Actor/adventurer Jack Maxwell learned a lot working in South Boston bars, and one lesson stood out: Enjoy a couple of drinks with a stranger, and the whole world opens up. Those experiences inspired "Booze Traveler," which follows Maxwell to various countries to quench his curiosity about what people drink, why, and the tales it prompts. In Armenia, Belize, Lithuania, Mongolia, Nepal and elsewhere, Maxwell learns its intoxicating traditions, meets with locals, joins in activities, and even helps with the alcohol-making process. He finds a unique drink, makes friends and shares stories in each spot.
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Air Date: 2014-11-24
Beer, rebellion, soccer, Islam and fiery brandy stir modern Turkey. Although drinking is highly restricted, Turks dri...
Air Date: 2014-12-01
From Machu Picchu to the fiery capital of Lima, Peru serves up strange magic at every turn. Jack is in the Land of th...
Air Date: 2014-12-08
With more bars per capita than any other European country, Spain is just one big fiesta for Jack Maxwell. From tastin...
Air Date: 2014-12-15
From soothing hops baths to Zirbenschnapps, a digestive pinecone schnapps, booze in Austria doubles as a medicinal me...
Air Date: 2014-12-22
The land is cold, but the people are warm and full of spirit — the kind of spirit you can drink! Icelanders stay toas...
Air Date: 2014-12-29
Jack travels to the base of the Khangai Mountains to try fermented horse milk; takes a tour of a factory where liquid...
Air Date: 2015-01-05
From his hometown of Boston to the highest mountain range in the world, Jack travels high into the Himalayas to taste...
Air Date: 2015-01-12
Jack takes his booze travels to Japan, a country that has a reputation for being a little unconventional. Amid a cult...
Air Date: 2015-01-19
Lithuania proves that 50 years of oppression didn’t change the ways of the people. Jack gets an inside look at the wo...
Air Date: 2015-01-26
Jack experiences the rich, innovative drinking history of the Netherlands. He parties on a bike bar, visits a bank fi...
Air Date: 2015-02-02
Human sacrifice, mulberry moonshine, wine grapes from Noah's ark and brandy that changed the world.
Air Date: 2015-02-09
The Day of the Dead in The Big Easy with tobacco liquor and voodoo room service.
Air Date: 2015-02-16
As Jack explores the many drinks Belize has to offer, he finds that the rugged Central American paradise has attracte...
Air Date: 2015-02-23
Jack Maxwell's tour of South Africa includes a fruit that will give an elephant a buzz, homemade honey hooch, Zulu tr...
Air Date: 2015-03-02
A link between moonshiners and George Washington; a legendary whiskey brought back from the dead.