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Balcones FR. OAK Texas Single Malt
American Single Malt — Texas, USA
Reviewed
December 7, 2019 (edited June 18, 2021)
A man's 6 year old daughter played truth or dare with his wife before xmas. The woman foolishly chose truth."Is it Santa or you and daddy who brings us presents?" asked the girl. As the man knew to well the woman was cunning and answered "We buy some of them" which was true as her aunties bought the rest. The child was not done however...like her mother she waited until the man was at his most vulnerable....hung over and running late to pick up his wife. "Truth or dare" a small voice piped up from the back seat of the car. The man had his hands full literally with a steering wheel so Truth was his only option. 'How hard can it be he thought?' She's only a fraction of the age of her mother.."I've seen a lot of fake Santas so far..is he actually real?" The man did what he often did when hung over or drunk or pretty much anytime he thought he was smarter than he was and spoke his mind... which ladies and gentlemen is NEVER a good thing in married life. "Well think about it darling how likely do you think it is that magic reindeer fly round the world to 3 billion kids to give them presents and a fat man who is 300 years old squeezes down chimneys in an age of heat pumps and eats approximately 4 billion cookies and drinks 2 billion litres of milk in one night?". Instantly as soon as the words were out of his mouth the man knew he was in deep deep trouble from mumma bear as junior bear who deeply believed in santa more than the man believed whiskey would solve all his problems was also in the car. Desperately he said "Let's talk about this later darling and hey you can all have as much icecream as you want... think about the flavors you want". Picking up his wife and driving home in record time whilst praying no mention of santa or a game of truth or dare would occur he cracked open a present from santa aka @PBMichiganWolverine and wrote #5 in the Santa Chronicles. Man this is a nice dram. Initially young and harsh once your tongue gets used to the flavour the combination of French oak and bourbony flavors marries well. Thanks PBM!
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@PBMichiganWolverine Yes the best so far for me. I usually find Balcones artificially tasting (in that forced quarter cask aging way) one dimensional and ethanol foward. Initially my thoughts were uh oh here we go again but i warmed up to it pretty quickly. it's my highest scoring one so far.
@Rick_M I'm hoping I can resurrect the other santa from his self imposed sobriety slumber as there are grown men like me who are born again believers and are very keen on getting xmas presents in the form of whiskey!
Out of the three Balcones I’ve had ( Single malt, rye, brimstone), this was my favorite.
@PBMichiganWolverine might be the only real Santa left in the world, now that @LeeEvolved is on sabbatical. :)