My first husband & I went to visit his family in Tennessee one year, and every home we went to they offered up their own shine (with the comment that this is better than ole so-n-so’s).
Most of it was pretty good. I liked the charcoal stuff best.
filtering it through charcoal takes the edge off, makes it a little smoother.
Legal whiskey distillers "age" their liquor in hardwood barrels, Cherry, etc)that are burned on the inside. Thats what gives it that smoothness ( like JB)and color.