Booze Traveler

2014
Booze Traveler

Seasons & Episodes

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EP1 Tahitian Dream Dec 18, 2017

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.

EP2 Viking In A Bottle Jan 01, 2018

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.

EP3 The Roarin' Rockies Jan 08, 2018

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.

EP4 Costa Rica's Pure Life Jan 15, 2018

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.

EP5 The Common Crown Jan 22, 2018

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.

EP6 Asia's Hidden Gem Jan 29, 2018

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.

EP7 Caribbean Rhythm Feb 05, 2018

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.

EP8 Home is Where the Booze Is Feb 26, 2018

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.

EP9 L'Arte de Booze Mar 05, 2018

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.

EP10 Italy: It's Personal Mar 12, 2018

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.

EP11 Czech Castles and Cocktails Mar 19, 2018

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.

EP12 Boozy Beginnings Of The Chesapeake Bay Mar 26, 2018

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.

EP13 Southwest Spirits Apr 02, 2018

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.

EP14 The End Begins in Chile Apr 09, 2018

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.

EP15 Michigan's Endless Summer Apr 16, 2018

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.

EP16 Wet And Wild Pacific Northwest Apr 23, 2018

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8.3| 0h30m| TV-PG| en| More Info
Released: 24 November 2014 Canceled
Producted By: Karga Seven Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.travelchannel.com/shows/booze-traveler
Synopsis

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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rburlet-465-192603 Jack Maxwell does an outstanding job of bringing something we enjoy into the world of politically correct and taboo. He travels the world in a quest to see what bonds people together.. alcohol. Culture , tradition and family. This is a fun interesting show that makes me want a cocktail every night... Enjoy...
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!
Anna Faktorovich Excerpt from Cinematic Codes Review: Spring 2016 Issue: for visuals see: https://anaphoraliterary.com/journals/ccr/film-reviews-spring-2016/Travel Channel's Booze Traveler seems to be the networks answer to losing Anthony Bourdain to CNN, and it's a pretty good deal. Initially, I was concerned that Jack Maxwell, the host and a career bartender from Boston, could pull off an entire series about booze, as opposed to Bourdain's focus on all foods. But before the end of the first episode on Turkey, I was hooked and curious to see what else Jack would have to say about alcohol. Each episode introduces a few curious drinks from the far ends of the earth that I have never heard of. I drink alcohol about once in two years, but I don't think this show is intent on selling these drinks to viewers. "I didn't know I could drink unfermented horse milk," Jack says in the Mongolian episode. He also ends up drinking alcohol made by chewing and spitting the components out, and other unappetizing exotic treats. I really liked goat's milk when I was a child and had some at a farm without any additives or purification: it was sweet and buttery, so I can imagine how these types of drinks might taste great, but watching them through the TV screen inspire awe rather than thirst. This is a show for people who enjoy learning about foreign cultures, customs and drinks, and not a show for alcoholics to find a new drink to get at their local bar. Fig. 27. Rasheed Sali, left, and Jack Maxwell at a resurrected grape farm in Bozcaada, Turkey. Season 1, Episode 1.Jack takes viewers through the various stages of alcohol production and preparation. In the still above, he is with Rasheed Sali on a grape farm in Turkey, smelling the ripening grapes to describe how they are preferential to regular grapes used in most modern wines. Fig. 28. Jack Maxwell (right) with a boat operator in Peru. Season 1, Episode 2.There are many shots of Jack traveling through dense jungle, roaring rivers and seas, and hiking up mountains, so that somebody who is only interested in finding places to visit will find plenty of sites to travel to. In Episode 2, Jack Maxwell narrates: "Peru is really magical." The camera pans to a shot of a scorpion. "And by that I mean, maybe a little witchy. You can't throw a rock without hitting a shaman here. And the landscape is hypnotic and extreme…" As he says this, goats are shown hopping down a rocky incline. Most of the narration pokes fun at the absurdities of international peculiarities, while also expressing a deep love for these charming oddities. Fig. 29. Canelazo factory on the Amazon River in Peru, with the factory equipment and sugarcane in the background, the operators on the right, and Jack on the left.The scenes of Jack picking sugarcane, and then helping to pull it through complex machinery at a Canelazo outdoorish factory on the Amazon River in Peru were stunning. Each of these epic projects to help with every step of an alcohol brewing process before partaking in the drink is inspiring, and Jack frequently says so. Fig. 30. Yohanah, owner and barman (right), the Viking warrior-impersonator and hair dresser (middle), and Jack (left) with a giant traditional Icelandic meal, twice-smoked lamb's foot, outside of Reykjavik, Iceland. Season 1, Episode 5.In the Iceland episode, Jack joins a group of Viking impersonators for a kind of battle in a parking garage. He gets hit across the nose with an actually sharp blade of one of the fighters, leaving a small scar. He says, bravely, that he is glad to have received a real-life battle scar. He is then taken by the leader of these "Vikings" to a neighboring restaurant where he eats a bit of a twice-smoked rubbery lamb's foot, the size of his arm. He complains and obviously looks like he doesn't want to try it, but braves through it for the show. Fig. 31. Jack, with the help of Mongolian migratory herders of the Kimindorz clan in the Khangai Mountains, is trying to milk a horse to make the Mongolian warrior nomad-derived fermented horse milk, airag. Season 1, Episode 6.In Episode 6, Jack narrates to images of him attempting to milk a horse, while its babe is standing nearby to fool the horse into thinking that the little one is the one getting the milk: "Harder than it looks. If the pressure isn't just right, the mare calls bullshit." At this point, the mare in the video makes a move as if to kick him, and makes him lose his balance, all because his "pressure" wasn't exact like the professionals'. This is a very dangerous stunt because migratory Mongols are ranked as the best horse riders on the planet, and they probably made the milking process look easy, while the mare probably could have easily killed Jack with a kick if he made the slightest mistake. It's this sort of bravery to do stunts that nobody sitting at home and watching it would want to actually attempt that makes for great television. Title: Booze Traveler Star and Writer: Jack Maxwell Genre: Reality-TV Series Running Time: 43 min per episode Release: 2014-present
jd_consult1 The show seems to fall short. The viewer is never shown the darker side of going on a bender in a foreign country. Sure we're introduced to all kinds of exotic drinks and interesting places, but something is missing. You never see Jack Maxwell stiff as a board drunk.Maybe what the show needs is a nice trip to a Mexican border town. He should visit the soft underbelly of the seedy side of some cuidad where he gets so sloppy that he can't tell whether or not the fat hookers he's buying rounds for are men or women. Maybe follow that up with a fight with the locals, a tune up by a pair of local Policia, and a weekend in a Mexican jail. Now that would have the makings for an entertaining travel TV show.