The Robb Report announced that Texas’s first legal bourbon distillery, Garrison Brothers, is bringing back its popular port-finished Guadalupe Bourbon, while offering a cask strength version alongside the standard expression as well. The standard Guadalupe bourbon clocks in at 107 proof and 8,600 bottles are available. Just 1,000 of the cask-strength expression are available, and it ranges in proof from 123.9 to 129.8 proof.
Garrison Brothers claims the 107-proof expression named after a Texas river has strawberry butter, lavender honey and cinnamon-dusted chocolate flavors. The Texas bourbon brand recommends drinking this whiskey with desserts or steak.
“Water makes the whiskey,” said Master Distiller Donnis Todd in a statement about the 2025 Guadalupe Bourbon. “Guadalupe 2025 is bold and beautiful — shaped by Hye’s wild Texas temperature swings, then proofed with rainwater we harvest on our 68-acre ranch. That devotion to clean environment is a big part of what makes Garrison Brothers legendary.”
According to Robb Report, Garrison Brothers’ Guadalupe launched in 2015, just five years after the distillery opened in 2010. Garrison Brothers took some of its bourbon and finished it in port casks for two years from one of the nearby wineries for the first release of Guadalupe Bourbon. It was well received, and the brand continues to release it on an annual basis.
The cask strength offering is a first. for Garrison Brothers, and like its sibling, it is distilled from a wheated bourbon mashbill. The brand shares that $50 from each purchase will be donated to Gulf Trust, an environmental organization that aims to conserve coastal habitats along the Gulf of Mexico.
In March, Garrison Brothers released Lady Bird, a whiskey that honored the former first lady Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson and her love of Texas wildflowers. The bourbon brand aimed to donate $5 for every bottle purchased to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
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