{"product_id":"jack-daniels-honey-35cl","title":"Jack Daniel's Honey 35cl ","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-15263 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/garrafeiragrandeescolha.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jack-daniels-logo-300x233.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThere's an interesting picture that hangs in Mr. Jack Daniel's old office. It's a photo of Mr. Jack taken with his distillery staff. What makes the portrait so intriguing is the gentleman seated immediately to Jack's right, an African American worker. Given the period in which that photo was taken—around 1900—and the racial divide that permeated the American South, it's intriguing to see an African American sitting next to the owner of a company. But the proximity between them in this photo underscores the remarkable relationship that lies at the heart of how Jack came to make whiskey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The man in the photo above, we have reason to believe, is George Green. Besides being a friend of Jack's, George was also the son of Nathan \"Nearest\" Green. And it was Nearest Green, along with Reverend Dan Call, who taught Jack Daniel about making whiskey on a property still owned by the Lutheran minister.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eLeaving home early, Jack ended up living and working on Reverend Call's farm in the late 1850s, before Jack reached adolescence. It's said that Jack had a difficult relationship with his stepmother, which is why he left home. The Call farm was located about eight miles from Lynchburg, near Lois, Tennessee. On his farm, Call was quiet, and Jack quickly became interested in him. Now, this was in the days before the Civil War and Emancipation, and Call was still under the watchful eye and care of an enslaved man named Nathan \"Nearest\" Green. Reverend Call and his distiller, Nearest, taught Jack how to make whiskey. Most of this guidance, however, was attributed to Nearest, who worked side-by-side with Jack and taught the young distiller what would become his life's passion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eAfter the Civil War, Reverend Call's congregation and wife gave the preacher an ultimatum: refrain from making whiskey or step down from his work as a minister. Call made the decision to sell his business to Jack. And so Nearest, now a free man, was hired by Jack and became the first head distiller—or what we would call today the master distiller—of the Jack Daniel Distillery. Although slave labor was part of life in the South before the end of the Civil War, Jack Daniel not only never owned slaves, but also worked alongside them as an employee of Dan Call. When the time came after the war to establish his own distillery, Jack's staff were all employees.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eNearest would work with Jack as his first master distiller until Jack moved his operation to Cave Spring Hollow sometime after 1881. There, Nearest's sons George and Eli and his grandsons Ott, Jesse, and Charlie continued the Green family tradition, working at Jack's distillery in Cave Spring Hollow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e More than 150 years have passed since Nearest and Jack began making whiskey together, and to this day there has always been a member of the Green family working at the Jack Daniel distillery. If you find time to visit us in Lynchburg, you can see the portrait of Jack and Nearest's son \u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e George Green \u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e which hangs in Jack's old office, and hear a little more about this unique story of two men, their friendship, and the whiskey they made together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n","brand":"Garrafeira Grande Escolha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188447207761,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/4122\/8625\/files\/jack-daniel-honey_6141d53e-fa61-4f8f-8a57-a6b222dc2cec.png?v=1772537578","url":"https:\/\/garrafeiragrandeescolha.pt\/en\/products\/jack-daniels-honey-35cl","provider":"Garrafeira Grande Escolha","version":"1.0","type":"link"}