Tim and Tickle search for a legendary ingredient that fueled Charleston's moonshine resurgence after the Civil War but when they taste Jimmy Red Corn for the first time, they realize they can make a run of moonshine with a flavor like no other.

Tim and Howard head deep into the Texas borderlands in search of Pancho Villa's lost recipe for Sotol, the rural Mexican moonshine that fueled revolts and revolution. To recreate the cleanest, high-proof spirit, Tickle designs a UFO-shaped copper pot.

Tim takes Josh to Abe Lincoln's boyhood home in Kentucky to uncover evidence the 16th President may not have been entirely honest about his liquor-selling past. Using local sorghum, they recreate a whiskey that Lincoln would have tasted as a young man.