Travel Channel has ordered a 10-episode season of Booze Traveler: Best Bars, in which host Jack Maxwell seeks out the best bars and drinks in the United States for various occasions. His globe-trotting hour-long series Booze Traveler, meanwhile, returns for its 16-episode third season on Monday, Dec. 12, at 10 p.m.

Best Bars (half-hour episodes) goes into production soon and is set to debut in Spring 2017, the Scripps Networks outlet said. “Jack’s curiosity and adventurous spirit is infectious – fans love following him around the world,” Courtney White, senior vice president, programming, Travel Channel said in a release. “The new series is a great opportunity for our viewers to rediscover well-known American cities by getting an inside look at the best neighborhood bars.”

Travel Channel has ordered up a third season of Jack Maxwell's Booze Traveler, greenlighting 16 more one-hour episodes of the globe-trotting, alcohol-fueled exercise in cultural awareness. The Scripps Networks Interactive outlet said the show's second season has seen a 55% gain in ratings among adults ages 25-54 versus the average of the first season's premieres. It also draws a median household income level 15% higher than the U.S. median average while ranking among the top five most-watched shows on the network, Travel Channel said. Maxwell's show has visited such locales as Argentina, Finland, Guatemala, Hawaii, Sicily, Tanzania and Texas, where he meets with the locals and shares their local favorite drinks.

“When Jack sits down with a stranger and a couple of drinks, the whole world opens up,” Courtney White, the newly named senior vice president, programming and production, at Travel Channel said in a release. “As we’ve seen from the overwhelmingly positive response to our hit series like Bizarre Foods and Expedition Unknown, Travel Channel viewers love discovering a location through its people and stories. It’s no surprise that with more than 1.8 million viewers each week, Booze Traveler would find similar success.”

Booze Traveler is produced by Karga Seven Pictures in association with White Reindeer Productions.