Uncle Nearst Green

[BourbonGuy]

I just started reading the book Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest .  I put Uncle Nearest in the search engine and did not find a post regarding all the Uncle Nearest whiskeys.  

 

I went to the site and they have seven releases.  I am pretty sure these aren’t Uncle Nearest original recipes.  Has anyone tried any?  Mostly marketing or good whiskey?  Figured I ask here before I consider a purchase.

[VWIndy]

My experience was the whiskey was young and mediocre at best.

 

[Skinsfan1311]

2 hours ago, VWIndy said:

My experience was the whiskey was young and mediocre at best.

 

Agreed.  I gave my bottle away...

[BourbonGuy]

I'm enjoying the book.  I sort of figured that the Uncle Nearest Bourbon would be mostly marketing.   From the two replies, I guess I was correct.

[mbroo5880i]

8 hours ago, Skinsfan1311 said:

Agreed.  I gave my bottle away...

 

Wow, a Cheap Bastard giving away whiskey.  WTH?  Just kidding.  I took my first bottle of Larceny to a cookout.  It didn't leave a favorable impression so I left it.  The hosts thought I was being a polite guest but I knew different.    However, I have shared some good stuff with them so they know this Cheap Bastard is sometimes just a bastard.

[Skinsfan1311]

28 minutes ago, mbroo5880i said:

 

Wow, a Cheap Bastard giving away whiskey.  WTH?  Just kidding.  I took my first bottle of Larceny to a cookout.  It didn't leave a favorable impression so I left it.  The hosts thought I was being a polite guest but I knew different.    However, I have shared some good stuff with them so they know this Cheap Bastard is sometimes just a bastard.

Yeah.....our youngest son will take any whiskey that we don't like

[mbroo5880i]

4 minutes ago, Skinsfan1311 said:

Yeah.....our youngest son will take any whiskey that we don't like

 

[Kepler]

Uncle Nearest whiskey:  definitely all marketing - started in 2017 during the Age of Woke.

[Skinsfan1311]

11 hours ago, mbroo5880i said:

 

Wow, a Cheap Bastard giving away whiskey.  WTH?  Just kidding.  I took my first bottle of Larceny to a cookout.  It didn't leave a favorable impression so I left it.  The hosts thought I was being a polite guest but I knew different.    However, I have shared some good stuff with them so they know this Cheap Bastard is sometimes just a bastard.

 I used to take, and leave, bottles of BT,  Weller or McKenna 10 year at cookouts and parties because it was cheap and I refused to bring anything that I didn't like.   My...how times have changed.....

[Jazzhead]

I won't criticize what I haven't tried,  but my definition of ineffective marketing is when I can't ascertain the story (provenance) of the whiskey,  as opposed to the story of the label.    The juice appears to be contract distilled in Tennessee,  but isn't Dickel, so I'd like to know more.  

[BourbonGuy]

Still reading.  Fawn Weaver is quite the entrepreneur.  The book mentions that when she asked people what they wanted to see, they all said a whiskey with Uncle Nearest name on it.  Fawn looked into it and realized what a distillery entailed.  Not to mention you must age the distillate, unless you’re selling a white dog.  She considered MPG, but since they were not local based, that idea was not acceptable.

 

Going to the website, it seems they do have a distillery (halfway done with the book) and 7 different offerings. 

 

From the website: “We entered our bottles in every blind tasting competition we could find, quickly making waves in the whiskey world. By 2019, Uncle Nearest was the most-awarded whiskey in the bourbon category, and it wasn’t just a bourbon—it was a Tennessee Whiskey.”

 

Not sure about that statement, just find it interesting that nobody on this site had anything positive to say.  My local had it at one time and pulled it from the shelves.  I guess it wasn’t a big seller.

[flahute]

9 hours ago, BourbonGuy said:

 

Not sure about that statement, just find it interesting that nobody on this site had anything positive to say.  

No place is better than this site to see through the BS. That's why you don't see positive comments.

[PaulO]

My local Kroger store has Uncle Nearest on the shelf, several versions, and has seemed to have carried it since it was new.  (I can't be sure it's not all the same bottles never moved.)

There are so many non distiller producer (NDP) brands out there.  I'm reluctant with NDPs and "craft", unless I get good reviews from people I trust.  Or, if a store puts out an open bottle to sample, they could change my mind.