Jack Daniels

When I clicked for a preview these pictures were in order. As I write this they are bunched together. We shall see how they come out when we post them. The first one is of The special single barrel Jack Daniels. We learned the usual is two barrel. This distillery is in Lynchberg, Tenn. and has been since it first started many years ago. An interesting fact is that it is a dry county. Jack went to Congress and got special permits to continue the distillery as he was the FIRST Registered whisky maker in the U.S.
You can buy a bottle there, but do not open it. And you get a glass of lemonade at the end of the hour tour. There is a picture of Betty and I outside the visitors center. We have not had the tour yet, just clowning for the camera. And then there is Ernie and I with the Jack Daniels statue. He was a short man and was always standing in company pictures and his employees were seated. He is standing in the statue and the artist made him taller than real life. The Caption on the statue ? Jack Daniels on the Rocks" What else? The statue is in front of the natural spring where they get there water for the distillery.

The wood burning is the stack of sugar maple that is burned to make charcoal, which is then crushed and the whisky is dripped thru the charcoal. 17 employees that make the whiskey. Including the two men that burn the sugar maple. The company also makes their own barrels that they age the whiskey in., selling the barrels to other whiskey company's after only one use.

And the day was rainy. I tried taking a picture out the windows of the beautiful Tennessee country side. A little dismal. When we got into Northern Kentucky you could see the many trees broken in the January and March ice storms. Sad.

We split with Doug and Betty. They had other stops to make. It has been a good time traveling and sight seeing with them.

We are now at Elizabethtown, KY at dear Wally World. should be home tomorrow. I am not sure I am ready for that. There are two overflowing hampers of laundry, clean the coach, unpack the coach, and go in the house and turn on the water, furnace, etc. It has been a good change of lifestyle. Always nice to get back home tho, to see family and friends. Take Care. jkc