—Moonshiners have been around in the U.S. since the Whiskey Rebellion of the 1790s; surprisingly, there are still a number of Americans who make moonshine, an illegally produced distilled beverage, mainly in the Appalachian region of the country; this docuseries tells the stories of people who brew their shine, often under the cloak of darkness in woods near their homes, and the authorities who try to keep them honest; the show allows viewers to witness practices rarely seen on television, including firing up the still for the first time, a moonshiner's rite of passage; the show also introducers viewers to moonshining legends such as Marvin Sutton.

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In the Season 16 premiere, demand spikes for Tim and Tickle's duty-free shine, but big profits breed competition in the Virginia backwoods. Mark and Digger buy 90,000 bushels of surplus corn, but must run stills 24/7 to empty the grain silos in 60 days.
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Tim and Tickle's tariff-dodging operation is threatened when a stranger appears at their still site. Mark and Digger face buyer's remorse over their $70K corn purchase. Jerry reaches his breaking point when Mike's $4K moonshine deal goes south.
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Season 415 of 15 Episodes

Tim is on the run; Jim Tom prepares to return to moonshining; Tickle and Tyler take their partnership to a new level; Josh and Bill sell the surplus shine; Jeff and Mark look into an indoor still site.
Tickle and Tyler need to fix a bad feed line; Jim Tom and Roy build a still; Josh and Bill contend with a crushed still; Deputy Chuck gains ground on Lance.
Josh and Bill deal with their broken still; Lance tries to brew a game-changing moonshine; Deputy Chuck closes in; Tickle is stranded; Tim searches for greener pastures.
Josh and Bill rebuild; Lance takes a risk on a new kind of whiskey; Jeff and Mark prepare the indoor still site; Tickle and his crew battle the elements; Tim gives the distillery a makeover.
Former still hands of Popcorn Sutton emerge; Tim discovers that getting out of the business does not get you out of trouble; Mark and Jeff have a lot of work to do.
The moonshiners celebrate Christmas with their old time traditions to the yuletide.
Tickle solidifies a stash location; Josh and Bill butt heads; Jim Tom and Roy return to action; Mark and Digger's still goes state-of-the-art; Mark and Jeff trick out their shine spot.
The law closes in on Mark and Jeff; Tim wants to give Troy's distillery an expensive makeover; Tickle tries to sell his Kentucky-made white lightning.
Chico and Tyler hurry to deliver more shine to Virginia; Tickle has his hands full; Josh and Bill build an underground bunker; Mark and Digger test an invention.
Josh and Bill have a close call with authorities; a new lawman visits two shiners in Tennessee; Tickle learns a lesson the hard way.
Josh and Bill have a triple batch run; Tickle makes a sacrifice to save his partnership; Tim is ready to see if the Asheville distillery can produce his moonshine.
The final weeks of shine season; Josh and Bill's liquor gets stuck; Chico and Tyler brew a game changer; Tickle is trumped; Mark and Jeff's first sale meets a disastrous end.
Josh and Bill secretly sell their shine; Tim returns to Virginia to fill an order; Mark tries to make a delivery by boat; Tickle's deal nearly breaks down.
Tickle takes risks to stay true to his old partner; Josh and Bill make a last run in the woods; Mark and Digger's season is in danger when their deal backfires.
Deputy Chuck sets out to catch Mark red-handed; Tim and Tickle work together on a rush delivery in their home state.

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.
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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.
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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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Mark and Digger team up with Josh to hunt down a police informant; Tim and Tickle plot revenge on shiners who destroyed $20,000 worth of their liquor.
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Tickle makes tariff-free apple brandy to help resolve the shortage of American liquor on Canadian shelves; Mike and Jerry learn they're wanted men; Josh discovers the source of industrial ethanol that's fueling a glut of fake moonshine across Appalachia.
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In the season finale, Tim enlists Tickle to smuggle tariff-free shine by airplane and rallies a band of fellow outlaws to take back his family's turf; Mark and Digger turn the law against a counterfeiter; Mike and Jerry push Mark Rogers past his limit.
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Moonshiners have been around in the U.S. since the Whiskey Rebellion of the 1790s; surprisingly, there are still a number of Americans who make moonshine, an illegally produced distilled beverage, mainly in the Appalachian region of the country; this docuseries tells the stories of people who brew their shine, often under the cloak of darkness in woods near their homes, and the authorities who try to keep them honest; the show allows viewers to witness practices rarely seen on television, including firing up the still for the first time, a moonshiner's rite of passage; the show also introducers viewers to moonshining legends such as Marvin Sutton.

Jeremy Schwartz, Josh Owens, Mark Ramsey, Eric "Digger" Manes, Tim Smith, Steve Tickle, Mark Rogers, Jim Tom Hedrick, Mike Cockrell, Daniel Maner

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