“Wasted and wounded
it ain’t what the moon did
I’ve got what I paid for now…”
– Tom Waits
Chaos Free Rangers,
It may feel like there’s a crazy from the heat kind of slowing out there, and this may be true geologically, but the collective energy is volatile if not sparse and unpredictably synaptic in staccato chards of the day. There remains quite a bit going on in here. Healing of limbs, planting of trees, dances with lawyers and government agencies… amongst the usual days’ business. And there are very few usual days anymore. The world is a blurred watercolor wash for a Tom Waits protagonist by way of deleted Elliott Smith lyrics, recounted by the whirring of a disheveled Hunter Thompson jukebox. Like grands through the sour glass so are the lives of these days. It’s been a while, no, since we’ve spoken like this? Like the dead (Schrödinger’s) cat bounce through the fifth wall of this timeline. That really is the thing though, to say the thing without using any of it’s specific words. A phonic extraction from the deepest of ethers, across the tide of plains from that existentially foreboding intersection at ignorance and certainty. Many a withered wordsmith with a reasonable frame of reference and a selectric sousaphone can access this realm for a fleeting moment, but those who can truly breathe down there, and swim around in the abyss just to show the rest of us that it’s really there, well that’s a singular super power. But most of us would still choose flight or invisibility. Wait, what was the question? Does anybody else feel like re-reading The Crying of Lot 49 right now?
So, this week’s FREE tasting welcomes to the shop Garrison Brothers Distillery out of Hye, TX. As you likely know, heat and pressure increase the voracity with which barreled whiskey will age, and you also likely know that it’s pretty hot in TX and they have a not messing around storm season (hear barometric chaos). These effects are where Garrison Brothers Bourbon harnesses much of its character. We’ve carried their bourbon for years (and are still hoarding a few of their former twice annual releases from those days). We’re very excited to be able to show these deep and delicious whiskeys to you fine folks. There is no substitute for comparative tasting, and this will be my first opportunity to taste the full line (at once) along with you. Please join us tomorrow, Thursday, August 1st (5-7pm) to taste Garrison Brothers Small Batch Bourbon, Garrison Brothers Single Barrel Bourbon, and Garrison Brothers Guadalupe (107 proof Bourbon finished in Port casks). You’re also welcome to enjoy 10% off all of these (and more) on the website all week. Check it out here:
(!) Click here for Garrison Brothers sale (!)
Cheers,
Jack
Proprietor
Free Range Wine & Spirits
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