Mark & Digger Reverse Engineer Legend's Moonshine Using Only Their Sense Of Taste | Moonshiners

Popcorn's whisky has become popular, however, no one has the recipe for the legendary recipe. Mark and Digger try to reverse engineer the drink but will they be able to recreate the recipe?
Subscribe to Discovery UK for more great clips:
kzbin.info_c...
Follow Discovery UK on Twitter:
/ discoveryuk

[@allenmcdonald1878]

"we've spilt enough to make every alcoholic in the world cry"... he's not lying one bit 😂. I'm in tears

[@dlaird8]

JB is as legendary as popcorn. Its a shame the world is losing these guys. Real men.

[@JasonAlexzander1q47]

Popcorn said he made the fighting kind, (for family reunions), the loving kind, (weddings), and the crying kind, (funerals and wakes).

[@Invictus13666]

That’s not what he said

[@geomodelrailroader]

right when they fire up their portable still Old JB comes in if there is one person who knows what Popcorn put in his still it is JB because he was Popcorn's partner.

[@kashsattar2066]

Mark and Digger make this show and I sincerely hope that they both grow old together reminiscing about the good old days and how they never got caught. They are good friends but more than that they are people of principles and deserve good luck.

[@LK-em1bv]

It's a fake tv show..

[@fumyeah5867]

It's worth noting that Digger and Mark work with a legal moonshine distilling company called Sugarland's Distilling Company

[@MarkLada]

These boys may have made some moonshine when they were younger, but they ain't making no black market liquor these days..

[@bucky13]

@@MarkLada I'm glad they take care of the legal stuff off screen so they can make real moonshine on screen. I watch the show to learn about making different types of liquor, it doesn't bother me at all that they're paying taxes on it. The alternative is distilling water on camera.

[@samljer]

they havent made illegal liq since they were kids. I mean... national TV... cameras... should be obv what theyre doing is staged.

[@TheChadPad]

Let JB make the whole thing himself, and watch him carefully and take notes. Measure the weight of the containers before and after, then you can reverse engineer how much he put in based on the difference of the before and after weight of the container

[@kevinsmith6oh6]

😂

[@TBlacky]

Why wen you can just weigh it, just because he’s a legend don’t mean he has moonshine powers, n he made hot shine not the multi grain they were looking for 😂

[@PlubusDomis]

Nah, probably not. He just poured in some more like Popcorn, and knew what he was doing. He's done it quite a few times, knows howto make some good likker lol

[@crakkajac7856]

@@TBlacky He's not wrong. getting bins of ingredients set at a certain weight, then measuring the weight of the bins afterwards and just watching and recording the whole process would be the easiest was of revearse engineering it. or just taking cracks at it till they get it right cause they even just said JB's whiskey wasnt even close to popcorns. it was "Hot", but "They ain't lookin' for Hot Whiskey"

[@johndomoe3735]

Jb just did what popcorn would have. Made the shine to how he was feelin. It just wasent what they wanted dosent mean it was wrong.

[@nofreehooks]

“The fightin kind, the lovin kind, the cryin kind” that’s a hell of a metric.

[@DCfreerunner]

You guys watch half of an eight minute video and become experts in all things moonshine

[@thenecessaryevil2634]

Its real fascinating even if you are a moonshiner yourself. I made backwoods moonshine with an Uncle years ago, but Maine moonshine and Southern moonshine are different. Ours is more like Irish poitín whiskey made with maine potatoes.

[@DCfreerunner]

@@thenecessaryevil2634 I thought you were joking but I can see you are totally serious 😅

[@zs9372]

Ya I'm a pro at 4 min

[@thenecessaryevil2634]

@@zs9372 I know you're joking but that's how people go blind making 'shine. Or blow their fool ass up not making the still right.

[@zs9372]

@@thenecessaryevil2634 their fault for being dumb

[@nofreehooks]

3:21 is hilarious. “You oughta see a doctor about that.” 😂😂

[@ranges.d.e1320]

He was saying it as I was reading your comment 😂 😂

[@pie_crust69u]

I double take every time he mentions Digger with that accent 😂

[@lavidaoffroad6825]

3:25 “go see a doctor about that”🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@williampounds9180]

Popcorn said key to good moonshine is cooking slow.

[@LUCKYB.]

He said dont let it run faster than a match head you dont want your slop to get over 210 degrees , yeah that slow .if you run it hot as a stripping run you make it mean then you have to run it slower to make it not mean and loose flavor on that stripping run . But what do I know . I only did it for 20 sum yrs of my life .. I dont know anything .

