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Jack Daniel’s Puts $140 Million Into Growing Its Whiskey Operations

jack-daniels-8fb30c6b75293e919627e4cb12f0532789718221Noted Tennessee whiskey distillery Jack Daniel’s is having a big year in 2016 so far. It is celebrating 150 years of making its version of this brown spirit. It just released its first ever Single Barrel Rye expression. And now, just to cap off the first two months of the year, word is out of a big $140 million expansion of its facilities.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, among others, joined Jack Daniel’s parent company Brown-Forman officials in unveiling the big news. According to them the $140 million will be used for the following:

construct two new barrelhouses modify and…