Booze Traveler

Booze Traveler

2014
Booze Traveler
Booze Traveler

Booze Traveler

8.3 | TV-PG | en | Documentary

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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EP16  Wet And Wild Pacific Northwest
Apr. 23,2018
Wet And Wild Pacific Northwest

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EP15  Michigan's Endless Summer
Apr. 16,2018
Michigan's Endless Summer

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.

EP14  The End Begins in Chile
Apr. 09,2018
The End Begins in Chile

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.

EP13  Southwest Spirits
Apr. 02,2018
Southwest Spirits

Drinks of the American Southwest; one of the largest hot air balloon parties in the world; drinking with rodeo clowns; mind-blowing art instillation; hottest peppers.

EP12  Boozy Beginnings Of The Chesapeake Bay
Mar. 26,2018
Boozy Beginnings Of The Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay is the land of great beginnings and Jack Maxwell is tracing its origins one drink at a time. He makes crude colonial cocktails, races blue crabs, hunts and traps eels and muskrats then finds the origins of America's first whiskey -- because sometimes you have to go to the beginning to see how the Chesapeake's boozy story ends.

EP11  Czech Castles and Cocktails
Mar. 19,2018
Czech Castles and Cocktails

Jack finds the Czech Republic's most magical elixirs and beers; he stumbles upon one of the oldest clocks in the world, drinks booze in a gingerbread shop that would make Hansel and Gretel blush and delves as deep as a dwarf in the Punkva caves.

EP10  Italy: It's Personal
Mar. 12,2018
Italy: It's Personal

Jack finds out rivalries run deep in Italy; 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.

EP9  L'Arte de Booze
Mar. 05,2018
L'Arte de Booze

Jack experiences the art of living in France, one drink at a time. He 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.

EP8  Home is Where the Booze Is
Feb. 26,2018
Home is Where the Booze Is

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, sinks a British ship, drinks a bizarre beaver-spiked liquor and learns what it takes to be a lobsterman.

EP7  Caribbean Rhythm
Feb. 05,2018
Caribbean Rhythm

Jack discovers the true wonders of the Caribbean Islands. Featured: drinking liquid dynamite at a hidden jungle bar; throwing back wild bush rum concoctions; and scraping away poison to purify beer.

EP6  Asia's Hidden Gem
Jan. 29,2018
Asia's Hidden Gem

Jack drinks in Taiwan, the greatest hidden gem of East Asia. He 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.

EP5  The Common Crown
Jan. 22,2018
The Common Crown

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 in the Caribbean of the UK; goes toe-to-toe with a toe wrestler; and drinks with Robin Hood in the oldest pub.

EP4  Costa Rica's Pure Life
Jan. 15,2018
Costa Rica's Pure Life

Jack wants to learn the true meaning of "Pura Vida": the Costa Rican secret to true happiness. To find his happy place, he dodges a stampede of bulls, comes face-to-face with a deadly snake, and drinks an ancient beer made from mold.

EP3  The Roarin' Rockies
Jan. 08,2018
The Roarin' Rockies

Jack wants to see how the rugged Rocky Mountains became a world-class playground. He learns the ways of the mountain men, experiences the wildest winter festival, and finds his favorite drinking game.

EP2  Viking In A Bottle
Jan. 01,2018
Viking In A Bottle

Jack searches fjords for old Viking magic in a bottle; he clinks glasses with Vikings, discovers powerful and ancient ingredients and learns the booziest myths left behind by the fearsome people of the Frozen North.

EP1  Tahitian Dream
Dec. 18,2017
Tahitian Dream

Maxwell immerses himself in the culture of Tahiti; he has an authentic tamure dream, a drink named for a traditional dance; he tastes brut d'ananas, a pineapple champagne, and pia uru, a local beer brewed from breadfruit.

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8.3 | TV-PG | en | Documentary | More Info
Released: 2014-11-24 | Released Producted By: Karga Seven Pictures , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.travelchannel.com/shows/booze-traveler
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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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richardlichman I had watched every episode of this show. It combined two of my favorite parts of life: travel and drink. My brother was in a recent episode. He told me that Jack has a guy on his crew whose job it is to make fake drinks to look like whatever he's supposed to be drinking in that segment. What a poser. This is worse than when I found out that Santa Claus was fake and that Richard Nixon wasn't.
AudioFileZ The Booze Traveler is Jack Maxwell's particular slant on a travelogue show. Jack often takes roads less traveled too ending up in remote and exotic locales. The common denominator is what the locals imbibe alcoholically. It's a unique mixture. It leans heavy to local culture as filtered through the indigenous drinks. Hopscotching through whatever country it blends education and entertainment with the element of a travelogue show. Jack Maxwell is a personable host. Jack's on-screen persona is what you might call "uber chipper". If he's faking he's giving it everything. Maxwell seems to love his work even when he's in, for lack of better terms, quite depressing and backward cultures. For pure fun the similar show "Chug" is more pure entertainment, but Maxwell's take on world drinking is actually more educational while still retaining his ever present optimism. I've watched more than half of the available episodes and I'm hooked. I feel I'm seeing things I'd never be able to experience in one lifetime as well as gaining a bit of insight of how besides math alcohol is universal. If I had to recommend one episode it would have to be the season two number 3 one where Jack goes to Finland. Not only is Finland wholly a unique and mystical place but it has the greatest cocktail mixing scene of all time at the end of the episode. The drink called "sudden death" is a spectacle. It makes the bottle juggling scene in the movie "Cocktail" look as stupid and baseless as it really is. This is one you've got to see!Booze Traveler might be primarily for the drink enthusiast, but it has a richness of culture that separates it from the small genre it lives in. Jack is the prefect host as he is almost too genial and upbeat, but certainly a man on a mission who loves his work. IN some ways this is actually both art and educational while being quite fun to watch, a rare combination indeed and not unlike a magic elixir bringing disparate people together in a unique way. I think this show rocks!
Nikhil Hirani Booze Traveler is hosted by the immensely positive and likable Jack Maxwell as travels around the world to try out new drinks and have fun. Despite the name, the show not only explores alcoholic drinks but also the culture of the region or country. I've only watched three episodes as of now. The production quality is superb and even the strictest of teetotalers will like the show. Suffice to say it is a must watch.PS: Favorite moments- where Jack drinks a concoction made from sweet potatoes which are fermented by chewing and spitting them out.where he drinks the Turkish national drink Raki.where Jack drinks the Queimada after the Celtic fire ritual.
R. Silver I'm giving this show a solid 8 out of 10. Overall, it's a nice travel show and you actually get to learn a lot about different places and cultures - and especially how booze is intertwined in those cultures! Just from a travel standpoint - even if you're not an alcoholic, it's a good show.I like the host but he's probably the reason I didn't give the show a full 10 out of 10. He's a bit too over-the-top "American! Ya!". Like when he's at a table with people in Peru who barely speak English and he's throwing around all this American slang like they're supposed to understand it. Don't know why but that just frustrated me. He could also be a bit more expressive of his gratitude when some of these people go through all their efforts to make him a intricate cocktail or whatever.. (thinking of the Japan episode where this guy makes him this extravagant cocktail in a diamond-shaped glass that he carved first out of purified ice and all he says is "now that's a cocktail"). He's also just looking to get wasted all the time. Again a bit unappreciative to the people he's visiting when he just wants to 'down' their labored or aged alcohol they've opened specially for him.My complaints a bit petty, but overall I really like the show and will continue to watch!