The LiquorHound Has the Finest Palate in Texas
How a postal carrier became the palate and nose for North Texas’ most promising distillery.
By Eve Hill-Agnus
Published in
Food & Drink
January 13, 2021
10:45 am
Photography by Elizabeth Lavin
Approximately 2,500 liquor bottles line the display case six shelves tall, three feet wide, four or five bottles deep that takes up half the kitchen and spills into the living room of Chris Trevino’s Fort Worth home. Part of the collection resides in closets, and he owns doubles, but he guesses that the total number of unique specimens hovers around 1,300 or 1,400.
Before he obtained his Certified Specialist of Spirits status and was certified by the Tequila Regulatory Council of Mexico, before he became LiquorHound, with a YouTube subscription base of 25,000, a view count of 6 million, and a Patreon channel where he releases reviews weekly to subscribers, Trevino was just a guy with a friend who’d brought a bottle of tequila back
The Dawn of the North Texas Distillery Golden Age
In just over a decade, North Texas spirits have come of age. Hit the distillery trail to find history, black-eyed pea martinis, and the best bourbon in the world.
By
Zac Crain, Matt Goodman, Eve Hill-Agnus, Tim Rogers, Rosin Saez, Peter Simek, and Kathy Wise
Published in
D Magazine
January
2021
Photography by Elizabeth Lavin, Jill Broussard, and Zac Crain
Just over a decade ago, the craft spirit movement in Texas began with Garrison Brothers and Balcones. Now 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.