The Enslaved Man Who Taught Jack Daniel His Whiskey Secrets

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The Enslaved Man Who Taught Jack Daniel His Whiskey Secrets

The amazing story of Nathan ‘Nearest’ Green, an enslaved master distiller who taught Jack Daniel his craft and pioneered the Lincoln County Process that defines Tennessee whiskey. The most famous name in American whiskey learned his craft from someone history nearly forgot. While millions of bottles bearing Jack Daniel’s name cross the globe each year, it was Nathan ‘Nearest’ Green, an enslaved master distiller in 1850s Tennessee, who first perf…