Texas-based Balcones has collaborated with UK-based That Boutique-y Whisky Company to produce four single cask American whiskey offspring. Balcones/TBWC Two Year Old Batch One is a two-year-old single malt finished in a Balcones brimstone cask, bottled at 51.1% alcohol by volume [102.2 proof] and is said to contain notes of smoky bacon, hickory, mesquite and […]
Balcones has released Texas Pot Still Bourbon to their portfolio of Bourbons. Balcones Texas Pot Still Bourbon is made from a mash bill consisting of roasted blue corn, Texas-grown wheat, Texas-grown rye and malted barley, then was distilled in pot stills, aged for 2 years in new charred oak barrels before being bottled at 46% […]
If you are either from Texas, have been to Texas or have heard about Texas from your friends, it is likely that you know about the premier whiskey from that state, Balcones. However, as Texas is quite a large state – by American state standards – there is bound to be another premium brown spirit […]
Twenty years ago – has it been that long already? – the big beer giants of the world were knocked on their collective asses by what started out small and what would be destined to become all the rage – the now much-ballyhooed craft beer brewery [or microbrewery, if you so desire] movement. The popularity […]