PhotoIt didn’t help that many people misunderstood the history, assuming that Daniel had owned Green and stolen his recipe. Instead, Ms. Weaver has released her own whiskey, Uncle Nearest 1856, which she bought in bulk from another distillery. “We applaud Ms. Weaver for her efforts to achieve a similar goal with the launch of this new product,” a Brown-Forman spokesman said. For her part, Ms. Weaver isn’t finished with her search for Green — and may never be. “I’ve lost track of him after 1884,” the year when Jack Daniel moved his distillery to its current location, and Green disappeared from the fledgling company’s records, she said.

Source: New York Times August 15, 2017 17:10 UTC