Moonshiners Strip Tree Bark To Make Incredible Low-Cost Whiskey | Moonshiners

In Tennessee, Mike and Jerry use old-timer methods to make some incredible, flavourful whiskey straight from the birch bark they collect out of the forest.
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[@xxxray100]

I love how every time a moonshiner makes a whiskey, it is THE best whiskey they made all season

[@uraniumbolt7594]

It's true, i took a sip of some and started uprooting trees

[@LionsDen7]

It's like weed lol, people get the placebo of thinking it's the best in the world

[@kriegmusikkorps8768]

They always make it better every time, one day they will make one so good it will make you 5 years younger

[@youtube.commentator]

If they said it sucked they couldn't sell it with a good conscience

[@deadbydeeznuts4294]

Popcorn Sutton did the same thing, his most recent batch was always the finest! Makes sense tbh, they aren't getting worse as time goes on

[@aaroninman7370]

They do a great job of making these guys look like the goofy underdogs of the show

[@ocutta5129]

I like them the most

[@maacsdead]

@@ocutta5129 lmao that’s funny as hell cuz I literally dispise the dude that always got the stems on his hat

[@masonreed5684]

Haha they all always goofy tho

[@Ash-bd6jz]

every person on the show is 🤪 goofy. there is like 17 teeth between the entire cast for christ sake lmfao

[@masonreed5684]

@@Ash-bd6jz 😭 amen

[@user-cs3zs6jn1d]

Those left over logs are great for making traditional Cherokee arrows. You only get one or two per log,but that one that is from the center is just perfect.

[@abrahamwashington8579]

How do you make arrows? I'm shocked you can't get more from a big log

[@Stuntman175]

@@abrahamwashington8579 I'm guessing that since wood is constituted of concentric circles that spread from the center, the core of the log is the straightest and hardest piece of wood in the whole log.

[@abrahamwashington8579]

@@Stuntman175 I was just figuring with time and patience u can get at least 3 to 4 out of logs that size with the idea being obviously the center is the hardest and straightest but with time and effort I'm sure u can split it into multiple arrows from 1 log. May not be as strong but I'd rather have a quiver of arrows than like 6 arrows out of 4 days of work. Even if there is a chance the arrow will break off you can still follow the blood trail to the kill

[@Stuntman175]

@@abrahamwashington8579 those logs were quite short, so it wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility of only making 1 or 2 arrows per log. Maybe with a full tree, it would be easier to make more from a single log.

[@abrahamwashington8579]

@@Stuntman175 sounds about right

[@chosento2988]

I'm having flashbacks of the first time I had real brewed non-alcoholic birch beer red soda with my grandmother as a tiny kid! It has a flavor like nothing else, very distinct!

[@Aaron-zu3xn]

i have sassafras trees on my property in PA we also use ginseng root as well from our land in soda

[@Ave_Satana666]

Lil alc wont hurt ya

[@Ave_Satana666]

Kids drink in most countries we are the weird ones stop being preachy

[@Ave_Satana666]

@@Aaron-zu3xn explain to me how it's your land but my ancestors died for the right to live here

[@Ave_Satana666]

@@Aaron-zu3xn our land* get that talk up and next time the Nazis wants you rich peopleu us poor ain't going to save your asses

[@mofo1100]

I love how this is supposed to be like discreet and illegal, yet they have a huge sticker on their back window that says "Moonshiners" lmao

[@evepuckett8403]

"Nothing to make Whiskey with!" Proceed to pull 80lbs of Walmart sugar out of the truck bed.

[@vexs4883]

Grains is what they meant I’m pretty sure

[@fishncapt26]

Sugars sugar whether it be Wal-Mart or over priced trader Joe's refined granulated sugars refined granulated sugar lol it ain't like they need to be sugar snobs and use pure cane from the carribean that costs twenty times more a lb lol

[@Aaron-zu3xn]

"nothing to make liquor with so lets use wood" wood alcohol is methanol and you go blind,this is why i don't like the scripted fake aspect of this show

[@josephbradley1849]

yeah that's pretty stupid isn't it

[@TheShadowBannedBandit]

@@Aaron-zu3xn Wood is not bark, vice versa.

[@mikeisgettinupset]

That 100 rung staircase they built last season was actually really cool.

