Distillery Tour Directions Distillery Tour Photos Visitor Center Stop One: - Jack Daniel's Office Stop Two & Three: - Cave Spring - The Rickyard Stop Four & Five - The Mash - The Copper Stills Stop Six & Seven - Charcoal Mellowing - White Oak Barrels Stop Eight - Old No. 7

Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey begins with mixing corn, rye, and barley malt -- according to Mr. Jack's century-old recipe. Water from our Cave Spring is added to form a fermentable mixture called "mash."

Once mixed, the mash is cooked and then allowed to ferment in huge vats with yeast from a previous batch, similar to the way sourdough bread is made.

This is where the term "Sour Mash" comes from.

The fermented mash is distilled in 100-foot (about 30 meters) copper stills. Copper is more expensive, but we believe it produces finer whiskey. The new whiskey that flows from the still is a crystal clear 140 proof spirit. It's aging the whiskey in charred oak barrels that will give it its color.

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