This tour was great fun – The Jack Daniel’s Distillery!
That’s Mr. Jack Daniel’s standing there just saying Hey! to all his visitors.
They have a nice display in the visitor's center explaining the process. You can also take a tour, either the free one, or the $10.00 tour with samples.
Our tour guide explained things and told us that the pile of wood you see on the right will be burned into charcoal (beside her in the back) for the whiskey to filter through. How do they that light the fire? They use Jack Daniel’s, of course!
All the water they turn into whiskey comes from this spring. It flows at 800 gallons per minute at a constant temperature of 56 degrees. They built the distillery here because of the spring.
Here’s Jack again, guarding his spring. The guide told us this is Jack on the Rocks.
We weren’t allowed to take pictures in the buildings, so you’ll just have to trust us when we tell you about the HUGE vats they have in this building. All that sour mash gets filtered through charcoal very slowly. When they're finished with the mash in this building the sell the mash to local farmers for cow feed. I'd say they have some happy cows!
Oh my, it’s the barrel house, and it smelled really good inside! When we finished the tour our clothes smelled like whiskey!!
We took the free tour and all we got to drink was lemonade. Bummer.
That’s ok, we bought some of that Jack Daniel’s sippin’ whiskey!
Lynchburg is very small, and because the County is dry, they can’t sell any of that whiskey except the commemorative bottles. They do sell the used barrels and anything else they can find with Jack Daniel’s name on it.
On the way back to Alabama we stopped and bought some Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey. Those Tennessee bees know how to do their stuff! If you want a sample, just come by to see us.
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