Tasting notes

nose

Fresh-cut grass and wildflower honey with black cocoa, waffle cone and honey wafers, then raisin, molasses and aged leather

palate

Buckwheat pancakes in toasted brown sugar and spiced honey, chocolate-covered cherries, malted milk balls, dried fig and plum, with syrup-soaked raisin over tannic oak

finish

Long; spiced honey and toasted raisin bread linger, cinnamon and white peppercorn rise, and dry, chewy oak closes it out

Mash bill

74% white corn, 15% red winter wheat, 11% malted barley. The base is Garrison Brothers' Small Batch bourbon, made from the house wheated recipe of white food-grade corn, soft red winter wheat and malted barley. The grain is milled fresh each day and cooked one batch at a time as a sweet mash, then fermented for four to five days with the distillery's own yeast.

Awards

• Double Gold — San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2024
• Double Gold — Proof Awards 2025

Why it's craft

Lady Bird starts as Garrison Brothers' own Small Batch bourbon, takes on Burleson's Texas wildflower honey for most of a year, and then rests three years in casks that held XO cognac. Co-founder Nancy Garrison created it with Master Distiller Donnis Todd in honor of Lady Bird Johnson, and part of every sale goes to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. The distillery, opened in Hye in 2006, distills all the whiskey it bottles on its own copper pot stills.