[@zacandtristanoutdoorsoneal3593]

and he made it over a fire

[@LUCKYB.]

@@zacandtristanoutdoorsoneal3593 well yeah many years all they could do is rub two sticks together . Way back in the day .. it wasent till the Yuppie HillBilly started using compressed GAS and propain 👍

[@JasonRyanWilson]

No he did not. Popcorn said the key to making good whikey was your water by God.

[@LUCKYB.]

@@JasonRyanWilson Yes Jason he said many things many things and many other bootlegers said many things .

[@Countryboy87]

I’ve meet Mark and digger in person they’re a blast to be around two great guys only carrying on a tradition that’s slowly going away. There was moonshiners that was in my family that dated all the way back to the civil war and then now I still carry on they legacy of my family

[@randyeddington4405]

May wanna watch putting that out there may have someone follow you one spring morning and pop!!! There you go should have kept that to yourself there friend, just saying

[@aaronsmeal1904]

@@randyeddington4405 maybe he’s got licenses and a distillery? And if he’s a backwoods shiner, it would probably be a a good way for someone to get popped themselves if they followed him 😂😂

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

@@randyeddington4405 I tell people about the spree of murders I committed in the summer of 1985 all the time nobody ever comes to arrest me.

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

@@aaronsmeal1904 I've robbed 4 different youtube moonshiners just from seeing them post in the comments section of Moonshiner The TV Series videos.

[@il9861]

@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 massive legend?

[@adamh.4933]

Soundin like captain hook coming up the stairs. Man that was a good one.

[@stevenhawk7751]

You two guys are the best and I live in Massachusetts and I watch all the time

[@ericmoody3944]

I love the pet names they have for each other....

[@zeitgeist909]

It's an easy fix. Just weigh what you have upfront - then let him do his thing putting in a bit of this and a bit of that and then a bit more of the other. Then when it's all done and it's a good mash - reweigh it and then you know where you'll are. Simples.

[@FaZePoopCheetah]

Umm he’s dead

[@BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat]

@@FaZePoopCheetah the other guy who was trying to guess the right mixture he means ...

[@jaredgarbo3679]

@@FaZePoopCheetah The old guys is called JB and was a friend of Popcorn Sutton.

[@FaZePoopCheetah]

@@BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat oh lmao I thought they meant have popcorn do it, my b

[@slyfox1970]

I’d love to just sit around a camp fire and just listen to the stories that they can tell ( love you guys you make the moonshine show

[@carlpye7228]

knowledge is power,and a recipe work's,take the time too find out,it's a brave new world

[@davidinvenio3094]

"Handcrafted" == Too damn drunk to write the recipe down! LOL

[@Loyd-bw3id]

Best series ever

[@davidford1575]

I enjoy watching Mark and Digger.

[@gbcsterbear7206]

I remember seeing jb sitting there with the bucket and throwing a lil bit of water in there and stirring while popcorn would dump the aky in there

[@PurchaseAreaMusic]

You have to use spring water or you'll never get it.

[@TheChadPad]

Spring water with nothin in it but pure bear shit!

[@jeffmeeks5163]

You guys are heroes!!! Out of the entire show; you guys are the real deal!!! Smart and seeing how you make liquor is one of the most real thing I see in tv and puts the bad world out of my mine. Keep up the great work and I be watching!!! Keep going on with popcorn honor as well. Enjoy you guys!!!!

[@richr7604]

You gents are like country chemists!! Congrats on your success!!👍

[@Coolnventions]

I love how one of them is wearing a $20k AP 15400 watch

[@gscpowerdivision5618]

It looks like a Tag Carrera Calibre 16. $5k at most. 5:03 shows it pretty well.

[@bossone5812]

Crime pays..

[@emmettmartin2639]

That's not an AP

[@samuel6234]

If that’s work over 5k or 20k my grandpa must have been a very rich man and left some details out

[@tiger5551]

They make a lot of money, gotta spend it on somthing

[@johnblaydes2905]

Company came and I couldn't get rid of her. Lmao

[@Tonnsfabrication]

Popcorn said what he put in it, yellow sweet corn, corn malt and sugar. , no need to reinvent the wheel.

