High-quality whiskey has a high price, but it always remains a popular drink, including among Russian consumers. The world leader in sales of such a product is the American brand Jack Daniels. The success of the company lies in the fact that only natural grains, pure water and unique technologies are used in the production of whiskey. However, the drink, like many other popular products, is often counterfeited, so it is important to be able to distinguish the real from the fake.

External signs of a fake

A quality Jack Daniels whiskey cannot be cheap. The average price of a liter bottle starts at 1,700 rubles. In addition to the price, first of all, you should pay attention to the appearance of the package. Most often, a counterfeit product is bottled in non-original bottles, which are easy to distinguish from branded ones in several ways. To determine if Jack Daniels is fake or not, you need to carefully evaluate the following when buying:

• The whole bottle

It is the bottle that is called the face of whiskey. Jack Daniel's branded container is very difficult to counterfeit. The original has a strict parallelepiped shape with well-defined edges and sharp edges. Fake whiskey is often bottled in a bottle with rounded top and bottom edges. All 4 sides of the original container are engraved with the Jack Daniels logo at the top and volume information at the bottom. If the inscriptions are not embossed or blurred, this is not the real Jack Daniels, but his fake.

Another way to determine quality whiskey is to shake the bottle. If at the same time large bubbles are formed that do not burst for a long time - the alcohol is real. In addition, there must be no sediment.

• Neck

The branded bottle has a faceted neck, slightly widening in the middle and narrowing towards the cork and shoulders. At the base of the neck there is a convex ring, the poured drink slightly exceeds its level. In counterfeit containers, the neck is often cylindrical in shape; it smoothly turns into rounded shoulders.

• Cork

The original whiskey is sealed with a black plastic cork, which is covered with a glossy protective film along with the neck. A counterfeit bottle does not have such a film and is most often closed with a metal stopper.

The bottom of the bottle with a real Jack Daniels has a square shape, its corners are cut at 45 degrees. On the bottom there are convex inscriptions - information for the consumer. There are no such inscriptions on the fake bottle or they are illegible. In addition, a circle from the press machine will be visible at the bottom of the fake.

• Label

How to distinguish real whiskey by label? The bottle with the original drink is labeled exclusively in English. The label must have a unique EI code, which can be used to determine the barrel number and the date of packaging. To know which font the information is indicated in, you must first study the label design on the Jack Daniels official website. If the inscriptions are not in doubt, the quality of the sticker itself should be evaluated. It should be symmetrically positioned on the bottle, covering 3 edges, have a clear relief, and there should be no traces of glue on it. On the right side of the label there is an image of Jack Daniels himself, on the left side there are gold medals, a drop, a glass and a barrel. All drawings should be three-dimensional.

Beverage quality

How to distinguish the original Jack Daniels from a possible fake by the properties of the drink itself? You need to appreciate the color, aroma and taste of the whiskey.

Real Jack Daniels has a deep dark amber shade. The aroma is caramel-vanilla with a slight admixture of haze, the taste is sweetish, tart with woody notes. There is a long, mild aftertaste with hints of sweet spices. There should not be any additional components, since there are no alcohol impurities and flavors in the original. Quality whiskey can be consumed without a snack. Gourmets do not recommend mixing Jack Daniels with other ingredients and using it to make cocktails.

After uncorking a bottle with a fake drink, a sharp smell of alcohol or a harsh, obsessive artificial aroma is felt. If the whiskey tastes bad, you want to eat it or drink it, it's a fake.

It is the original Jack Daniels, as opposed to the fake one, that tones the body without causing a headache or other hangover symptoms. In order not to purchase low-quality whiskey, you should choose it only in a specialized store, having read all the relevant documents. In other retail outlets, there is a risk of buying a fake.

Every year 6 million bottles of the popular American alcoholic drink - whiskey are sold to all parts of the world. "Jack Daniels"... It differs not only in its unusual taste, but also in its status. And now we will get acquainted with the method of its manufacture, the rules of use, we will learn how not to run into a fake.

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Flavoring features

The caramel-vanilla flavor and woody notes of Tenessian whiskey are due to cold filtration using charcoal. This cooking technology was invented by Alfred Eaton.

