Tim and Howard trek north 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 distill it, they re-discover a spirit that may have been lost to time.

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.

In Boston, Tim and Howard go back in time in search of the recipe for the lost colonial rum that started America's outlaw liquor legacy. With help from Tickle and a few other patriots, they recreate the spirit that was a favorite of Paul Revere.