Nearest Green and the Lincoln County Process

Nearest Green and the Lincoln County Process

Whisky education from Whisk(e)y Advent 2025 (2025-12-10). Summary below; full write-up with sources and images: calendar/2025-12-10.qmd.

Nathan ‘Nearest’ Green, an enslaved and then free distiller, was the first known African-American master distiller and taught Jack Daniel the sugar-maple charcoal filtering (the Lincoln County Process) that distinguishes Tennessee whiskey from bourbon. (Story from nearestgreen.com; coverage in the NYT.)