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TX Whiskey Ranch is a 112-acre whiskey wonderland situated on the grounds of a historic golf course with majestic views of downtown Fort Worth! Join us for tours, experiences, shopping, cocktails and sample our award-winning TX Whiskey and Bourbon while you take in the views.

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Distillery Trail - A Tour for Spirits Lovers If you love the idea of drinking a local libation in a hometown distillery, this is your tour!

About the event, what to expect...

There are as many distilleries in Texas as there were in the country when the American craft whiskey scene started gaining traction after the Great Recession of 2008, and Dallas-Fort Worth is at the center of the revolution.

As we waited for our whiskey to age, we created vodkas and gins that showcased Texas grains and botanicals. Next, we went on to corn whiskeys and moonshine, which became more and more popular nationwide. As local distilleries started producing single malt whiskeys made from malted barley grown in the state, a small distillery in Denison won the first-ever World's Best Bourbon award at the beginning of 2020, the first time a distillery outside Kentucky achieved such recognition. This event changed the game and threw the North Texas craft industry into the national spotlight.

So what is this tour about? It's a discovery journey to sip, sample, and buy North Texas's best homegrown spirits while learning some of the secrets of the craft of distilling magic.

- We will visit three distilleries and have a tasting at each of them.

- A fun and friendly distillery tour, we will meet a master distiller at one of the facilities we visit,

to provide expert information about fermentation, infusion, bottling, and distilling.

- Food - Distilleries generally do not have a kitchen; depending on your tour route, we will have food delivered or stop at a local place for lunch or dinner.

- Round trip transportation - the number of guests will determine the size of the vehicle. Let us know if you would like a party bus (at least 12 guests), and we can arrange that.

- Promotional pricing at some of the distilleries we visit if you decide to bring home some of the goodies.

The tour is four to five hours long, depending on your location (commuting takes time...). Whether you prefer vodka or small-batch bourbon, local honey-laced whiskey, or grapefruit- and pecan-infused gin, you've got your pick.

What's Included

• Tasting at each of the establishments we visit.
• Lunch or Dinner is included in your tour.
• Round-trip transportation.

What's Not included

• Tour guide gratuity.

PRODUCT SUMMARY

• Group Size : 6 - 100 Guests
• Service Area : Dallas - Fort Worth Event includes round-trip transportation
• Duration : 4 - 5 Hours Event's duration might vary depending on the group size, commuting time, and the date/time of your event.
• What's Included : Three Stops, Tastings, Lunch, Transportation
• Event : Bus Tour , Wine, Beer and Spirits , Distillery
• Language : English

Whiskey Ranch

A Texas-sized distillery in the heart of Fort Worth.

The largest distillery west of the Mississippi, our Whiskey Ranch is a 112 acre stop for whiskey lovers.

Explore The Ranch

Ranch house.

Whether you’re stopping by or making a day of your visit, there’s something for you at the Ranch House. Sit for a spell on our back porch overlooking Benders Lake, take a stroll through the Barrel Breezeway, get your fixings at the Ranch Store, or host an event in the Oak Room.

Ranch Store

Our one stop shop for wrangling bottles, glasses, gifts, and other artisan items to support your next TX gathering.

Whether you’re renting the space for your own event or sampling a flight, our western lounge style bar and tasting room sets the perfect mood for sipping whiskey and swapping stories.

One Heck Of A Place

We’ve laid out the ranch for guests to have an unbroken view of downtown Fort Worth. From our main courtyard to the former Glen Garden Country Club, we’ve crafted a modern distillery where guests can enjoy the quality, charm, and hospitality of Texas.

Bottles Sealed With A Story.

Each cap is totally unique and customizable. Made from repurposed leather, each custom cap adds a personalized and meaningful element to your bottle of TX Whiskey.

Only at the Ranch

From glass to gear, browse the TX Whiskey store.

TX Tavern & Ranch Store Hours

The whiskey ranch tavern & ranch retail store hours are:.

• Wednesdays & Fridays 12pm-9pm
• Thursdays & Saturdays 12pm-5pm

Please note the following exceptions:

• Closed March 25th-29th
• We offer Distillery Tours Wednesday-Saturday.
• If you have any questions, please email:
• [email protected] or call 817-840-9140.

