The beloved Uncle Nearest distillery has been taken from founder Fawn Weaver over millions in unpaid loans. Financial troubles have pushed Tennessee’s Nearest Green Distillery, the celebrated ...

Did you catch my latest story on Uncle Nearest founder Fawn Weaver fighting for control of her Tennessee whiskey brand? A federal judge placed it under receivership earlier this month over defaulting ...

It was once deemed the fasted growing whiskey brand in the country. Now, the fate of Uncle Nearest and its owners are up in the air after a lawsuit has rocked the spirits world. Now that shocking ...

The future of the reportedly billion-dollar, Black-owned whiskey brand, “Uncle Nearest,” is now dependent on what it can do while under a receivership. The role of its founder, Fawn Weaver, also hangs ...

Since its founding in 2016, Uncle Nearest — named for the enslaved Black distiller who may have helped create Jack Daniel's — has been one of the fastest-growing new whiskey brands in America, racking ...

Weaver told her followers to "clear the shelves" of Uncle Nearest and says customers are showing support for the whiskey brand. In response to the ruling that her whiskey brand, Uncle Nearest, will be ...

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Federal judge orders receivership of Uncle Nearest due to $108M loan default. Court cites $24M in misrepresented inventory as key risk to loan security. Weavers may stay involved in brand marketing to ...

Uncle Nearest paid the Guinness World Records $125,000 to have a 518-foot bar at its Tennessee distillery declared “longest bar in the world,” according to a new court filing. The whiskey then ...

Financial troubles have pushed Tennessee's Nearest Green Distillery, the celebrated Black-owned whiskey brand, into receivership. On August 14, a federal judge in Tennessee granted lender Farm ...