June 16, 2025
The Father, the Son and the Distilled Spirits: Uncle Nearest
"Who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey?" seems like a simple question with an obvious answer – until you discover the truth that was hidden for more than 150 years. When young orphan Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel arrived at Reverend Dan Call's farm in 1850s Tennessee, he became fascinated with the whiskey still on the property. But it wasn't the preacher who would teach Jack his craft. Instead, the reverend introduced Jack to Nathan "Nearest" Green, an enslaved man renowned throughout Lin...
"Who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey?" seems like a simple question with an obvious answer – until you discover the truth that was hidden for more than 150 years.
When young orphan Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel arrived at Reverend Dan Call's farm in 1850s Tennessee, he became fascinated with the whiskey still on the property. But it wasn't the preacher who would teach Jack his craft. Instead, the reverend introduced Jack to Nathan "Nearest" Green, an enslaved man renowned throughout Lincoln County for his exceptional distilling skills.
Nearest specialized in a technique called sugar maple charcoal filtering – now known as the Lincoln County Process – which created an exceptionally smooth whiskey uniquely different from other American spirits. Under Nearest's mentorship, Jack learned every aspect of whiskey making, establishing a friendship that would last decades.
After the Civil War ended and slavery was abolished, Jack purchased the distillery and immediately hired Nearest as his master distiller – making him the first African American to hold this title in United States history. Seven generations of Nearest's descendants would go on to work for Jack Daniel's, yet as the brand grew into a global phenomenon, Nearest's crucial contributions faded from official company history.
The truth remained buried until 2016, when a New York Times article finally brought Nearest's story into the spotlight. Author and entrepreneur Fawn Weaver became so captivated by this historical injustice that she dedicated a year to uncovering every detail of Nearest's life, gathering over 10,000 documents and eventually establishing Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey to honor his legacy.
Today, Nearest's great-great-granddaughter Victoria Eady Butler serves as master blender at the company bearing his name, which has become the fastest-growing independent American whiskey brand in history. The story of Nearest Green reminds us that behind many iconic American products lie forgotten innovators whose contributions deserve recognition. Take a sip of Tennessee whiskey and raise a glass to the man who perfected the process that makes it unique.
Love & Whiskey by Fawn Weaver
First Versions: Jack Daniels
https://www.firstversions.com/2015/08/jack-daniels.html
Why Master Distiller Nearest Green’s Story Must Be Told By Fawn Weaver
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/dining/jack-daniels-whiskey-nearis-green-slave.html
Uncle Nearest
Uncle Nearest, Our Spirit Brand of the Year, Explores Whiskey’s Overlooked History | Wine Enthusiast’s 2020 Wine Star Awards By Wine Enthusiast
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00:16 - Introduction to History Buffoons
02:13 - Discovering Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey
05:00 - Reverend Dan Call and Nathan Green
11:48 - Jack Daniel Meets His Mentor
17:39 - The Lincoln County Process
22:08 - Jack Takes Over the Distillery
26:20 - Nearest Green's Legacy Fades
32:20 - Uncovering the Hidden History
36:09 - The Birth of Uncle Nearest Whiskey
40:12 - Episode Wrap-up
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Oh, hey there, oh hey there.
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How are you?
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I'm well.
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How are you?
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I'm good.
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I am Kate.
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And I am Bradley.
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And this is History.
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Buffoons, huzzah, yes yes, yes, welcome to history, buffoons I have a?
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um surprise for you.
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Underneath the ottoman underneath yeah, the ottoman right in front of you yeah, how far do I have to reach for that?
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I mean it's probably closest to me, closer to me than it is to you.
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I'm kidding, it's probably right there okay put the microphone back.
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I'm gonna.
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I premium 1856.
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It's almost as old as me, so so read it out.
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What is it?
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so it's a premium whiskey.
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That gold is like it's shining, so it's hard to read in certain angles.
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This is is the first expression honoring my great-great-grandfather.
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I believe we have made him proud with our award-winning whiskey V E D Butler Is that the guy's name, I assume?
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That's the son, I believe.
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Yeah.
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Fifth generation yeah, Wow, that is really 50% alcohol.
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We're only having one yeah, we have a backup uh backup medellos from, uh, from the other episode.
