Rio Brazos Distillery
The first distillery in Brazos County, the Rio Brazos Distillery was founded in 2013 by the Barkman family. We make whiskey from small batches of sweet corn, red winter wheat and two-row malted barley — all grown in Texas by Texan farmers — and distilled in a pot still. A uniquely American style known as a Tennessee narrow hearts cut, our double-distillation process involves four all-day cooks, four all-day stripping runs and a final 13-hour long spirit run. We donate our spent grains to a local company that grows insects for poultry farming.
