The “once-in-a-century” flooding that struck Kerr County in Texas Hill Nation this previous weekend noticed the waters of the Guadalupe River rise to almost 30 ft inside simply 45 minutes within the predawn hours of July 4th, devastating the world and inflicting main lack of life. The disaster prompted an outpouring of responses and assist throughout the state—not simply from authorities businesses, but additionally from Lone Star companies, together with whiskey makers.
Hye-based Garrison Brothers is positioned simply 50 miles from the place the flooding occurred. The distillery was set to host a launch celebration this coming Saturday, July twelfth, for its Guadalupe bourbon, the prized annual launch that occurs to be named after the flooded river. In mild of the tragedy, the distillery is now turning the occasion right into a flood reduction fundraiser.
The Saturday occasion can be spearheaded by Good Bourbon for a Good Trigger, a nonprofit entity that Garrison Brothers arrange in 2018. On the occasion, 1,000 bottles of the cask-strength single barrel expression can be accessible from 8 a.m. onward, with $50 from every sale going on to the Neighborhood Basis of the Texas Hill Nation, which created the Kerr County Aid Fund. On-site donations made on the distillery will even be accepted, and distillery house owners and workers will match the primary $10,000 obtained. All earnings raised from gross sales of meals and drinks on the Whiskey Shack, the distillery’s on-site restaurant, and its reward store will even be donated to flood reduction efforts.
In the event you aren’t native to Hye, Texas, Good Bourbon for a Good Trigger has additionally put collectively an on-line donation website. To this point, they’ve raised simply shy of $20,000, a couple of fifth of their $100,000 aim.
Along with Garrison Brothers, Dripping Springs-based Treaty Oak Distilling is accumulating donations all through the week from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. at its distillery, and has organized each aircraft and tow truck journey to deliver bodily donation gadgets right down to Kerr County. Over in Shiner, Texas, Ok. Spoetzl Brewery & Distillery has donated $100,000 to the Neighborhood Basis of the Texas Hill Nation, and is planning to donate proceeds from gross sales made at its on-site barbecue restaurant, Ok. Spoetzel BBQ Co., on Sunday, July thirteenth.
