Garrison Brothers Earns Texas's First Bottled-in-Bond

Franklin walks through a week where the common thread was access — who gets the bottle, how, and on whose terms. BTAC lottery portals opened free of charge in Virginia and Ohio, a federal label clearance for E.H. Taylor Old Warehouse "C" gave specialty retailers a quiet window, and Wild Turkey's Master's Keep Triumph started drawing secondary quotes before most buyers had heard of it. The week's standout story comes from Hye, Texas: Garrison Brothers released what the Texas Whiskey Association is calling the first Bottled-in-Bond bourbon in Texas craft distillery history — the same 129-year-old law, doing real work in a rickhouse where summer runs past 105 degrees and the angel's share runs twice what Kentucky surrenders. Franklin closes with what's still reachable this weekend.