if you need anything out of
us all you got to do holler across the state line eight counties away Mark and Digger are engaged in a competition that’ll determine which shine they’ll run to kick off their season their goal develop a handcrafted liquor that outshines the cheaply flavored corporate alcohol filling liquor store shelves you can make alcohol but making quality alcohol that’s a whole different ball game now you get what you pay for and when you pay for good ingredients it’s three times better as far as the flavor goes it adds so much more to it I’m so
sorry it’ been the same way when you lose this bed earlier yeah you just keep telling yourself that I’m going to get started on my myar puss well you go ahead and do what you got to do and I’ll pour me some sugar in my Barrel you know this location our laboratory so to speak is just excellent for these small runs but you do not and I can’t stress this enough want to experiment with a new recipe 700 gallons at a time you know it’s just entirely too much to lose so Mark and I got to talk about the flavor of the Season he want to do a cherry
vanilla and I’m kind of partial to a creamy key lime like the pie filling I don’t know if anybody ever done anything like this last season Mark and Digger expanded production twofold with a new 700g thre pot still we’re going to solidify our reputation this one’s going to get vanilla bean and that one there’s Vermont maple syrup and produced a line up of brand new flavors he wants marshmallon and liner it’s time to mash in the Grappa you want a lot of that great flavor to carry on in now Mark and Digger are pushing the envelope of
innovation to start their season off strong this season our goal is 1,00 gallons and with these specialty Liquors we can make an astronomical amount of money on them it’s a know fact people will pay whatever it takes to get our specialty Liquors you know we excel in them well mine’s going to be more good or uh whatever you say I just don’t want you cry in the Blues when it’s all said up you both can’t be winners I can’t win he can’t win and whichever one turns out to be the chosen one that’s the one that we scale up and we fix and we
sell at the popo there’s my ride makes me nervous hearing all them syringes yeah but this is the lastest place in the world anybody expect to look for us well you’re probably right it’s in the middle of town but it’s still hid and the police expect Moonshiners to be out in the weeds so they’re probably looking for a steel sight in the woods I’m trying to squeeze up these cherries just to bust the hull on them some they’re very sweet pungent don’t take a lot of them I wouldn’t think send him home with his tail
between his legs talk at Old smack you know the route I’m going with my key lime recipe I just need a little sugar right now I could Infuse lime flavor in it but Citrus doesn’t per it well it gets too acidic quick so I’d prefer to infuse it after the fact back so while I’m waiting on my Mas heat up I got to squeeze about 4 gallons of lime juice put them in the refrigerator I’m going to just sit back and relax while my hard work will come after the run now what I’m going to do here is Mak some horrible liquor a lot of effort
being put into a lost liquor a he can’t help it he’s an idiot when you really start ribbing somebody when there’s competition going on just like priv fight I mean you get in somebody’s head you live there free gets a little psychological advantage on them I just want a little hint of vanilla these things are $27 an ounce I’m just going to let them steep to bring out the flavor you’re stirring your MH with the sticks got paint all over it that old paint that might be old lead paint ain’t nothing wrong with it going poison
everybody in the country he’d piss off a preacher you’ll be laughing out the other side of your mouth here in five or 6 days cherry vanilla sound just a tiny bit compared to key lime pie mhm you’re crazy ke lime is a manly Man’s Dessert oh I got plenty aloho haty boy wow this MH is Top Knots Digger better bring his a game he’s going to need it the rock and roll made the best man WI who’s that out here coming I’m here
boys that’s J B Raider Esquire the hell you ends up to you need a little hit O2 to get you through after them steps no mentor to Mark and Digger and partner of the notorious Shiner Popcorn Sutton JB Raider is a living legend in the world of moonshine that’s just the last one and a producer of some of the finest liquor ever tasted in Appalachia we got lier running out of two steals mine’s just like Digger’s old lady it’s putting out all over town over town whichever one of them is the best that’s the one that we’re going to go
with and run that’s where you come in to play you’re going to be the blind taste tester oh yeah you don’t give a to do it do you no I just tell you like he did I know JB is good as anybody and he’s not going to make a hasty decision on it and whatever he comes up with we know that we can take it out in the world and make plenty of money on how you coming over there uhoh I’ve got to drop a liquor that’s a pretty good stream right there you got any liquor going yet to our big boy yeah I’m just now starting H really what I wanted to
