Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey has closed a $2.1 million deal to acquire land for the expansion of the company’s distillery, reported Afro Tech. The premium beverage brand is owned by a Black woman named Fawn Weaver.
The company has announced that they have closed on a deal that makes it 53.12 acres richer. The land is located on Highway 231 North, near the company’s Nearest Green Distillery. Nearest Green is named after the first African American master distiller who taught Jack Daniels how to distill.
The acreage will serve as an extension to Uncle Nearest’s existing building. In total, the company will boast 323.12 acres and an additional half-mile along the highway.
This expansion serves an important purpose. The extra land will allow the company to start growing its own non-GMO corn. Corn is the basis of whiskey.
Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey is the fastest-growing whiskey company in American history. For four years in a row, it has been lauded as the most awarded whiskey or bourbon brand. That’s why control of its raw materials is important.
“When we broke ground, we made history as the first distillery in America to be named after a Black person,” said Fawn Weaver. With the land acquisition, its production efforts will progress, as will its ability to accommodate guests who visit the site.
The pandemic caused the distillery to have to close for a year. It was reopened this year on Juneteenth. In the meantime, Phase Two was developed, and several changes took place. There is now a welcome center, a non-alcoholic speakeasy named Phil + Frank, a barrel rickhouse, and a family tasting room. In other words, Uncle Nearest did not waste a moment of lockdown.
Last year, Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey partnered with Jack Daniels to create the Nearest & Jack Advancement Initiative. The program aims to bring more diversity and Black presence to the whiskey industry.
Uncle Nearest Is Officially the Most Successful Black-Owned Distillery in the World. The award-winning brand recently crossed $100 million in sales. Fawn Weaver and the Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey team continue to blaze trails in the spirits industry.
“The packaging we used since our inception is no more as of 2022,” said Katharine Jerkens, chief business officer. “Now we are restocking with the bottles that will permanently cement the legacy of Nearest Green, the world's first known African American master distiller.”
In order to be a candidate for our Uncle Nearest 1820, the whiskey must be aged a minimum of 11 years, with a cask strength above 108, and each one is hand-picked by our founders and approved by a panel of whiskey industry professionals. These barrels are exceptionally rare and the whiskey is worth the wait.
After the Civil War, Daniel bought the distillery. Daniel hired Green, now a free man, to be the Jack Daniel Distillery's first head distiller. (Jack Daniel Distillery amended its history to recognize Green as its first master distiller in 2017.)
The brand's first three releases are named after the year Nearest was born (1820), the year he was credited with perfecting the Lincoln County Process (1856), and the year he retired (1884). In September 2022, Uncle Nearest released its first rye whiskey, Uncle Nearest Uncut/Unfiltered Straight Rye Whiskey.
In 2017, she unearthed the remarkable legacy of master whisky-maker Nathan “Nearest” Green and the true story behind the Jack Daniel's distillery. Today, she is now the CEO and Chief Historian behind the Uncle Nearest Premium Whisky brand and the Nearest Green Foundation.
Uncle Nearest is named for master distiller Nathan "Nearest" Green, a former slave who taught Jack Daniel distilling in the 1800s – a tale that, until recently, was lost in history. When the Shelbyville-headquartered Uncle Nearest debuted in 2017, Green's legacy was further resurrected.
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The Bottom Line. Uncle Nearest 1856 is a big, spicy bourbon-style American whiskey that has brought the Tennessee whiskey scene into the 21st century by honoring the struggles of the 19th.
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Uncle Nearest 1856 is a blend of whiskey aged between 8 and 14 years. The new Nearest Green distillery is currently in Phase 1 and set on a 270-acre horse farm located in Shelbyville, on the way to Lynchburg.
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Jack Daniel's is the world's most popular whiskey brand, but until recently, few people knew the liquor was created by Nathan "Nearest" Green, an enslaved Black man who mentored Daniel. "We've always known," says Debbie Staples, a great-great-granddaughter of Green's who heard the story from her grandmother. …
But this year, the whiskey's 150th anniversary, Jack Daniel's is revealing the actual history behind the iconic “Old No. 7” recipe: It didn't come from Call, but from one of his slaves, a man named Nearis Green.
Fawn Weaver: I didn't have an online presence before Uncle Nearest, outside of being a bestselling author. I've been investing in lifestyle brands, whether restaurants or fitness studios, for the better part of the last 20 years. Before that, I had special events and a PR firm.
This opens in a new window. In Lynchburg, Tennessee, the name Nearest Green has always meant something special. His birth name was Nathan Green but those who knew him best, his family and friends, called him Uncle Nearest.
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