The drink is filtered before entering oak barrels, where it is infused, absorbing woody odors and flavors. After cleaning, the whiskey becomes soft, with a slight smokiness.

A freshly expelled product and not aged but filtered are very different.

1. Jack Daniels, 40%... Aristocratic amber-gold whiskey, a representative of the classics with the aroma of nuts, spices, vanillin. It has a refined, bright, multi-stage taste with caramel notes and a strong smoky aftertaste.
2. Jack Daniel's Old No7, 40%... It is considered the most elite in the line. Has a sweetish aroma that gives off burnt caramel, milk chocolate, cigarettes, dates. The taste is diluted with vanilla, woody, fruity elements. The drink leaves a long aftertaste with notes of oak, ice cream, vanilla.
3. Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey, 35%... Ladies' alcohol based on honey liqueur. It has a rich taste and aroma of honey, a long enveloping aftertaste of fruit.
4. Gentleman Jack, 40%... The product is not to be confused with anything, thanks to the nut-citrus aroma with elements of burnt oak, full-fledged taste, complemented by seasonings and licorice. With secondary filtration after aging, this Jack Daniels becomes especially soft, smooth. According to ancient legend, the drink was created by Jack for his beloved.
5. Gentleman Jack, 40%... It is a white, unripe version with an interesting grain composition: 70% rye, 18% corn, 12% barley malt. It is remembered for its smooth refreshing scent with hints of flowers and wood, the harmony of a bright ginger taste.
6. Jack Daniel's White Rabbit Saloon, 43%... The limited line was made for the 120th anniversary of Jack Daniel's White Rabbit Bar. The memorable aroma of the drink is a combination of vanilla, caramel, spicy, oak notes. Taste features: tenderness, roundness, banana and apple inclusions, nutty slightly bitter aftertaste.
7. Jack Daniel's Single Barrel Rye, 47%... Alcohol of the "super premium" group, which has passed two-stage filtration on charcoal. The number of the barrel is written on the packaging and when the filling was made. Caramel, oak and candied fruits are the main aromatic components of the product. Its flavoring "chips" are maple sweetness and a little sourness. It is advisable to drink it clean, you can throw an ice cube.
8. Jack Daniel's Sinatra Century, 50%... A limited line created for the 100th anniversary of the birth of F. Sinatra. The bottles in the original designed packaging have numbering and a disc with a live recording of the artist's famous composition. The bouquet notes are a combination of nutty, watermelon and cream aromas. The velvety-vanilla multi-stage taste will be remembered for a long time.
9. Jack Daniel's 150th Anniversary, 50%... Produced in honor of a 150 year old company. The drink is saturated with honey-cinnamon aroma interspersed with fresh fruit components, light rounded taste with elements of pollen, peanuts, sweets, as well as a wonderful long oak-vanilla aftertaste.

The culture of drinking Jack Daniels whiskey is simple and straightforward. you just need to remember a few simple recommendations:

• The drink is served in the afternoon, sometimes as an aperitif for dinner.
• The optimum product temperature is 18-21 degrees. If it is higher, the alcohol will become not so soft, and with hypothermia, it will lose its exquisite taste and aroma.
• You need to drink American whiskey from two types of glasses. If pure Jack is drunk, then they should be tulip-shaped from thin glass to enhance color, smell and taste. When ice, juice or water is added to the drink, it is better to take rocks.
• Alcohol is poured, keeping at a small distance from the glass, so that a funnel is formed, and not a splash, then the aroma will become more noticeable. The glass is 1/3 full.
• Need to soften your whiskey? Then add some ice. Thanks to him, the temperature of the drink will remain within the required limits.

Jack Daniel of the collectible brands is tasted only clean and chilled with stones.

An excellent appetizer for expensive whiskey - lemon wedges in sugar or sweet juicy apples, as well as grape, tangerine slices.

If the drink is mixed with cola, cheese-olive tartlets, seafood delicacies (mussels, oysters) sprinkled with lemon juice, fish canapes will be an ideal addition to it.

