Sold outJul 2024In short · Balcones (Texas, USA), 5 years.
“We were served an espresso with a shot of cherry liqueur and a slice of a Russian honey cake coated in that, so moreish, burnt honey icing alongside traditional…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 140.9 is a single cask of Balcones, in Texas, USA, 5 years old, bottled at 57.9%, released in the Jul 2024 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.