Balcones Texas Single Malt Whisky Single Barrel
| Category | BOURBON |
| Distillery | Balcones Distilling |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | Single Barrel |
| Vintage | - |
| Bottled Year | 2021 |
| Age | - |
| Cask Type | Ex-Balcones Peated |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 64.5% |
| Volume | 750 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | USA |
| Region | Balcones Distilling |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
dark red amber
air Nose
nosing a pan of warm molasses, or maybe forgotten mulled wine. There are many cooked fruits, prunes, oranges… Then round spices, aniseed, peppermint… Then toffee and charcoal, very strong Danish liquorice (okay, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, as you like…), then drops of paint thinner, maybe, but it’s not solventy at all. I also find obvious notes of bitters, or Fernet Branca, amer bière… There is a smokiness for sure, but much less than in the Californians that we had before. Smoked chocolate
restaurant Palate
Jesus Mary and Joseph! Chewing a bunch of cigars, drinking pure pitch, ingesting ten litres of smoked lapsang souchong tea reduced down to 1cl by cooking them for three weaks (or something like that), same with bitter oranges, same with tar liqueur, liquorice liqueur… It’s one of the heaviest spirits I could try, but frankly, it’s not that smoky. I think the original Brimstone was smokier, according to my notes
timer Finish
extremely long, maybe a notch too acrid/gritty? Too oaky? Burnt?
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