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Full on hipster whiskey then 😀
Did you get to try the baby blue as well?
The Brimstone is a real treat but I imagine it's not to everyone's taste. It brought memories of eating smoked baby back ribs which I haven't had for 15 years...
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Yeah - that part of Texas was wearing check shirts, and old jeans, trucker caps and beards before it was cool....
Not a fan of the Baby Blue although I do like what they have tried to do. They were talking about how hard it is to source - not a lot of growers. They basically cleaned out the Texas/Oklahoma/New Mexico native American tribes' grain stores with the first batch and had to go find growers in Kansas. Different soil, different flavours, different outcomes, etc.
Keep an eye out for Rimfire from Ranger Creek - http://www.drinkrangercreek.com/whiskey/
Mesquite smoked but actually only tastes like dark cocoa. Not a bad thing, but not smoky like I would have expected.
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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!