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Known as Uncle Nearest, Nathan "Nearest" Green was acknowledged in 2016 as the first African-American master distiller on record in the United States. [25] He taught Jack Daniel to make Tennessee whiskey and served as the first master distiller – formerly called "head stiller" – for the Jack Daniel Distillery as a free man after the Civil War. [26]
Known as Nearest Green, [6] or "Uncle Nearest", [1] [4] he played the fiddle and was a lively entertainer. Green's descendants say this trait was passed down to his son, Jesse Green. Slavery ended with ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865. Daniel opened his distillery a year later and immediately ...
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 name Uncle Nearest pays tribute to the first-known African American master distiller, Nearest Green, and is the first spirits brand to bear the name of a Black person. Today, the brand is ...
In 2016, entrepreneur Fawn Weaver created the Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey brand. She hired master blender Victoria Eady Butler, a distant descendant of Green, who became the first Black woman ...
Uncle Nearest CEO Fawn Weaver, Nashville's mayor and airport industry leaders spoke at the 2024 Airport Business Diversity Conference in Nashville.
This consisted of a root symbol ('IBM') + month code ('A') + strike price code ('F'). The root symbol is the symbol of the stock on the stock exchange. After this comes the month code, A-L mean January–December calls, M-X mean January–December puts. The strike price code is a letter corresponding with a certain strike price (which letter ...
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