Balcones Texas Pot Still Straight Bourbon Whisky

Bitches & Bourbon

Apr 24 2024 • 55 mins

Originally recorded: 20230903

Length: 55:43

We thought we hadn’t had this one before. A discovery of an empty bottle suggests we were wrong. So, in this episode, Ape and Reba give Balcones its due – and discover some pretty cool stuff about what it means to be “Texas Whisky.”

Balcones Texas Pot Still Straight Bourbon Whisky

Type: Texas Pot Still Straight Bourbon Whisky

Distillery: Balcones Distillery

Bottled in: Waco, TX

Proof: 46% / 92 proof

Age: 2 years

Links for this episode

Balcones

Glenmorangie

01:00 Hurricane report, and moving the kids along

03:45 Introducing Balcones and shenanigans

15:30 Refocus and what “Certified Texas Whisky” means

21:00 American Single Malt and the new push for an addition to the code

27:20 Comparing the Balcones neat or on ice

28:50 Reba decides that the Glenmorangie 18 is a “might as well” idea, and Ape weeps

41:30 We always talk about how it tastes; now we talk about how it makes us feel

47:45 Love to Jimmy Buffet