Balcones was founded in Waco, Texas, in 2008, beginning in an old welding shop under a bridge before growing into one of the leading names in American single malt and Texas whisky. The distillery helped establish Texas as a serious whisky-producing region, with early releases including Baby Blue, a blue corn whisky, and Texas “1” Single Malt. Its name comes from the Balcones Fault, the geological fault line running through central Texas.