Garrison Brothers 5 Year Old Balmorhea Double Oaked Cask Strength Texas Straight Bourbon Whiskey (2024) 75cl

Name: Garrison Brothers 5 Year Old Balmorhea Double Oaked Cask Strength Texas Straight Bourbon Whiskey (2024) 75cl
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Garrison Brothers 5 Year Old Balmorhea Double Oaked Cask Strength Texas Straight Bourbon Whiskey (2024) 75cl This legendary expression began like all bourbons do: Master Distiller Donnis Todd filled 22...

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Garrison Brothers 5 Year Old Balmorhea Double Oaked Cask Strength Texas Straight Bourbon Whiskey (2024) 75cl

This legendary expression began like all bourbons do: Master Distiller Donnis Todd filled 22 new American white oak barrels and left them to age in the scorching sun. But after two years of absorbing all sap, sugar, and vanilla the wood had to offer, the liquid inside these barrels was dumped inside of a steel tank and allowed to come together to form one spirit.

Confident that this expression needed more sunshine, Donnis transferred the two-year-aged bourbon into 27-gallon Kelvin Cooperage barrels from Louisville, Kentucky. This second round of casks had been scorched and toasted differently from the original oak barrels, caramelizing the sugars in a wonderful new way for a whole new flavour potential.

And that potential was worth waiting through two more years of aging. In October 2017, we released our first twice-barrelled bourbon, Balmorhea Texas Straight Bourbon Whiskey.® This bold, majestically-crafted expression not only helped kick off our line of Handcrafted Experimentals, but it also yielded an immediate groundswell of buzz and adoration from Garrison Brothers’ fans and supporters. Due to popular demand, we decided to bring the expression back less than a year later. And this time, it officially joined our permanent collection.

Simply put, Balmorhea is bourbon candy in a bottle!

Where's Balmorhea at?

About 40 miles south of Pecos, Texas, there’s a swimming hole called Balmorhea. It’s a sparkling blue-green oasis in the middle of the Central Texas desert where Dan Garrison took his kids when they were young. But 11,000 years ago, long before it became one of Dan’s choice destinations, it’s rumored that big game hunters may have gathered at the springs. In 1849, the pool was known as Mescalero Springs, after the Mescalero Apache who watered their horses there. And now, it shares a name with our beloved Balmorhea bourbon as a tribute to its natural beauty and legendary Texas spirit.

TASTING NOTES

NOSE: Strawberry & rhubarb jam | Orange marmalade | Heavy charred oak | Sweet potato fries

PALATE Decadent and candy-like with amaretto coffee, sticky buns, frozen fudgesicle bars and pecan brittle. Hints of thick white chocolate. Pomegranate molasses & dense oak.

FINISH Long with hints of maple candy, warm caramel and baking spices.

About Garrison Brothers

Garrison Brothers is Texas’ first legal bourbon distillery, renowned for handcrafted, award-winning bourbon made entirely on their ranch in Hye, Texas.

Garrison Brothers Distillery was founded by Dan Garrison, who discovered his passion for bourbon in 2001 after leaving a career in software marketing. Inspired by Kentucky distilleries, Dan envisioned creating “the best bourbon in the world” from Texas, despite scepticism from family and industry experts. The distillery received its first legal permit in 2006, making it the oldest legal bourbon distillery in Texas and one of the first outside Kentucky and Tennessee.

Garrison Brothers produces Texas Straight Bourbon and experimental variants, using a corn-to-cork approach. They craft bourbon from premium corn, local red winter wheat, and two-row barley, aged in new American white oak barrels under the intense Texas sun, which accelerates aging and creates a darker, richer flavour. Each barrel is hand-selected for its unique character, and the distillery emphasizes small-batch, high-quality production.

In 2003, Dan Garrison’s career in software marketing went up in flames. The company he worked for went bankrupt overnight. His job was eliminated, and stock options went belly up. Dan was left with an uncertain future standing before him and his family.

After returning to Texas, he was flipping through a local newspaper and noticed yet another vodka distillery opening in the state. “Why doesn’t someone make something that tastes good, like bourbon?” he asked his wife, Nancy Garrison. She agreed and suggested he start a distillery—bourbon was his go-to spirit of choice anyway. She jokingly mentioned that it would likely offset the cost of what he was spending in buying whiskey.

He wanted to make the best bourbon ever made. There was just one problem: Dan knew nothing about distilling bourbon. Curiosity in tow, he set out to Kentucky; touring bourbon distilleries, sampling bourbons and speaking to distillers to learn about the history of the spirit. Fortunately, he met master distillers who were willing to share their secrets. In exchange for their help, Dan would send them cases of Texas’ world-famous Salt Lick Barbecue.

Using borrowed funds from reluctant, but curious-enough family and friends, Dan opened an experimental barn on his small ranch in the Texas Hill Country. There, he had the finest raw materials on the planet right at his fingertips: Texas grain, Texas rainwater and of course, that fickle Texas weather.

It’s no secret that Texas gets scorchingly hot, but to put things in perspective, four relentless Texas summers is equivalent to twenty mild Kentucky summers. This is great news for bourbon drinkers because it means more delicious bourbon in fewer years, but in the experimental years of Dan’s bourbon making, this meant seemingly endless failure. Barrels exploded in the heat. Bourbon evaporated, losing hundreds of gallons. He even ran out of money on four separate occasions. It took him well over 60 tries to get the perfect blend of wheat, barley and corn and countless attempts to get the yeast strain just right. In fact, Dan’s first batch of sweet mash bill produced nothing more than sweet cornbread.

He worked tirelessly; nights, weekends, holidays, and any chance he got, sometimes sleeping on the floor of the stillhouse so he could get right back to work in the morning. His family and friends told him to give up and try making something easier like vodka. But Dan persisted. And when he finally tasted his first batch in 2007, he knew his stubbornness and willpower had forged something to change the industry forever.

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57.5% ABV

75cl

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Product specifications table
Specification name	Specification Value
Country	United States
Region	Texas
Whiskey style	Bourbon, Cask strength
Whiskey variety	Bourbon

Garrison Brothers 5 Year Old Balmorhea Double Oaked Cask Strength Texas Straight Bourbon Whiskey (2024) 75cl

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