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Most Awarded Bourbon and American Whiskey of 2019,2020,2021,2022,&2023
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2023 BEST IN CLASS WHISKIES OF THE WORLD AWARDS Award
2023 BEST WHISKEY CRITICS CHALLENGE Award
2023 BEST OF THE BEST LA INVITATIONAL SPIRITS COMPETITION Award
2023 BEST RYE WHISKEY INTERNATIONAL WHISKY COMPETITION Award
2023 BEST TENNESSEE WHISKEY INTERNATIONAL WHISKY COMPETITION Award
2023 GOLD MEDAL AMERICAN WHISKEY MASTERS Award
2023 CONSUMER'S CHOICE SIP AWARDS Award
2023 DOUBLE GOLD SAN FRANCISCO WORLD SPIRITS COMPETITION Award
2023 PLATINUM MEDAL ASCOT AWARDS Award
2022 Best in Class Craft Distiller Award
2022 Double Gold San Fran Award
2022 Master Blender Award
2022 Best in Class Drink Business Award
2022 Gold Denver Award
2022 Gold San Diego Award
2021 - Best American Whiskey Ascot Awards Award
2021 - Chairmans Trophy Award
2021 - WOTY Award
2021 - Best in Show Gold Outstanding Award
2021 - Best Tennessee Whiskey SanFran WSC Award
2021 - Victoria Eady Butler Award
2021 - Spirit of the Year Award
2021 - Best Tennessee Whiskey John Barleycorn Award
2021 - Platinum Bev Tasting Award
2021 - MASTER The Spirit Business Award
2020 Double gold san francisco world spirits competition Award
2020 first place intl whisky comp Award
2020 double gold sip awards intl spirits comp Award

THE STORY OF NEAREST GREEN

Narrated by Emmy-Award winning actor Jeffrey Wright, this beautifully shot short film, telling the story of the first known African-American master distiller, is about much more than whiskey. It is a story of honor, respect, and an unlikely friendship that could be the greatest American story you never heard.

More AboutUncle Nearest

Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey is inspired by the best whiskey-maker the world never knew, the first known African-American master distiller, Nathan “Nearest” Green. The Uncle Nearest brand, wholly owned by Uncle Nearest, Inc., an all minority-led business, encompasses a premium aged whiskey with a blend of 8- to 14- year old, an 11-year-old minimum age single barrel, and a 7-year-old small batch offering, all mellowed using the Lincoln County Process, a unique filtering of bourbon through sugar maple charcoal. This process has been confirmed to have been brought to Tennessee by enslaved people and taught by Nearest Green to the most famous Tennessee Whiskey maker of all time. Uncle Nearest is distilled, aged, bottled and hand-labeled in Tennessee.

The company built its brand on its knack for sourcing the best of Tennessee whiskies and bourbons, and using its own non-temperature-controlled aging process and unique post-aging double filtration method that significantly changes the characteristics and profile of the original whiskies. Uncle Nearest is the most awarded new American premium whiskey brand in United States history, garnering 75 awards since its July 2017 debut, including being one of two brands named “World’s Best” at Whisky Magazine’s 2019 World Whiskies Awards, and earning 15 Best in Class. Cigar & Spirits Magazine also named Uncle Nearest one of the “Top 5 Whiskies in the World.”

The whiskey is currently available in all 50 states and 12 countries (while shipping into a total of 148 countries), in more than 10,000 stores, bars, restaurants and its 270-acre distillery in Shelbyville, Tenn., dubbed by a member of the press as “Malt Disney World.”

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Merchandise

Cocktails

Cocktail Recipe

Tuxedo Adam Chapman // The Gibson, San Francisco, CA

The Ingredients

  • 2 oz Uncle Nearest 1884
  • .25 oz caramelized coconut simple syrup
  • Toasted coconut cream to top

The Method

Whiskey is dripped through a tall coffee column, which is filled with a blend of coffee beans and bay nuts. Stir whiskey and syrup well. Pour into a fluted glass and top with warm coconut cream from an ISI canister.

Cocktail Recipe

Joshitai Daiquiri Kala Ellis // Oku, Nashville, TN

The Ingredients

  • 1.5 oz Uncle Nearest
  • .75 oz lemon juice
  • .75 oz plum maceration
  • 1 dash tiki bitters
  • 2 dashes Peychaud's bitters

The Method

Combine all ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice, shake well, strain into a coupe glass, garnish with a lemon zest.

