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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]
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]
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.
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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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