Balcones Brimstone

Balcones Brimstone

Quick fire notes. I liked it, big flavours but well matched. Nose: cold bbq, smoked meat, dried chilli flakes, burnt caramel Palate: vanilla, pepper, bonfire smoke, burnt rubber, orange Finish: long, spiced dryness, warming Overall a lovely dram that is a bit different.

Score 87/100

Balcones Brimstone

I had never heard of Balcones Distilling until they won the WWA 2014 award for best American Whiskey. While I'm not a big fan of awards this time around I'm grateful to them for bringing this Texan distillery on to my radar. When you think of Texas you don't think of whisky. And, frankly, the only thing I know about Waco, Texas (where the...

Score 92/100

Balcones Brimstone

Balcones is a Texan distillery that became a rising star overnight, it would seem. Their Brimstone is a smoked corn whiskey, created in a process in which the whiskey itself is smoked and not the corn at the beginning of the process. I am not sure how that works, to be honest, but the name brimstone is somewhat self-explanatory, I suppose. This...

Score 84/100

Balcones Brimstone

Up until a few months ago I had not heard of Balcones Distillery. The brainchild of Texan Chip Tate this micro-distillery is only six years old and has already won a Confederate pickup worth of awards including a WWA for it's Brimstone Resurrection bottling. After managing to get hold of the award-winning sample I decided this micro-distillery was...

Score 90/100