hear Mark don’t know what I know I got a little secret weapon I know JB Raider loves a key lime pie better than anything out there they always coming with up some new every time I about died so I’m going to kill my Fire H the consumer wants these sipping creams dessert drinks if you will and they’re selling them off in these legal moonshine distilleries well we have to keep up what the consumer wants to there there’s one what do you think our Raider tastes like Keyon pie I’ll taste the cherries need
something else in it well if you was going to pick one out where would you be D it’s closed hm I that one no praise just throw money congratulations Hatty boy just because you make whiskey in Tennessee that does not make it Tennessee whisky go easy with it it has its own particular recipe it has its own particular way of filing and aging and if you don’t do this step by step then uh you have not made True Tennessee whiskey now true Tennessee Whiskey’s got to be predominantly corn we’re using close to 8 80% in our grain
bill then the malted barley and then some rice well those flavors come through by and large the flavor profile is going to be there and it’s going to be fine liquor you going to unzip it ain’t you well if I can I will you’re a patient man you seen who I’m married to you’re the only fell I know it’s been married three times still got the same inlaws yep lay it too the reason we put the malted barley in it possesses enzyme they have the alpha amads that we need to help convert these starches into fermentable sugars this is going to put
us at 240 lb delicious ah boy I like hearing that Oak you get her stirring up good it’ll take 2 lb of yeast to kick this off good that’s 2 lb ain’t it yeah now this is where the pressure’s on Digger you know he’s the grain man he’s the MH Guru so you I hope all his measurements are correct cuzz balls in his court now that’s the end of that love story here let me see that rasal right over here a minute you probably getting hard anyhow now with this flavor profile we’ve got with our grain Bill beyond that when we
put it in that barrel and age it six months will start adding those flavor profiles you’re going to get the vanillas you’re going to get the cinnamons you’re going to get the oak ain’t nothing now to let it do but to do its deal ain’t it sit there and work off those flavor profiles are what separate it true Tennessee whiskey from an age liquor cover up turn the heat off it’ll stay warm in here tonight let’s come back in the morning check on it Stir It see where we’re at I’m with you who that knock your head off get you
a big deep breath big nose oh I love it it takes your breath out of your L but D I love it don’t never get enough of it we’ve been checking this MCH pretty much every day just because we’re in a new environment we don’t know how it’s going to run but man this place smells out outstanding everything’s worked perfect this is going to make some fabulous Tennessee whiskey and here we are we’re ready to run this stuff I’m lit go slow I never lost a high you know what this is the first big run of liquor that we’ve run indoors since popcorn yeah
I’ll get our condenser going we’ll let these heads escape a little all right I’ll get paste in a tub to build it in we’re inside the wind and the elements aren’t pecking on our back door and nothing has went a foul yet so we’re comfortable I know they still people out there it’s trying to make liquor in the elements and the cold weather and I don’t envy them that but uh better them than us big sloppy her first run ever indoors yeah she’s happier to hog and slop me and her talk a lot okay sometimes she answered all
the liquor we’ve done on her this is her first inside run I’ll tell you what while we’re waiting on this let’s get our fi buer hung you don’t tell why not show me how you had in mind for it we’ve got this run going good that’s a good thing because we’ve got another process we have to take where you want that thing here P well I think it needs to be right in the middle where we can kind of service both racks it be in our version of Tennessee whiskey we’ve got a charcoal filter it harder than Superman’s kneecap we
filter this liquor through our liquor filtration system we built because that’s part of the requirement of Tennessee whiskey has to be so many inches of charcoal I’m a liking this alcohol is going to get to hang out it’s not going to be immediately sold and consumed it’s going to sit in a barrel for a couple of three years spaghetti is what we make which is going to involve our filter and we’re going to have to pack it full of felt copper charcoal get a hose put on it and then we can pump the liquor let it trickle through the
filter slowly we can drop that hose into the barrel let it run right in we got to go faster we’ll run back down oh that’s beautiful well hell we did spill some yeah can’t cry over spilled liquor I say we got the bung out that and let’s just go with it lay it to it all right there we go haty Boy Crank her up watch her go oh the filter Mellows the liquor if you will if there’s any type of fire in it at all being a hot you know unpleasant taste like the fusal oils charcoal melow that out which is a great thing so we’re done that’s a good
I tell you what Let’s do let’s taste a little bit of it yeah we kind of need to get a read we ain’t took a subp of it yet and and this way it’s done filtered you know Digger and I we we kind of went a ways into this run and hadn’t really tasted it so we decide to see if it’s worth drinking after we’ve run it through the charcoal filter look how that’s a sweating on that mhm there we yeah it tastes like liquor oh about 2 years in that Barrel Yonder it’s going to be fine if it gets much better I won’t be able to stand it
