Sips & Sites & Bites

In the Lone Star State, a maverick is a trailblazer, harkening back to the days of cattle drives and cowboys. And today, Texas’ Maverick Distilling is a trailblazer in the world of whiskey.

The distiller just launched Samuel Maverick Straight Triticale Whiskey Bottled-In-Bond, a highly-limited release from a single barrel that marks the first ever Bottled-in-Bond whiskey from the distillery. 

And you can find Samuel Maverick Straight Triticale Whiskey Bottled-In-Bond exclusively at the distillery tasting room in San Antonio, Texas, and from the Maverick Distilling website.

Samuel Maverick Straight Triticale Whiskey Bottled-in-Bond was distilled in April of 2019 and aged in Maverick’s subterranean bank vault for a minimum of four years in new American oak barrels.

The distiller noted that unique triticale grains are a hybrid of wheat and rye invented by a Scottish botanist in 1875. These grains are sourced from the Texas panhandle. 

The whiskey features the spice of rye and the sweetness of wheat in a marriage of flavors. 

It has aromas of toasted cereal and spicy caramel, light caraway, and toasted wheat berries. On the palate, Triticale Whiskey Bottled-In-Bond starts with butterscotch flavors and grain-forward spice that fades to orange zest, pecan pralines, and West Texas pinon smoke, finishing with hints of buttery cinnamon wheat toast. 

“Our Straight Triticale Whiskey is the result of what we call our ‘happy accident,’” said Dr. Kenneth Maverick, founder of Maverick Distilling. “We ordered several thousand pounds of rye grain to produce our rye whiskey. Through a mix-up at the silos, the grain we received labeled as rye turned out to be triticale. In true Maverick fashion, we decided that when life gives you triticale, make fine Texas whiskey.”

The limited-release of Samuel Maverick Straight Triticale Whiskey Bottled-In-Bond has a suggested retail price of $135, while supplies last. And can be found online via the Maverick Distilling website with shipping via retail partners to customers nationwide (excluding Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, and Texas). 

Maverick Distilling, located at 115 Broadway in San Antonio, is a distillery, brewery, tasting room, and event center dedicated to Sam and Mary Ann Maverick, one of San Antonio’s earliest families.

It’s just steps away from the historic Alamo in San Antonio on the original Maverick family homestead, and native son Kenneth Maverick established Maverick Distilling as a nod to the Maverick family’s storied Texas roots and patriarch Sam Maverick, “solitary escapee” from the Alamo and for whom all other mavericks are named. 

The distillery makes a variety of spirits distilled using Texas-grown grains on a copper hybrid pot still, age in the vault of their restored historic bank building. 

For more information, check out www.maverickdistilling.com or on their socials, Facebook and Instagram.