For many years, the widely accepted version of how Jack Daniels Tennessee Whiskey got its start was that a preacher and farm owner in Lynchburg took a teenager named Jack Daniel under his wing in 1864 and taught him how to run the farms still. But as the distillery dove into its own history came out publicly with a new narrative that one of the preachers slaves, Nathan Nearest Green, was Daniels actual distilling mentor. This whiskey was dontated by two SI Dads invested in the Uncle Nearest experience.