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Tour stop 4 – Charcoal Mellowing
brendareed Says: After visiting the outside portion of the campus – the rickyard, cave spring, and office - we were led into a series of buildings, beginning with Distillery #1. No cameras were allowed from here to the end of the tour since we would be in some of the actual production areas....
Tour stop 3 – Mr. Jack’s office
brendareed Says: The small white building with a front porch next to the cave spring and bronze statue of Mr. Jack was his office. Inside the office is his desk and the safe. If the story is correct, Mr. Jack got angry one day because he couldn’t open the safe and he proceeded to kick the...
Tour stop 2 – Limestone cave spring
brendareed Says: Jack Daniel’s sourmash whiskey is only made here in Lynchburg – the only place in the world. The limestone cave spring is where the fresh water comes from. Given that we see Old No. 7 everywhere we travel (just about every pub and bar has a bottle of Jack on the shelf), it...
brendareed Says: Once your tour begins, you get into a small bus/van and head uphill to the Rickyard. This is where they make the charcoal for the mellowing process. It was outside and there were stacks of wood waiting to be made into charcoal in the large burners nearby. And just in case of...
Jack Daniel’s Visitor’s Center
brendareed Says: Our tour of the distillery began here. Even if you have no desire to go on the tour, you can still spend some time in the Visitor’s Center with all the historic displays. The actual building is newer than the other buildings on the JD campus, just built in 1999. But it has...
brendareed Says: We drove to the Jack Daniel’s Distillery – the easiest way to get there – and parked at the Visitor’s Center. It was not hard to find since it is probably the biggest attraction in the small town of Lynchburg, which is the county seat of the smallest country (Moore) in...
TravellerMel Says: The story goes, Mr. Jack arrived early to work one day. He tried to retrieve some papers from his office safe, but couldn't remember the combination. In frustration he kicked the safe, which caused him to have a broken toe. An infection set in, which ultimately killed...
TravellerMel Says: Old-timey town square, the focal point being a 100-year-old courthouse and bordered with restaurants and shops, you need to come here just to see. Most of the shops have the same type of stock (Jack Daniels t-shirts, charcoal briquettes, other JD merchandise) and the prices...
Jack Daniel's Distillery Tour - FREE
TravellerMel Says: Founded in 1866, this is the oldest registered distillery in the United States and is on the National Register of Historic Places. An active distillery - take the free tour, learn the history, and see how Jack Daniel's whiskey is made. I love factory tours, and this is a...
Bullabong Says: The Jack Daniels distillery tour is great fun and really interesting. Even if it is not your tipple, I would recommend the tour. The town of Lynchburg is worth a visit too, very quaint. A word of note though, although Jack Daniels is made here, you will not be able to buy or...
Liquor Production in a Dry County! Jack Daniels
aussiedoug Says: Jack Daniel Distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee is said to be the oldest registered in the whole of the U.S.A. (put your best southern accent on when saying that!).We, along with our fellow visitors (1 Georgia native & 3 New Jersey natives) did the guided tour which took us...
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Southern Perks: Bakery & Bistro on the Square
TravellerMel Says: Nice coffee shop/bakery/bistro on the Historic Square in Lynchburg. I got a turkey croissant sandwich and fountain drink for under $7. They also have a variety of baked goods which looked scrumptious, as well as a wall of modestly priced local handicrafts and artwork. It was...
Iron Kettle Restaurant: Little Diner on the Square
TravellerMel Says: Inexpensive diner on the downtown square. They offer a typical Southern "meat and three" in addition to their regular menu, which has burgers, hot dogs, sandwiches, etc. The daily meat + 3 was $6, and gives you a LOT of food. Diner was small, old, but clean and the waitress...
The BBQ Caboose: Delicious BBQ, with incredible hospitality
Mindy_J Says: wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! We all four had something different & it was all great. RIBS of course
Miss Mary Bobo's Boarding House: Mid-Day Dinner at Miss Mary Bobo's
aussiedoug Says: If you are visiting Lynchburg at all then you must, you absolutely MUST have "dinner" at Miss Mary Bobo's Dining House.Why you ask? Well for us Aussies it was a chance to have "dinner" in the middle of the day when we normally have "lunch". I guess that well may be true for...
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From Nashville
Take Interstate 24 East toward Chattanooga to Exit 81A (Murfreesboro/Shelbyville exit).
Turn right on Highway 231 and drive into Shelbyville. Turn left onto Highway 82 South & drive until it dead-ends into Highway 55. Turn right and go 1.5 miles into Lynchburg.
From Chattanooga
Take Interstate 24 West toward Nashville to Exit 111 (Manchester exit). Turn left on Highway 55 through Manchester and Tullahoma, then into Lynchburg.
From Huntsville, Alabama
Follow Highway 231 North to Fayetteville, pick up Route 64, and then take Highway 50 to Lynchburg.
When you get there, the distillery is easy to spot. Drive through Lynchburg, and the entrance into the Visitor Center parking area is two blocks past the town's only stoplight, right off Highway 55 next to the Mulberry Creek Bridge.
Updated Jul 21, 2003
Website: www.jackdaniels.com
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The town of Lynchburg is not that big so you’ll have no trouble finding the middle of town and the general store. While there are a number of shops that selling JD stuff, this is THE place to get all that Jack Daniel’s memorabilia you ever wanted to have. My dad was a huge fan of this place and I’m sure his den was primarily decorated with stuff from this shop; I like to call his decorating style “early Jack Daniel’s”. Pretty much, if you can put the Old No. 7 logo on something, it’ll be here waiting for you.
Interestingly, no matter how hard I search (back when I was selling Dad's collection or today), I cannot locate a website for the store.
Written Jan 1, 2013
Address: 160 Craig Street – Lynchburg, TN
Phone: +001 931 759 4200
riostulip Says: Lynchburg is not like Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia -- it's full of real people with real lives. Though Jack Daniel's Distillery makes it a "company town", many of those who don't work at the Distillery work in the aerospace field at nearby Arnold AFB or Huntsville AL's...
Dry County, but can buy beer singles??
Mindy_J Says: This really puzzled my friends and I. You can walk into the drug store & shops & buy a a single beer, but the catch..... you can't drink it in public!! That's right. You buy the single beer, then drink it in secret. How backward can you get! So, buy your single, pour it into...
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DON'T drink alcohol here ... Lynchburg sits in one of two dry counties in Tennessee, where the sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited.
'Whiskey, whiskey everywhere and not a drop to drink,' says Junior Donegan, a wisecracking tour guide who has worked at the plant for 20 years. 'Thank goodness it's a small county that doesn't take long to get out of.'
Written Oct 4, 2002
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The Jack Daniel’s Distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee, had been on my must-see list for quite a while. A bit surprising since I don’t even drink the Old No. 7 sourmash whiskey they produce. But this......
Jack Daniels and Miss Mary Bobo's
Haven't seen much of the south, but got a bit of a dose of it during this particular trip to the U.S. seeing Memphis then driving across the top of Mississippi into Alabama to stay in Huntsville,...
Lynchburg, home of the Nation's oldest registered distillery, Jack Daniels
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