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You being a Texan and all that. Have you tried the Balcones Brimstone?
Had it last weekend for the first time and it knocked me for two. Lovely stuff and I'll be buying a bottle on my next trip if I can get hold of it.
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I did. I had a friend bring some over. It was amazeballs.
Balcones also came and did a tasting at the SWC. I got go chat with their head of production for a while. They approach things quite differently as they were all beer brewers first so when they make the mash, they treat it like a craft beer. Longer fermentation at lower temps before they go to distill it. That gives them fewer harsher ketones to remove. That's their approach anyway.
I love their stuff - very pricey over here. I did get to taste some of the single barrel that they bottle once a year for their employees. Woof!
Aroogah
Indeed. But really - there are very few of the small batch bourbons that are justifiably more expensive than WR. That puts anything else around that price bracket under more scrutiny. So yes, Bulleit bourbon seems expensive because for about another fiver you can get WR.