George Dickel is often overshadowed by it’s mega-giant neighbor Jack Daniels, but Master distiller John Lunn shows us why the one who makes the most noise isn’t always the one you should listen to. It’s the quiet ones you gotta watch, right? DM: Most masters come from a long line of the same, often generations deep. How did you get into distilling? JL: On a whim. I applied to an ad in The Tennessean (the Nashville newspaper). I have a chemical engineering degree from Vanderbilt. I was working at a sponge factory and saw an ad for a Master Distiller trainee, and I thought “why not?” The story of how I got the job is really cool. I had to send my resume to Diageo corporate, and I made the first cut, and came in for a second interview with Dave Bacchus, the master before me. I’d never tasted Dickel before that so I went out and bought a bottle of [...]