Moonshiners: American Spirit

Tim, Tickle and Howard unravel a Prohibition-era mystery that could have scandalized a presidency. Following FDR's tracks to Georgia, they assemble clues, ingredients and a 1930s-era pot still to recreate FDR’s outlaw booze for the first time in 90 years.

Tim and Tickle attempt to recreate the lost recipe Elijah Craig used in 1789 when he invented bourbon whiskey. By tracking down the ingredients and equipment of the era, they’ll be the first to taste America's original bourbon in over two centuries.

Tim heads to Philadelphia with Howard to investigate Ben Franklin's 250-year-old recipe for spruce beer drunk by the Continental Army. With help from Tickle, they recreate Franklin's recipe and distill the results in search of a long-lost American spirit.

In Chicago, Tim and Tickle track down the recipe for Al Capone's legendary Prohibition-era gin. When Howard uncovers a 1920s clawfoot bathtub, the three shiners fire up their vintage-style still in hopes of tasting the hundred-year-old lost spirit.

When Tim and Howard arrive in Boston in search of colonial rum, they uncover the spirit that inspired America's original bootleggers, outlaw liquor men and patriots. With help from Tickle, they recreate the recipe that was a favorite of Paul Revere.

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.