![]() ![]() I didn't want to deal with grieving my niece's death. Weaver: Well, I think you had two things going on. The book very quickly became an escape and where the story began.įluker: What possessed you to explore this story further? I pull out the book, and I start reading it. I went into my office and saw the Jack Daniel's Legacy book on my desk. After journeying back to Los Angeles and planning her funeral, I got back to work. The last thing I'm thinking about is Jack and the Black man sitting next to him after this point. So, you go from this experience in Singapore, reading this story, this headline, becoming inspired but then losing my niece/daughter. During the Singapore trip, I learned that my niece, Britney, who I helped raise, got into a bad motorcycle accident. Because I was in Singapore trying not to think about the money I was about to lose in this investment, I had days while my husband was in meetings to do nothing but sleuth the internet.Ī Wikipedia page popped up later in the day, and it referenced a book called Jack Daniel's Legacy. Many people took the title, "Jack Daniels embraces hidden ingredients, help from a slave." Then everybody began writing stories that had nothing to do with the original story. The story started circulating on the internet very quickly. It was clear Jack Daniels didn't want anyone to forget who the Black man in the photo was. Because everyone looked at the image and began to immediately assume that Jack Daniel enslaved a person, that he'd stolen the recipe, that he'd hidden the enslaved person or that he didn't give him credit. So, the question was, who's the Black man? He ceded the center position of the image to the black man. More importantly, if you look at the photo overall, Jack is the off-center one. I'm looking at this photo and going, "This isn't just a black man to the right of Jack Daniel." It's the 19th century that in and of itself was already strange. ![]() That was how we came to know the story, was a headline that said, "Jack Daniels embraces a secret ingredient, help from a slave."īut the photo with the Black men next to him, people hadn't seen before. ![]() The photo showed Jack Daniels surrounded by his entire team, who was all white, but in the center was a Black man, George Green, son of Nearest Green. Weaver: I was in Singapore on my husband's business trip when I first saw Uncle Nearest on the cover of the New York Times International Edition. Like, insanely expensive.Fluker: Let's reflect on June 2016 where were you when you first heard distiller Nathan Nearest Green's story? What made you trek to Tennessee to interview his descendants, to uncover a story, and to reveal that he was close and had an extremely tight connection with Jack Daniels? (Nota bene: Some of these bottles are expensive. “But it’s out there.” With that bit of encouragement, we searched high and low for 10 exciting aged bourbon and rye bottles to recommend. “Demand has grown so dramatically you have to look hard and far to find it,” says Roy Danis, CEO of Clyde May’s Whiskey. But many of them are sourcing inventory from established distilleries, so a ready supply is becoming tougher to come by. Times have changed and more brands sell old whiskey than ever. “Back then, there wasn’t much appetite at all for it.” “When I got into the business 20 years ago, I would go to Kentucky for holidays, and I knew there was all this old bourbon being blended into four-year-old whiskey or evaporating into nothing,” says Trey Zoeller, founder of Jefferson’s Bourbon. ![]() Whiskey producers are always looking for the next new thing, which sometimes happens to be an old thing: Extra-aged whiskey is having a moment. ![]()
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