Jack Daniel’s Gentleman Jack

Gentleman Jack is a whiskey released by the world famous Jack Daniel Distillery that can be found in the town of Lynchburg in the state of Tennessee. It was established in 1866 by Jack Daniel and the distillery remained in Jack’s family until 1956 when it was sold to the Kentucky based distilling company, Brown-Forman, who remain as the current owners. Tennessee whiskey is different from bourbon, which is predominently produced in the state of Kentucky but produced in most states across the USA. The whiskey’s ‘ingredients’ are the same but the process differs as Tennessee whiskey is filtered through charcoal prior to maturation. Jack Daniel features this process as a key part of its branding. It is a lengthy process, taking up to 10 days per batch, as the whiskey is dripped through the charcoal, which by law must come from the sugar maple tree. This process acts to remove unwanted impurities from the distillation process and make the final whiskey cleaner and smoother. 

Gentleman Jack differs from the best-selling Jack Daniel's Old No.7 as it is filtered twice through the maple charcoal – once before maturation and once after. The whiskey is also slightly older at release, being around 5 years of age. Jack Daniel had experimented with double and even triple filtration of his whiskey but the practice was not started commercially until 1988, when Gentleman Jack first went into full scale production. It is a unique whiskey as no other in the world follows this double filtration process.