[@ThePicasoBlack]

"that's a pretty log you got there" 🤣Gold

[@sammylacks4937]

It s called cambium. The growing tissue where the xylem and phloam veins that carry water and nutrients up to the leaves and down to the roots. Betula lenta Black birch tastes like wintergreen.

[@fayaazalibhai4665]

Thank you Captain

[@phoneusandfroboof829]

if your talking about the white layer under the bark i eat that stuff all the time in the woods, ps if anyone if thinking of eating it do not ring the tree it will kill the tree.

[@Aaron-zu3xn]

that's not all they're using though they're using the white wood under it too so that will produce more wood alcohol(methanol)

[@SandraNelson063]

In Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, where I lived as a child, you could find huge patches of White Birch everywhere. You couldn't make whiskey from it, because WHITE Birch bark cooks down to a wonderful pitch glue. The Neanderthals and early humans used that to set arrow heads into shafts. Hard as cement.

[@hzenngh]

Mike: "That's a pretty log you got there" Jerry: "Well thank you, Mike!" Mike: "SHUT UP!"

[@chrispile3878]

Mike says the stupidest stuff, Jerry just points it out.

[@jamedlock83]

i laughed so hard

[@jamedlock83]

i thought he said "well thank you wife" or something.

[@JasonMichaelKotarski]

I reckon anyone driving a bright red 2500 with a big ol' TeamSippy Moonshiners sticker out in the woods gets my thumb up, lol.

[@harryfarmer3847]

These guys really seem like a great team! I'm sure this liquor is delicious. We have alot of birch trees here in Maine, I would love to do this. Birch beer is delicious, so I can only imagine how good this would be. And it's a great cheap way to go about making liquor. Maine birch bark whiskey would be awesome, and sell great as well

[@lonnienicholson1631]

Be even better using some maple sugar to feed the yeast I bet.

[@billmorganlambert9900]

Ain't nothing wrong with Jerry anybody notice how nobody likes Mike though cuz he's a snake he blew off people that helped him before he wrecked Richard still sight he's just a thieving snake

[@trimegz3105]

I love how they hide the barrels but not the whole ass still

[@cd-zw2tt]

Hide the important stuff. They can take the still, but those are just some old barrels of cleaning solution!

[@MRGENERATIONADD]

I'd absolutely love to try that stuff

[@jaymac7203]

Amazing. I've never even heard of birch bark whisky before lol

[@thomasmcqueeney6877]

Lotta pride amongst shiners!

[@dopefpv389]

Just looks fun running around the woods making shine .all looks like hellava fun..

[@gamer2021]

You'd think these guys would plant a few seeds every year in specific spots so that they could easily go and harvest 50-60lbs of raspberries or shit like that

[@BlazRa]

So if you make the liquor from wood would you age it in a barrel made out of corn?

[@brianthomason5022]

Now that was a genuine comment right there I liked it put a smile on my face and I've been scanning through all the comments in this video and you're the one that got my approval

[@blunttime420]

It's like root beer candy or sassafras. Like grandma cooking beans on the stove..... How!?

[@abrahamwashington8579]

Apparently these guys knows there Gramgram has sweet beans.

[@michaelschlegel5224]

Anyone else notice that everytime they do runs and haul moonshine and they worried about getting arrested but whole fucking time hes got a window decal which says moonshiners like wtf thats how u know its scripted

[@chrispile3878]

Reality TV ain't REAL.

[@josephtriplett7788]

I made walking sticks my whole life in northeast Pennsylvania Appalachian mountain range I sold them at different areas people were amazed at how many I can make within a couple weeks but I can literally skin about 20 to 30 a day no problem depending on how I Cramp My Hands would get but when I talk to people they would be working on still skinning their walking stick for like a month it cracked me up😂❤

[@seanmcguire7974]

Is that where they get the flavor for the soda too?

[@BlazRa]

Back in the Revolutionary times they would make beer out of spruce trees usually the leaves

[@broo_shs]

easy way its just cut bark in all way down. and wooden chisel and a small hammer move it under the bark and the whole bark comes off then cut into pieces and put in hot water

[@broo_shs]

@@janielunday5012 so true in tv they do stuff, what normaly peoples do not do.

[@statostheman]

In the Nordic countries we do on a plastic barrel and season it with an a-hole from an beaver and call it for "Bäverhojt".

