Thurgood Marshall College Fund -Established in 1987 to support public historically black colleges and universities and students. (US)īlack Girls CODE - Teaching young, black girls how to code. We’ve compiled a list of official charities that support this vital cause. Please help us go beyond just this story to helping those on the ground. 1820 Nearest Green Single Barrel EditionĪged a minimum of 11 years, with a cask strength above 108, less than 1% of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey barrels are selected as these rare, single barrels. Tastes like the mix for fruit cake! Raisins, sultanas, butter, vanilla and soft cinnamon spice.įind it for £55 at at Master of Malt. Lighter in style and proof than the 1856. Whiskey aged a minimum of 7 year-old, the 1884 commemorates the final year Nearest is believed to have put his own whiskey into barrels before retiring. Seek them out and please, tell the story. There are three Uncle Nearest Whiskies to try. Uncle Nearest. Both distilleries still enjoy a warm bond formed by their shared histories. Quite rightly, it was named after the man who turned out to be the true founding father of Tennessee Whiskey: Nathan Green. However, a new distillery was built just down the road from Jack Daniel’s, where Nathan’s descendents work today. The men worked together until Nathan retired. He asked Nathan to be his very first master distiller, a position which he happily accepted. Not long after, Jasper bought the distillery and named it after himself, though he didn’t use his given name he preferred what the locals called him: not Jasper Daniel, but Jack Daniel. A natural entrepreneur, Jasper so believed in this whiskey that he started selling it as far and wide as he could.ĭecember 6th 1865 came around and the thirteenth amendment was finally passed. Eventually, after begging his master, the boy, named Jasper, was introduced to Nathan ‘Uncle Nearest’ Green, who was told to teach him what he knew.
The Reverend took him on and gave him chores but the boy became increasingly fascinated by what was going on down the road at the distillery. This method of filtering whiskey through sugar maple tree charcoal became known as the famous ‘Lincoln method’ and it’s still used today.Īt some time in the 1850s, a young white boy came to Reverend Call asking for work. The man who distilled the whiskey was a black slave named Nathan Green, known affectionately as Uncle Nearest, and he brought with him a special technique of charcoal filtering that he had learned back home when cleaning water in West Africa. Reverend Call had a side hustle down the road on his farm: a small whiskey distillery, which made a silky smooth, maple-sweet whiskey that was highly regarded by all that tasted it. More than one hundred and sixty years ago, in the hills above Lynchburg in Tennessee, there was a farm owned by a young preacher man called Dan Call that still stands today. Let us shout about his name, his story and now, his whiskey.
Let us start here by raising a glass to one man in the drinks industry that history almost forgot. Events in the US are showing us that we need to do so much more to raise awareness of black culture and history in every pocket of society as well as heal the gross divide we still see seen when it comes to opportunities and privileges. There has never been a more important time to tell it. Now, it’s up to each of us to share his story and to make sure he’s given his due respect.You may well know what I’m going to say, but I shall tell you the story regardless. His name has always been and will always be Nathan “Nearest” Green-or to those who knew him best, Uncle Nearest. It should be noted that a 2004 book misspelled Nearest as “Nearis,” based on an incorrect spelling on the 1880 census. What we can confirm is he is the first African-American master distiller on record in the United States and thought to be responsible for helping perfect the Lincoln County Process, a requirement in being categorized as Tennessee Whiskey. Hailing from Maryland, one of the original capitals of whiskey making in the United States, we don’t know how or when Uncle Nearest made his way southwest to Tennessee. No one actually knows how he obtained that nickname, so we assume he was the “nearest and dearest” to so many who came in contact with him. His birth name was Nathan Green, but his family and friends called him Uncle Nearest. Way back in LYNCHBURG, TENNESSEE, the name Nearest Green has always meant something special.
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