Founder
Dan Garrison
Founder and Proprietor, Garrison Brothers Distillery
- Discipline
- Founder
- Based in
- Hye, Texas, United States
i. Biography
Dan Garrison’s work sits inside a family line before it becomes a whiskey line. At Garrison Brothers Distillery in Hye, Texas, that origin is framed without sentimentality and without distance: “I’ve got to put all the pressure on my dad for that one.” From there, the craft settles into Texas bourbon made under a grain-to-glass standard, where the maker and the product stay close enough that the method itself is part of the proof.
Coming Up
Today, Dan Garrison is co-founder, founder and CEO, and founder and proprietor of Garrison Brothers Distillery. Those titles are repeated because the relationship is direct: his name is part of the distillery’s identity, and the distillery is part of his. In Hye, Texas, the work remains fixed to a place and a person, with neither treated as separate from the other.
Where They Are Now
At the Hye, Texas, distillery, Garrison remains tied to the operation as founder and proprietor and as co-founder. That kind of role carries more than ownership; it points to the person who helped establish the standard and still stays attached to it. The day-to-day tone, the expectations, and the public promise all still read through the same name. The key production principle is straightforward: grain-to-glass whiskey, made 100 percent on-site, with no sourcing or tricks. For another artisan, that tells you the house is not building from bought-in spirit or hidden intermediates. The whiskey is made where it is presented as being made, in Hye, with the place and the process kept visible.
Career - Co-founder — Garrison Brothers Distillery, Hye, Texas - Founder and CEO — Garrison Brothers Distillery, Hye, Texas - Founder and proprietor — Garrison Brothers Distillery, Hye, Texas
Signature
Dan's signature wines include Garrison Brothers Bottled-in-Bond and Garrison Brothers Bourbon whiskey. Read as a maker’s line-up, those names point back to the same Texas house style and the same on-site standard that defines the distillery. They are labels, yes, but they also function as markers of what the Hye operation chooses to put forward under Dan Garrison’s name.
In Their Words “I’ve got to put all the pressure on my dad for that one.” The line is brief, but it carries inherited responsibility without softening the work behind it. It points to a family handoff, and to the way a bottle can begin in a story that predates the distillery itself.
Honors
A central marker in the recognition comes through Garrison Brothers Bottled-in-Bond, the first Texas bottled-in-bond bourbon. It was distilled in the Fall of 2019 and bottled at 100 proof. Those facts place the whiskey squarely in time and in specification, which is what gives the recognition its weight. That bottle also sits alongside the 2010 bourbon as part of the distillery’s sequence of releases. One is an early signature work; the other is a later bottled-in-bond expression of the same Texas bourbon specialty. Both remain tied to the Hye distillery and to the same on-site standard.
FAQ What is Dan Garrison's current role? As of 2026, Dan Garrison is Founder and Proprietor. What is Dan Garrison known for? Texas bourbon.
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