Mark and Digger invent a high-proof thump keg. When news breaks that their friend Cowboy has been killed, they hurry to retrieve a barrel he was tending.
On the midseason premiere, Tickle and Carol open their new restaurant while Tickle contends with conflicting priorities; Mark and Digger enlist Amanda to improve their wildly popular hazelnut rum; Josh shocks his outlaw partners.
When Amanda tracks down a lost apple variety made famous by outlaw brandy, she and Kelly distill a liquor so extraordinary that Mark and Digger find themselves a little too deep in the bottle.