Balcones True Blue Cask Strength [SF Wine Trader Single Barrel] Review
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- The Saintliest rep around sends in a high ABV pick of the iconic Texas distillery's blue corn whiskey.
Big thanks to Patron Saint/rep Jason Chow for the bottle. Praise Be.
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If you go back and watch some of the episodes from 4 years ago, it's strange how civilized Rex was. It's been fun watching him grow increasingly unhinged over the years.
"Familiarity breeds contempt", eh? He's learned A LOT about whisky and scotch that's allowed him to have more refined opinions based upon a combo of his education and experience. These guys are pretty fun to watch for the most part and they lapse into legendary when Brianna gets into the review mix.
Have you seen Rex Week?
For those that are interested the Front of House staff at Balcones will have some fantastic single barrel picks coming up here soon!
Good Morning MB's!!! Happy First New Years Week :)
For what it's worth, I don't think this channel would have lasted if it were either of the guys by themselves. It really is the "greater than the sum of the parts"-ness that makes it work.
I bought a bottle of Brimstone because of the review of it on this channel and DAMN I love it!! Balcones makes some great whiskey!! Also, on a side note, the Daniel doll on the shelf over Rex's shoulder is owing me 🤣🤣
GOOD MORNING YOU MB'S.... 🥃
Balcones's Blue Corn Bourbon is their blue-corn bourbon. The True Blue is a corn whiskey, i.e. it's aged in reused barrels. Both have the same, 100% blue-corn mashbill. Both are delicious.
I've yet to have their True Blue. But their Baby Blue is one of the most disgusting whiskies I've ever had. 🤷♂️
@@shmirginhymer1867 I much prefer the True Blue to the Baby Blue....but I kinda like the Baby Blue (it does taste very young, very corn-y, and sweet). To each their own, I guess. As Rex and Daniel always say when reviewing Balcones whiskies, the distillery has a very particular house style. Much of that style consists of the very intense barrel notes from aging in their Waco warehouse. And though that barrel impact happens quickly in the Texas heat, the Baby Blue is very young and has much less intense barrel notes than most other Balcones whiskies. On the other hand, some of the house style is the distillate itself; I've toured Balcones and tasted their new-make corn whiskey (which eventually becomes Baby Blue, True Blue, or Blue Corn Bourbon depending on what barrel it's put in and for how long) and it's already a pretty distinctive beast. All of which is a very long-winded way of saying that you might like True Blue even if you don't like Baby Blue. But, though they're pretty different from each other, they share a mashbill and the family resemblance is clear.
@@PhinClio Ive had their Baby Blue, and Texas Single Malt. And was not a fan of either. I picked up their Rumble, and for some reason kind of liked it. Even though it was similar in style to the single malt, but had less of that burnt barrel flavor that I get from Balconies. I will try them all eventually, I'm just very skeptical
I’ve gotten one of their Texas malt whiskey store picks down in Tampa that’s at 63.2%abv that’s my absolute favorite bottle ever. The bold maltiness continually draws me in. Best $70 I’ve Ever spent on a bottle over and over. I think I’ve gone through 4 bottles of this and am ready to grab another.
There are plenty of boring channels of old grey men sitting alone and picking apart whiskey. That's why the Whiskey Tribe/Vault remains special; you two guys. Shenanigans sure do help too!
Good morning MB's. :)
I have this same bottle but a local store pick! It is a very nice pour. Pick one up if you come across one
Was looking for something new, and stumbled upon this video...went out and bought a casks strength balcones, "true blue" not gonna lie, freakin great bottle!!!! As you can tell by my punctuation and smelling from this comment lol.......... ""And of of I didn't mess up the spelling it was by the grace of Balcones True Blue cask Strength!!! 😂😂😂😊
Good Morning Gentlemen.
Waaaaaaaait... where is the 2021 "all whiskeys reviewed" blend??????
True Blue Cask Strength is exceptional! On my 2nd Bottle of the Oklahoma City Special Release!
I'm about 2/3 of the way through the (Norman, OK) Spirit Shop barrel select version of the same. I'll definitely pick up another when I'm through with it (assuming they still have bottles). But they seem to have just gotten in the Balcones peated malt whisky, so I think that's my next purchase.
I'm about 1/3rd through the Spirits of Legend (Tulsa) pick, it's so delicious. Super chocolate/molasses. Sadly it sold out in an hour so once it's gone, it's gone.
After the whole Jack Murphy thing I just can’t take men with stripey beards seriously anymore
It’s been real watching you guys from time to time, but it’s gonna take a month or so before I’ll stop seeing the grandmaster of the Liminal Order whenever these thumbnails pop up
I currently have two AMAZING True Blue CS bottles… one is used American Oak and one is tequila cask. So unique and delicious!