The Jack Daniel brand is very popular, so it gathers around itself not only fans of elite alcohol, but also swindlers who want to profit. In order not to throw away from 1,500 to 11,000 rubles for a surrogate, you need to listen to a number of recommendations:

1. In supermarkets, as a rule, a fake is sold, so for such an exquisite alcohol it is better to go to a special store.
2. This whiskey is poured into special bottles. Their shape is a parallelepiped with sharp, clear edges and well-defined edges above and below. An easy-to-read brand logo is embossed on each hanger of the vessel. Below is an embossed inscription with a displacement indicator. Counterfeit products are poured into round vessels without engravings.
3. True Jack Daniels closes with a black plastic cap, is distinguished by smooth, not chipped bottle sections and the presence of a grooved belt. There is no such film on the counterfeit product, and the lid is made from simple raw materials.
4. The vessel with the original has a convex neck narrowed towards the lid. A mandatory sign of the quality of the drink is the presence of a dispenser. The counterfeit does not have it, and the bottleneck has almost no edges.
5. The company label is located on three sides of the vessel with the real Jack. It is glued evenly, without asymmetry and glue residues. There are corrugations on the left and right, easily perceptible and visible in the light. The information on the label is written in English only, it contains the batch number and the time of filling. The surrogate has no corrugation and the label is sloppy.
6. The bottom of the bottle must contain clearly grooved data for the consumer. The bottom is square, its corners are cut to 45 degrees. On falsified products, there is often a mark from the baler, covering the information inscription. These bottles have round corners.
7. True Jack Daniels has a dark amber color and aroma with a smoky component, a strong sweetish vanilla-caramel flavor. But the fake has a strong spirit.

Jack Daniels - this is a high-quality alcohol, without which no real fan of spirits can do without. Consuming it is an art, and choosing the right product is a whole science that must be mastered before treating guests to an exquisite drink.

Jack Daniels is one of the oldest American whiskeys. Over 150 years of its existence, the brand has won the love of millions of buyers. And there is a reason: this drink has a surprisingly rich, and at the same time mild and clean taste. But the world fame also has a flip side of the coin - Jack Daniels whiskey is quite often counterfeited due to the consistently high demand. We will tell you how not to run into a fake and distinguish a fake from the original.

If the price attracts with its cheapness, this fact should alert you. Today in retail stores the price of one liter of the classic blend Old No. 7 is approximately 3000 rubles. If the whiskey is much cheaper, be alert and proceed to checking the following signs.

Features of the original bottle

Fake whiskey is most often bottled in fake bottles that are quite different from the real ones. Genuine Jack Daniel's bottles have several characteristics that make it easier to identify authenticity. Let's analyze them using the example of the most popular blend Old No. 7 - it is clear that hardly anyone would think of counterfeiting Single Barrel numbered bottles or the lesser-known Gentleman Rare. So, let's list these signs.

The form. If the whiskey was bottled at Jack Daniel's distillery, the bottle will be square with sharp corners. The fake bottle has more rounded, smoother corners. In the upper part there is an embossed Jack Daniel's inscription in capital letters, and in the lower part - an indication of the displacement.
These signs are difficult to fake, so their absence directly says - in front of you is a fake!

Bottom. Don't forget to look at the bottom of your chosen bottle - it should be a square with truncated sharp corners. A fake can be identified by smoothed corners and an overly visible pressing circle.

Bung. The original is closed with a black plastic stopper with a dispenser, covered with a black matte film on top. No iron caps with inscriptions! There is a brand logo on the bottom of the film.

Neck. Original Jack Daniel's bottles have a very interesting neck shape - it is pot-bellied, with pronounced rectangular edges, sharply turning into shoulders. This is not easy to counterfeit, so fake bottles can usually be recognized by the smooth transition to the hanger.

Label.All inscriptions on the Jack Daniels label must be embossed and embossed. A crookedly glued label with glue residues is a clear sign of a fake. There should be no Russian text on the label of a real whiskey!

Carefully study the features of real Jack Daniel's whiskey, look at the label on the Internet to feel confident in the store.

Do not relax after your purchase: before drinking, evaluate the color and smell of the whiskey. "Jack Daniels" should have a transparent amber color and a pleasant, slightly sweet smell with notes of vanilla and oak. And if the whiskey smells harshly of alcohol or even extraneous odors, you should not drink it.