Silver Star Ranch Style Coffee is a unique fusion of  hand selected whiskeys. Our Arabica beans are specifically roasted to highlight a pleasing, complex aroma, and rich flavor. Texas wildflower honey adds a touch of sweetness. All ingredients are meticulously blended by hand and rested to create a bold, refined product that embodies the spirit of the Texas Rancher.

OUR AWARD WINNING SPIRITS ARE MADE WITH TEXAS RAINWATER 

LOCALLY SOURCED

At Trinity River Distillery, we take pride in sourcing ingredients locally. Our Rye, Corn, and Barley are grown by North Texas farmers in surrounding Krum and Sunray, Texas.  The natural honey and coffee beans, used to create Texas Honey and Ranch Style Coffee are sourced from Burleson, and Fort Worth. Our water source is an ongoing conservation effort to save Texas rainwater.  We collect rainfall from our rooftops and store in 13,000-gallon receptacles. Our signature double reverse osmosis system, purifies the rainwater before using to create our products. In all, every bottle is infused with a true essence of Texas.

THE DISTILLERY

MADE PROUDLY IN FORT WORTH, TEXAS. 

Situated just outside the city circle and only a few minutes southeast of downtown Fort Worth, Trinity River Distillery is nestled near the Trinity River with our neighbors Wild Acre Brewery.

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FIND YOUR TEXAS SPIRIT

WHISKEY FOR ALL! 

Whether you need a place for your next event or a new place to kick back with some friends, the Trinity River Distillery® is the perfect place to come together. Our distillery is now available for private events. The venue can be booked in its entirety or by area.

Trinity River Distillery® is an ideal space for weddings, rehearsal dinners, team building and corporate events, corn hole tournaments and celebrations of any kind.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Distillery will be open   saturday  12-9pm sunday 1-7pm  .

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DISTILLERY TOUR! How Whiskey Ranch Puts The Texas In TX Whiskey

Everything is bigger in texas, and the fort worth-based tx whiskey distillery is no exception..

From the moment you enter the distillery’s campus, known as Whiskey Ranch, through towering gates and drive through the 112 acres of what was Glen Garden Country Club, the training grounds of iconic golfers Ben Hogan, Sandra Palmer and Byron Nelson, it’s clear TX Whiskey Distillery is poised for growth. The suspicion is confirmed at the site of the distillery’s 50-foot tall, three-foot-wide copper Vendome column still, a massive piece of hardware capable of producing almost 44,000 barrels or 2.3 million gallons of juice each year. The 18-hole golf course at Whiskey Ranch is intact, but eventually, the back nine will be sacrificed to build “barrel barns” to house aging whiskey as the company expands.

The Origins Of TX Whiskey

TX Whiskey, originally known as Firestone & Robertson Distillery, was founded in 2010 by Fort Worth residents Troy Robertson and Leonard Firestone. The entrepreneurs were independently exploring the idea of launching a distillery when a fellow whiskey entrepreneur introduced them. After meeting up for an allegedly long and spirited lunch, Firestone & Robertson Distilling was born and later became Whiskey Ranch when TX Whiskey was acquired by Pernod Ricard in 2019. Robertson and Firestone’s first product, a sourced American blended whiskey, hit shelves in 2012. From there, the partners built a modest distillery in Fort Worth with five1,000-gallon fermenters feeding a pair of 500-gallon pot stills, yielding about three barrels on a good day. It didn’t take long before whiskey orders outpaced its production capabilities, and in 2016 they purchased what is now TX Whiskey’s “Whiskey Ranch” Distillery. The first drops of whiskey came off the still, in 2018.

While the company’s founders were focused on the business side of distilling, designing the actual whiskey program was left to former Master Distiller Rob Arnold. Arnold’s vision was to capture the essence of Texas in the bottle by embracing Texan-derived flavors in every step of production, from distilling local grains to maturating in the hot Texan climate.

Inside The TX Terroir Project

Arnold wanted to approach whiskey the way vintners approach winemaking by embracing terroir, and that was done by taking a closer look into how environment and grain varieties impact flavor. Arnold teamed up with Texas A&M food science master’s student Ale Ochoa and Hillsborough-based farmer John Sawyer to prove the concept to himself. The project involved growing three corn varietals in three Texas locations, each with unique climates and soil types. The results of the experiment, meaning distinctive flavor profiles across the individual plots convinced Arnold to implement terroir in his whiskey program. Proving the concept of terroir was one of Rob’s proudest moments, along with isolating a proprietary yeast strain and corn for TX Straight Bourbon.

