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Garrison Brothers Ladybird Barrel Proof Single Barrel Limited Edition 133.7 Proof Texas Straight Bourbon Whiskey with Honey-Infused Wood Chips Finished in Cognac Casks (2026) 75cl

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Garrison Brothers Ladybird Barrel Proof Single Barrel Limited Edition 133.7 Proof Texas Straight Bourbon Whiskey with Honey-Infused Wood Chips Finished in Cognac Casks (2026) 75cl Lady Bird Johnson was born...

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Garrison Brothers Ladybird Barrel Proof Single Barrel Limited Edition 133.7 Proof Texas Straight Bourbon Whiskey with Honey-Infused Wood Chips Finished in Cognac Casks (2026) 75cl
£309.00 GBP

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Garrison Brothers Ladybird Barrel Proof Single Barrel Limited Edition 133.7 Proof Texas Straight Bourbon Whiskey with Honey-Infused Wood Chips Finished in Cognac Casks (2026) 75cl

Lady Bird Johnson was born in Karnack, Texas, in 1912. She was First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969, the wife of Lyndon B. Johnson, and one of the most consequential environmental advocates in American political history — the force behind the Highway Beautification Act of 1965, the woman who planted 1 million daffodils on Washington’s public grounds, who worked tirelessly to restore native wildflowers to Texas roadsides, and whose personal connection to the landscape of the Texas Hill Country shaped her life’s most enduring legacy. When Garrison Brothers named a bourbon after her in 2023, they chose the most specifically beautiful and the most specifically Texas-wildflower-honoring tribute available: a bourbon infused with Texas wildflower honey and finished in French Cognac XO casks, in a prairie purple wax bottle.

For three years, Lady Bird was bottled at 114 proof. For 2026, Master Distiller Donnis Todd and the Garrison Brothers team discovered something: certain barrels, specifically selected, were so exceptional that they deserved to stand on their own, undiluted, at full single barrel cask strength. “At Garrison Brothers, we let the liquid guide us,” as they put it. “As we looked toward the 2026 release of Lady Bird, we discovered barrels that were so exceptional, they deserved to stand on their own. Some barrels need water. Some don’t.”

This is the first-ever cask strength Lady Bird. 135 proof. A single barrel. Burleson’s Texas Wildflower Honey-infused wood chips rather than direct honey infusion — a production difference from the standard Lady Bird that deepens the honey character’s integration with the wood. Three additional years in French Cognac XO casks after that. Breaking Bourbon reviewed the 2026 Cask Strength: “more well-balanced and integrated” than the standard Lady Bird, and — specifically — “surprisingly, the extra 20 proof points doesn’t make the sip any hotter to drink versus the standard version.”

Nationwide, 7,000 bottles of the standard 2026 Lady Bird were released alongside an additional limited number of cask strength single barrel bottles. This is one of the cask strength bottles.

TASTING NOTES

NOSE: Deep amber — four years of Texas Hill Country American white oak, eight to nine months of honey wood chip infusion, and three years of French Cognac XO cask contact producing a color of genuine richness. The nose opens with the most immediately distinctive quality of the Lady Bird program: freshly cut grass and sweet Texas honey leading together in a combination that is genuinely unusual for bourbon — herbaceous, slightly green, and sweetened specifically by the wildflower honey character that Burleson’s Texas bees produce from the native wildflowers Lady Bird Johnson spent her life protecting. The honey is more wood-integrated here than in the standard Lady Bird, the wood chip infusion method having deepened the honey’s bond with the barrel structure. Dark chocolate adds rich secondary complexity. Cherry and fig follow with the most specifically Cognac XO cask-derived dried fruit character. The French Cognac XO contribution is most detectable in the dried fruit and the subtle spiced warmth that three years of XO Cognac cask contact deposits most completely.

PALATE: Starts stronger than it ends — Breaking Bourbon’s most accurate and the most specifically useful palate sequence description for a whiskey that opens with the full intensity of 135-proof Texas cask strength and then progressively reveals its more composed and more integrated character. The entry delivers the cask strength heat at 135 proof before the honey and Cognac character takes over — and at that point, “surprisingly, the extra 20 proof points doesn’t make the sip any hotter.” Spiced syrup-soaked raisin is the most consistent and the most characterful mid-palate note — the Cognac XO cask’s most dramatically fruit-forward contribution. Spice and grounding aged notes build through the midpoint. Sweet honey carries through from the Burleson’s wildflower infusion. The “harmonious marriage of honey and cognac flavors” that Donnis Todd specifically characterizes as the Lady Bird identity is confirmed here most completely — neither element dominating the other, both contributing to a palate that is simultaneously indulgent and composed.

FINISH: Spiced honey, light molasses, and aged oak carry the close — Breaking Bourbon’s most accurate finish characterization for a whiskey that sails off on a lingering, gentle spice note. The Cognac XO cask’s dried fruit character persists alongside the honey and the Texas oak’s warmth. Long and genuinely satisfying, the finish being considerably more gentle and more composed than the 135-proof entry suggested, confirming the Breaking Bourbon assessment that this is “a really pleasing bourbon” despite the extreme proof.

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 flavor. 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.

66.85% ABV

75cl
Country United States
Region Texas
Whiskey style Bourbon, Cask strength, Single cask
Whiskey variety Bourbon
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