About this season
Each week’s episode will focus on a single libation — from Benjamin Franklin’s liquor in Philly to Franklin Roosevelt’s secret moonshine in Georgia.
Episodes (5)
1. FDR's Georgia Moonshine
Aired 14 April 2022 • 45 min
The guys unravel a Prohibition-era mystery involving a presidency. Together, they assemble clues following in FDR's tracks to recreate his outlaw booze for the first time in 90 years.
2. America's First Bourbon
Aired 21 April 2022 • 45 min
Tim and Tickle head to Kentucky to investigate the legend behind Elijah Craig's invention of bourbon whiskey in 1789. Sourcing old-school ingredients and equipment, they attempt to become the first in two centuries to taste America's original bourbon.
3. Franklin's Lost Booze Recipe
Aired 28 April 2022 • 45 min
Tim and Howard trek to Philadelphia in search of Ben Franklin's 250-year-old recipe for spruce beer prized by George Washington's troops. But when Tim enlists Tickle's help to distil it, they re-discover a spirit that may have been lost to time.
4. Al Capone's Outlaw Gin
Aired 5 May 2022 • 45 min
Tim and Tickle head to Chicago in search of Al Capone's lost Prohibition gin. As Howard builds a prohibition-era pot still and barters for a 1920s clawfoot bathtub, the three shiners start a run hoping to taste the lost spirit a century after its heyday.
5. Boston's Revolutionary Spirit
Aired 12 May 2022 • 45 min
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 favourite of Paul Revere.