The Secret History of the Slave Behind Jack Daniel's Whiskey
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- Back in 1866, Jack Daniel's became the first registered distillery in the United States; today, it's the top-selling American whiskey in the world. For much of the brand's 150-plus years, the story went that the young Jack Daniel learned his trade from a pastor named Dan Call. In reality, he was taught to distill by an enslaved African, Nearest Green, whose contributions had been written out of history. In this episode, listen in as Fawn Weaver, the entrepreneur who has made rediscovering Green's story her business, and Clay Risen, the whiskey expert whose 2016 article in The New York Times launched Weaver's quest, tell us the true story of Nearest Green and Jack Daniel-and of American whiskey.
This episode of Gastropod originally aired on January 28, 2019.
Thank you for telling the truth out people been the genius behind this country we call America.
Fascinating story. It’s an important record of the many events that shaped the United States.
I was ther 2018. Such a great place and story. Thank you. Watching from Germany 🇩🇪
Respect to sir Uncle Nearis Green 💪🏾
Thank you sooo much for sharing the untold part of history. I am sure like myself very few people were aware of the Jack Daniels history. I have share it with all my family members😊
Uncle Nearest is great! I love the 1856!
Toured the distillery today and was told the story about Jack’s tutelage and subsequent friendship and employment with Nearest. In fact, descendants of Nearest continued to be part of the JD Legacy till this day. Nothing whatsoever implied the Greens were ever taken advantage of in anyway by JD.
If you read jack daniels blood and whiskey all of this is talked about . I read this book well before I went to the distillery. It spoke of Mr Greene and how he taught Jack how to make whiskey.
The guy in the white hat to the right of the black man looks like Tom Hanks.. 😆
Not just side by side with Jack, George is on Jack’s right side. Tradition is huge back then and everyone who saw this photo would understand the magnitude of this photo. Please understand the close proximity to Pulaski, TN.
Thanks just got through reading the bio of Jack Daniels. Nearest Green and Dan Call taught him the craft. It was Jack Daniels who put together the mash bill. Also it was Jack as a child running whiskey he made to Huntsville. Nearest Green was just a small part of the Jack Daniels story. A important part but small. His kids witch the pictures you show was Nearest child grown up worked for Jack. Cheers
If you want to know more don’t ask me go read the legacy of Jack Daniels
The most essential and important part. Without the African filtering and brewing technique the whiskey would have tasted like crap. The addition of charcoal and sand as done in filtering palm wine and spirits in West Africa Nearest’s Ancestral home gave the whiskey and exceptional taste.
Black American Homeland
I would love a short version of this. 5 mins. Thank you. This is a great part of American history that shouldn’t be forgotten. Happy 4th of July to all. Freedom isn’t free but we all try.
There is a book out about it tells all about it i got it and can put it down its good tell the truth about all of it
Your story is interesting but you need to have live, moving scenes. Otherwise the listener cannot keep attentive.
As important as Nathan 'Nearest' Green was to the teaching of the art of distilling whiskey to Jack, it was ultimately Jack that finessed the final product we know and love today by moving the set-up from Lincoln County to Moore County where the Natural Cave Spring 'Hollow' provides that all important ingredient... Iron-free water.
Uncle Nearest refused to leave Lincoln County but his sons George and Eli did and went to work for Jack and it is in this famous picture above, you see George not Nearest which is a common mistake.
stop trying to rewrite the contribution of Nearest Green. If there was no Nearest Green Jack Daniels wouldn't be what it is now, PERIOD....
@@deejay5102 I think you need to re-read what I put, I only said that Jasper FINESSED THE FINAL PRODUCT.
Of course, without Nearest Greene, Jack Daniel's wouldn't be what it is today and you could also argue the fact that without the Reverand Dan Call, Jack Daniel's wouldn't be what it is today, PERIOD.
Nathan "Nearest" Green's name even got left out of "Before the Mayflower" by Lerone Bennett!
but it's not secret or lost history 🤦♂️ they literally talk about it during the tour of the JD facility... have for years. stop searching for injustices that never occurred.