The 2025 limited edition McLaren Racing x Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey is starts with the classic grain bill of 80% corn, 8% rye and 12% malted barley. Distilled in Lynchburg, Tennessee, the whiskey is mellowed through 10 feet of charcoal before maturing in new, American white oak barrels and is 86 proof

“2024 was a fantastic year for the McLaren Formula 1 Team which saw the team secure the coveted Constructors’ Championship title. We couldn’t be more proud to partner with a brand that continues to redefine success in the pursuit of continued improvement,” said Jamie Butler, Jack Daniel’s Global Brand Director. “This year’s McLaren X Jack Daniel’s limited edition bottle features a new label and packaging design and higher proof that embodies the same spirit Mr. Jack himself lived by – Every day we make it, we make it the best we can.”

“We’re delighted to launch our third limited edition bottle in collaboration with Jack Daniel’s, offering our fans a special way of celebrating another exciting year of going racing together,” said Nick Martin, Co-Chief Commercial Officer, McLaren Racing.

McLaren Racing x Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey is available now for $34.99 for a 1L bottle.

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Inspired by the turn of the century, when food was cooked on the open flame, this new bourbon is aged twice to create savory smoky notes and an exceptionally smooth finish. The expression is first aged for six years in Tennessee in new white American oak, followed by a minimum of five months in a second heavily charred and smoked new barrel. 

As a Tennessee bourbon, Bib & Tucker follows the Lincoln County process unique to the state, meaning the bourbon is filtered through sugar maple charcoal before going into the barrel for aging. For Double Char, to pay homage to the Lincoln County process, the second barrel is smoked with sugar maple before being filled with the brand’s 6-year aged bourbon (88 proof).

“I can’t wait for consumers to try this delicious expression,” said Tom Steffanci, President of Deutsch Family Wine & Spirits. “Double Char spends just the right amount of time in the second heavily charred barrel, creating a savory, smoky character that adds a whole new dimension to the bourbon.”

Bib & Tucker Double Char is available for $54.99.

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Peg Leg Porker Pitmaster Cary Bringle, best known for his signature sauces and dry seasonings, recently opened his Peg Leg Bourbon Artisan Distillery and Tasting Room in the warehouse where he currently makes BBQ sauces in South Nashville.

Bringle became the first pitmaster in the country to launch a bourbon brand in 2015. Within its first year, the bourbon clinched the gold medal at the San Francisco World Spirits competition. After starting in catering, he opened Peg Leg Porker in the Gulch in 2013 and opened Bringles Smoking Oasis in 2021.

Bringle has accomplished this without distilling his own spirits, without investors and zero employees dedicated to the company. “I believe in starting small, cheap and fast. First, you build up the customer base and the brand, then you can always go bigger and add more equipment,” said Peg Leg Porker Pitmaster Cary Bringle. “Most guys raise a lot of money and then build a distillery and wait for their whiskey to age. Then they go out and sell. If I’d spent millions of dollars, I wouldn’t have any money to buy the whiskey!”

Bringle created his brand by purchasing aged whiskey and using a contract blender and bottler to package his products. But now he’s preparing to take that part of his business in-house. While he’s had the building for two years as the home of his Peg Leg Porker Food Products operation distributing sauces and rubs, with the recent purchase of a $200,000 bottling line, he is ready to create a new public-facing arm of his Peg Leg Porker empire.

Bringle chose to bring some of the production in-house to no longer depend on purchased aged spirits. As the availability of these spirits has dried up over the past year, he has begun working directly with a distiller in the state to produce his own recipe, and has acquired thousands of barrels that are aging in warehouses in Tennessee until they have matured.

“There just was no aged whiskey on the market, so I’ve been laying down 600 barrels a year. The only reason I could build a distillery is because I was forced to because of growth. It will be a blending and bottling facility with a tasting room and a bottle shop to sell bottles at retail,” Bringle says. “We’ll have a 2,500-gallon blending tank that should allow us to package 1,200 six-packs a day.”

He’ll also put the whiskey through his special hickory charcoal filtration process at the facility, using coals from the smokers at his restaurant.

Peg Leg Porker will be able to release special small-batch limited releases since he will have control over the scale of the packaging runs.

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During Phase One, visitors to the distillery will see the first of what is to be built on the 270-acre property including a Tennessee Walking Horse experience, its retail store, the bottling house — visitors to take part in labeling the whiskey sold — and the Welcome House, complete with a custom-made horseshoe bar. This bar will be the only place in the world with tastings of all four expressions of Uncle Nearest: Uncle Nearest 1856 Premium Whiskey, Uncle Nearest 1884 Premium Small Batch Whiskey, Uncle Nearest 1820 Premium Single Barrel Whiskey and Nathan Green 1870 Premium Single Barrel Whiskey.

Once fully open, it will not only serve as a working distillery, but will pay homage to Green and the many other innovators and innovations from Tennessee. The new distillery is the first in the United States to commemorate an African-American whiskey maker. 

“When I went to write the invitations for the distillery opening, tears began to stream down my face,” said Fawn Weaver, co-founder and CEO of Uncle Nearest. “I’m not a person who cries often, but something about this history just chokes me up. When I wrote the opening line, ‘If Nearest Green could have owned his own distillery, would he have?’ I could only think of this incredible master distiller that likely never had the chance. And posthumously, we are working to ensure his name is cemented in the hearts and minds of people around the world for generations to come. The Nearest Green Distillery is his legacy and that of his descendants. Being able to bring that to life, quite frankly, still blows my mind.”

To build out the distillery, Weaver has brought together a team of the most reputable designers and builders in the business. The overall design and visitor experience for the Nearest Green Distillery is being overseen by Peggy Noe Stevens & Associates. Stevens is the first female master bourbon taster, founder of Bourbon Women and co-founder of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. Thom Meek of GHP Environmental + Architecture and former Tennessee Walking Horse champion was brought on in 2017 to help bring this distillery vision to life and continues to serve as the architect on the project.

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