Uncle Nearest has made waves since its introduction in 2017. In 2019, founder Fawn Weaver was the first African American to grace the cover of American Whiskey Magazine, and master blender, and Nearest Green descendant, Victoria Eady Butler has won back-to-back Master Blender of the Year accolades in Whisky Magazine’s Icons of Whisky America awards. The theme of the Uncle Nearest brand seems to be ‘go big or go home’ and the distillery’s new bar is no exception. On March 23, 2023 Uncle Nearest Distillery’s on-campus bar, Humble Baron, measuring an astounding 518 feet with 17 stations and seating for 202 people, was named the world’s longest bar by the Guinness Book of World Records.
“Humble Baron is a place where
