Garrison Brothers Distillery’s overproof Cowboy Bourbon is the perfect bourbon on the earth, in response to the American Craft Spirits Affiliation.
The group this week introduced the outcomes of its tenth annual competitors, held this January in Denver, and the Austin-area distillery’s uncut, unfiltered, cask-strength launch tops the checklist.
The ACSA is the one nationally registered nonprofit commerce affiliation representing craft spirits throughout the nation. Its annual competitors scores spirits on metrics together with look, aroma depth, aroma complexity, palate focus, palate complexity, physique and end, the ACSA’s web site states.
This 12 months’s judges deemed Garrison Brothers’ Cowboy Bourbon 2024’s greatest — actually, they named it greatest at school throughout all classes of American whiskey.
Launched final October, the most recent Cowboy Bourbon expression presents notes of monkey bread, syrupy Dublin Dr. Pepper, brown sugar and Blackstrap molasses. Once we tasted it, we famous the burn that may solely come from an overproof sauce, but additionally heat plum, roasted pecan and a contact of clove honey.
Clocking in at 134.8 proof, the restricted launch — solely 8,600 bottles have been made accessible to the general public — got here from what Grasp Distiller Donnis Todd calls his “piggy financial institution” of barrels which might be simply too flavorful on first style to bottle, distillery officers stated.
Garrison Brothers Distillery is at 1827 Hye-Albert Street in Hye, Texas, about an hour and a half north of San Antonio. Observe us: Apple Information | Google Information | NewsBreak | Reddit | Instagram | Fb | Twitter| Or join our RSS Feed