Never been a whisky man, but I did take the Jack Daniel’s tour in Lynchburg, TN a few years ago. Very interesting and worth the time if you’re ever in the area. The guides are all natives of the area and most have been working at the distillery for decades, so you get a lot of local color.
As I recall, the tour didn’t offer much information as to how Jack Daniel acquired his recipe. They did tell us that Mr. Jack was all of 15 when he acquired the distillery and ran it until his death in 1911. The story of his death has now been discredited, but the guide presented it as gospel truth when I took the tour. As she told it, Daniel had a safe where he kept money, important papers and other valued possessions. Unfortunately, he had trouble remembering the combination and opening the safe. One morning, in frustration, he kicked the safe and injured his toe. Blood poisoning set in, and he died a few days later.
The real hero of the business was Lem Motlow, one of Daniel’s nephews who joined the business in the early 1900s and ran it after Jack’s death. He was able to preserve the company’s assets during prohibition and resurrected the distillery after prohibition was lifted. The local community college is named for him, as I recall.
One other tidbit: the Jack Daniel’s distillery is located in an “officially dry country. The distillery is the only place you can buy alcohol and of course, they only sell Jack Daniel’s.
Sour mash is nasty. Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey for my.
Gobble, gobble !!
and Edison’s black servant actually invented everything, Ford’s black houseboy was the real genius, all the black janitors at NASA are the real brains of the operation.
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Isn’t that Jack Daniel?
I know I’ll take hit for this but the only bourbon that isn’t swill in my opinion is Booker’s.
They really try to make it sound like the slave invented it.
No mention of who taught the slave. Whisky was not made in Africa, but Scots and Irish had been making it hundreds of years prior. Kind of a big deal to them culturally (Call sounds like a Gaelic name).
Maybe that is the beauty of this “slave origin” story for a British audience - Tweaking the Scots, Irish and Americans, all at once.
I DONT SEE ANY FACTUAL PROOF
JUST A LOT OF INNUENDO...
LIBTARD B.S.