Tickle digs up the history and Mark, Digger and Tim judge as three highly skilled distillers battle to make Pastis, a high-octane liquor created in 1930s France to trick the law after the government banned its notorious sister spirit, Absinthe.

For centuries, moonshiners moonlighted as medicine-makers. In that backwoods tradition, three distillers compete to make moonshine that packs a medicinal punch, as Mark, Digger and Tim judge whose jar ultimately tastes the best.