The Perfect Pour.
Know your palate. Find your perfect pour.
The complete whiskey companion — the only one that learns your palate, and the only one that brings your people to the Pour.
Two hundred and fifty years of America’s native spirit — and, at last, a tool worthy of her.
Welcome in. Hear Franklin.
Join the Founders See pricing →
The Founder offer goes live July 4, 2026 — America’s 250th — and runs the full Founding Father Year to July 3, 2027. $99 a year — the Founder rate, this year only. On July 4, 2027 the annual rate becomes $149. See the offer →
The Perfect Pour learns your taste and finds the whiskey you’ll love — not the rarest bottle, the right one.
However you pour
This is your app.
Know your palate. Find your perfect pour.
Every other bourbon app stops at the transaction — rate it, buy it, trade it. The Perfect Pour covers the whole life of a pour. Three ways in. The same table on the other side.
Know it
Know your palate.
For the curious.
Finally — an app that reads your taste, not a stranger’s.
Slow Tasting · your Blueprint · the Pour Print · match scores · the Tasting Room
The rest hand you a number — scored by palates that aren’t yours.
Chase it
Chase your perfect pour.
For the hunter.
Finally — a hunt matched to your palate, so you know before you buy.
Chase List & gaps view · Allocation Calendar · sighting reports · scan-match alerts · research matched to your palate
Everywhere else, the hunt’s spread across five tabs and ranked by strangers.
Share it
Share your perfect pour.
For the keeper.
Finally — a way to pour for the people who matter, and keep the night.
Tasting Circles · host a Tasting Night · the blind Reveal · Handshakes · Gift a Tasting
On the other apps, community is a feed to perform in. Here it’s a table you host — pour with your people, not for an audience.
The perfect pour was never the rarest bottle. It’s the right one — for your palate, your night, and your wallet.
New · The second pillar
The Perfect Pour Trail.
Your palate plans the trail.
The only bourbon-trail planner guided by your palate — every distillery, every pour, matched to you. Plan the trip, pour the flight, and collect a hand-engraved stamp at every stop.
What’s inside.
Eight surfaces that turn an evening with a glass into a practice.
Capture, catalog, photos, multi-device sync. Each bottle through its real arc — sealed, open, empty, vaulted, gifted.
Five minutes a day. What’s moving in American whiskey, with no jargon and no gatekeeping.
Allocation Calendar, Chase List, Found-It flags, friend sightings. The hunt with a structure.
Slow Tasting wizard. Pour Print. Aroma Library and flashcards. Compare two bottles side-by-side.
American Whiskey Industry Brief. Deeper daily reading no other app is publishing. Weekly roll-up on Sundays. Bourbon Keeper only.
What’s pouring at which booth. Design the flight before you walk the floor. Tasting Nights at home, too.
Pour for a friend, both Logbooks remember. Gift a Tasting sends a whole bottle wrapped in a guided first pour.
The voice built into the app. Calm. Observant. Doesn’t sell. Surfaces when the moment calls.
America’s 250th · The Founding Father Year
Be a Founding Member.
Anyone who joins Bourbon Keeper this first year joins as a Founder.
By choice. By the year.
From July 4, 2026 through July 3, 2027 — a full Founding Father Year, Independence Day to the day before the next. Anyone who subscribes to Bourbon Keeper in that window joins as a Founder.
Bourbon Keeper is $14.99 a month, or lock the Founder rate at $99 a year — for as long as you stay subscribed. The standard annual after July 4, 2027 is $149. Full Founder Year terms →
“Washington made eleven thousand gallons of rye whiskey a year at Mount Vernon. The first founders set the lineage. These Founders set the next chapter.”
Join the Founders. Founder rate. Founder badge. Founder identity. Full Founder Year terms →
Seven things you’ll do in your first week.
Scan a bottle. Fill your Rickhouse.
Snap the label. The app pulls the lineage, the mash bill, the story. Each bottle starts moving through its real arc — sealed, open, empty, vaulted, gifted.
— Your shelves, captured.
