Scott Craig – Tennessee In Photographs

I took a motorcycle trip to the Jack Daniel’s Distillery at Lynchburg, TN with a friend on November 19, 2006.  It was a bit on the cool side (mid 40’s) but well worth the trip.  The facility has tours every 15 minutes nearly every day of the year, and if you are in the area I highly recommend it as a trip stop because it is very interesting.

What amazed me most about the entire facility was the lack of modernization.  The distillery dates back to 1866, and was the first registered distillery in the United States (which, obviously, makes it the oldest registered distillery in the United States!).  Much of the process equipment is very old (I wouldn’t hazard a guess as to how old!) and the only concession to modern times I saw was some computer process controls in the distillery itself and some PVC pipe in places.  There is even very little stainless steel piping in the process itself, most of it is still copper.  The tanks are copper, the barrels are Eastern White Oak, and the whiskey is mellowed through Eastern White Oak charcoal much as it has been done since the beginning.

The Jack Daniel’s Web Site has a lot of interesting information about the facility including a “Virtual Tour”.  The onsite tour lasts about an hour and 15 minutes, and is time well spent if you are in the area.

September 27, 2009

Some friends from Arizona have both been in town for the past few days and one of them wanted to see something “Truly Southern”.  We decided that there could be nothing more southern than the Jack Daniels Distillery in Lynchburg, TN.  Unfortunately the distillery no longer allows photographs inside the facility so the only photographs are from the outside.