“Completely unlike anything else out there.”
— Steve, King Bourbon
One pour, start to reveal.
Real screens from a guided pour of Russell’s Reserve 13 Year, the 2021 first release — start to reveal, on a phone. An honest night: three calls ran off the record.
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Thirty seconds on how it works
Any bottle out there — an allocated unicorn, a store pick, a dusty. Or go fully blind and name nothing. If it’s a rare pour with not much published intel, Socrates will let you know its confidence level and you can work the mystery together.
Socrates walks you through the published Bourbon Brothers™ Method — color, aroma, proof, palate, and finish, one committed call at a time, each one confirmed against the record as you go.
Your reads against the documented record, the radar shape — and the near-miss bottle you were one tell away from calling instead.
Other tools may hand you answers. This one helps you earn them — then aligns your own reads against the public record and tracks your growth and taste preferences in an exportable journal that’s yours to keep.
A palate that compounds.
Every pour writes to a private record that sharpens with you — your preferences challenging the public record, with scoring and mini games.
Palate75%Your tasting notes vs the public record.
Taste Preference−3Your tasting preference aligned vs the public record.
Global Palate Similarity (GPS)73Your overall read vs the public record.
Your Palate JournalEvery pour with its two bars, House Standings by distillery, Dusty IQ, the Gauntlet out of 100 — on every device you own.
Profile ConfidenceHow settled the pour’s record is — high, medium or low — on the session banner before Socrates says a word.
Game ModeRescore your last five or top five from memory, or Build a Flight of three, five or ten pours you name — scored on the same alignments, plus a memory score.
Choose your mode
Guided Pour RecommendedFind Your Bourbon GPS. TASTE › LEARN › EARN
Tasting GauntletYour read scored /100 against the record. No coaching.
Blind ModeNo bottle named. Pure deduction, then reveal the pour.Game ModeMini games from memory — your last five, your top five, or a flight you build yourself. Unlocks at five Guided Pours.
The Socrates ReadShort on time? The record, read for you — no session.
Journal EntryLog a pour with no questions, then see it against the record.You do not need to be a dusty hunter.
Two settings shape every session — your palate level, picked before you start, and how much guidance you want, chosen in the app — so the same Method reads differently to a first-timer and a fifteen-year regular. Plus palate and distillery preference tracking to challenge the public record is fun at any level.
New to itLearn the language of a read — the notes, the terms, the stages of a tasting — one question at a time, with the record confirming each step after you commit.
The enthusiastSee how your deductions align with the published reads of the wider bourbon community and the distillery’s own notes — Palate Alignment, Taste Preference Alignment and your Global Palate Similarity (GPS).
The seasoned sipperChallenge your recall of the pours you know best, from memory, and watch your preferred profile trends emerge across the flights you build.Status in bourbon culture isn’t how many allocated bottles you’ve collected — it’s whether your palate can defend a read. Socrates teaches that.
The free sessions prove the method.
The paid seat keeps the private record that compounds — every scored read, every near-miss, your Palate Alignment, Taste Preference Alignment and Global Palate Similarity (GPS) over time, your flights and your Dusty IQ — across every device you pour from. Private to your account, exportable, deletable. Never ours to take.
Created by a Professor of Medicine, novelist, and Whiskey Historian — a co-founder of the Medicinal Whiskey Charity which has raised 2+ million dollars for children’s charities. The method is human-authored — the Bourbon Brothers™ Method, from the novel Bourbon Brothers. The guide is Claude, modeled and trained to run that method and track palate metrics.
The first AI guide modeled for genuine deductive palate growth and tracking — schooled in the published Bourbon Brothers™ tasting method, grounded in 400+ documented blind tastings.
