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How Uncle Nearest Whiskey came to honor the black distiller who taught Jack Daniel his stuff

The idea behind Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey was simple: to honor Nathan "Nearest" Green, the relatively unknown enslaved man who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey.

Of course, the gulf between the formation of an idea and the execution of said idea is often vast. That was particularly true when it came to Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey given that the person with the idea was an author (of the "Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets

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