Cutting a Tennessee whiskey tree is the quickest step of the ancient process we still use to gentle Jack Daniel’s.
Good woodsmen can cut a hard maple on high ground in 20 minutes. It takes 3 days to saw it up and properly rick-burn it to charcoal. Then it’s packed rightly in vats 10 feet deep, and our whiskey is seeped down through it … drop by drop … for 10 unhurried days. This is the ancient Charcoal Mellowing process. And the sippin’ smooth difference it gives Jack Daniel’s is worth every minute it takes.
Charcoal Mellowed Drop by Drop
© 1963, Jack Daniel Distillery, Lem Motlow, Prop., Inc
Tennessee Whiskey – 90 Proof by Choice
Distilled and Bottled by Jack Daniel Distillery
Lynchburg (Pop. 384), Tenn.