'Booze Traveler' drinks his fill around the world

Jack Maxwell drinks for a living.

From moss schnapps in Iceland to gut-busting raki in Turkey and home-brew in the Himalayas, he's learned the hard way that tippler's truism: "It's always 5 o'clock somewhere."

Maxwell says shining shoes as a kid in the barrooms of South Boston helped prepare him to host Booze Traveler, which debuts this month on the Travel Channel.