The Tennessee Legislature officially declared May 21 as Tennessee Whiskey International Day, an unprecedented recognition for the production methods that the mark created by Jasper Newton Daniel, born around 1848, in Lynchburg, Tennessee, proudly holds more than 140 years ago.
Jack Daniel’s is the world’s best-selling American whiskey and now gains recognition as the creator of the Tennessee Whiskey category. A new chapter in the history of American whiskey, but why is this distinction so important? The answer is in the mythical Lincoln County Process, a practice developed by the distillery of this renowned brand that earned it the honor of becoming the first—and for many years, the only—producer of Tennessee Whiskey. This process involves filtering the distilled whiskey through carbonized oak abarricas coal for two years for its suclin maple breeding to remove impurities and make it soft to the palate. The whiskey is then placed in charred oak barrels for two years for aging. One thing you may not have known is that unlike Bourbon whiskey, which, while it follows a recipe and can be produced outside the state of Kentucky, Tennessee Whiskeys like Jack Daniel’s can only be produced within the state of Tennessee.This means that they have what is known as the Controlled Designation of Origin (or D.O.C.), an acronym with which products originating in a region are labeled and identified. To celebrate this achievement and this day we leave you some recipes proposed by Gustavo Vocke, Brand Ambassador of Jack Daniel’s for Argentina.Whiskey sour
-60 ml Jack Daniel’s N7-30 ml lemon juice-30 ml simple syrupBatir the ingredients inside a shaker, and to decorate we can do it with 3 drops of aromatic bitter narrowness. Boulevardier Jack Daniel’s
-40 ml Jack Daniel’s-25 ml bitter red-25 ml vermouth rossoA simple and easy option to prepare at home is to do it directly in a short glass on some ice rocks and then enjoy! Old Fashioned
-60 ml Jack Daniel’s-15 ml simple syrup-4 strokes of aromatic bitter narrowLocate the syrup and aromatic bitter first and mix until these two ingredients are unified. Then place the Jack and to finish the ice inside the glass. Don’t forget to decorate with a skin or slice of orange and READY!
