Moonshiners Season 15, Episode 8: Kentucky Kingpin

Born Tax-Free

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.

42 min

Outlaw Redemption

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.

44 min

Proof or Consequences

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.

44 min

Stashes to Ashes

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.

44 min

Dead Drops Don't Lie

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.

44 min

Goldshiner

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.

44 min

A New Tariff in Town

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.

44 min

Run for the Border

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.

45 min

Confiscated Copper Conundrum

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.

Penny Wise, Impound Foolish

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.

Braking Badly

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.

Spirit Animal

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.

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