[@scottbivins4758]

Im a have to try that

[@mattlars89]

You can also Tap Birch trees, much like you would a Maple. Just collect the sap (which has a ton of sugars) and make liqour

[@alexfleming6304]

Fixing, appreciate u. Southern lingo. They make a lot out birch, gum one big thing.

[@tezzasbigbuz3933]

It’s called a de barker get one just like a big crowbar with a flat tip

[@noobpownown]

They got all this camo setup yet drive back there in a bright ass red truck 😂

[@camerynburdette5352]

There just making "whiskey"

[@noobpownown]

@@camerynburdette5352 *they’re

[@josephbradley1849]

look at the steel site I can find that with my eyes closed

[@edwardfletcher7790]

With a huge Moonshine sticker across the rear window ! LMAO

[@khancrow8212]

​@@noobpownown *mister

[@TheCholoGeek]

4:42 you’d probably replace him like you replaced your previous partner.

[@TheMack28kid]

Every Episode "This is Fixxin to be the best durn likker we ran yet"

[@jamescollins1578]

Man they aint lying about that birch bark, i split tons and tons of wood every winter and i can always tell when i cut into a piece of birch it smells so dam good and you literally can grab a piece and chew on it..

[@Humongous420]

I love birch beer soda!

[@rougesauce71138]

@Larry snyder if u have a big lots near you they usually have them

[@ricanzombie5731]

Never heard of it b4 but i wana try some

[@elliejelly8815]

I bet you could probably do something with white birch bark to get the oil out of it to make a pretty decent accelerant or fuel

[@bmad0]

lol for me growing up in rural mexico it was much harder, this would be childs play.

[@amberroberts3031]

You know every time he picked up a knife growing up his momma and dad said don't cut toward yourself! But he is not just cutting towards himself, he is going right towards his package!

[@BlazRa]

That's motivation for him to pay extra close attention and not fuck up

[@goatbut29]

Anyone remember "horehound" candy? My mom kept that in the glovebox year round and the smell of it would kill me!!! That's what this makes me think of!

[@julioespino7112]

Wow how can that be illegal amazing people great 👍culture is art

[@naturallyinsane9101]

Take a shot every time a moonshiner says "flavor" See how far you last in this video

[@optionalstew4822]

I love this discovery shit i love it

[@crazydutchman870]

Sadly all of the stuff is staged it's still pretty good tho

[@jamesswick7534]

I wonder how many people that watch this show don't know that those are raccoon peckers in his hat 🤔

[@Because223]

I’m related to John Dillinger and he would love cheap whiskey

[@AuntBoo]

@2:14.......Did he say "U ever herd of HUMPback of Noter Dame"😏

[@BlazRa]

I wonder if you can use malt and convert the starches in the wood that would be cool

[@anzebeton1869]

NileRed made moonshine from toilet paper, which is just pure celulose so it's possible. He just had to add some enzymes to break down celulose to sugars yeast could use

[@jamedlock83]

lmao @ the hump back of notre dame

[@xhongxina286]

Take a shot of moonshine every time he says flavor

[@marcelgaddis9319]

If they were smart they would collect the sap (birch water) same as maple sap is collected for syrup. Then ferment and distill that. If you tap at the right time, your tree could produce 5 litres in one day. The sap is just like water in its consistency and you can drink it straight from the tree. It tastes very much like water with a hint of woody sweetness.

[@gresmaster2279]

Sure but it was winter at that time, you would have to wait till spring

[@optionalstew4822]

Finished it

[@soxpeewee]

Sounds real tasty

[@dj.m7098]

Love your Grandma!! What we going through the past 2years…… She always Reminds us Not to worry too much The Good Lord watches us and takes care of all✝️

[@jibbajungs]

It's a damn good job the police don't watch this show

[@dylanrudman3291]

1:36 why are they advertising their business on a truck they drive around town in? that's just asking for trouble

[@kylespillman6114]

Hes legal, tennessee moonshine company in sevierville is his store. Met him last week on vacation

[@dylanrudman3291]

@@kylespillman6114 i didn't know there was such thing as legal moonshine

[@frizzle2530]

@@dylanrudman3291 it’s anything but moonshine they say but it’s really just moonshiner renamed

[@AzzyLude]

On the side of the road lol

[@markpape6565]

If i had a still i would be, i'd have it set up it my back garden, and i'd be experimenting, smothie run/rum?.

