Tulsa King (Page 2 of 2)

We know that Dunmire has an entire distillery and national clients, and we know he's worth a bundle but we never see any of that big business side to his operation. He always feels like a small time moonshiner without seeing any of that business.  He went on and on about how the Montague 50 was something he was *owed* and his birthright and belonged to him.  And that always just felt like theft of someone else's good fortune and good product.

Then they run over this part pretty fast with only a single line really...

and I think that's a vital part of his motivation that needed to be brought up bigger and earlier.

I think the bit about him working on his 100 year old family still is him developing.  yeah there's a big operation to him, but working out new recipes to him is a tradition to be done the same way it has been for 150 years.  To him that's what separates his product from the mass produced shyte pumped out by the corporate operations.
And... Its his 'me time'/'zen time'... when he can get away from the (unseen) distractions of running the distillery operation, everyone in his ear about everything, contemplate, think, plan his next move(s).  Working the still is his version of Gibb's building the boat, on NCIS.