If you’re in Austin this Wednesday evening and you’re thirsty, please join me at Ten Oak at 409 Colorado from 6:30 to 8:30. We’ll be talking bourbon…as if there’s really anything else to talk about.
I’ll discuss how Garrison Brothers came to be; how we make our bourbon in Hye; nosing and tasting; and we’ll conclude with a tasting, discussion and Q&A.
If we’re lucky Orion might treat us to his bourbon bacon milkshakes, but I doubt it. Hope you can join us.
There is a point during barrel tasting when Donnis Todd gets very quiet. He is not a particularly noisy man to begin with, but when Donnis finds something interesting, he gets still. He rolls the bourbon around in his glass. Smells it again. Takes another sip. Sometimes he walks away and comes back to it. […]
Before there was Texas bourbon, there was a man driving around Kentucky asking strangers how to make it. Dan Garrison did not come from a long line of distillers. He did not inherit a family recipe written in a leather-bound notebook or grow up rolling barrels through a century-old warehouse. In 2001, at 40 years […]
