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Chloe Taylor

Whiskey fungus forces Jack Daniel's to suspend its expansion plans

Three bottles of Jack Daniel's Sinatra Select edition. (Credit: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for New York Magazine)

Jack Daniel’s has an alcohol problem: its whiskey is feeding a fungus that has migrated to a town near some of its Tennessee factories.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that some residents of Lincoln County, Tenn., had been complaining for months that their homes, cars, bird feeders, and patio furniture were carpeted with a black, sooty substance—and it was spreading uncontrollably.

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