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• RugerFan Posts: 2,865 Senior Member

  September 2019 edited September 2019 #2

  I'm there 2-3 times. 1st time we got to tour one of the bonded warehouses. It was surprising how many millions in taxes was in each warehouse.

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• breamfisher Posts: 14,104 Senior Member

  September 2019 #3

  The George Dickel tour in Tullahoma is pretty cool, too.

  Meh.

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• GunNut Posts: 7,642 Senior Member

  September 2019 #4

  Not my usual drink of choice either but absolutely a historical icon so their distillery is on my bucket list.

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• Diver43 Posts: 12,757 Senior Member

  September 2019 #5

  Fun tour, Makers Mark in Kentucky was nice also

  Logistics cannot win a war, but its absence or inadequacy can cause defeat. FM100-5

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• tennmike Posts: 27,457 Senior Member

  September 2019 #6

  Since Jack Daniel's is in a dry county ya can't buy a bottle of whiskey, but you can buy the bottle. The cost for a bottle is kind of high, but if you buy the bottle they fill it with whiskey for free!
  

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• Six-Gun Posts: 8,155 Senior Member

  September 2019 #7

  It's a great place to visit and a pretty incredible location.  Glad you got to check it out first hand.  Jack's greatest genius lay in picking a spot with that much natural water flowing right to it.  Our daughter was probably 2 years old when we went many years back, and the crinkle in her nose when she sniffed the spent barrels was worth the price of admission.

  Accuracy: because white space between bullet holes drives me insane.

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• Zee Posts: 28,399 Senior Member

  September 2019 #8

  The history was the coolest part. 
  

  "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  

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• earlyagain Posts: 7,928 Senior Member

  September 2019 #9

  During a recent social call we were being chewed by mosquitoes. It reminded me of a past acquaintance. I once knew a man that drank Jim Beam from half gallon jugs. Mosquitoes would bite him and die stuck to his arms. Had dead skeeters on him like goose bumps.

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• orchidman Posts: 8,438 Senior Member

  September 2019 edited September 2019 #10

  
  

  
  
  
  
  

  I have the same roll top desk in the basement, fully restored.

  When I first visited Jerry in 2010 I did a tour of JD's and made a note of the manufacturer. Came home and checked the the one downstairs and it was the same. Wish I had a chair the same as the one above to go with it...........

  When you close the roll top and lock it, the draws also lock up. There is also a secret compartment where you can store valuables. (If I tell you where it is, it wont be a secret )
  

  
  

  Must go and take a pic and post it up one day.
  

  
  

  ( Edited to add: It was my Grandfathers, dont know where he got it from but it was fully restored about 10 yrs ago)
  

  Still enjoying the trip of a lifetime and making the best of what I have.....

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• mosseybuck Posts: 570 Senior Member

  September 2019 #11

  If you are ever in the area it is definitely worth taking the tour. The last time I was there they did not offer to sell an empty bottle to you and fill it with free whiskey. I remember it was a long drive to Nashville before I stopped to slake that thirst! 

  USMC '59-'65, NRA Lifer, Tennessee Squire

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• RugerFan Posts: 2,865 Senior Member

  September 2019 edited September 2019 #12

  The distillery is the only place in that county that can sell alcohol 
  
  At least it was the last time I was there.

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• Six-Gun Posts: 8,155 Senior Member

  September 2019 #13

  It's absolutely stunning that they survived prohibition.

  Accuracy: because white space between bullet holes drives me insane.

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• Make_My_Day Posts: 7,927 Senior Member

  September 2019 #14

  I'm not certain, but I imagine distilleries were allowed to sell to foreign markets.

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  THE DEMOCRATS ARE THE NEW COMMUNISTS!

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• BigDanS Posts: 6,992 Senior Member

  September 2019 #15

  I hope you stopped by to visit Jerry.  Teach lives about 1 hour away.

  "A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." Mark Twain
  Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.... now who's bringing the hot wings? :jester:

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• Zee Posts: 28,399 Senior Member

  September 2019 #16

  Nah. 

  "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  

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• Six-Gun Posts: 8,155 Senior Member

  September 2019 edited September 2019 #17

  Make_My_Day said:

  I'm not certain, but I imagine distilleries were allowed to sell to foreign markets.

  They were and that's exactly what saved them.
  
  EDIT - I forgot one caveat that hit JD...Tennessee kept the ban in place after prohibition had formally ended nationally:
  
  "While Prohibition was lifted nationally in 1933, it took five more years for the Jack Daniel Distillery to re-open its doors - because the state of Tennessee didn’t end the ban on alcohol production until 1938."
  
  https://www.jackdaniels.com/en-gb/whiskey/limited/repeal-prohibition-70th-anniversary
  

  Accuracy: because white space between bullet holes drives me insane.

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• N454casull Posts: 690 Senior Member

  September 2019 #18

  Zee said:

  Nah. 

  What!? You didn’t go kiss the ring? 

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• joyjoy22 Posts: 44 Member

  September 2019 #19

  Great photos that you have there, this is something new since the majority of the photos in this community are about guns and hunting. 

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• Zee Posts: 28,399 Senior Member

  September 2019 #20

  Thanks. 
  Just pics from my phone. 

  "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  

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