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So actually I went, I went out and bought more so she could try different flavors.
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Wow, 100 proof.
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That's pretty good yeah, so show, show, the camera this is the um Nearest whiskey.
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So that is our drink today.
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Okay.
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So now you get to open it because I don't know how.
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All right.
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Well, I might have to edit this out, because this might take me a minute.
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Oh dear.
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I got my ice ready.
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Okay, I'll just toss that there.
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There we go, all right, how are we doing this?
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Hold, please, okay.
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He, he, ooh.
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Smell that sucker.
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Ooh, that smells good.
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Oh my goodness.
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Oh, I'm excited to try this.
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I've never had this before.
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I know, oh, really Mm-hmm.
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What's it smell like?
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It does smell oaky.
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Comes from south, a little bit of moss like there's trees nearby that's good oh, that's smooth oh, that's going down real warm maybe two.
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What?
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you think so?
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depends how much my ice melts just leave some for n.
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Oh, I will.
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I have actually a little bottle, I'll pour some into there.
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We'll finish off the rest.
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That's pretty good.
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Yeah, my first time trying it too.
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Yeah, you never would guess it's 50%.
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Wow, that's really good.
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So can you guess what our story is today I'm gonna go with.
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We're talking about rum today we're gonna talk about uncle nearest I kind of put that together and I didn't even get it up on my screen yet oh man.
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So what I'm gonna tell you is that's delicious good.
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Well, she pulls this up.
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That's really good yeah, I really like him, I wish I had more ice.
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Oh wow, that's good okay.
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So, um, yeah, I figured you liked.
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You like whiskey and this this story is actually somewhat quote-unquote.
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New, okay, information um what do you mean by that, I guess?
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um, so I'll explain it a little bit more later.
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But uncle nearest, who we're going to be speaking about, yeah, wasn't really discovered until recently so like he was around, kind of forgotten.
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Now people found out about him got yes, that's okay gotcha, gotcha yes so our story begins what year?
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1853 um about 1820 oh, so I suppose that would make sense, because this is not when he was born.
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This is what's that say well 1856 sorry 56.
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Yeah, okay, so we're gonna be in lincoln county tennessee yeah, and this is from shelbyville, tennessee, okay and a reverend dear yeah a reverend named dan call dan call who runs a church?
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Obviously yeah, and a whiskey still on the side.
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That seems really like odd.
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I mean, he's saving both spirits, right?
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Hi, uh hi.
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The Holy Spirit and the.
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The Holy Spirit and the distilled spirits.
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In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, the distilled spirits.
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Maybe that's our title.
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Father, Son and the Distilled Spirits, yes, oh wow.
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Oh, I'm going to have to write that one down Father, Son and the Distilled Spirits, Because then we won't have to try.
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What was our when we were doing our Wizard of Oz episode and I'm like I said something, what the hell was it?
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We had to go search for it.
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So Okay, so All right, anyways.
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So Reverend Call needed an expert to run his whiskey still Okay and he knew that there was an expert in town.
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He was an enslaved man.
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Oh dear.
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Named Nathan Green.
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Nathan Green, nathan Green Okay.
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Everyone called him nearest.
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Is there a reason for that?
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I did not find any, but I did find two different spellings, so like what we would say is nearer, nearest, yeah.
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And then there's one spelled N-E-A-R-I-S-T instead of E-S-T.
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Oh, nearest, or near-T, oh Near.
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East or Near East, I don't know.
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Yeah, okay.
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There's a couple different variations.
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Sure, I mean, that's rightly so, because I don't know.
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He's an insulated man in the 1800s, like in the early to late mid 1800s.
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Right, he was.
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There's actually no known photo of.
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Nearest Of this guy, mm-hmm.
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Well, I mean, I mean there obviously was photographs back then, but they weren't like everywhere, like like today where everyone's got one in their pocket, kind of thing.
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Yeah.
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Um, this feels really good on my knee.
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I love ice.
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So Nearest was born around 1820, likely into slavery Right, and by the mid-1800s he gained that reputation of being like a highly skilled distiller.
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Okay.
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He had in slavers a firm named Landis and Green who would hire him out to local farmers to make top-notch whiskey.
