Balcones Lineage Texas Single Malt Whisky

Balcones Lineage Texas Single Malt Whisky is a marriage of the traditional Scottish single malt approach with Texas provenance — made from Scottish Golden Promise barley and Texas barley grown in the High Plains, aged in both refill and virgin charred oak casks to celebrate old and new traditions in a single bottling.

For Balcones Distilling, creating the perfect Texas whisky is a labor of love. After the whisky reaches its peak of maturity, it is slowly proofed by hand. Each batch is then bottled and labeled with the type of wood in which the whisky was finished. Golden Promise is an early-maturing spring barley once popular in Scotland for its depth of flavor in single malt production, eventually displaced there by cheaper, higher-yield barleys. Lineage matures in both used oak barrels (typical of Scottish single malt) and virgin charred oak barrels (traditional for American whiskey) — a deliberate cross-tradition aging program.

Specs

• Distillery: Balcones Distilling, Waco, Texas
• Style: Texas Single Malt Whisky — Lineage
• Barley: Scottish Golden Promise + Texas High Plains barley
• Casks: Refill oak + virgin charred oak

Browse the full Balcones collection at Wooden Cork.