Check Out The Newest Addition To UFS...

Have you been to the UFS liquor department lately? We have a new addition, a tall, pale complected gentleman in a navy tee, red vest, holding a Number One. Yes you've got it... Gentleman Jack Daniel. Seriously Jack Daniels is the oldest distillery in the USA. It is located in Lynchburg, Moore county, Tennessee which was incorporated in 1841. The distillery is 25 younger than the town itself, approximately 146 years. This location for the distillery was selected because the Hollow contains the perfect water to make whiskey. It is cool, pure, iron free cave spring water. Since its beginning Jack Daniels has had 7 Master Distillers, the most current one being Jeff Arnett. Jeff and his predecessors have guarded the secret process for years. We do know, however, that the process for developing the 80 proof whiskey includes mellowing the delectable beverage twice through charcoal to achieve its smoothness.

So I know you want to know if he was really real. Yes, he was born the youngest of ten children (no wonder he was into the booze), in 1849. Shortly after his birth his mother passed away due to birth complications. Several years later his father remarried and had another three children (WHEW). Jack, himself never married or had children. He had an untimely death in 1911 from blood poisoning which began in his toe. Rumor has it one morning in anger he kicked his safe when he couldn't remember the combination. Infection set into his toe and spread throughout his body. A common joke at the distillery is that Jack could have cured his infection in his toe had he dipped it in a glass of his own whiskey. 

Come to UFS and see Jack all decked out and sample some of the Honey whiskey with its sweet, delectable and tantalizing taste.

~Claire Serafin Wiegand