Rio Brazos Distillery

05/28/2026

Nathan will be back at the Spec's on University Drive tomorrow from 5 to 8 pm providing free samples of the Brazos Valley's first bourbon -- mashed, fermented, distilled, aged and bottled by Aggies in our distillery in College Station. Come help us celebrate 13 years making whiskey and history in Aggieland!

06/26/2025

Voyage Houston just ran a feature on us in their magazine!

Today we’d like to introduce you to Nathan Barkman. Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?In 2008, I moved my family to College Station and built the Republic Steakhouse. Less than two ...

06/16/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdRPEp5-rHw

Bourbon cook at the Rio Brazos Distillery.

05/08/2025

Our RBD Single Barrel Wheat Whiskey just won a silver medal at the 2025 San Francisco World Spirits Competition -- the world's largest and most prestigious blind judging.

We double-distilled it in September 2019 in our pot still from a bill of 88-percent hard, red, winter-harvested wheat and 12-percent malted barley, all grown in Texas by Texan farmers and sourced for us by MBS Seed - Grains in Denton, Texas. Then, we aged it for five years in four virgin, deep-charred American white oak barrels that we harvested one at a time.

It is the first and only spirit we have ever entered into any competition.

Here is an article that explains more about the competition: https://www.mensjournal.com/food-drink/inside-the-san-francisco-world-spirits-competition

05/04/2025

Happy Derby Day y’all!

05/03/2025

Rain or shine Aggies find a way. BTHO finals y’all and stay dry!

04/17/2025

Bottle Your Own Damn Bourbon!

We will be thieving straight from barrel to bottle and letting folks fill, seal, cap and wax their own again this weekend.
Barrel #210401.001 was filled with our standard bill of 62.5% sweet yellow corn, 25% wheat and 12.5% malted barley, all grown in Texas by Texan farmers and mashed, fermented and distilled right here at our distillery in College Station.
(Please remember, you’re pulling straight from the barrel, so it’ll be unfiltered, unpolished and 122 proof.)

04/17/2025

Thanks Eric, John, Brian, Kim and Deborah for spending some time with us last weekend and bottling some of your own Select Single Barrel Texas Bourbon.
Come back and see us again soon!

04/11/2025

We are serving this Limoncello Spritz! today and tomorrow at the tasting room — made from our house-made Limoncello. Stop by and get some!
And happy National Submarine Day!

04/08/2025

Congratulations Grayson, Ana, Dani and Catherine!
They stopped by on Friday to bottle their own bourbon straight from the barrel and stamped their new Aggie rings into the wax!
Our Single Barrel Select Bourbon is proudly mashed, fermented & distilled by Aggies here on Dowling Road from Texas-grown corn, wheat and barley.