Aggie77
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Post by Aggie77 on Jan 14, 2022 9:20:18 GMT -5
In 2016, Fawn Weaver went to Tennessee to interview Nearest Green's descendants for a book project. 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, inspiring her to found and launch the Nearest Green Distillery and the Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey brand in 2017. This made Weaver the first African-American woman to head a major spirits brand, and also the first American spirit brand with an all-female executive team. In 2019, she became the first African-American to be featured on the cover of American Whiskey magazine. Known as Uncle Nearest, Nathan "Nearest" Green has been acknowledged since about 2016 as the first African-American master distiller on record in the United States. 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. He was reportedly instrumental in developing the Lincoln County Process, the sugar maple charcoal filtering method used to make most Tennessee Whiskey. How I Built This Podcast
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Post by AggiePride on Jan 27, 2022 14:14:36 GMT -5
It is so smooth.
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