Is Jack Daniels Cognac or Whiskey? With what and how to drink it? And most importantly: how to distinguish an original from a fake? We will tell all about this in this article, as well as give many interesting facts about the history and intricacies of the production of "Jack Daniels".

General information

Jack Daniel's is a blended whiskey. Unlike the Scottish national drink, which is made from malt, the American variety uses corn (eighty percent), barley (12%) and rye (8%) as raw materials. Such blends are usually called bourbons, and this makes them related to cognacs. But a special method of filtration makes Jack Daniel's whiskey. Thanks to double passing through a layer of special charcoal, the drink acquires a mild taste. A four-year aging in roasted white oak barrels gives the whiskey a smoky caramel flavor and amber color. Spring water with zero iron content also gives the drink a softness. The whiskey comes in square, sharp-edged bottles. At the moment, there are several varieties of this world-famous brand. The main difference in the types of Jack Daniels whiskey is the degrees. In the classic example - "Jack Daniels Old No. 7" - as well as in "Gentleman" there are forty of them. Other types are somewhat stronger, for example, in the Single Barrel forty-seven degrees, and in the Silver Select - all fifty.

Story

As is often the case in the production of a well-known brand, Jack Daniels whiskey is named after its "parent". Jack Jasper Newton Daniel was only seven years old when he hired a laborer in a distillery for Lutheran pastor Dann Call. This happened in the middle of the 19th century in Tennessee. Five years of work were not in vain. The boy gained experience and at the age of thirteen he opened his own distillery. Daniel did not reinvent the wheel, but applied the already proven method of Lincoln whiskey technology. This method, practiced in the district of the same name in Tennessee, consisted in the fact that before being poured into barrels, the drink was filtered through a three-meter layer of coal obtained from American sugar maple. This process is long and costly, but Daniel was not stopped. And although most admirers of whiskey do not love it for the mild taste, Jack Daniel's products have become very popular.

The uniqueness of "Jack Daniels"

It would seem that if a manufacturer has applied a technology that has already become traditional, then what made his products stand out from a number of others? Why is this brand's distillery the oldest currently operating in the United States? Answer: because Jack Daniel always wanted to do the best. This was his life motto. He built his factory near his hometown of Lynchburg not out of patriotic feelings, but because he knew about the wonderful Hollow Spring. The water of this spring was practically free of iron. Thanks to her and the passage through the layers of sugar maple, the drink came out soft, and not bulging like ordinary whiskey. Also, the products were aged for four years in special barrels. They were made from young American white oak wood. After the barrels were completely made, the inside was fired. Jack Daniels whiskey was aged in them in a natural climate. In winter, the wood shrank, in summer it expanded. The essential oils and natural sugars of the oak passed into the drink, giving it an amber color and a hazy smell.

Modern production

Jack Daniel himself was not married and had no children, and therefore in his old age handed the reins of the company to his nephew. Lem Motlow ran the distillery from 1911 to 1947. It was a very difficult period. Two world wars, the times of the "Great Depression" and - which was a special blow to the company - prohibition. But Motlow masterfully got out of the situation by establishing export. The distillery's products even managed to win medals at European distillate exhibitions. In 1988, the new leader, Jack Raire, applied the double filtering method. Jack Daniels whiskey, after four years of aging in barrels, was once again driven through a layer of maple coal. This method gives the drink a sleeker and smoother character. At the same time, the readiness - the degree of maturation of the whiskey - is determined not by the calendar, but by the tasting of specialists. The taste, color and aroma of the contents of each barrel are evaluated.

Marketing and packaging

Jack Daniel was not only a conscientious and talented whiskey maker, but also an excellent entrepreneur. At the dawn of his career, he opened two bars in his hometown and hired musicians to form the Silver Cornet Band. On the drum, he ordered to paint a bottle of Jack Daniels Old No.7 whiskey. The idea worked. The troupe toured all the states, and soon all Americans, young and old, knew: if whiskey, then Jack Daniels. Tara also played a role in marketing. Initially, Jack Daniel poured his products into jugs, on which he stenciled his first and last name. When from the seventies of the nineteenth century glass bottles were firmly in use, Jack began to look for something original. And I found it. A traveling salesman from Illinois showed him Alton Glass products. The bottle was very unusual - square, with sharp edges and a corrugated neck - just what you need to make the products at home stand out and be memorable.