[@TBlacky]

He didn’t say how much tho 🤝

[@Tonnsfabrication]

@@TBlacky It don't much matter, the rig it's run through can alter it seven ways from sunday anyway so.... You'd never be able to perfectly match what he did simply by knowing what he put in the mix. Unless you built an identical still and knew that entire process as well. To many people think these TV shows are real.

[@unapologeticallyme8513]

"I've actually got a bit of moisture building up on my worm..." "You otta see a dr about that..." 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jeffreybunch3959]

JB, love you man. 🤗

[@Dipshik]

I cant stop clicking these videos

[@nonodaclown9033]

I had a quart of popcorns white lighting a few years back and boy it was good I was in Anderson county I remember there were still small pieces of charcoal in the quart

[@1leech]

Please 🥺

[@nathanwilliam8537]

Please mate don't bring a legend into your lies

[@umadbroimatroll7918]

Would not have any pieces in it, you got a fake or are lying

[@lukasdoofus2592]

popcorn never had charcoal in his likker. only in the filter at the top

[@dougshelton69]

I dated a girl from Cock county,her breath smelled like popcorn, her eyes were the size of moonpies.she lived by a crick in Swollar Holler..her name was Annita Head..😳🇺🇸❤

[@golddee2040]

"He made all kinds of liquor: the fighting king, the loving kind, the crying kind..." Just had a flashback of Samuel L. Jackson's Malt Liquor! Mmmm MMM!

[@Old_SnakeTwitch]

In canadian whisky alot of the time wel distill each grain seperatley, i think i just found out why

[@jackcasey8316]

Whenever they throw away the heads I’m thinking couldn’t you run an engine on that stuff and they’re just throwing it in a bush 😂

[@yungchum2073]

These men are doin the Lords work.

[@daviddavis9300]

After testing that much . I tasted like . Does not matter at this point ! Lol

[@eyeofthetiger123]

I love this show even though I never tried moonshine

[@pioneerman8467]

Hopeing they put this of TV im a hard time watcher

[@FJ80Coop]

Seems to me that if they worked with Popcorn then they'd already know his recipes and such...Like JB knows...

[@asimplelifeinthephilippine1465]

Need to have more information on making mash. Ingredients and mixing.

[@jamesobanion5559]

The best part is these dudes getting drunk during the taste testing

[@spfldmilkman]

nothing like old distilled water in a glass jug !

[@TrippySoul026]

When they realize that popcorn used a simple process for seemingly complex liquor

[@80glk5]

I’m hoping that if I watch enough of this I’ll pick up a southern accent and metaphors

[@Methxdz]

I tried this recipe out and holy smokes

[@sjh0010]

At what moment do these guys begin to slur their words. I'd be jabbering after one of those gulp sips.

[@PhantomLizzard77]

0:35 that’s just the way it is, things will never be the same

[@Kajemyster]

Corn- 20 Barley- 8 Rye- 5.5 Sugar- 50

[@that_619_dude4]

Professional sippers

[@GorVala]

I've heard me of Puss in Boots, but Puss in Glasses.. that's crazy right there lol

[@ElectricalExistence]

"I likes da mell"

[@2112CO]

This is making me thirsty.

[@yoob.2114]

When i had ma first sip of moonshine i was gone gone haha🤣

[@josegarza7034]

Cant help but wonder if that liquid the samplin is WATER

[@Fryinberg]

I think I like these 2 guys a little better than the rest of them fellas

[@daltonjones2389]

This has me wanting to try Mark and Diggers moonshine. Is the stuff in liquor stores the same thing pretty much since its called "Mark and Diggers sugarland shine"?

[@DetectiveTrupo203]

It's not. The stuff in stores is made in a legal industrial distillery, and it's 80 proof like every other liquor sold in stores. Homemade high percentage actual moonshine is difficult to find, you have to know people that make it.

[@evanjohnson1299]

just weigh it before he starts adding to the mash and when he's satisfied with the results weigh whats left over.

[@markrobinson1135]

How many gallon bottles of liquor did they have on the table? If I was taste testing every bottle? I would need to lay down under the table cuz well that's fine liquor would cause double vision until I sobered up

[@RichardJohnson-cg2ix]

Popcorn said.. Slooooooooow.......lol

[@trofimlysenko4576]

"Raaaahhhh"

[@brendansmitherson4476]

I think he used his sense of smell and taste

[@Fighterofthenightman_]

Outa see a doctor lol classic

[@AaronSk8Man]

Imagine LSD makers doing the same xD

[@WvlfDarkfire]

Triple dipped white blotter looks like snow flakes.

