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The Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey CEO’s new book details the spirits producers’ friendship at the most unlikely time in American history.
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 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 ...
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.
Fawn Weaver, founder of Black-owned spirits brand Uncle Nearest, has a message for Jack Daniel’s parent company, Brown-Forman, which announced last week that it is reversing course on its ...
Jack Daniel, then a young boy, learned distillation under Nearest’s guidance and carried forward a profound respect for his teacher’s craft and expertise.
According to Uncle Nearest, Daniel would walk into bars and offer a silver dollar to anyone willing to taste his whiskey side by side with their favorite, confident his would win.
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 ...
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 ...
Jack Daniel, then a young boy, learned distillation under Nearest’s guidance and carried forward a profound respect for his teacher’s craft and expertise.
She is the two-time New York Times best-selling author of Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest.
Black Business Month: The CEO of Uncle Nearest is taking a deep dive into the Black man who influenced and taught the creator of Jack Daniel's whiskey.