Varieties

Let's start with the classics. Photo of Jack Daniels Old No.7 whiskey in front of you. The classic square bottle is fraught with an amber drink with caramel and vanilla flavors, in which woody notes are clearly audible. The drink has a pleasant sweetish aroma. This variety is available in different-sized bottles - from 0.05 l samplers to three-liter baklags.

Gentleman Jack is double filtered. This amber drink tastes like nuts, licorice and spices. Available in containers from 0.35 to one liter.

Jack Daniel's Single Barrel is a premium variety. Whiskey is poured into a 0.75 liter bottle from one specific barrel, whose number and date of bottling are indicated on the label. It is a dark amber drink with a strength of forty degrees. This whiskey is distinguished by a mild taste of vanilla caramel.

Jack Daniel's Silver Select Single Barrel is characterized by increased strength (five degrees). The whiskey belongs to the super-premium category, as the drink is bottled from a special, better barrel. Dancing orange-red sparks are visible in the amber liquid. The taste is associated with caramelized citrus fruits, vanilla and oriental spices. The aroma contains woody notes, smoke, orange peel and ripe plums. The aftertaste is long, languid, with notes of sweet spices.

It can be served as an aperitif and digestif, but not with food. The Scots drink their whiskey and soda. This method softens the clogging of the drink. Jack Daniels doesn't need that. Its taste is already soft enough that it can be confused with cognacs. Connoisseurs of "Jack Daniels" love to taste it in small sips solo, without any accompaniment. For this whiskey, you should choose tulip glasses, filling them by a third or half. This will give you a better aroma of the drink. The optimum temperature for serving is plus eighteen to twenty-one degrees. If the drink is colder, it will not exude its aroma, and if it is warmer, the taste will become more harsh, brutal.

If you are against drinking neat distillates, try making yourself a simple shake. This brand of whiskey goes well with apple and lemon (or any citrus) juice. But for the mixture, you should take another glass. It can be a wide, low glass with a thick bottom. It is filled with ice cubes, whiskey and juice. Since this is a "masculine" drink, all sorts of decorations in the form of umbrellas, orange slices and slices of carom are inappropriate here. Even cocktail straws are considered bad manners.

One hundred and fifty years after the appearance of the brand on the world market, "Jack Daniels" has overgrown with medals and strengthened its popularity. The fact that the products are in demand is evidenced by the fact that there are a lot of counterfeits of this brand on the black market. So what is a true Jack Daniels supposed to look like? The drink continues to be bottled in "branded" bottles. They are square in shape with sharp corners. At the top of these faces, at the neck, “Jack Daniels” is engraved, and at the bottom - the volume of the container (for example, “1 Liter”). The label is glued evenly, without glue drips. It has a 45 degree beveled edge. And the label itself, like the American dollar, has raised patterns on the sides. They are felt under the fingers when stroking. The bottle has a plastic cork, covered with a protective film. But the most important thing is the bottom of the bottle. It must include the EI code, batch number and batch.

How to distinguish an original from a fake

The manufacturer has invested a lot of money in the production of his whiskey (first-class raw materials, barrels of his own production, coal). Therefore, it is not worth expecting that a liter of Jack Daniels whiskey will have a price of about four hundred to eight hundred rubles. If you are offered a drink in a square bottle, but with soft edges, this is not the original. This is not Jack Daniels whiskey at all. A fake can also have a metal lid. Recently, they began to falsify bottles with a capacity of half a liter. A corrugated neck will help to distinguish a fake. Real whiskey should have a small letter (R) after the inscription No.7. Turn the bottle over: the drop should stay at the bottom and hang. The counterfeit liquid will simply merge along the walls. Shake the bottle. Real whiskey has large and more or less persistent bubbles. There should be no sediment. An uncorked bottle exudes a sweet vanilla scent, while a fake bottle smells of alcohol.

What do consumers say?

