From The Green Bay Gazette:
For the first time, visitors can sample Jack Daniel whiskey on tours at the Lynchburg distillery under plans being fine-tuned. It was outlawed until recent legislation authorized it. But a distillery spokesman says there's little worry about getting tipsy.And if you go to the Jack Daniel's website"You get three samples, just a sip," said Steve May.
, they sure do say, "For a nominal fee, Jack Daniel’s is now offering Distillery tours, which include a sampling of our hometown product."
Let's not spend too much time wondering why a gal has to go to a Wisconsin newspaper to learn such exciting things. I leave it to the Bites people to ponder why this hasn't received a whole lot of in-state attention (and by "not a whole lot," I mean I couldn't find any).
What I want to know is, which piece of recent legislation authorized this? The two pieces of legislation having to do with whiskey this session were HB 3013 (requiring anything claiming to be a Tennessee whiskey to have a certain percentage of Tennessee-grown grains in it) and HB 3582 (requiring things calling themselves Tennessee whiskeys to have been distilled here in Tennessee).
But look at what's buried in HB3610:
