Three skilled shiners compete using both freeze and heat distillation in a battle to make America's first liquor. Lisa Laird Dunn from America's oldest distillery joins Mark, Digger and Tim to judge whose applejack deserves the title of Master Distiller.

Mark, Digger and Tim judge as notorious still hands Howard, Huck and Kelly face off in a battle of skill and hilarity to determine which aspiring moonshiner makes the best corn liquor to win a thousand dollars' worth of sheet copper and earn the title of Master Distiller.