[@shadowstorm1742]

The tree huggers are really gonna hate this one

[@chrispile3878]

Screw 'em.

[@scurvy3113]

What water type of water are they using to let the bark sit all night. Sink water or like fiji?

[@chrispile3878]

Did you notice the little creek nearby?

[@beatnik6806]

Can you make this with white birch?

[@averagejoe3446]

why not dry and scorch the logs for aging?

[@tzviheiman4815]

And I am my own granpaw shuuweee!

[@LegacyFTW]

5:56 This mans literally just stuck his hand in this hot ass pot 🤣

[@yourmom1481]

They got them asbestos hands

[@OmarLopez-pt3tj]

Don't wanna get caught but have a moonshiner decal

[@jodiepayne1541]

Peanut brittle moon shine..can it be done

[@jeffmech600]

Nobody is making illegal moonshine on this show.

[@Ave_Satana666]

Yeah and

[@Ave_Satana666]

Its still wnter

[@Wickedreptiles]

This guy with his Tennessee moonshiner sticker..

[@twinkmaster2]

Good ole wood alcohol!

[@fishncapt26]

I know nothing about birch let alone black birch but wouldn't the tannins be wayyyyyy too high ?

[@genericalfishtycoon3853]

Birch tannins are different from other trees, but the boiling breaks them down nicely anyways. Some Birches like Yellow Birch taste just like mint and have antiseptic properties along with flavor. Gotta love the Birch family of trees.

[@fishncapt26]

@@genericalfishtycoon3853 interesting, so you can just taken a ton of the bark make condensed Tea like liquid the way guy did and tannins won't make ya sick? Alot of the tree species I'm familiar with would have such high tannins it'd make a sick as hell. Now I'm super curiius about black birch and want to find some to play with smell and taste. Is there any candy or foods made from it?

[@genericalfishtycoon3853]

@@fishncapt26 Well, I'm a Maine lad so Black Birch is really rare up here. I've only ever found it in a few places on the state's southwest area, like Brownfield. Oak is a common tree tannin type we can use for example though. Take acorns, you normally wouldn't be able to eat them because of the tannins, but boiling them before you mill them into flour breaks down and removes the tannins, and you make delicious nutritional acorn flour for all your cooking with flours purposes. Acorn pancakes for example. I'm guess the process with the Birch tannins goes the same way, the heat and water cause them to react and breakdown for safe consumption. Pine is another one, the pine needles contain harsh acids, but boiling them breaks it down and makes a tea that is incredibly high in vitamin C, which is basically just a citrus acid anyways. Most commercial vitamin C and citric acid for food and drink flavor for example is produced by ceiling mold aspergillus in large vats like they use to make cottage cheese.

[@genericalfishtycoon3853]

@@fishncapt26 I do remember having some Birch Bark root beer when I was younger and it was incredibly unique and delicious.

[@johnvlicky1556]

Root beer best way to describe the taste but birch beer is a lil different so basically birch flavor white lighting lol cheers

[@MossyNutz]

7:12 someone I’m distance talking

[@dr.who2]

How you make birtch beer soda

[@AdditionalAndrew5916]

Usually, you age whiskey in wood barrels to enhance flavor, but what if the whiskey is made of fermented wood Bark? Riddle me that.

[@vintagedashboard6810]

I was always told that wood grain alcohol would make you go blind

[@networkoperations]

I always thought this too. Limited research appears to show it's an old wives tale. Of course, distilling any byproduct of anaerobic yeast fermentation yields methanol which will accumulate in high concentration on the head of distilling. Methanol was chiefly created back in the day by destructive distillation of wood, which is a completely different process of just heating the shit out of the wood anaerobically until it decomposes. I may be 100% wrong tho.

[@snip3troug3]

They say that about wanking too but we still do it..

[@TalkSickOne420]

If you mess it up it can!

[@ludi3444]

@@TalkSickOne420 the wood beer? Or wanking?

[@Laxmanchawla786]

जंगल को नहीं काटना चाहिए था जंगल की रक्षा करनी चाहिए 🙏

[@JerkinJoshXD]

100%

[@XCI5ION]

basically the only living part of the tree

[@Djanck000]

Isn't wood alcohol, like, pretty bad?

