Sold outFeb 2022In short · Balcones (Texas, USA), 4 years.
“Limited to 1 bottle per member We had freshly baked, still warm from the oven, tahini beetroot bread with dark cherry jam together with rhubarb crumble and custard.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 140.6 is a single cask of Balcones, in Texas, USA, 4 years old, bottled at 62.1%, released in the Feb 2022 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.