By Kirk Miller What we’re drinking: Master Blend Edition Batch 005 from Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey Where it’s from: Uncle Nearest, based in Shelbyville, Tennessee, has been the most-awarded whiskey brand of the past three years (it took home just under 200 honors in 2021, according to a press release). That’s an incredible accomplishment for a company that only launched in 2017. It’s also the best-selling African-American owned and founded spirits brand ever. And, as we’ve said repeatedly, Fawn Weaver’s brand honors one of the most important people in American whiskey history — Nathan “Near…