Oh, no, I thought, as I read the label. “College Station, Texas.” I knew College Station was home to a university, I just didn’t know which one. A quick search disclosed Texas A&M. Not necessarily a bad thing, mixing agriculture with the military. Unfortunately, I could only think of a distiller, in this case the Rio Brazos Distillery, brewing for the lowest common denominator, the infamous and uneducated “college crowd.” You know them. They’re the ones screaming at the camera that their team is Number One!

Rio Brazos was established by Nathan and Wade Barkman, owner- operators of the Republic…