I think it’s outstanding liquor but by the time that the barrel Works its magic on it it should be fantastic liquor the water I mean that Limestone spray is yeah that’s the deal on it this alcohol it’s Tennessee whiskey and it’s just sitting over there and we just get to forget about it and let it hang out for a couple of 3 years but in the meantime we can’t go broke I mean we got to make a little money ourselves we’ve always got Daniel we could rely on making corn liquor we’ll fill them all Bo there he is Old Dan boom what you doing big boy
we’re running this Tennessee whiskey but we put Daniel to work making corn liquor so we’re going to set him up with some sugar and uh some yeast and corn and we got a little bit of information for Daniel too we brought you a few supplies our old buddy well I’m glad glad of it we’ll turn them into some good liquor you’ve been running good ain’t you yes sir old buddy of ours we grew up with has called us and he said you know I’ve got some information for you seems like uh Daniel’s old partner Mike and his buddy Jerry they’re making mistakes one
after another St like you all right brother that ought to do you for a day or two you can’t can you no sir I got a little bit something else to put on you okay tell him where hadti boy word is one of Mike’s buyers and jury’s buyers has been busted well ain’t that a living in the South and in the mountains everybody knows everybody basically and the word that Digger and I are getting is that one of their customers has been caught and busted you know if history’s proven anything it’s when people are in trouble they’ll sing
like a damn Canary every time you know I’m I’m kind of surprised at this that just tells me that Mike’s being stupid you know they’re young youngans they they ain’t got no loyalty and they’re every one damn cards they won’t go do their time and keep their mouth shut well you know damn well that I know all about that I got thw under the bus and pulled out and run over you know that yeah well you know Daniel you could tell he had a little quirky smile on his face I’m I’m sure that he’s thinking the same thing the rest of us do you know like I
told him karma’s a Fickle that’s enough said it’s cold let’s get out of here I think deep down inside Daniel’s a little bit content and happy with this news but we’re in the same business so we made a couple of runs and we’re clicking right along you I can’t believe we ain’t had no major catastrophes hush you J I know I’m the superstitious one oh Lord I spoke too soon it is the one the only Killer Bees Senor what you need we’re busier in a sick cat I have an order for you guys and I need 100 gall G of aged corn
liquor we got n yeah we we don’t got none well what about those barrels that are upstairs I love the look of that gentlemen kind of like with our baby you know we told you when we give you that five gallons earlier that it wouldn’t be no more of that that’s our that’s our that’s our retirement liquor it a s well here’s the situation these cats are out on tour I don’t need it right now down hey let me ask you something it’s not available right now and it ain’t corn liquor but it’s got corn in it it’s it’s a three grain blend
Tennessee whiskey this is Mark and Digger aged Tennessee whiskey and do you have that well let me let me work on something we have the mark and Digger Tennessee whiskey but it’s not 5 weeks old yet let alone 5 years I have no idea what Digger’s thinking this is LUN I got a couple of things I got to check into to make sure I can make this happen if I can get it in play it’ll be in their hands in 5 to six months give me a ballp part figure on price $225 a gallon be I’ll have you 100 gallons all right I’ll talk to you next
week man all right see you bye you just promised two barrels of 5-year-old liquor you ain’t got nothing you’ve lost your ever loving mind I’ve got an idea it may come to fruition I’m going to tell you something sometimes you let your mouth write checks that your can’t cash Mark thinks I’m off my damn rocker but this is a proven thing with with experts Way Beyond us I got this it’ll be fine all right genius what’s the plan tell me dude please sea aging sea aging what the hell putting it on a boat in that salty environment bouncing around
temperature changing biometric pressure changing one month’s equivalent to one one year you can put liquor in a barrel put it on a ship let it float around for a while and one month gives the equivalent that a Yearwood in a barrel house it gives it the characteristics of liquor that’s way older than what it is when you think about it within a couple of hundred miles on the ocean the temperature changes it’s constantly moving the barometric pressure is constantly moving they’ve been doing this since the 1700s they do it for
cognac rum now we’re going to do at Tennessee whiskey how’d you get so damn smart on on C agent while you’re while you’re polishing on all them old hot rods and everything driving around making sure the batter is charged up I’m reading I read if you’d look on the internet you’d see I don’t do the internet you know that well you’re going to start we just put liquor in the damn truck and drive to the ocean yeah I know a guy’s got a boat it’s a shrimp boat I buy shrimp off of him every time I go over there we’re
