Beth & Cory's Mom: Jack Daniel's

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Good Food Served Here

It's not officially part of the Jack Daniel's tour, but I think most people drive the two blocks to the Lynchburg Town Square and visit the shops after a tour. There's a coupon on the back of the tour tickets for a free shot glass (with a $10 purchase) at several of the shops in town. If you want anything Jack Daniel's, that's the place to find it. So, of course Jeffrey had to find something to buy. This time he ended up with some playing cards and a coffee mug. Last time he got a stave from one of the used barrels. They make some really cool stuff with those barrels - if only they weren't so expensive. One stave was enough. He's got it hanging on the wall behind his bar in the basement.

With all the driving and touring and shopping, we were all getting a bit hungry. So, when we saw a sign out front of a restaurant advertising, "Good Food" we went inside. We didn't need any commercials blasting through 5.1 speakers to convince us. We were pleasantly surprised to see that the menu prices were reasonable, and the food sounded quite tasty. The only problem - she was out of quite a few things, onion rings for one - due to the holidays, business had been good, I guess, and deliveries messed up. Dad and Jeffrey ordered some burgers which turned out to be huge, mom ordered a Philly Steak sandwich - out of chips so she got fries, and I ordered a Corned Beef on Rye except on Texas toast. But, she was out of corned beef - insert sad face here - so I ordered the Philly Steak, too.

The food was really good! Like I said, the burgers were huge - 2 huge patties on each - and the Philly steak was just right. The sign was right - so if you're ever in Lynchburg and see a sign advertising good food, stop in and get a bite to eat.

Of course, now I'm hungry for corned beef, so I'm going to have to find someplace else to get that.

A Visit with Jack

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Since we're so close - about 3 hours - Jeffrey just had to visit the Jack Daniel's Distillery in Lynchburg, TN. He talked about it last year but decided it was more important to stay and spend time with family. This year he just couldn't pass it up again. We took Mom & Dad with us so we got to spend time with them on the car ride there and back - and during the tour.

We'd been there one other time, but not since Jeffrey became a Tennessee Squire, and mom & dad hadn't been before. It was a gorgeous day, warm and sunny enough for Native Sunglasses, and the tour is really interesting. If you have a chance to go - do it! It's free, takes about an hour, and you get to enjoy some great smells. You can't actually have any whiskey because the Distillery sits in a dry county - but the smells are great, and it's fun to see how this little place puts out all the Jack Daniel's whiskey produced in the whole world. Everything involved in the process of creating this Tennessee sipping whiskey is done right there in the Hollow - building the barrels, making the charcoal, making the sour mash, mellowing the whiskey through 10 feet of charcoal drip by drip, aging the whiskey in the barrels until the taster says it's ready...

We also got to see the World's Largest Bottle of Jack Daniel's whiskey, and we got to go into the Squire's room where Jeffrey got a gift for visiting and we got to see some more Jack memorabilia, most of it donated by other squires - a room we hadn't been able to visit last time. I have a feeling Jeffrey will want to visit again one of these days. He says he's going to buy one of those barrels (Single Barrel) one of these days. He'll have to go then to choose his barrel. I guess we'll see.