Shelbyville, Tennessee-based Uncle Nearest whiskey launched the primary launch in its new Misplaced Chapter collection this month, debuting Misplaced Chapter 1-777. The 7 yr outdated blended whiskey, bottled at barrel energy (between 110-120 proof), is impressed by the guide “Love & Whiskey,” written by Uncle Nearest founder and CEO Fawn Weaver, which was printed in June.
The restricted version Misplaced Chapter 1-777 ($139) was launched with an allocation of simply 7,000 bottles and, together with commemorating Weaver’s guide, it celebrates the seventh anniversary of the Uncle Nearest model’s debut in July 2017. The brand new label is accessible on the Nearest Inexperienced Distillery in Shelbyville, Tennessee, in addition to choose retail shops in 35 states. Misplaced Chapter 1-777 was additionally accessible on reservebar.com, however offered out rapidly. Whiskey drinkers who buy Misplaced Chapter 1-777 achieve entry to an unpublished chapter of “Love & Whiskey,” which they will obtain through QR code on a particular tag. The guide—entitled “Love & Whiskey: The Exceptional True Story of Jack Daniel, His Grasp Distiller Nearest Inexperienced, and the Unbelievable Rise of Uncle Nearest”—tells the story of Nearest Inexperienced, the African-American distiller who helped create Jack Daniel’s, and his bond with Jack Daniel.
If you cannot get ahold of this launch, the excellent news is that extra Misplaced Chapter whiskeys are within the planning. Although the corporate hasn’t revealed what number of specialty whiskeys will likely be launched within the collection, there will likely be further bottlings offered with extra unpublished chapters. As well as, this summer season, portfolio mate Uncle Nearest Single Barrel will characteristic neck tags with a hyperlink to obtain the primary unpublished chapter.
The Uncle Nearest portfolio spans quite a lot of totally different expressions. Its core labels, offered nationwide, embrace 1856 Premium Aged whiskey (50%, $59), 1884 Small Batch whiskey (46.5%, $49), Straight rye (50%, $60), and Single Barrel Black Label (proof varies, $90). The model additionally does a number of bottlings which can be offered solely on the Nearest Inexperienced Distillery, together with Uncle Nearest Grasp Mix Version (proof varies; $149), Uncut/Unfiltered Straight rye (proof varies; $149), and Single Barrel rye (proof varies; $89).
The Nearest Inexperienced Distillery was opened in September 2019 to honor the historical past of Uncle Nearest whiskey and Tennessee. Positioned on a 458-acre former horse farm, the place underwent a $50 million build-out for its transformation right into a whiskey vacation spot. It homes a welcome middle the place friends can be taught in regards to the historical past of Tennessee whiskey, Tennessee strolling horses, and Tennessee music, whereas a present store gives quite a lot of Uncle Nearest retail objects. The campus additionally options a number of bars and eating places: the snack spot Concession Stand, the non-alcoholic speakeasy Philo + Frank’s, and the eateries Barrel Home BBQ II and Humble Baron. Followers may also go to the tasting room, the grasp blender home, single barrel warehouse, and bottling home. The distillery itself remains to be being constructed, and Uncle Nearest thus has been sourced from an undisclosed Tennessee distillery, though barrels for the one barrel whiskey laid down by the Uncle Nearest crew are at present maturing on-site. Uncle Nearest’s grasp blender Victoria Eady is a fifth-generation descendant of Nearest Inexperienced.
Eady’s ancestor and the Uncle Nearest model’s inspiration, Nearest Inexperienced, is credited with serving to to good the Lincoln County Course of for filtration, a course of that’s well-known to Jack Daniel’s lovers. The Lincoln County Course of requires that whiskey is filtered by sugar maple charcoal and is a main distinguishing attribute between Tennessee whiskey and bourbon.
Along with founding Uncle Nearest, Weaver is an entrepreneur and author. Together with launching the whiskey model, she created the non-profit Nearest Inexperienced Basis to supply scholarships to descendants of Nearest Inexperienced and help initiatives that profit deprived communities. The muse partnered with Jack Daniel Distillery in 2020 to create the Nearest and Jack Development Initiative to raise folks of shade within the American whiskey trade and help range within the spirits trade total.
