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What does 'old No.7' on Jack Daniel's whiskey bottles mean?

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According to Daniel's biographer, the origin of the "Old No. 7" brand name was the number assigned to Daniel's distillery for government registration. He was forced to change the registration number when the federal government redrew the district and he became Number 16 in district 5 instead of No. 7 in district 4. read more

One story goes that the recipe for Jack Daniel’s was Mr. Jack’s 7th recipe or 7th trial batch. Another story says that it was the railroad shipping number on a barrel. We’ll never know for sure – Mr. Jack took that secret to the grave. read more

Jack opened the Daniel and Call Whiskey Distillery on this site, where it still stands today. Jack was 25. By the late 1870s the stage was set for a radical expansion of Jack’s whiskey business. read more

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