Drinks

Last Call for Peyton Manning’s Wildly Popular Tennessee Whiskey

Sweetens Cove, which debuted in May, will release the remainder of its 13,500-bottle run this month.

Source: Sweetens Cove

To most people, “American whiskey” and “Kentucky bourbon” are basically the same thing: Think of Jim Beam, Maker’s Mark, or Wild Turkey.

Yet the top-selling brown spirit from the U.S. does not hail from the Bluegrass State. Nor is it, even technically, a bourbon. Jack Daniel’s is a Tennessee whiskey, as its label conspicuously notes, and in 2019 it produced one-third higher volume than Jim Beam.