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In 2016, Weaver went to Tennessee to interview Nearest Green's descendants for a book project. [8] [9] Weaver's work helped reveal the history of Jack Daniel Distillery included Nearest Green as its first master distiller and mentor to a young Jack Daniel, [10] [11] inspiring her to found and launch the Nearest Green Distillery and the Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey brand in 2017.
The foundation is funded by the sales of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey and the sales of Jack Daniel's official biography, Jack Daniel's Legacy. [19] [20] Uncle Nearest's Master Blender, Victoria Eady Butler, is a descendant of Green, and the first known African-American female whiskey master blender. [21]
[2] [3] According to the IWSR, Uncle Nearest is the fastest-growing whiskey brand in the United States, [4] and is recognized as the most successful Black-owned distillery in the world. [ 5 ] Uncle Nearest was named one of the 100 Reasons to Love America by People magazine in 2021, [ 6 ] and one of Inc. 's 5000 fastest-growing US companies from ...
Launched in 2017, Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey is now the top-selling Black-owned spirits brand globally as measured by sales and among the fastest-growing American whiskey companies. It stands ...
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Nelson's Green Brier Distillery uses the Lincoln County Process to make its wheated First 108 Tennessee whiskey and its white whiskey. [12] Collier and McKeel, made in Nashville, uses a method that pumps the whiskey slowly through 10–13 feet (3–4 m) feet of sugar maple charcoal (instead of using gravity) made from trees cut by local sawmills.
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