JACK DANIELS SMALL BOTTLES

HISTORY

There is an interesting photo hanging in Jack Daniel's old office. This is Jack with the workers of his distillery. This portrait is intriguing because there is a gentleman sitting just to the right of Jack, an African-American worker. Considering the era in which this photograph was made, around 1900, and the underlying racial divide in the American South, it is strange to see an African-American man sitting next to a business owner. But the closeness between the two hides a memorable relationship, which explains how Jack Daniel came to produce whiskey.

 The man in the photograph, we have several reasons to believe, is George Green. In addition to being friends with Jack, George was the son of Nathan "Nearest" Green. And it was Nearest Green, along with the Rev. Dan Call, who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey at the Lutheran minister's distillery.

 After leaving home at an early age, before reaching adolescence, Jack went to live and work on Reverend Call's farm in the late 1850s. It is said that Jack had a difficult relationship with his stepmother and that's why he left home. Call Farm was located about 5 miles from Lynchburg, near Lois, Tennessee. On his farm, Call had a distillery and Jack quickly became interested in it. This occurred in the days leading up to the Civil War and Emancipation, and the Call distillery was under the command of then-slave Nathan "Nearest" Green. Reverend Call and his distiller, Nearest, taught Jack how to produce whiskey. Most of this teaching was the responsibility of Nearest, who worked side by side with Jack and taught the young distiller what would be his life's passion.

 After the Civil War, Reverend Call's congregation and his wife gave the preacher an ultimatum: either stop producing whiskey or stop being a minister. Call made the decision to sell its business to Jack. And then Nearest, now a free man, was hired by Jack and became the first lead distiller, or what we now call Master Distiller, at Jack Daniel's distillery. While slave labor was part of life in the American South before the Civil War, Jack Daniel never owned slaves and instead worked alongside them. When it came time to establish his own distillery after the war, all of Jack's workers were indentured men.

 Nearest would have worked with Jack as his master distiller until Jack moved his operations to the slope cave, around 1881. There, Nearest's children George and Eli, as well as grandsons Ott, Jess and Charlie, continued the Green family tradition, working at Jack's distillery now in the cave on the slope.

 More than 150 have passed since Nearest and Jack started producing whiskey together, and until today, there has always been some member of the Green family working at Jack Daniel's distillery. If you come to visit Lynchburg, in Jack's old office you can see the portrait of Jack and Nearest's son, George Green, as well as hear a little more about the story of two unique men, their friendship and the whiskey they made together.

Filtered drop by drop through three meters of saccharine maple charcoal and matured in homemade barrels. Our Tennessee Whiskey does not follow a schedule. It is ready when the master distillers indicate it according to its appearance, its aroma and, of course, its taste. So did Jack Daniel in person more than a century ago. And they continue to do so today.

DISTILLATION

Filtered drop by drop through three meters of saccharine maple charcoal and matured in homemade barrels. Our Tennessee Whiskey does not follow a schedule. It is ready when the master distillers indicate it according to its appearance, its aroma and, of course, its taste. So did Jack Daniel in person more than a century ago. And they continue to do so today.

Do you want to buy other formats of Jack Daniels whiskey?

Attached below is a link to larger Jack Daniels formats:

JACK DANIELS whiskey tennessee 70cl

JACK DANIELS whiskey tennessee 1 liter

 JACK DANIEL'S 3 liters with Rocker