47: Drinking Buddies: Jack Daniel and Nearest Green

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🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Jack Daniel’s is the top-selling whiskey in the world. For more than 150 years, it’s been made using time-honored methods that go back to when Jack Daniel made the whiskey himself. (Yes, he was a real person.) But who taught “Mr. Jack” how to make that whiskey? Nearest Green, a formerly enslaved man. Unlike Jack Daniel, though, most people don’t know his name, so one woman has made it her mission to tell the world his story one sip at a time.

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0:00.0	Guys, what they're doing here only happens one to two days out of the week.
0:12.4	I'm going to be honest, this is really exciting.
0:15.2	Very rarely does a person actually get to see this happen.
0:18.2	I'm at the Jack Daniels Distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee, and what I'm watching is a crucial
0:22.7	step in why the whiskey that's made here is unique.
0:25.8	This huge metal hood surrounded by four concrete pillars is an enormous stack of sugar maple
0:31.5	wood and it is on fire.
0:33.8	It's going to burn for an hour and a half.
0:36.8	It's going to reach temperatures close to 1800 degrees and when it's done, it's natural
0:42.7	lumped charcoal.
0:44.4	That charcoal will be ground up into pea-sized pieces and then used in a process called charcoal
0:48.9	mellowing.
0:49.9	What we're going to do is drip your whiskey through the charcoal and this is what makes
0:54.3	us a Tennessee whiskey.
0:56.2	This is going to make your whiskey extremely smooth and this is what separates us from
1:00.5	a bourbon.
1:01.5	For more than 150 years, Jack Daniels has been making whiskey this way going all the way
1:05.8	back to the day when Jack Daniel made it himself.
1:08.6	Yes, he was a real person.
1:10.4	And y'all are only listening to me because I have a can of whiskey sitting right there.
1:16.7	In Tennessee, there's a long tradition of Scotch Irish settlers who turn grains like
1:20.8	corn into moonshine.
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