6 fun facts about Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey
Atlanta Magazine 6 fun facts about Jack Danielâs Tennessee Whiskey A closer look at the classic Southern spirit Photograph courtesy of Jack Daniel's Jasper Newton âJackâ Daniel was only ten when he learned how to run a whiskey still. It was the 1850s, and young Jack was working for Dan Call, a minister and storekeeper in his hometown of Lynchburg, Tennessee. Story goes, Call and one of his slaves, Nathan âNearestâ Green, taught the boy how to craft the charcoal-mellowed hooch that would one day make him famous: Jack Danielâs Old No. 7. The sweet-but-oaky spirit b...