Uncle Nearest, founded by entrepreneur Fawn Weaver in 2017, has become a sensation in the whiskey world. The Black-owned brand is named after Nathan “Nearest” Green, the enslaved man who taught Jack Daniel how to distill—a piece of whiskey history that wasn’t recognized until Brown-Forman, the company that owns Jack Daniel’s, finally acknowledged it in 2016. Since then, Uncle Nearest has exploded in popularity, selling more than $100 million worth of whiskey by 2022...
