Reviews for Balcones Brimstone
Try it once, decide for yourself
Balcones Brimstone - Hits your nose with leather, charcoal and bacon salt. The taste is loaded with smoke and toasted wood. Bit of a sharp finish, bit perhaps the name is warning of that! Literally leaves smoldering embers in your mouth; the finish lasts practically all night which isn't strictly a good thing.
Master of Malt Customer Jan 7, 2015
Barbecued whiskey
A whiskey to recreate tending a Texas barbecue pit. Scrub oak has a wonderful 'sweetness' that differentiates itself from other woods. Seemingly tame for 106 proof. A great alternative to some of the peatier Islays.
Master of Malt Customer Nov 16, 2014
Meat-Fest
Can't really say I loved or hated this. The novelty factor is amazing and worth getting together with some friends to get a bottle, personally I couldn't handle more than a glass of this freakshow. Smells like BBQs and more accurately BBQ sauce lathered pork, tastes like smokey bacon,....for ever...all the way to the next day and beyond. Imagine Frazzles burps but with booze added and turned up to 11.
Master of Malt Customer Oct 17, 2014
Brimming with big hitting flavour
Love this whiskey- if you like big bold flavours and smoke. And for all that, superbly drinkable. Try it with barbecued food.
Master of Malt Customer Sep 6, 2014
polarizing
I am in the camp that LOVES this whiskey. I enjoy reading the reviews, I don't recall a whiskey that people are so divided on. People either love or hate it, no one "kinda" likes Brimstone. Definitely try before you buy. Me, I have 5 bottles ;-) wouldn't want to run out.
Master of Malt Customer Aug 27, 2014