r/TexasWhiskey

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Hey y’all! Here are the recent filings for the Texas Whiskey side of the TTB. We had a week-long drought, then the floodgates opened. Compound that with my grad school rotation trying to kill me, and here we are. While it is great to talk about fan-favorite brands, we also have some lesser-known ones to mention today...

TX is planning the next release in its Experimental Series, this one being a rum cask finish. Interestingly, Experimental Series #17 included rum cask finishing in the blend as well. Seems that TX might have had a few extra barrels of some finished whiskey lying around. Maybe we see this join the core TX finishing line up in the next year or two.

Acre Distilling of Fort Worth is giving us a bit of a tribute for the 251st birthday of the United States Marine Corps. Meanwhile, Blue Bolt has a similar release with Shire Distilling. An Indiana rye that was bottled in Texas. While we don’t know how long (if any) this was aged in Texas, an 8-year Indiana distilled rye is typically a solid release to bet on if the price is right.

Blackland has 2 releases on the horizon. First, Prairie Gold, an in-house distilled bourbon with a mashbill of corn and triticale grains. Second, Texpresso, which has the addition of coffee, brown sugar, and pecans. Texpresso certainly sounds like it could be at home in an Old Fashioned or Revolver riff.

War Trail Spirits has a new release for the Broken Halo line. This one is 100% Texas grain, with an undisclosed bourbon mashbill. I am interested to see if this “I’m Complicated” release lives up to its name through its mashbill, and to my knowledge, this is the first extension of the Broken Halo line. My fingers are crossed for a triticale or malted rye addition in the mash. I will be keeping an eye on this brand.

Porchlight has 2 upcoming releases as well. A cask strength bourbon and a French oak single barrel bourbon. The wording on the French oak finish is a bit confusing: “made and bottled by” instead of “distilled and bottled by”. Suggesting to me that these are both sourced products.

This was a bit of a longer report/rambling; thank y’all for reading this far! Hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable 4th!

The review for this bottle is in the comments below...

I visited Austin this weekend to pick up my DRS #21, they had pours available at the bar so I figured why not:

Nose: sweet on the nose; of toasted sugar, candied nuts, Maple and a soft baking spice.

Palate: Pancakes soaked in maple syrup, maraschino cherries, biscoff cookies. The finish is long; notes of maple, soft oak, cinnamon bark.

I've been fortunate enough to have a lot of Stull Austin product over the last few years, and this definitely ranks among their best that I've tried. Brilliant work...

New to world of store picks & decided to give this one a shot. The gentleman in the store gave me a sample & I was blown away. This bottle drinks extremely above its price point. I purchased it for $89.99 (fair imo). Just wanted to see if you guys have seen it locally & what your thoughts on it are. Cheers from DFW!