How Booze Built America - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
America's Revolution
Join Mike Rowe on the ultimate bar crawl through America's beer and liquor filled past. Starting with the Pilgrim's emergency beer run, we explore how booze shaped colonial life, caused the Boston Tea Party, and ultimately, led to the American Revolution.
Westward, Ho!
Join Mike Rowe on the ultimate bar crawl through America's booze filled past. We'll show you how alcohol helped push this great nation west, where mountain men and Johnny Appleseed pave the way for liquored up cowboys to shoot each other at the OK Corral.
To the Moon!
How alcohol fueled the space race; prohibition; the mystery of who killed John F. Kennedy.
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