Sold outNov 2023In short · Balcones (Texas, USA), 3 years.
“As we toasted marshmallows on cinnamon sticks, hot chocolate raindrops began to fall from the sky and splitter-splatter on juicy red berries and luscious cherries around…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 140.16 is a single cask of Balcones, in Texas, USA, 3 years old, bottled at 63.4%, released in the Nov 2023 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 140.x is from Balcones.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
In Waco, Chip Tate, a brewer who had interned with Jim McEwan at Bruichladdich, opened Balcones in 2008 in an old welding shop under a bridge, building much of the kit by hand, and named it after the fault line that runs through central Texas. Its single malt bears the Texan heat: big, rich and fruity, worlds away from Scotland. A larger distillery opened in 2016.