'Jack Daniel's Legacy' mentions Nearest Green's family more than Jack's own
Fawn Weaver · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver · Oct 4, 2021 · at 27:01
Fawn Weaver is the founder of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey. She is discussing researching the biography 'Jack Daniel's Legacy' to verify Nearest Green's role in creating Jack Daniel's whiskey.
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“Jack Daniels Legacy. It was a biography by a local journalist out of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who goes to Lynchburg, Tennessee, to write the authoritative biography on the most famous whiskey maker in the world. And very early on into the book, It introduces this white preacher and distiller who Jack came to work for him as a chore boy, and Nearest Green was working the still at that time. This preacher, according to this biography, says that he introduces Jack to Nearest by saying, this is Uncle Nearest. He's the best whiskey maker that I know of. And then every page, it was either Nearest Green or his sons, Eli Green and George Green. I mean, they were very, very prominent. In terms of mentions in this book, and they were mentioned more times than Jack's own family.”
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