Description
Evan Batt and John Straits are both industry veterans who started talking about starting their own business in 2010. Together with some friends, they started making their vision a reality, procuring equipment, and searching for a suitable distillery site. Western Son Distillery was born and Western Son Vodka was launched in 2011. The distillery is located in Pilot Point, Texas, in a 30,000-square-foot building that was once The Old Panty Factory. The distillery has quickly grown with the current lineup consisting of several flavored vodka expressions, as well as 2 gins and a single-barrel bourbon whiskey. A portion of the profits is donated to the Peter Burks Unsung Hero Fund, a non-profit organization that collects and delivers care packages to the military.The vodka that serves as the base for Western Son’s numerous expressions is distilled from a mixture of Midwest and Texas yellow corn. Naturally gluten-free, the corn is milled and mixed with reverse osmosis water from a local aquifer and cooked. Then the mash is fermented at 75F, letting the yeast convert the sugars into alcohol. The first distillation takes place in a copper pot still, while all the subsequent distillations take place on a column still with 13 perforated copper plates. The vodka is distilled 10 times in total, resulting in an exceptionally smooth, clean, and pure spirit.Crafted with small-batch Original Texas Vodka that’s distilled 10 times, Western Son has a number of flavored vodka expressions in their lineup that includes lemon, blueberry, watermelon, lime, prickly pear, cucumber, raspberry, peach, and grapefruit vodkas. Western Son South Plains Cucumber Flavored Vodka boasts a soothing pale green hue and a fresh, vegetal, and earthy taste profile. It has won a Double Gold Medal at the 2017 edition of The Fifty Best Awards. The vodka is bottled at 60 proof.Grab your bottle of this US-made cucumber-flavored vodka today!
