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Took them long enough!!
Now the brand have revealed it was in fact one of Call's slaves Nearis Green who taught the young Daniel how to distill
'Uncle Nearest is the best whiskey maker that I know of,' Call had said
Brand is celebrating its controversial heritage on its 150th anniversary
Green's influence has been known to local historians for decades but was only recently acknowledged by the whisky makers
After 150 years, Jack Daniels has finally revealed that a slave was behind the world-famous recipe of America's most popular whisky.
Until now, the story told was that a white moonshine distiller named Dan Call had taught his young apprentice, Jasper Newton 'Jack' Daniel, how to run his Tennessee distillery.
But it appears that the brand is finally ready to embrace its controversial history after it revealed it was not Dan Call, but one of Call's slaves named Nearis Green who had passed on his distilling experience to Daniel. 'It's taken something like the anniversary for us to start to talk about ourselves,' Nelson Eddy, Jack Daniel's in-house historian, told the New York Times.
After 150 years, Jack Daniels has finally revealed that a slave was behind the world-famous recipe of America's most popular whisky. A photo taken from the time shows a man thought to be one of Nearis Green's (the slave who passed on the recipe) sons sitting on the left of founder Jack Daniel (circled, right) and his workers