in Tennessee yeah I’m I’m smart enough to realize that but the ocean’s that way we can get there if I didn’t think I could could produce it a damn sure wouldn’t obligate to 100 gallons of it I thought he’s done crazy stuff before I think this is crazy but very slowly it’s beginning to make sense 6 months H we got to make another trip to come back and fetch it yeah but it’ll be warm weather then I can take you out fishing no I ain’t getting on no boat why I don’t trust the ocean we ain’t going on the ocean we’ll do
Backwater well I don’t know about that they still Critters in it just for the record mark Wayne Ramsey does not swim there’s too many things out there that will eat your I bet there’s an alligator in there got a mighty I ain’t wanting no alligator business here no alligator is only good for one thing that’s to make a wallet or shoes out of let’s go find Shorty Captain Shorty there he is you shorty yes sir this is going to be the boat that we’re going to be using right here I thought it was going to be that little bitt I
mean we could try that one but I don’t think it’s going to hold those barrels get that winch down get that rope down here what’s under here can I back this truck up on here no sir not unless you want to go swimming there’s a lot of water under there oh yeah I can see it now yeah hell we’d have our liquor and truck now everything be in the water it’s obvious now that this isn’t going to be as easy as I thought it was we have to get the barrels closer to the boat how about that reckon you can keep track of them for a month or two or five
or six oh I ain’t going to lose I ain’t going to lose them that’s for sure I smell a little liquor don’t you I do I know we’re supposed to smell liquor but it smells a little bit strong to me puss let that tailgate down we get up in there and Rook it over it’s not out of the ordinary to smell a little liquor there’s 100 gallons of it in these barrels but I smell a powerful smell of liquor and you know there there’s obviously a leak somewhere well hell here’s your problem when we’ve been moving these around we’ve tore out
plastic bun these are plastic bungs they replaced in the old wood bungs it snagged on a nail or something we were rolling off that pallet and it tore that bun is that liquor all over at barel smell of your hands are you smell of it tell me I can smell it right here yeah we’ve lost liquer as much as 5 gallons has possibly slushed out on the trip up here we got to come up something cram in that bung hole so it don’t leak liquor all over your boat let’s get this one out of here let’s practice on this one for the time
being downn we get the picnic table and turn it long ways we can roll the barrels right off on it and then get closer to that boat she got some waiting to her don’t she all right fellas who if we broke that BNG not as bad as You’ think thank the Lord it didn’t hit hard enough we’re not leaking but it ain’t in the boat yet we’re almost there w we got her before we do this next one we got to fix this bung fellas you think that’s going to work that’s how we get down FID takes the lart looks like a one of them prehistoric petrified sperm out
of a dinosaur we see if it’ll boom look at that yeah we can’t roll it now we got to turn take it take that and out that bung and Swap this and out over there your education every penny hry all the curls coming out of my hair in this rain it’s a FID something that used to repair Nets put that down there but it is the perfect thing that we need to fix our bun and this one going to drop too damn you didn’t there get it going to knock you overboard it’s all right I didn’t need that knee anyway we’ve done something that we’ve never ever done
before in our life is ha a 100 gallons of whiskey to the coast and put it on a shrimp boat Dam it’s on there puss all right fellas y all square it away you know it’s kind of kind of melancholy we sit here and you know we’ve got the barrels on the boat you know we’re just sitting there waving like parents watching their children going off to War I don’t remember having an any better end to a season in recent history this this just been outstanding if this SE agent goes the way we want it to we’re bound to have some of the finest Mark
and diggers Tennessee whiskey you’ve ever seen in your life yeah I to run something pasty what you got on your mind look here what I got in mine but to Mass produce it in the woods they’ll need a custom designed Copper Still you know if we’re going to run the multigrain popcorn suton Legacy Liquor it needs a new steel kind of like popcorns to make this liquor the best that it can be uh we simply take a 10 ft sheet of copper and and bend it over two of them actually and then by by folding it over and making it mailbox shape you
eliminate the need to make that damn cake I really like that on a traditional pot steel uh the Cape is is what sits on the very top of the pot it’s the part that slopes up coming to the collar that the cap goes down in this provides for a lot of strength but it’s also my achilles Hill it ain’t meant to be I ain’t big on cutting out capes the whole reason of a cape is for a smooth transition funneling the steam up to the C but honestly you know such as this yeah with the arch of this mailbox steel the whole