[@reidy1012]

@@WvlfDarkfire A blotter only holds so much saturate it the first time and dipping twice more don't do nothing. Lol.

[@undermyguns7509]

JB know what to do he was Pop right hand man

[@sadiescott3331]

Moonshine is a dieing art

[@bmaiceman]

Well guys I want to try it...where can I get some

[@phillipshirley8841]

You got to see a doctor about that. Hahahahaha

[@JasonRyanWilson]

I live 45 minutes north west of old Newport, Tn. For a small town? It's a violent area. In spots.

[@mattmccarthy6686]

Mike moonshine tastes real sweet used popcorn 😋

[@kingosi351]

These guys are like chemists

[@jeffreytaylor4464]

Was there ever any doubt?

[@pandaofficial1921]

Pop corns water was the best he could find

[@nedoscarsandfishingvideos5500]

This guys can drink lol

[@joshuabreeden1211]

To find out the amount of each ingredient that he is using way the container of the ingredient before you start making it then after making it weigh each ingredient again and you will find out how much was used

[@melanierichardson3063]

Can somebody tell me how to temper liquor? Some people make it way too hot and it' not smooth.

[@blitzguitar]

i don't know how they can drink that stuff with such a straight face. i guess they drink enough of it. i would never be able to drink enough to be so brave.

[@TBlacky]

You just gotta sip it tbh, that shine probably gave off a sweetness not a huge bitterness

[@blitzguitar]

@@TBlacky I've never had shine. But anything above 40% would make me cringe.

[@downwithtrudeau]

It's water thats why

[@LUCKYB.]

JB WAS WITH POP FOR 30 YEARS THAT MAN HAS IT ALL DOWN LOADED IN HIS HEAD ..

[@TBlacky]

Probably not, they didn’t have an exact recipe every jar was different but still the same blend

[@jesuschrist7833]

Anyone with an internet persona will tell ya that they’ve done this.

[@ashleycooper4652]

Someone bring me some shine to nc lol

[@suckit8447]

Oh shii u stay in nc?!

[@wlidbill5261]

Wow is that really in downtown Greeneville?

[@timtimbs1914]

Yes it's in Newport but they don't have 2 worry bout getting caught they work for a company called Sugarland shine. Hollywood actors

[@lindamiller2399]

Make me some Rootbeer Float moonshine.

[@afterburner3999]

One Day ill meet a Moonshiner that can take a sip of MS and say I Know how to make that recipe.

[@jeovanneramos5066]

What is this real!

[@zp1492]

What season is this?

[@splats6164]

How are they not wasted when finished trying each drink

[@ViktorHansen23]

Homie should pronounce the D in Digger better cause theres a few times where i go "How did Discovery Air this?" I get it but damn dude lol so close

[@buckclary3057]

You can make moon shine on a oventop with a tea kettle and some light engineering

[@jbrown1971]

No you can't not without a worm and cold water if you did it be poison.

[@labamba9570]

Thought he said mark and n1 gr

[@wendysfast-food2016]

What does the worm do

[@benmaynard3059]

What he said ^

[@chriscavender9195]

Put the lime in the coconut and mix it all up!!!

[@Moreymoto]

whats that thing they put in the spout that looks like a chicken bone

[@porkercrackler]

racoons pecker bone

[@driftertravelerman6893]

what would that old popcorn stuff even taste like?

[@xxflowybro9780]

I believe the liquor is getting better and better is because there gett'in more drunk.

[@jordanbrown351]

Idk i mean I like the ideas of this show but we don't get to see them separate the heads hearts and tails? They probably do know what they're doing but this is just for entertainment clearly. But I do like these guys ideas

[@lukasdoofus2592]

yeah its kind of scary that they dont actually show people how to be safe. You keep all your jars lined up because you dont know how much to throw away until your done. You always empty the heads,sell the hearts and keep the tails for the next run

[@TBlacky]

You don’t see them depict anything because there’s no need it ain’t rocket science 😂

[@Mr.paint123]

The reason popcorn didn’t have an exact recipe was because he was always drunk and forgot to write it down lol 😊😊😊😊😊 R.I.P P.S ❤️ 🥃

[@spunbearing65]

LOL They'll find something buried in JBs shack that Popcorn actually wrote down.But if he was in his cups good luck interpreting.

[@jessethepondhopper8370]

Jb made alot with him 😆

[@fliprodriguez5250]

Osmosis? They are missing instruments