The creation of the iconic barrels for Jack Daniel’s whiskey

Did you know that Jack Daniel’s, the whiskey icon based in Lynchburg, Tennessee, is the only distillery in the world that still makes its own barrels? This video gives you a peek inside the barrel-making process, something that you don’t get a taste of even during an in-person tour of the small-town JD facility.

Yes, it takes a lot of machines to make each individual barrel, but it also takes a lot of old-fashioned American hard work and muscle.