Garrison Brothers Single Barrel #25857 Cask Strength Commemorative Distillery Bottle Exclusive Donnis Todd Select Texas Straight Bourbon Whiskey (2026) 75cl A single barrel direct from the distillery in Hye, Texas...
A single barrel direct from the distillery in Hye, Texas to the west of Austin.
If you are fortunate enough to secure one of these, congratulations! You have one of the purest forms of Texas bourbon now in your hands.
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.
63.5% ABV
75cl
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