Booze Traveler
While working in the bars of South Boston, Jack Maxwell learned one thing: sit down with a stranger and a couple of drinks, and the whole world opens up. Booze Traveler is Jack's search for the world's most interesting drinks, and the people who drink them.More About Booze Traveler
- 2014-2018
- 4 seasons
- Travel Channel
- Reality
While working in the bars of South Boston, Jack Maxwell learned one thing: sit down with a stranger and a couple of drinks, and the whole world opens up. Booze Traveler is Jack's search for the world's most interesting drinks, and the people who drink them.More About Booze Traveler
Season 4 Episode Guide
16 Episodes 2015 - 2018
Episode 1
Tahitian Dream
Wed, Dec 20, 2017 42 mins
Jack learns how locals turned French Polynesia into the ultimate paradise. He finds the world's rarest pearls, takes a whiff of Vanilla Valley, performs a forbidden dance by moonlight and discovers a private island.
Episode 2
Viking in a Bottle
Mon, Jan 1, 2018 42 mins
Jack searches the jaw-dropping fjords for old Viking magic in a bottle. He clinks glasses with Vikings, discovers ancient ingredients and learns the booziest myths left behind by the fearsome people of the Frozen North.
Episode 3
The Roarin' Rockies
Mon, Jan 8, 2018
Jack sees how the rugged Rocky Mountains became a world-class playground; learns the ways of the mountain men; experiences the wildest winter festival; his favorite drinking game and has the time of his life at the top of the world.
Episode 4
Costa Rica's Pure Life
Thu, Jan 15, 2015 42 mins
Jack wants to learn the true meaning of "Pura Vida," the Costa Rican secret to happiness. To find his happy place, he'll dodge a stampede of bulls, come face-to-face with a deadly snake and drink an ancient beer made from mold.
Episode 5
The Common Crown
Mon, Jan 22, 2018 42 mins
Jack meets the everyday men and women who've held up the crown. He travels back in time to the English Civil War; sings a shanty song; goes toe-to-toe with a toe wrestler; and drinks with Robin Hood in the oldest pub in the world.
Episode 6
Taiwan: Asia's Hidden Gem
Mon, Jan 29, 2018 42 mins
Jack drinks with the Taiwanese "Ghostbusters"; experiences a dazzling natural light show, deep below the earth; and finds his Zen at a private spa.. with a drunken monk.
Episode 7
Caribbean Rhythm
Mon, Feb 5, 2018 42 mins
Jack discovers the true wonders of the Caribbean islands, from drinking liquid dynamite at a hidden jungle bar and throwing back wild bush rum concoctions to scraping away poison to purify beer.
Episode 8
New England: Home Is Where the Booze Is
Mon, Feb 26, 2018 42 mins
Jack heads back to his native soil for a boozy homecoming in New England. He gets to live one of his greatest childhood dreams at Fenway Park, drinks a bizarre beaver-spiked liquor and learns what it takes to be a lobsterman.
Episode 9
France: L'Art de Booze
Mon, Mar 5, 2018 42 mins
Jack experiences the art of living in France; explores the beautiful and brutal world of water jousting; drinks boozy foam in the French Alps with a couple hundred goats and toasts the finest champagne on Bastille Day.
Episode 10
Italy: It's Personal
Mon, Mar 12, 2018 42 mins
Jack finds out rivalries run deep in Italy -- and make it a whole lot sweeter. He consults a bronze pig for good luck, picks walnuts with a local witch, lifts a curse with brandy and finds a spot in the world's smallest bar.
Episode 11
Czech Castles and Cocktails
Mon, Mar 19, 2018 42 mins
Jack finds the Czech Republics's most magical elixirs and beer. He stumbles upon one of the oldest clocks in the world, drinks booze in Hansel and Gretel's gingerbread shop; and delves as deep as a dwarf in the Punkva caves.
Episode 12
Boozy Beginnings of the Chesapeake Bay
Mon, Mar 26, 2018 42 mins
Jack makes crude colonial cocktails; races blue crabs; hunts and traps eels and muskrats; then discovers the origins of America's first whiskey.
Episode 13
Southwest Spirits
Mon, Apr 2, 2018 42 mins
Jack flies in the world's largest hot air balloon parties; drinks with battle-scarred Rodeo clowns; gets wow'd at a wild art instillation; and taste the hottest peppers to find the true spirit -- or spirits -- of the Southwest
Episode 14
The End Begins in Chile
Mon, Apr 9, 2018 42 mins
From a cocktail cooled with glacier ice to an ancient drink with Chile's first people, Jack discovers how the locals live, play and drink in a land at the end of the world.
Episode 15
Michigan's Endless Summer
Mon, Apr 16, 2018 42 mins
Jack heads to the Great Lakes to relive his favorite childhood summer adventures. He motors through the Silver Lake sand dunes, meets world champion lumberjacks, makes fudge on Mackinac Island and finds a boozy summer camp.
Episode 16
Wet & Wild Pacific Northwest
Mon, Apr 23, 2018 42 mins
Jack heads to the Pacific Northwest in the footsteps of great explorers; he drinks beers in a hot tub boat; takes a seaplane to micro-distilleries on the San Juan Islands; and tries a drink made with bacteria and yeast.