Franklin, Tennessee is often celebrated for its Civil War battlefield, historic downtown, and role on the Tennessee Whiskey Trail. But beneath those familiar narratives lies a richer and more complete ...

The bourbon critic Fred Minnick remembers traveling to Argentina a dozen years ago, and Jack Daniel’s was the only American whiskey he saw. That’s pretty much what he found back then wherever he ...

Tim Piersant and Joe Ledbetter founded Chattanooga Whiskey in 2011. After a more than century-long prohibition, the two entrepreneurs wanted to bring whiskey distillation back to Chattanooga, ...

Lynchburg, TN, USA - September 23, 2019: Jack Daniels truck with many barrels on display in front of the Jack Daniels distillery visitor center. If you’re a whiskey fan, chances are you’ve sipped a ...

The barrels went into the warehouses on Coy Hill in 2016. Ten years later, roughly 300 of them have been pulled, and each one ...

Jack Daniel's officially recognized Nathan "Nearest" Green as its first master distiller in 2017, giving long-overdue credit ...

Uncle Nearest, the first African-American master whiskey distiller, is now facing financial issues and selling off assets to avoid bankruptcy. In August 2025, the company was named in a $100 million ...

Both bourbon — a type of whiskey — and Tennessee whiskey can trace their origins to the 18th and 19th centuries in the American South. One common story ties bourbon’s creation to the white Baptist ...