Log a Slow Tasting.
Six steps, one pour, no rush. Built around nose, palate, and finish — and the words that go with them. The first lesson in plain English is the one in your own glass.
— Bourbon, in plain English.
Pour into your morning read.
The Cut Daily is the five-minute morning read — free for every reader, no card on file. Bourbon Keepers get the full American Whiskey Industry Brief on top — Monday through Friday plus the Weekly Roll-Up. Allocation calendars, distillery moves, what landed where.
— The deeper daily.
Watch your Palate Print sharpen.
Across every pour you log, a pattern emerges. The pattern is yours. Ten pours in, the shape starts to show. Fifty in, it reads like a fingerprint.
— Know what you actually like.
Hear from Franklin when something matters.
Not all the time. When you cross a milestone, when a bottle’s running low, when you’ve found something that fits you — he says what’s worth saying. No selling.
— A guide who doesn’t sell.
Run the Saturday Allocation Calendar.
One screen instead of four browser tabs. What’s dropping where, region by region, week by week. Set the alerts you care about. Close the phone and go on with your day.
— The chase has a calendar now.
Pour with a friend.
Handshake a small pour to someone you trust — the app tracks it in both Logbooks. Or Gift a Tasting: a whole bottle wrapped in a guided first pour. Less alone. More signal.
— Pour with us.
Why this exists.
The bourbon shelf had become a leaderboard. Bourbon — the most hospitable spirit in the cabinet — quietly forgot how to host. The Perfect Pour was built to put the conversation back.
John Schuster and Shauna Hann built it together — co-founders of Drunken Unicorn Productions, same-class Executive Bourbon Stewards through Stave & Thief Society, educators by training and practice. The app spent years in their own Rickhouse before anyone else poured a drop.
Two retired combat-proven Army officers. One Bronze Star. One published historian. Fifty years in uniform between them. The service is part of the story. Not the headline.
The app is built by a partnership, not a person.
The complete whiskey companion.
America’s 250th. America’s native spirit deserves America’s app.
Open it on your phone.
The Perfect Pour is free to start — open it on any phone. (Founder pricing opens July 4, 2026 — America’s 250th.)
Or add the Founder-pricing date (July 4) to your calendar:
Common questions.
What is The Perfect Pour?
A bourbon companion app that learns your palate from your own pours. Franklin coaches you toward bottles that fit you — not the bottles everyone else is chasing. Made by the operation behind Chasing the Unicorn and Drunken Unicorn.
What does it cost?
Free, always, for the basic level — track your Rickhouse, log your pours, see your Pour Print and Palate Print. Bourbon Enthusiast is $5.99 / mo (or $59 / yr). Bourbon Keeper is the flagship — and through July 3, 2027, Founders lock it at $99 / year ($50 below the standard annual). Standard pricing on July 4, 2027: $14.99 / mo or $149 / yr. Founders who joined this first year keep $99 / yr for as long as they stay subscribed. See full pricing →
Who’s it for?
Anyone who pours. The $25 bottle gets the same attention as the $250 bottle. If you’ve ever stared at a bourbon shelf and wondered what’s actually for you, the app is for you.
Is there a community?
Yes — and it’s a table, not a feed. The Perfect Pour isn’t a place to perform for followers or climb a leaderboard. It’s where you host a Tasting Night, pour for a small circle, gift a bottle with a guided first pour, and trade Handshakes with people you trust. Quiet, opt-in, and built for the people you actually drink with.
What’s the catch?
None. The free tier stays free. The paid tiers exist because Franklin’s deeper research costs real money to run — not because we hide the good stuff behind a paywall.
How does the Founder rate work?
Subscribe to Bourbon Keeper between July 4, 2026 and July 3, 2027 — the Founding Father Year — and you lock $99 a year, for as long as you stay subscribed. The standard rate after is $149. Full Founder Year terms →
Is my data private?
Your pours are yours. Your Palate Print is yours. The shared distillery database is opt-in — your research helps the next collector’s chase, never your account name. Full privacy policy.