Discovery · Ended

How Booze Built America

2012

Last aired: S1 E3, To the Moon! · 2012-10-03

Mike Rowe is thirsty. Really thirsty. And after doing hundreds of dirty jobs, who can blame him? In Discovery's three-part series How Booze Built America, host Mike Rowe takes a break from the dirty jobs … and takes a seat at the bar. Did you know that the Puritans landed the Mayflower early on Plymouth Rock … because they ran out of beer? Or that Johnny Appleseed was actually creating farms to sell hard apple cider? Mike Rowe does, and he'll walk you through all of this and more. He's proven that dirty jobs can be fun. He's ready to do the same for history.

Cast

Mike Rowe Host

Season 1

E1 America's Revolution 2012-09-19 · 60 min 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.

E2 Westward, Ho! 2012-09-26 · 60 min 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.

E3 To the Moon! 2012-10-03 · 60 min How alcohol fueled the space race; prohibition; the mystery of who killed John F. Kennedy.

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