balcones baby blue corn whisky review

Baby Blue True Blue 100 True Blue Cask Strength and the subject of this review Texas Blue Corn Bourbon. The question that many people will ask is whether one should pay such a premium price for a young whiskey when.

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Aging Used 5 Gallon Barrels.

. Its not actually firegutrot and in some ways it could be considered smooth but after being kicked in the face you dont exactly call it an easy drinker. Balcones Baby Blue Corn Whisky is the first Texas made and sold whiskey since the days of prohibition. Smoke corn butter.

This whiskey is made from double distilled heirloom blue corn matured in used 5 gallon casks for a limited time. I actually reviewed an earlier incarnation and probably a younger whisky as well all the way back in December 2012 see old review in Norwegian here. Balcones Baby Blue Balcones Lineage Balcones Single Malt Balcones Bourbon and Balcones Rye are their 5 classic year round whiskeys.

Balcones Baby Blue Corn Whisky - Review 8. Its also the first whiskey to be distilled from blue corn. My aunt lives in Dixon New Mexico.

It is a small town sloped gently along some foothills of the Rockies abutting the eastern bank of the Río Grande between Taos and Santa Fe. At the time it was an almost revolutionary whiskey release and even by modern standards it has some novel elements to it. Balcones Baby Blue Corn Reviews.

Roasted Heirloom Blue Corn. Rested for 10 min. Some whiskey drinkers might find the price to be quite hefty for such a young whiskey.

Balcones claims the short duration as. Viscous oily and it has a nutty flavour with a BBQ cornnut flavour. Click here to check out similar spirits we have reviewed.

The former points to its 100 Hopi blue corn while the latter points to a short aging in used 5-gallon barrels. Rumour has it that Balcones Baby Blue will be released also on the Norwegian market shortly. My bottle dated December 14 2019 states an aging of at least 6 months.

Clear but with a dark rich cherry color. All reviews are evaluated within the context of their specific spirit classification as specified above. This is a corn whisky made from roasted heirloom blue corn.

Smells of corn wax acetone and baby vomit very sour. Corn whiskeys requirement to comprise of at least 80 corn leaves open the possibility of other grains contributing. American spirits are not everyones favorite type of whiskey.

61 average retail price. J B 1 January 2020. Its very easy drinking has a slight kick at the end but its very viscous especially after drinking a lowland single malt in comparison.

Crafted from roasted heirloom blue corn Baby Blue adds a new sophistication to the corn whiskey tradition. Balcones blue corn offerings are as follows. Not sure what crack the other reviewers are smoking Nose.

It does not go down smooth. 12136 per litre 1. Aged at least 38 months straight bourbon.

3699 at Total Wine in Austin TX. Waco United States Nose. However a quick Google search for blue corn whiskey makes it obvious that the major contender in the category is Balcones and its various iterations of blue corn whiskey.

92 Proof NCF Mashbill. Balcones Baby Blue Corn Whisky January 14 2019 by Jason Hambrey. This bottle is from batch BCB21-1 bottled on 9-10-21.

There is however a unique sweetness to the smell it. I love corn whisky. The whiskey is named for its mash bill and its aging.

127 proof 635 ABV. Then they charge a premium for a very very young whisky that doesnt have much going for it other than an in your face youth flavor profile that not many whiskey drinkers actually enjoy. Balcones Balcones is a Texas distillery whose expressions The Whiskey Reviewer has covered extensively because they are consistently solid and the distillerys methods are unique.

Balcones True Blue is the cask strength version of the Balcones Baby Blue I reviewed not too long ago and its a powerful aromatic and flavorful whiskey thats truly a unique whiskey drinking experience. 65 Overall it smells like any other normal whiskey made from corn. Round nuttiness roasted overtones and a refined complexity permeate this.

100 blue heirloom corn. Balcones Baby Blue was the first Texas whiskey on the market since Prohibition. True Blue 100.

Balcones 2016 4 Year Old Simply Whisky Dream Big. It is released young and youthful. 100 blue corn mash bill.

That first whiskey was Balcones Baby Blue. Balcones uses 100 Hopi blue corn for some of its signature expressions and they age their corn whiskeys in used 5-gallon barrels. I dont really like how Balcones states that they keep it young to preserve the flavor of the blue corn.

3699 750 ml. Balcones doesnt list a definitive mash bill for Baby Blue only saying it is crafted from roasted blue corn. In a standard whiskey glass neat.

The roasted blue corn mash gives the whiskey a flavor thats reminiscent of other the corn whiskeys like Mellow Corn or Platte Valley but amped up and delivered with a punch. Intentionally youthful it captures the essence of the prized rich and oily maize. The retail price for a bottle of Baby Blue in America is around 40 to 45.

Balcones Texas Blue Corn Bourbon. New ish but needs tweaked and we need morse specials in all lines. No Age Statement NAS Proof.

In some countries the Baby Blue would be a Single Grain Whisky as the spirit is entirely made at Balcones but as that is not a regulatory term in the US it is officially a corn whisky. Blue Corn Atole Region. Absolutely the worst swill Ive ever drank.

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