Balcones True Blue Cask Strength is the subwoofer of the whiskey sound system.
i have a single barrel pick of this from an NJ supermarket chain - i get those smoky candy flavors, but on the nose it's almost a caramel natural beeswax. I spend as much time smelling my glass as I do savoring the flavor :)
This is not their blue corn bourbon released at cask strength. Blue corn bourbon is already at cask strength. This is their regular True Blue which is a 100 proof corn whiskey released at cask strength. They don't taste the same. This is sweeter
Just bought a barrel pick of this a couple weeks ago! Delicious stuff!
You know it's good when Rex gets that dog getting a belly scratch look on his face.
Loved the feigning an interesting person for a short period of time line 😂😂😂
Hands down my favorite whiskey right now.
Have loved all Balcones products I've been able to get my hands on here in NC...
I’m coming back to the channel after a while. When the fuck did you hit 400K? Very well deserved. Congratulations!! 500K coming soon!!
Love Balcones. The peated is my favorite. So delish. Fruit bomb indeed.
been waiting for another cask strength video, sipping my bookers while watching this :)
Nice
I've got a Total wine store pick sitting around. its like a marshmallow flavored with split wood, leather, and corn silk.
The regular proof is still the #1 I want to try, right up there with Laphroig 10 and Ardbeg
I have a bottle thats a barrel pick from perdido liquors in pensacola. Its so damn good!!!! Sending a sample to all my bourbon buddies
Hold up.. is it a bourbon or is it a corn whiskey? I had one of those true blue CS and it wasn't a bourbon.. and their website says the same. Fact-check please.
Balcones is definitely at this point my favorite top to bottom distillery. Lineage was the first American single malt I really loved.
Hope I can find this. I love the baby blue.
Slainte gentlemen. Greetings from a Texan in Germany.
Any idea when Emma's first blendings will be released?
yall should definitely share the cask number for any single barrels yall review just so maybe one MB might just have the same as yall
Hello Daniel & Rex, love the channels, your chemistry is seamless. My wife and I were watching this episode, and a question came to us, why plastic bottles? Glencairn has a tumbler I believe. Save the turtles! Islays are my favs.
Glass shortage
Anybody else see a similarity with these guys and 2 Bears 1 Cave? Now I can't unsee it 😂
Has anyone else ever experience blue corn bourbon as being "hotter" in the mouth feel? I've had Balcones Baby Blue and one other blue corn bourbon and experienced it with both not an ethynol burn but more "like" a cayenne pepper effect (not pepper taste).
And dont forget... Balcones stole Emma away from us!!!
wouldn't it be nice if she got the secrets and came back?
Wait, what? I’ve been away from the channel for a few months, what did I miss??
I got a barrel pick from Perdido Liquors and it us really tasty!!
This is an amazing whisky!
Good review🥃
True Blue is corn whisky, not bourbon. 🙂
I had my first taste of True Blue last night (I've been drinking the Baby Blue for a year or more now). It is DELICIOUS! 🥃 It confirms Balcones as definitely my favorite distillery.
The new Balcones true blue airplane aged
"There's a weird after taste of a slightly cherried candy cane"..... That's the high proof alcohol stripping the phlegm out of the back of your throat... 😉😄
Question, I just bought a bottle of True Blue single barrel cask strength and its only 53.3%? That's a huge difference so what's up with that
Balcones (and a lot of other craft distilleries) have embraced "batch" releases. Which means they accept that there can be variation in the releases over the years as long as they stay close to the identified flavor profile that people know and love. But because they're doing smaller barrel dumps for the releases, it means there is often variation in proof as well.
How does blending of various casks impact the classification of the whiskey? For example, would blending in a cask of malt whiskey into typical bourbon casks prevent it from being called bourbon, or can the final percentages in a bottle be calculated from the various components?
to remain a Bourbon all blended elements are required to have 51 percent corn and new oak barrels... malt whiskey would make it just a blended whiskey.
It is interesting you find Lineage to be a tropical fruit bomb. I find a touch of fruit and little lingering smoke with dusty wood....Did covid really screw me up that bad?
Don't these guys make their own whiskey?
is there a better way to describe "dusty"? i honestly am always disgusted when I hear this.
Balcones sucks. These guys may have sold out... Just saying🤷🤷 Hope I'm wrong. I've enjoyed them in the past.
Balconies is great. It's just not your thing apparently. Cheers.
Rex, you're a "" 1:50
sorry but chestnuts roasting on an open fire smells like a dusty dog fart.
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