Cocktail Recipe

Uncle's Paloma Ryan Bono // Club 77, Chicago, IL

The Ingredients

  • 1.75 oz Uncle Nearest 1856
  • 1.5 oz Luxardo Aperitivo
  • 1 oz fresh squeezed grapefruit juice
  • 1.5 oz organic honey syrup
  • Peychaud’s bitters

The Method

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, shake well, strain into glass and garnish with a Peychaud’s bitters float.

Cocktail Recipe

Nearest to Happiness Jay Madison // One Flew South, Atlanta, GA

The Ingredients

  • 1.5 oz Uncle Nearest 1856
  • 0.5 oz Lillet Rouge
  • 0.5 oz lemon juice
  • 0.5 oz simple syrup
  • 3-4 blueberries

The Method

Muddle blueberries, combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, shake well and pour into rocks glass. Garnish with 3 blueberries and a mint leaf.

Cocktail Recipe

Spicy Lady Frida Cantina // Beverly Hills, CA

The Ingredients

  • Muddle 1 slice of Jalepeño
  • 2 oz Uncle Nearest 1884
  • 0.75 oz lime juice
  • 0.5 oz blood orange
  • 0.5 oz agave

The Method

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, shake well, strain over fresh ice. Served in a rocks glass with a half rim of special chipotle sea salt, garnish with blood orange segment.

Cocktail Recipe

No particular sign Jeremy Johnson // Meta, Louisville, KY

The Ingredients

  • 1.5 oz Uncle Nearest 1856
  • .75 oz lemon juice
  • .5 oz Umami syrup
  • .5 oz Akashi Ume

The Method

Reverse dry shake, strain into a coupe or sherry glass. Garnish with 4 drops of Peychaud bitters.

Cocktail Recipe

Uncle's Garden Khadka Anjan // Grand Hyatt, Tokyo

The Ingredients

  • 45 ml Uncle Nearest 1856
  • 15 ml St Germaine liqueur
  • 45 ml pineapple juice
  • 1 egg white

The Method

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, shake well, strain into a coupe glass, garnish with pineapple leaf or edible flowers.

Cocktail Recipe

Uncle Fizz Matt Ryan // Atria, Edgartown, MA

The Ingredients

  • 2 oz Uncle Nearest 1884
  • 1 oz apple juice
  • 0.25 oz lemon juice
  • 1 egg white
  • Ginger beer to fill

The Method

Combine all, except ginger beer in a cocktail shaker with ice, shake well. Fill glass with ice add ginger beer, then strain cocktail into glass.

Cocktail Recipe

Enter the Dragon Table 13 // Davenport Grand Hotel, Spokane, WA

The Ingredients

  • 2 oz Uncle Nearest 1856
  • 2 drops of a sesame tincture
  • 1 barspoon of ricemilk/orange blossom syrup blend
  • 2 dashes of Skidmore bitters
  • Ginger beer to fill

The Method

Combine all ingredients, except ginger beer, into a cocktail shaker with ice, shake well and strain into a collins glass over ice, fill with ginger beer, and stir gently.

Cocktail Recipe

Devil's Advocate Devil's Advocate

The Ingredients

  • 1.5 oz Uncle Nearest 1856
  • 1 oz Ramazzotti
  • .5 oz Dolin Sweet Vermouth
  • .25 oz Cherry Heering
  • .25 oz Cynar
  • Top with Ramazzotti infused root beer foam

The Method

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake well, strain over fresh ice in a Pilsner glass and top with Ramazzotti Root Beer Foam.

Cocktail Recipe

The Fall Classic The Fall Classic

The Ingredients

  • 1.5 oz Uncle Nearest 1884
  • .5 oz Domaine De Canton ginger liquer
  • 1 bar spoon of sour cherry jam
  • 1 dash cinnamon
  • .5 oz simple syrup
  • .5 oz lemon juice
  • 1 dash cherry bitters
  • Luxardo cherry

The Method

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, shake well and strain into glass and garnish with cherry.

Cocktail Recipe

Four Grain Gait Emma Tumman // British Bourbon Society, Reading, UK

The Ingredients

  • 50 ml Uncle Nearest 1856
  • 15 ml Mozart dark chocolate liqueur
  • 20 ml single cream
  • 20 ml 4% milk

The Method

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker, shake well and strain into a coupette glass and dust with ground cookie. Dairy cream and milk can be substituted for oat cream and milk.

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