Salute to Jack Daniels creator

Nathan “Nearest” Green, an enslaved man, is the person who taught Jack Daniel the art of whiskey distillation and is perhaps most responsible for the success of Jack Daniel’s whiskey. Despite this, Green went unacknowledged for more than 150 years. Daniel appointed Green, by then a free man, to be the Jack Daniel Distillery’s first master distiller, and thus the first Black master distiller on record in jack Daniels creator