How A Poor Tennessee Boy Created Jack Daniels

Jack daniels tastes the same today it tasted 50 years ago. I somewhat doubt it tastes any different then it did 100 years ago.

And JD is sort of half a bourbon half a wiskey. If you judge it against an Irish whiskey then yeah, doesn’t even taste like the same type of spirit. American whiskey distilleries had more in common with moonshine then traditional whiskey back in the 1800s.

@arizona_anime_fan THEY DID TRY TO TO HIDE IT AND FXXK WORKING FOR THEM THE GREEN FAMILY SHOULD HAVE OWN A HUGE PERCENTAGE OF JACK DANIELS BECAUSE WITHOUT NEAREST GREEN WHO BTW WAS AN INDIGENOUS BLACK AMERICAN INDIAN NOT AFRICAN, IF NOT FOR HIM THERE WOULD BE NO JACK DANIELS WHISKEY!!!!

@MRBUCKMENHATTEN greene taught Jack how to brew whiskey with the Lincoln County Process when he was working for Pastor Call at his distillery when Green was still a slave. Jack was a pennyless orphan who had been working in the pastor’s brewery for almost 10 years. Green wasn’t the pastor’s slave, but he was on hire from his owner as he was a in high demand for his skill with whiskey distillery.

A temperance movement swept through Lincoln county, and the pastor chose his church over his distillery, and sold his distillery to Jack.

Within a year of that the Civil war had ended and Nat Green had been emancipated. Jack hired him on the spot to be his chief distiller. He didn’t “steal” anything from green. The Call Distillery was already using the lincoln county method (charcol filtered) distilation. Green didn’t invent the method either. no one knows who did or didn’t invent it. he was a master brewer of the method though.

Green remained Jack’s chief distiller for the rest of his life, and employed the green family the rest of his life. When Jack died his nephew took over the distillery and continued to credit nathan green and his family, and continued employing his family as well.

What happened to Green and his legacy is prohibition and racism. Prohibition hit the state of Tennessee before it went national, and they were forced to close the distillery, this of course meant any coherence in employment or connection to jack or nat basically was ended.

by the time prohibition ended in Tennessee, 20+ years had passed, so jack’s nephew was forced to get things going from scratch, and within a year of starting operations again, WW2 started and he was forced by the government to make medicinal alcohol for medical purposes, so again, business screeched to a halt, and before the war ended, jack’s nephew was dead. to the new owners credit (the children of the last one) they continued the tradition of hiring green family decendents as distillers, a tradition that carries on to today.

the distillery moved along till the brothers didn’t want to run it anymore and sold it to Brown distilleries with the promise they never change the distillery process, bottles, or brewing location (Lynchburg Tennessee). Brown distilleries had no interest in the history of jack daniels or the green’s roll in it, but they didn’t really control the running of the distillery and the people in the know continued to hire decedents of nat green as distillers.

No one hid the story or buried it. It’s a well known story in Lynchburg Tennessee, 7 unbroken generations of greens have worked in the distillery since 1866. furthermore the distillery has always had pay based on longevity of employment instead of race or position, a tradition started by jack, and continues to this day. meaning nat green was always the highest paid employee of jack Daniels, and many of his children/grand kids have had the honor. it’s also always been open and welcoming to minority employment.

I don’t know where this millennial victim narrative bullshit comes from to attempt to paint Jack Daniels as racist, but the facts and history does not support it. while the parent company Brown has had a weird relationship with race and DEI, and has done some things worthy of criticism the worst criticism that can be levied at Jack Daniels is during it’s time under the ownership of brown it mostly hid it’s relationship and the importance of Nat Green in it’s marketing, something it never did during jacks’ time. and a practice brown ended in the 90s. 20 years after it’s acquisition of JD.

JD itself has long supported african american distillers, even helping a child of Green get his own competing whiskey distillery going, which still runs to this day (Uncle Nearest whiskey, founded by Fawn Weaver)