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Jack Daniel Distillery

Jack Daniel Distillery,
Lem Motlow, Prop., Inc.
Subsidiary of Brown-Forman
Industry Manufacturing and distillation of liquors
Founded Lynchburg, Tennessee
(1875; 142 years ago (1875))
Founder Jack Daniel
Headquarters Lynchburg, Tennessee, US
Key people
  • Jack Daniel (founder)
  • Lem Motlow (proprietor, 1911–47)
  • Jeff Arnett (7th master distiller)
Products Distilled and blended liquors
Production output
11 million cases (2012)
$121,700,000
Number of employees
368
Parent Brown-Forman Corporation
Website www.jackdaniels.com
Jack Daniel Distillery
Jack Daniel Distillery Lynchburg TN 001.JPG
Location TN 55
Lynchburg, Tennessee
NRHP reference # 72001248
Added to NRHP September 14, 1972

Jack Daniel's is a brand of Tennessee whiskey and the top selling American whiskey in the world. It is produced in Lynchburg, Tennessee, by the Jack Daniel Distillery, which has been owned by the Brown-Forman Corporation since 1956. Despite being the location of a major operational distillery, Jack Daniel's home county of Moore is a dry county, so the product is not available for purchase at stores or restaurants within the county.

The product meets the regulatory criteria for classification as a straight bourbon, though the company disavows this classification and markets it simply as Tennessee whiskey rather than as Tennessee bourbon. Jack Daniel's distillery tour advises that their product is initially bourbon prior to entering their charcoal filtering setup, and that this process creates the distinction between regular bourbon and "Tennessee sipping whiskey." As defined in the North American Free Trade Agreement, Tennessee Whiskey is classified as a straight bourbon authorized to be produced in the state of Tennessee. The Tennessee Code Annotated (57-2-106) further defines Tennessee Whiskey as being filtered through charcoal made from sugar maple in addition to the above requirements (the "Lincoln County Process"). Packaged in square bottles, a total of 11 million cases of the flagship "Black Label" product were sold in the company's 2012 fiscal year, which ended April 30, 2013.

The Jack Daniel's brand's official website suggests that its founder, Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel, was born in 1850 (and his tombstone bears that date), but says his exact birth date is unknown. The company website says it is customary to celebrate his birthday in September. The Tennessee state library website said in 2013 that records list his birth date as September 5, 1846, and that the 1850 birth date seems impossible since his mother died in 1847. In the 2004 biography Blood & Whiskey: The Life and Times of Jack Daniel, author Peter Krass said his investigation showed that Daniel was born in January 1849 (based on Jack's sister's diary, census records, and the date of death of Jack's mother).


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