Whiskey lovers have come to know and love the taste of Uncle Nearest. With products in more than 45,000 stores, hotels, bars, and restaurants around the globe, the premium whiskey, launched by CEO ...

Nathan Nearest Green was an enslaved distiller who taught young Jack Daniel to make Tennessee whiskey. Green became the first master distiller for Jack Daniel's Distillery in 1866.

In 1864 a Tennessee farm boy named Jack Daniel started cooking up whiskey. His mentor and guide in that process was an enslaved man named Nathan Green—known to most folks in the area as Uncle ...

Jack Daniel's is a famous whiskey brand, but Daniel didn’t create the method for distilling Tennessee whiskey. He learned it from a formerly enslaved man named Nearest Green. Fawn Weaver created ...

Uncle Nearest: The Story. ... the founder of the Jack Daniel’s brand. Green’s relationship with Jack Daniel began on a farm in Lynchburg. Jack Daniel, then a young boy, ...

Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey, the world's most-awarded Bourbon and Tennessee Whiskey for six consecutive years (2019-2024), has appointed Mark McCallum, former President of Jack Daniel's and ...

In “Jack Daniel’s Legacy,” Ben A. Green describes the introductory meeting of Jack Daniel to George Washington and Nathan “Nearest” Green: “Jack, this is Uncle Nearest Green,” said ...

As part of that leadership effort, Nearest Green and Jack Daniel’s have planned a Spirits on the Rise Summit on April 15 and 16 in the distilleries’ hometowns of Lynchburg and Shelbyville.

Uncle Nearest founder speaks out about Jack Daniel’s DEI backlash. Emboldened by last year’s Supreme Court decision banning affirmative action at the college level, conservatives have taken ...

HOUSTON - Do you know the real story behind Jack Daniel's whiskey?. The CEO of Uncle Nearest has written a book that details how a former slave played a major part in the iconic brand.

The Black-owned brand is named after Nathan “Nearest” Green, the enslaved man who taught Jack Daniel how to distill—a piece of whiskey history that wasn’t recognized until Brown-Forman ...

This is the spirit of inclusion that guided Jack Daniel in his day, and it’s the spirit that guides Uncle Nearest now. As we discuss DEI today , it feels like we’re losing the plot.