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We Love Jack Daniels at Dinky Drinks, so much so that we want to share the following information with you :-
We searched the Jack Daniel's web site and are led to believe, founder Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel was born in September 1850, although it seems that no one knows the exact date as the records birth of his birth were destroyed in a fire at the local courthouse.
If the 1850 date is correct, he may have become a licensed distiller at the age of 16, as the distillery claims a founding date of 1866. Other records list his birth date as September 5, 1846, and in his 2004 biography Blood & Whiskey: The Life and Times of Jack Daniel author Peter Krass maintains that land and deed records show the distillery was actually not founded until 1875.
Jack Daniels as we call him was one of a large family comprising of thirteen children, they are of Scottish /Irish descent.
Jack Daniel never married and did not have any children, so when looking who to bring into the family business he asked his favorite nephew, Lem Motlow. Lem was very academic and good with finances and numbers and very quickly took control of the distillery's accounts and financials. In 1907 the Jack Daniels distillery was given to his nephew, soon after Jack died from blood poisoning which was due to an infection in 1911.
It is rumoured that jack Daniels picked up the infection in one of his toes, which he had injured at work, when frustrated, after forgetting the combination to his safe, in anger he kicked it when he could not get it open (he was said to always have had trouble remembering the combination). This incident was the subject of a marketing poster used on the tube in London in January 2006, with the line: "Moral: Never go to work early."
later the company was incorporated, it was incorporated as "Jack Daniel Distillery.
Interestingly enough, Moore County, where the Jack Daniel's distillery is located, is one of the state's many dry counties. Therefore, while it is legal to distill the product within the county, it is illegal to purchase it there. However, a state law has provided one exception: a distillery may sell one commemorative product, regardless of county statutes. Jack Daniel's now sells 'Gentleman Jack', and 'Jack Daniel's Single Barrel' at the distillery's White Rabbit Bottle Shop.
Tennessee ('sour mash') whiskey is similar to bourbon but is different in that it is filtered through maple charcoal in large wooden vats prior to aging.
Tennessee whiskey is also not subject to the regulations relating to bourbons (these regulations cover the use of new barrels and low level of distilling proof).
