Jack Daniels Tour

Lee and I got together with some of our friends a couple months ago to take the tour of the Jack Daniels distillery.  We met in the small town of Lynchburg and grabbed some lunch at one of the few options.  We ate at a small local place.  If you try something like that, be prepared to have cash on hand.  We had to make a visit to the ATM.

After lunch, we went to the distillery for the tour.  As soon as you get out of the car, you are smacked in the face with the smell of sour mash.  The tour is free, so that was really great.  We waited for our tour to start, looked around at the different items in the lobby area, and signed the guestbook.  When our group was called, we all gathered in a room to watch a video about Jack Daniels.  When the movie was finished, we left the room and loaded a small tour bus.

Our tour guide was a big ole country boy.  He was thoroughly entertaining as a tour guide.  We went all through the distillery learning about how everything is made.  You even get to smell the sour mash.  Don't take a huge whiff of that! The smell floating around the entire property gave me a headache.  Other liked the smell.

The tour was lots of fun.  It's always interesting to see how huge facilities like that run.  It was a good day trip and it was cheap.  And of course, no trip with our friends Philip and Abby is complete without visiting a nearby firetower!