The slave who taught Jack Daniels how to make whiskey: Bourbon giant finally acknowledges the truth after 150 years

Until now, the story had gone that a white man named Dan Call had taught his young apprentice, Jasper Newton 'Jack' Daniel, how to run his Tennessee distillery.


But it appears that the brand is finally ready to embrace its controversial history after they revealed it was not Dan Call, but one of Call's slaves named Nearis Green who had passed on his distilling method to Daniels. 'It's taken something like the anniversary for us to start to talk about ourselves,' Nelson Eddy, Jack Daniel's in-house historian, said.