“There’s little debate that terroir influences wine, says Ochoa. But there is some debate that once you distill, terroir characteristics become negligible, and we reject that. Rob Arnold wanted to see if the concept could be proven, and we did it with hard data.”

Today, Sawyer is the sole grain provider for the distillery, and Ochoa joined the distillery full time as the whiskey scientist and head blender of TX Whiskey.

Doubling Down On The Taste Of Texas

Whiskey is made of three ingredients, grain, water, and yeast. Each of these ingredients contributes to a whiskey’s flavor. To develop TX’s yeast, Arnold eschewed commercially available distillers’ yeast, opting to create his own locally sourced strain by scraping natural yeast off local fruit, plants, and rocks. After testing multiple samples, the team settled on a yeast coined Brazos after the river from where the winning strain was found. The yeast delivers big, dried fruit flavors like fig, prunes, and raisins, plus brown spices like nutmeg, allspice, and cinnamon.

“Rob would hunt for viable yeast sources everywhere,” says Ochoa. “He distilled small batches with various yeasts and ultimately built a culture with the one that delivered the flavors we were after.”

Aging Whiskey In The Hot Texas Sun

One of the beautiful things about making whiskey in Kentucky is its climate. On a hot day, the oak from a barrel sucks liquid into the wood, and when the temperature plunges at night, it expels the liquid creating a nice balance of interaction between the whiskey and the barrel. Texas, as a rule, is simply hot. In hot weather, the barrel’s influence takes on oak quickly and threatens to become overpowering. The TX team tries to mitigate this danger through a diversified barrel program involving a variety of toasts, chars, and entry proof levels. This creates a broad flavor palate, giving Ochoa a wide palate of blending stock to hit a whiskey’s flavor profile.

“We teamed up with the Independent Stave Company to develop proprietary toasts,” Ochoa explains. “We worked with the cooperage to customize different toast profiles. Then we sampled the aging stock and scaled barrels we liked for normal production.”

Today’s Whiskey Ranch And Beyond

Today’s TX whiskey has never stopped experimenting, and visitors to the distillery can taste what Ale and the TX team are cooking through their Experimental Series, a collection of distillery only, small batch whiskies that are sporadically released a few times a year. These include but are not limited to a variety of innovations the company is playing with for future wide releases or new blending components. Terroir projects, science-driven fermentation and distillation experiments and blending experiments are a few examples. Whiskey Ranch has also been investing heavily in special barrel finished bourbons. A port finished bourbon and Pedro Ximinez sherry finished bourbon were made available in 2020, and a cognac cask finished bourbon joined the lineup in 2021. The latest release from TX marks the first bottled-in-bond bourbon from Texas, a single barrel, wheated affair that’s steeped in local terroir, just as former distiller Dr. Rob Arnold intended. While the company will not confirm nor deny a national launch of these whiskeys, its clear that there will be plenty of tasty TX to look forward to.

John McCarthy

John McCarthy is a spirit, travel, and lifestyle journalist, managing editor, and author of The Modern Gentleman and Whiskey Rebels: The Dreamers, Visionaries & Badasses Who Are Revolutionizing American Whiskey. McCarthy is also editor of Barleycorn Drinks and Director of Judging of the John Barleycorn Awards.

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• 4250 Mitchell Boulevard
• Fort Worth, TX 76119
• Region: East Fort Worth
• Phone: (817) 840-9140
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Come experience the largest whiskey distillery west of the Mississippi located on the historic former grounds of the Glen Garden Country Club. Their immersive tours on the art and science of whiskey distilling are entertaining for whiskey experts and beginners alike. Experience an up-close look at every step of distillation and aging which creates the distinct taste of TX Bourbon. Come hear the story behind their proprietary yeast, witness firsthand how they make custom caps, and enjoy a taste of TX all while taking in stunning views of downtown Fort Worth. The tour will conclude with a tasting in the Tavern and after, you will have the opportunity to try a delicious cocktail from their mixologist or browse the Ranch Store at your leisure.

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