TX Whiskey Triple Cask: Fort Worth’s Boldest Experiment Yet Reaches Its 17th Chapter
The Experimental Series from TX Whiskey has never been a collection designed for the faint of palate. Since the Fort Worth distillery launched the program, each release has been a deliberate stress-test of what Texas-made bourbon can become when the folks at Whiskey Ranch turn it loose on unconventional wood, unconventional mash bills, or unconventional time. Now comes Triple Cask — the 17th expression in that ongoing series — and it may be the most conceptually ambitious chapter yet. Built around a three-stage cask journey through American Oak, French Oak, and Rum Casks, it’s a release that asks a pointed question: what happens when a single Texas straight bourbon absorbs the character of three entirely different barrel worlds?
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The answer, according to the distillery, unfolds in layers — toasted oak and ripe plum on the nose, vanilla and warm spiced rum floating beneath, a suggestion of banana candy that lands and departs before you can quite catch it. On the palate, rich caramel sweetness leads into dark fruit and structured oak, finishing long and smooth. It’s a flavor profile built on calculated contrast, and it reflects the philosophy Craig Blair, TX Whiskey’s Master Distiller and Blender, has been refining for years across this ever-widening catalog of limited releases.
The Fort Worth Foundation: Who Makes TX Whiskey
Established in 2010 by Leonard Firestone and Troy Robertson, and now part of the Pernod Ricard spirits family, TX Whiskey is an artisanal distillery whose Whiskey Ranch sits on 112 acres of historic golf grounds, making it one of the largest whiskey distilleries in the country. That property — the former Glen Garden Country Club just outside downtown Fort Worth — gives TX Whiskey a sense of place that few American craft distilleries can claim. The distillery is located at Whiskey Ranch, a sprawling 112-acre property that was once home to the Glen Garden Country Club, just outside downtown Fort Worth…