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Uncle Nearest, Inc., launched the Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey brand in July 2017 and subsequently announced plans to expand into domestic and international markets, debuting its first whiskey, Nathan Green 1870 Single Barrel, in October 2018. [8] It is the first spirit named after an African-American.
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]
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.
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.
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 ...
Nathan "Nearest" Green – The actual first master distiller of Jack Daniel's whiskey went unacknowledged for more than a century, but Brown-Forman – the owner of Jack Daniel's – officially recognized Green, an African American former slave, as the mentor of a young Jack Daniel in May 2017. Two new whiskeys named after Green – Uncle ...
Rượu đế is a distilled liquor from Vietnam, made of either glutinous or non-glutinous rice. It was formerly made illegally and is thus similar to moonshine. It is most typical of the Mekong Delta region of southwestern Vietnam (its equivalent in northern Vietnam is called rượu quốc lủi). Its strength varies, but is typically 40 ...
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