[@gregmcb5305]

Why not soak it after in birch bark

[@jasonmcclure6713]

Use the actual wood to fuel your fire

[@ulyssesreyes4209]

It's wet tho?

[@peoplesrepublicofliberland5606]

So is Wood Alcohol not an issue anymore?

[@verovex7723]

7:50 thats straw not hay

[@brittboynton9555]

Okay but how do I see the results 👀🤣

[@chrispile3878]

Watch the hour long show.

[@cup_and_cone]

Their barrels have no ventilation at all, yet they left them to ferment. Where's the C02 gas supposed to go? Good thing it's all fake, or those lids would blow off from pressure...

[@chrispile3878]

The lids are not screwed on tight.

[@robertcowden9484]

Have you noticed Mike the moonshiner don't want much to do with you.

[@deutscheslotto8923]

The truck literally says moonshiner. Every episode gets more fake

[@mfa-FH]

Its like calling wrestling fake.. hahaha

[@csakben99]

And who cares as long as entertaining

[@csakben99]

And in my country its your birtright to make liqour, but these folks love to add sugar...

[@Matt-j4n]

Cops gotta have probable cause and another thing. These are the ones that have a license.

[@jamieharris5564]

Stop complaining and quit watching it's that simple 😅

[@chrisallen5680]

Would some one please tell them you don't need to cut the tree down to use it

[@cjrouse9508]

These guys are the used car salesmen of this shw..

[@StockHeightChevy603]

All the other Moonshiners don’t like Mark for a reason and the vibe I get idk if I like him either. Kerry is cool people idk why he with Mark.

[@masonsanchez3551]

i love the series but i have one question if it is illegal why do they film it

[@MasterK4547]

Because they can

[@chrispile3878]

Reality TV AIN'T real.

[@adepja]

Because of weird loopholes in the law. The police have to actually catch them in the act of making or selling it, showing it on tv isn't enough to arrest them.

[@brianthomason5022]

I'm fairly certain that Birch does not taste or smell like sassafras

[@joshuapatrick682]

I get the outlaw lifestyle but if these guys went legit they’d be fucking millionaires.

[@chrispile3878]

Some of them did. Tim has Climax, Mark & Digger have SugarLands.

[@krisbrown9330]

Probably taste like birch beer

[@carl5536]

This boy and I'm talking kid as in wet behind the ears, he's a legend in his own dagon mind.. Ain't no freaking body ever made any birch bark likker..Don't get twisted cause that kid right there, He's legal now cause going illegal, Word is, he's already told on some people that made shine. He's who put heat on Mark n Diggers triple grain process..He's had to of made a deal cause when went Tim Smith he went through at least 3 to 5yrs of paperworj and he went through alot goin legal..I don't know if the money is quick enough bein legal but he's he he he he's legal and and and, Ftp bygarsh..That dam Michael made legal status quick cause his crappy liquor is on the shelves and I told those people to get rid of it and they did..I told em to double up with Mark n Diggers liquor and I been buying an selling for 300bucks per gallon and people buys it, it's 25 ollers for a fifth of it and I make 100 ollers per gallon of the APPLE RYE WHISKEY, just so's yall can heear meh dagnabit noun ima telln youns what's the dang troof bygarsh

[@clydelovett424]

If you eat some of that bark you'll SHIT a log.

[@Tantrum777]

So this is what Brittish people think all Americans are like? 😂

[@theblakex]

Most Americans came from England, so they don't have much room to talk

[@squidwardo7074]

@@theblakex that's just wrong

[@mangincmaki92]

Just the British? Lol try the whole world

[@cjmeyers2926]

I'm not an expert but couldn't it turn into wood alcohol?

[@DrGears-sn4gj]

It can but I mean every kind of alcohol can turn into methanol if you don't make it properly. Also depends on the tree, birch and cherry you can use but stuff like oak or pine will probably be basically poison.

[@XxBloodSteamxX]

I hope those aren't great value brand sugar bags! Wouldn't that be like, low quality sugar or something?

[@nasnasss6292]

Omg is that timiii

[@undyingrage2396]

Why not make a sugar wash

[@commentandlikedistributor]

bartle doo