This season, Appalachian distillers fire up their stills early, turning surplus crops into tax- and tariff-free liquor and moving their shine across counties and international borders, proving that the rebellious spirit of America's founding still flows strong.
In the premiere episode, Tim and Tickle embrace their outlaw heritage in Culpeper County, Virginia, as they take on a $70,000 order for corn whiskey from thirsty Canadian customers seeking tariff-free American liquor. In Haywood County, North Carolina, Mike and Jerry set up shop a month early to produce a whopping $40,000 order for a high-proof strawberry-jalapeño brandy. Meanwhile, Tennessee legends Mark and Digger score a deal on 20,000 bushels of corn but face a race against the clock to empty it before the farmer needs his silos back.
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.
Josh invests money he doesn't yet have to build a still site that doubles as a gold mine. Mark enlists Amanda and Kelly to distill liquor from surplus soybeans to prove Digger wrong. Mike returns to Tennessee and recruits a partner he burned once before.
Facing more demand for corn liquor than he can handle, Josh turns to Digger for help. Tim & Tickle discover their oddball neighbor is running an illegal moonshine operation of his own. Mike reunites with his old partner Daniel, while Jerry pays the price.
Josh's head spins when Jerry reveals his wild plans for their joint moonshine operation. Mark and Digger enlist a Scotsman to help craft the first Hillbilly Scotch. Tim and Tickle's backwoods rivals threaten to call the law on their tariff-dodging deal.
When their hillbilly scotch experiment flames out, Mark and Digger light a fire under their still hand, Kelly. Josh's lucrative 80-gallon moonshine order rides on Jerry's unproven vacuum still experiment. Mike devises a recipe to poach Jerry's buyer.
For America's 250th birthday, Tim and Tickle fulfill their patriotic duty making revolutionary-era shine. Digger questions Mark's attempt to replicate his great-granddaddy's sour corn whiskey. Josh and Jerry's best-laid plans blow up in their faces.
As Tim and Tickle add molasses to their 18th-century mash bill and heat their vintage copper still with wood fire, Howard takes the revolutionary spirit too far. Demand for Josh's shine outpaces supply as Jerry opens a new front in his war with Mike.