The visit to Jack Daniels - I thought I had published this but I just noticed it was still in draft mode.
This bridge takes you across the stream from the distillery to Lynchburg.
Pictures of the Masonic Lodge in Lynchburg.
Below is pictures of the town of Lynchburg.
Back to the distillery for the tour.
Ron, the guy in the overalls, is our tour guide. If you go try to get him as a guide. He does the "tasting" tour. He has worked most of his life for Jack Daniels, retired, and then went back to work as a tour guide. Ron was great as a guide and very comical.
Below is the stacks of sugar maple that they make the charcoal out of.
This is the chimney that they burn under whilst making the charcoal. EPA approved because we know how important that is. (sarcasm) Below is the finished product after it is ground by running it through the grinder.
The Coal Grinder.
Left is one of the original fire trucks and below is a view looking across the distillery at one of the barrel houses.
The only "Wild Turkey" around here.
This is the cave where that the water comes from that is used in making Jack Daniels.
The original office and below is the safe that killed Jack Daniels. Yep you heard me correct, it killed Jack Daniels. The story goes that he couldn't get the safe open and kicked it braking his toe. He didn't tell anyone and the infection and blood poisoning eventually killed him.
This is all you get to see of the distillary is the outside. No photos allowed inside. Personally I think that as many people that have been through the tour it's kinda silly.
The black coating, along with the smell of the distilling process, is the main way that the revenuers used to find illegal stills. They just rode through the hills looking and sniffing.
Right and below are pics of the revenuers office. Built on the site for the tax men. Every day the distillery would purchase the tax stickers directly from the revenuers and hand stick them to the bottles that were produced that day. At the end of the day they would sell back what wasn't used.
Today the Revenuers Office is used as a tasting room. If you purchase a entire single barrel ($16000.00 approx) then you go to Jack Daniels and set down with the Master Distiller to test and choose the barrel you wish to purchase. Inside is a wall covered with names of who has purchased their own barrel. To include Barrack Husein Obama (mmm, mmm, mmm)
Just recently, an anonymous donator purchased Seal Team Six a barrel and flew them in to taste and pick out their barrel to make their own. 1 Barrel of whiskey = 48 cases of 5ths
Below is the new party and event room at Jack Daniels and the end of the "Tasting Tour". This is where you get a sample of each kind of Jack Daniels made.
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