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Moonshiners: Master Distiller
Moonshiners: Master Distiller

Moonshiners: Master Distiller

—America's top legal and outlaw distillers go head-to-head in a booze-making competition to see who has what it takes to join the ranks and win the title of Master Distiller. Three competitors will faceoff each week in a series of challenges focused on making a specific type of spirit, including American whiskey, rum, gin, mountain brandy and mezcal, among others.
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  • Mark, Digger and Tim judge as legal and outlaw distillers compete to make the best rum; constructing stills of their own design and mashing in their own raw ingredients, only one will survive elimination to earn the title of Master Distiller.
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  • Heritage grains meet charred oak as three amateur distillers compete to make the best American whiskey; judged by Mark, Digger and Tim, they go head-to-head in a series of challenges to determine who has what it takes to be Master Distiller.
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  • Mark, Digger and Tim judge as top amateur distillers from both sides of the law compete to make mezcal, the moonshine of Mexico; using agave mash, regional recipes and even meat.
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  • Legal and outlaw distillers compete head-to-head to see who makes a classic Appalachian tradition called Mountain Brandy.
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  • Tickle hosts as Appalachia's most notorious moonshiners go head-to-head in a moonshine distilling competition; Mark, Digger and Tim run their own secret recipes to be judged by the public to determine once and for all who makes the best shine.
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4 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Family Feud
    Big Box Store Showdown
    Delicious But Expired
    Tim's Thanksgiving Throwdown
  • Family Feud

    Families bring their inherited moonshine recipes to the Master Distiller arena; when couples, siblings, and a father-son team fire up stills together under the pressure of a ticking clock, sparks fly.
    Upcoming
  • Big Box Store Showdown

    Two moonshiners and a pro distiller face off in a big-box store challenge; with just three minutes to shop the discount aisles, each must turn bulk buys into a working mash then distill it into high-proof liquor.
    Upcoming
  • Delicious But Expired

    Digger takes three distillers to a local farm to select ingredients for their mash from containers of expired produce; with Mark and Tim joining at the judges table, competitors fire up their stills to turn culled crops into top shelf spirits.
    Upcoming
  • Tim's Thanksgiving Throwdown

    When Tim announces the first Thanksgiving actually took place in Virginia, Tickle smokes a Virginia ham in honor of the occasion; champions Amanda, Richard and Daniel face off to run the best holiday liquor to complete the Thanksgiving feast.
    Upcoming
Moonshiners: Master Distiller

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America's top legal and outlaw distillers go head-to-head in a booze-making competition to see who has what it takes to join the ranks and win the title of Master Distiller. Three competitors will faceoff each week in a series of challenges focused on making a specific type of spirit, including American whiskey, rum, gin, mountain brandy and mezcal, among others.

Starring

Jeremy Schwartz, Mark Ramsey, Eric "Digger" Manes, Tim Smith, Mike Cockrell, Josh Owens

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