top third of it is basically a cape this looks different from popcorn steel but the biggest similarity in them has the same surface area as the cape on popcorn’s pot Steels there has to be so much surface area for the vapors to come in contact with the copper to take the sulfides out of it so if you take the best recipe and what we hope is going to be the very best steel then you can’t have anything but the finest liquor that’s ever been and then a cap right on top cap right on top right in the middle re we need to put a big postal flag on
it maybe ready big handle here make it look like a big ass mailbox camouflage it a little bit I think it’ll make a good looking Ste I smell liquor you’ve been drinking no I’ve marked this in piece for I sorted the bottom in so it changed it so I had had to use some liquor to take them Sharpie marks off you wasted liquor for that in County Tennessee Mark and Digger are putting the final touches on a new still designed specifically to make quality multi-grain moonshine the way their Mentor Popcorn Sutton did going flux you up this mailbox steel you
know it’s a little different design from popcorn steel but we’re trying to maintain the surface area the more more surface area of copper you have the more sulfides that come out of the liquor that looks good that’s good consider yourself fluxed we feel that it will suffice very well a little bit more soldering to do on it get it buttoned up really you got that gangster look going on I ain’t telling you no more leave me the hell alone I’m trying to do some work here wait more soldering on this one on a pot steel I mean two cores
three seams a bottom with four sides on it but also with all the flat sides of this steel the inside pressure pushing out on it we’ve tried to brace it up internally and externally as best we can all right well I ain’t never seen one freehand of circle pretty before oh yeah you’re like a human Compass you know we go through the whole process getting this ready cut the hold for the cap we’re ready to go the Moment of Truth has arrived it’s time to test the steel roll it outside and begin filling it up with water but this is a new steel so
I’m always concerned about leaks $1,500 and 50 hours of work in this thing here’s a Moment of Truth hady boy you know if we got no leaks why we’re ready to make liquor with it moonshine Gods please don’t let that still leak you know honestly right now makes you nervous but you got to test it before you put MH in it you don’t want it to leak then for sure but up speak of a leak around in the core oh yeah a bad one down here we going go ahead and try to fix this one I’m hitting it dead on that spot you you got her
boy uh-oh it’s pushing against this brace I’m worried about it holding together we’re noticing the ends of the steel beginning to bulge I just felt it giving right then we’re actually afraid to go any farther with it I’ll get to water we’re afraid it’ll rip the copper out at the bottom that spout it was an inch up now it’s all it’s against the ground you’re pushed out against your end here now pretty hard uhoh uhoh that’s a tremendous amount of force it’s pushing right there I know what to do right now we need to be making liquor we got
to figure out something to do this better we got to put something that’s got a wide footprint to go and arely against the end of that maybe 2 in angle on it’s got to do worse than this for us to give up on it we got way too much time and money in it not to use it with the ends are bulging the way they are we’ve got to secure them up with some bracing and we’ve decided just to use some angle arm bracing so we’re going to rig us up a little something we don’t have time to weld it up so we’re just going to drill holes bolt clamps on the
end of it with angle iron running across the back side it’s strong you can’t bend it got plenty of structural Integrity to it try to pull this tight when the pressure increases on the inside it’s going to find resistance against the angle iron and stop movement right there in its track let’s not knock no more damn holes in it yeah get that tarp on it you got it yeah they enough all right let’s get in Tennessee after facing setbacks with their complicated still build Mark and Digger returned to the their new backwood still
site with no time to lose to run the Popcorn Sutton Legacy Mash they made over a week ago oh man look at these they’re everywhere in here I can’t go no further I going to stop right here let’s go check on our BS this can’t be good look at him lo and behold the cow’s got loose it’s an issue with the them wandering around up here and going to go through and we got to get them on out of here come on now time to go come on can we not win for losing we can’t fight these Rascals and put up with them worry with them every
time we come over here no there’s no buo let’s go look let’s go look at this Digger look at here well that ain’t going to work and they ain’t eat it they just sniffing and nosy it was just sour they thought they wanted it look here at all this good nice popcorn suting Legacy Liquor laying on the ground these old cows they’ve come up and they’ve bumped these old barrels over thinking it was something they could eat and it turns out it’s something they didn’t like there’s a reason I don’t like damn beef unless it’s on my plate
