Originally Posted by AaronM

Brown-Forman is the parent company that owns Jack Daniel's. Is that where he works? Every drop of JD is produced in TN.

It sounds more like your buddy works for a distributor rather than JD or Brown-Forman directly. An East Coast distributor would not have access to items like these under normal circumstances. But stranger things have happened. It wouldn't hurt to look into that option.

Thanks.