Moonshiners: Smoke Ring

Tickle and Tank Jackson travel the Carolina back roads where moonshine and barbecue share a common heritage; pit masters James Sampson and Mat Griner compete to determine whose whole hog BBQ will earn the Smoke Ring title.

Legendary pitmasters join Tickle and Tank to judge an underground battle of East Carolina ribs in a contest that comes down to heritage and flavour.

Tickle and Tank pit a former moonshiner against a young gun in an underground battle for pulled pork supremacy. Barbecue legend Carey Bringle guest judges.

Georgians compete to make legendary slow-smoked chicken, which has been served for decades at community gatherings across the deep south.

In Tickle and Tank's most ambitious underground competition yet, pitmasters turn prime cuts of meat into their own masterworks of Southern-smoked sausage.

South Carolina’s rich cultural heritage fires up a surf-and-turf showdown.