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This year we’ve been to festivals, tastings, and releases and have been introduced to more bottles than we’ve ever seen before – extremely high proofs well-aged blends port, sherry, rum, and other barrel finishes cinnamon, peanut butter, mint, and other whiskey flavorings single grain malts, ryes, wheats, corn, and potato expressions collaborations between distilleries and bands light whiskies and even a Hefeweizen whiskey. The Texas whiskey scene is young (the oldest distillery is only 12 years old), but it is thriving with more than 130 active distilleries putting out several hundreds of spirits including an impressive array of Texas whiskies. Luckily, we live in the perfect state and time for making such a journey. It’s meant to be enjoyed each step of the way. Whiskey, it can be said, is a journey and not a destination. Which is important, as author and icon William S, Burroughs famously reminds us, “if you stop growing, you start dying.” We’re finding this to be a great time to be alive. And it should – whiskey drinkers like us are always up for trying something new: an unusual blend, an exclusive barrel, a limited batch, anything to add to our list of experiences and refine our choice of favorites to continue growing. If you are any kind of whiskey drinker, that line right there probably describes you to some extent. Tastes change, palates mature, and passion grows.