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Ah, so Dan Call was one of those who basically leased Nearest Services.
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Okay.
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So Nearest is like doing all these dangerous dirty work, distilling while somebody else is collecting the profits.
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essentially, I mean, that's typically what it was common, it was common, and that's what slavery was basically.
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They would have free labor to make them a lot of money.
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Yep and they would take the credit for something.
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Which is unfortunate, but either way, so distilling whiskey in the 19th century was hot, it was back-breaking and it could also blow up in your face, quite literally well, yeah, I mean, distills were very volatile and they could, uh, in a heartbeat, blow up yeah um, I know a lot of.
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Especially.
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It was in the 1950s when all the moonshine stills and all that, basically how NASCAR got started because of that.
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Did you know that?
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So forgive me I'll probably get the year wrong, but somewhere around the 1950s give or take.
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The whole reason why NASCAR started is because, basically, these still people you know still in moonshine would have to soup up their cars to outrun the cops.
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So they started doing that and that's why it's very big in the south.
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Um, but that's how.
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Basically, n wasn't just a laborer, yeah he they called him like a craftsman essentially did you come across like how he got good at doing this I mean it just, it just blows my mind that, like you know he was, if he was born into slavery, yeah, and obviously they learned skills and whatever.
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Yeah, it's just I find it fascinating that he was able to develop this skill of being really good at distilling.
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Yeah.
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So anyway, sorry I think he was just like leased out to so many people that he somehow learned yeah.
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I mean, that's very, that's very probable.
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But he specialized in a technique called sugar maple charcoal filtering.
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Okay.
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It's also known as the Lincoln County process.
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Oh, and, we were in Lincoln County, tennessee, yeah, and I will insert a couple of pictures throughout here.
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Sure, our story as well.
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Okay.
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So this meant filtering the raw whiskey through charcoal made from sugar maple wood before aging it right, which mellowed the flavor right.
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Yes, so it made whiskey super smooth and essentially the 19th century version of like a british filter, if you will well, yeah, I believe not just obviously in distilling, but I think charcoal is a naturally good filter for everything Like, even water Like yeah, I've got a charcoal filter for my kiddies water dish.
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Yeah, exactly so.
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I wrote down the Brita of bourbon the Brita of bourbon.
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Oh, my word, we have.
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We have a competing title.
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I like that one.
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Oh, that's funny.
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Oh, golly geez.
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Okay so.
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Tennessee whiskey, even today, is defined by that extra charcoal filtering step.
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Okay.
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And some historians think that this technique might have been inspired by practices by enslaved people, gotcha, which they carried from west africa, okay, and they would use the charcoal to purify food and water gotcha reverend dan call recognized near skills and folks in the area also kind of knew him and they called him uncle nearest.
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Okay, and they knew uncle nearest made quality whiskey and they wanted uncle nearest's product yeah, and uncle was kind of a a term of respect as well.
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Um, so they kind of gave him some pretty high, high praise oh sure, yeah, that makes sense so nearest green enslaved, working on a farm distillery, making what would become Lincoln County's kind of finest whiskey, enter a new character.
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Oh dear.
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A kid named Jasper Newton Daniel.
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Jack Daniels.
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Jack Daniel, yeah, jack Daniel.
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All right.
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Mm-hmm.
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His name was Jasper.
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Jasper Newton.
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Daniel, that's awesome.
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I had a cat named Jasper.
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Yes, you, daniel.
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That's awesome.
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I had a cat named Jasper.
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Yes, you did, she was cute.
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She was a female.
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She was.
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In the 1850s, young Jack was a farm kid.
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Okay, he was one of 10 in the family.
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Yeah.
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But he was eventually orphaned.
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His mother had passed away right after his birth and his father died of pneumonia.
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Oh, dear, yeah away right after his birth and, um, his father died of pneumonia.
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Oh, dear, yeah, um, I think by this time he was maybe like between six and eight years old, when that, when, he was kind of orphaned a little old, but yeah, still pretty young, yeah, okay yeah, so around seven or eight years old little jack ends up on reverend.
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Dan calls farm as a as a chore boy oh so Jack was kind of a small guy but it was really inquisitive and the whiskey still really fascinated him yeah.
