date:Jun 22, 2012
The Tennessee-based brand, owned by Brown-Forman, was reacting to a story widespread in the English press last week, where businessman Mark Evans announced he believed he had found the original recipe for the drink.
This was contained in a book of herbal remedies written in 1853 by his great-great-grandmother, with Evans stating that one of his relatives, John 'Jack the Lad' Daniels, emigrated to the US in around 1852.
He then travelled to Lynchburg, Tennessee, where the Jack Daniel Distillery