Both connoisseurs and ordinary distillate lovers praise Jack Daniels whiskey. Reviews of Russian consumers are especially emphasized by the fact that this drink does not cause a headache or other signs of a hangover. If you buy whiskey in trusted stores, you can enjoy a mild, well-balanced taste. The drink is good in any weather: it warms up on chilly evenings and (with ice) tones up on a hot day. Connoisseurs warn against the use of "Jack Daniels" with cola - the powerful taste of soda does not fit into the delicate aroma of American whiskey.

Jack Daniel's is the most popular brand of whiskey from the United States, selling over 6 million bottles annually. Before the proclamation of "Prohibition" in the United States, Tennessee had many alcohol producers; today there are only two "dinosaurs" left - Jack Daniel's and George Dickel.

Both factories made ordinary bourbon until 1941. But then the state government decided that thanks to the special filtration technique, the whiskeys produced in Tennessee deserve to have the status of geographical origin. All products manufactured in the state became known as Tennessee Sour Mash - "Tennessee sour mash whiskey."

Production technology

It is the process of cold filtration using charcoal that determines the unique taste of the drink and rich aroma. This method was invented by Alfred Eaton, but was named after the county where it was first applied - Lincoln County process. It is believed that Jack Daniel built his distillery in the same place where the Eaton distillery was located. The Lincoln process is the only technological difference between Tennessee whiskey and bourbon.

Tourists visiting the Jack Daniel's Distillery in Lynchburg are shown all the stages of whiskey production, starting with the burning of maple logs. This process has been turned into a show and worked out to the smallest detail. Special workers of the plant sprinkle huge masonry of burning logs with water: if you do not control the temperature of the fire, you will get ash, not coal. The resulting maple coal is filled into huge column filters, then Tennessee whiskey is filtered through this coal drop by drop for a whole week.

Since the filtration takes place before the spirits are poured into the barrels, and not before bottling, the already filtered, pure whiskey is kept in oak barrels that have been fired from the inside, which will have to absorb the aroma and shades of wood. The refined whiskey acquires softness, roundness and pleasant light smokiness. After that, the drink is sent for aging. Visitors are offered to taste freshly distilled whiskey (White Lightning) and unseasoned, but filtered - the difference is huge.

The history of Jack Daniel's whiskey

The history of the brand dates back to 1866, when Jack Daniel acquired a plot near Lynchburg, which had a source of spring water filtered by limestone. This land was formerly part of Lincoln County, and is now in County Moore. In the same year, Daniel was the first in the United States to register his whiskey distillery. At that time, the founder of the brand was no more than 20 years old - no documents about his birth have been preserved, so the exact year of birth is not known. Despite such a young age, Jack had a very extensive knowledge: he bought his first alembic at the age of 14 and made good money on the preparation of alcoholic beverages.

In the 1980s, Jack was joined by his nephew Lem Motlow, who persuaded his uncle to sell the whiskey not in barrels or ceramic jugs, but in bottles. This became a strategic decision - the bottled whiskey could be exported. Another important milestone for the brand is 1895, when Daniel was shown a square bottle. Since then, Jack Daniel's whiskey has been bottled in such a container. Initially, the label on the bottles was green, but after Jack's death in 1911, the color was changed to black.

The brand is now owned by Brown-Forman. Since 2008, Jeff Arrnett, the seventh master of distillation, has been at the helm of production.

Awards

For more than a century and a half of the existence of the whiskey distillery, Jack Daniels has received many awards:

• 1904 - Gold Medal at the St. Louis World's Fair;
• 1905 - Gold medal at the World Exhibition in the Belgian city of Liege;
• 1913 - Gold Medal at the Whiskey Competition in Ghent;
• 1914 - Gold Medal of the Anglo-American Exhibition in London;
• 1915 - Gold Medal and Certificate of the Institute of Hygiene in London;
• 1954 - Quality Star in Brussels;
• 1981 - Gold Medal with Palm Leaves in Amsterdam.

A special series of whiskey "Gold medals", produced from 1996 to 2006, is dedicated to these awards.

1. Jack's real name is Jasper Newton Daniel.
2. Daniel bought the plot of land on which the distillery is located today for $ 2,148. At that time, it was a huge amount, and few people would have parted with their money so easily, acquiring a wasteland. True, the land was located next to a cave, from which the Cave Spring source with fabulously clear water flowed out.
3. The maturation barrels are made from white oak and are used only once, after which the company sells them to brewers, producers of Scotch whiskey and sauces. Each barrel is assembled from 33 planks connected without the use of nails or glue.
4. Whiskey is produced in the "dry" district of Moore, where the sale of alcoholic beverages is still banned, so you can buy whiskey only directly at the distillery or through the site of the distillery.
5. Frank Sinatra was one of the most loyal fans of the brand: the musician was even buried with a bottle of Jack Daniel's Old No.7.

6. There are several myths of varying degrees of reliability about the appearance of the name Old No.7. Romantics believe that the number of girls, to whom Jack was not indifferent at different times, is encrypted under the "seven". Perhaps, this is how Daniel outlined the most successful recipe, the seventh in a row. Another version concerns the story of the loss of a batch of whiskey, which was carried by train number 7.

How to drink Jack Daniel's whiskey

The ideal temperature for Jack Daniels is room temperature, between 18-22 ° C. At higher temperatures, the taste becomes harsh, overcooled whiskey loses its rich aroma. Most connoisseurs of Tenessian whiskey are inclined to believe that it is correct to drink it undiluted.

The only thing that can complement the magic of the bouquet is a good cigar.

Jack Daniel's whiskey types

• Jack Daniels, 40%. A classic whiskey with a noble amber-golden hue. The aroma contains spices, nuts, vanilla. The taste is elegant, full-bodied, multilevel, first notes of caramel appear, and then a bright aftertaste of smoke.
• Jack Daniel's Old # 7, 40%. The most "titled" whiskey of the brand. It has a sweet aroma with tones of burnt caramel, milk chocolate, figs, tobacco. The taste contains notes of vanilla, wood, sweet fruits, toffee. The aftertaste is long-lasting, bright, warm, with oak notes, vanilla, with an ice-cream finish.
• Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey, 35%. Whiskey based on honey liqueur is an excellent choice for the fair sex. Has a pronounced honey flavor and aroma. The finish is long-lasting, enveloping, fruity.
• Gentleman Jack, 40%. Whiskey has a pleasant aroma with tones of toasted oak, light nutty and citrus intonations. The harmonious taste is enriched with shades of licorice and spices, the special softness and smoothness is ensured by repeated filtration after ripening. There is a legend that Jack developed the recipe for the drink for one of his mistresses, which is where his name comes from.
• Jack Daniel's Unaged Rye, 40%. Un aged white whiskey with a unique grain composition: 70% rye, 18% corn and 12% barley malt. The aroma is smooth and fresh, with malt notes, floral tones, woody nuances. The taste is balanced, bright, with tones of ginger.
• Jack Daniel's White Rabbit Saloon, 43%. The limited edition was timed to coincide with the 120th anniversary of the White Rabbit Bar, opened by Jack Daniel. The aroma is quite intense, with hints of vanilla, caramel, candy, spices, there are bright oak notes. The taste is sweet, soft, round, there are notes of baked apple, banana, there is a slight tannin. The aftertaste is salty, with a slight nutty bitterness.
• Jack Daniel's Single Barrel Rye, 47%. Super premium whiskey with double carbon filtration. The bottle is marked with the bottling date and barrel number. The bouquet is replete with tones of caramel and oak, which complement the candied fruit shades. The taste is full-bodied, with a maple-corn sweetness and a barely audible sourness. Ideal in its pure form, if you add ice - then one cube is quite enough.
• Jack Daniel's Sinatra Century, 50%. Limited edition for Frank Sinatra's 100th anniversary. The numbered bottles come in gift boxes and come with a live CD of the Old Blue Eyes song. The bouquet is rich with sweetish notes of crème brulee, nutmeg, peanuts, warm ripe watermelon. The taste is velvety and multi-layered, with a hint of vanilla cream.
• Jack Daniel's 150th Anniversary, 50%. Released for the 150th anniversary of the company. Aroma with notes of honey, cinnamon, hints of sweet fresh fruit. The taste is soft, rather light and round, sweetish-tannin with notes of nut, caramel, pollen. The aftertaste of the drink is pleasant, of medium duration, oak and vanilla are felt at the finish.