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I can imagine being you know inquisitive kid, he just like what are you doing?
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I mean, you've, you've had Vesper.
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Ask you, what are you doing?
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What are you doing, Kate?
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What are you doing?
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Kate, where are you going, kate?
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Yeah, why are you doing that, kate?
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And then where's Kate?
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She got to feed her kitties.
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Yeah, pretty much so Jack pestered Reverend Call to teach him the whiskey trade.
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Okay.
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And at first the preacher kind of hesitated.
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He's like eight-year-old running a still.
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I don't know.
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I was going to say he's pretty young, he's pretty young, but I mean times were different.
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Yeah, obviously, like if xavier came up and said hey man, can you show me how to still and be like dude?
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get the fuck out of here, kid you know, but reverend was like well, I got church on sunday, so let's go ahead and do this, yeah I mean I could use, I could use the extra hands and help, because I gotta go spread the word of god while you're spreading.
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My spirits, my distilled spirits, yeah so um, so reverend call did decide to hand off that teaching to near screen.
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Sure, I mean, makes sense.
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Yes, so dan call um introduces them by saying, quote uncle nears is the best whiskey maker that I know of.
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I want jack to become the world's best whiskey distiller.
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You help me teach him.
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End quote all right, makes sense so nearest is now the mentor, mentor green the mentee yeah, um well, yeah, I mean he he clearly did a good job, because jack anna's that's got to be one of the biggest whiskeys in the world today, right?
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Oh yeah, I mean because obviously there's difference between whiskey and bourbon.
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Um, all bourbon is whiskey, but not all whiskey is bourbon.
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It's because of the process and all that stuff, but I mean it's very well recognized still today.
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So so nearest, showed jack how to mash the grain, yeah how to operate the still and, crucially, how to do the special charcoal filtering process okay so through nearest's um guardianship.
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Jack learned the lincoln county process.
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All right, okay, the this extra step would later differentiate tennessee whiskey to from plain bourbon right yes, I had a brain fart because I was like bourbon no, that's kentucky, not tennessee.
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And we're in tennessee, yeah, but bourbon, kentucky, bourbon right but bourbon can be made anywhere I mean, there's just a specific kentucky bourbon right.
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I mean there's a lot.
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There's a lot of distilleries in kentucky that make bourbon.
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You know, angels envy and um, oh my God, we passed a few when we were down there.
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Uh, other ones that I'm.
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Why, for some reason, draw a blank?
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Maybe because I want another drink of this?
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So this distilling process, filtering, process it, what is what makes Jack Daniel's whiskey tastes like Jack Daniel's whiskey?
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Okay, okay, and it came from Nears Green Fucking.
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A right so the kid was a quick study.
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As he grew into his teens, Jack not only learned to make great whiskey, but he also learned to sell it.
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Oh sure, by the time the Civil War was raging in the early 1860s, Jack was out there peddling the whiskey to soldiers who were stationed nearby.
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Well, I mean smart Uh-huh, so he would sell his whiskey to any soldier, Union or Confederate.
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Yeah.
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Why discriminate there?
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A buck's a buck.
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Exactly he's just trying to keep the people happy and make money yeah.
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I wrote down war is hell, but whiskey will take that edge off.
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War got you down.
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Take that edge off.
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War got you down.
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Take the edge off jesus christ um, so jack and the ears had developed this awesome whiskey that people in town loved, the soldiers loved.
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They also developed like a genuine friendship with each other.
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Um, over those years of working so did this?
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did he have a name for it already when he was selling it at this time?
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I do have a picture of one of their very first jugs and I don't remember the year that it was on, but this is still operating under Dan call.
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Gotcha, okay, gotcha.
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So, um, by all accounts, nearest and Jack uh respected each other, they liked each other, and Jack Daniel Litter spoke openly about how much he owed to Nearest as his teacher and his mentor.
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In fact, one of Nearest's descendants put it, quote there would never have been Jack Daniels made without a green on the property.
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End quote.
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I mean they're not wrong, that's awesome.
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They gave him the props for it.
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Jack daniel's made without a green on the property, end quote.
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I mean they're not wrong, that's that's awesome.
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