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Bourbon
Brothers

A Bourbon-Tasting Experience

Not just a book — an immersive bourbon adventure. Follow Tripp and the DGC bourbon club on their way to Kentucky. “Four lifelong friends. One impossible bourbon challenge. Plenty of Bad ideas.” Decipher the same pours while you read with the included Tasting Compass interactive Web App add-on. Sip along and get inside dusty bourbon culture.

Based on the real-life misadventures of the DGC bourbon group. You’ve seen their bottles.
Now get the story.

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Your immersive membership into dusty bourbon culture.

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THE TASTING COMPASS — A FIRST IN BOURBON FICTION

Ever wanted to tell a dusty Stitzel-Weller from a dusty Bernheim?

Now you can. The Tasting Compass is the first interactive blind-tasting deduction engine ever built into a novel — a guided six-axis system that walks you through color, aroma, palate, and finish, narrows the field with every observation, and names the distillate family in your glass. It’s woven through the road trip so you deduce the pours right alongside Tripp and the DGC — but it stands on its own as a tool you’ll actually use at your own tasting table. Learn the patterns. Apply them. Sound like you’ve been deciphering dusties for twenty years.

Pour any dusty, this compass will guide you to the actual distillate, even blinded.

Free with every copy of Bourbon Brothers.
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THE TASTING COMPASS
Watch the Tasting Compass identify a dusty pour live
Scan. Sip along. Decipher the pour. Wild Turkey — identified.
The Interactive Experience

Not a Book You Read.
A Tasting Experience You Live.

Bourbon Brothers is designed to be experienced alongside the web companion — the Tasting Compass, the Photo Vault, the documented sessions. The hardcover is your guide. The website is your tasting table.

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Read the Chapter

Tripp and the DGC encounter a blind pour. They nose it, taste it, debate it. You're in the room with them — following every clue as they try to identify the distillate family.

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Open the Compass

Use the Tasting Compass to work the same deductive logic the characters use. Six flavor axes. Three physical markers. Can you identify the distillate family before Tripp does?

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Sip Along

Pour your own and follow the tasting notes in real time. The Photo Vault holds the documented sessions behind every pour. You're not reading about bourbon culture — you're living inside it.

DGC documented blind tasting sessions — hundreds of bottle lineups

400+ documented blind tastings. Labels covered, bottles wrapped. The real evidence behind every pour in the book.

“The bourbon literary event of the past year.”  — Bourbon Geist Magazine

Signed Honey Barrel Edition — Permanent Limited Run

125 signed copies
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91 collectors have already claimed their copy. When they’re gone, they’re gone — permanently.

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No other bourbon fiction pulls you inside the collector’s world like this. Dusty hunting, blind tastings, camaraderie — see what Bourbon Brothers is really about.

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The Only Bourbon Fiction
About Real Tasting Culture.

A whiskey archive disguised as a comedy adventure.

Bourbon Brothers pulls you inside the world most enthusiasts only glimpse — dusty bottle hunting, blind tasting culture, collector camaraderie, and the unwritten rules of serious bourbon.

“Four lifelong friends. One impossible bourbon challenge. Plenty of bad ideas.”

Follow the Distinguished Gentleman’s Club of Greenville, SC as they chase clues, dodge rival hunters, and taste more than their fair share of trouble — all the way to the ultimate underground bourbon gauntlet: Twenty-One Guns.

  • Real rare bottle photography from the author’s personal collection
  • Authentic tasting notes written by a genuine dusty bourbon collector
  • Full-color premium hardcover — display-worthy, not just readable
  • The only bourbon fiction that explains what “dusty” actually means
  • Written without generative AI — every word from a real bourbon brain
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Bourbon Brothers back cover — Four lifelong friends. One impossible bourbon challenge. Plenty of bad ideas.

Four Lifelong Friends.
One Impossible Challenge.

Plenty of bad ideas.

Tripp LaRue figures his bourbon tasting glory days are over — until a mysterious invitation to Twenty-One Guns, the ultimate underground bourbon gauntlet, lures him home. With the prize rumored to be the rarest whiskey on earth and eternal bragging rights on the line, Tripp rallies his old tasting crew: smooth-talking Scott, sharp-eyed Andy, and big-hearted Phil.

The rules? Nobody knows for sure.
The competition? Ruthless.
The bourbon? Strong enough to cloud judgment.

From backroom barrel houses in Louisville to forgotten cellars of South Carolina, the brothers-in-bourbon chase clues, dodge rival hunters, and taste more than their fair share of trouble. Along the way they face baffling puzzles, uncooperative locals, and irritating dehydration.

In the end, Tripp’s going to need more than a master palate to win — he’ll need trust, wit, and maybe the forgiveness of his little brother. Because in bourbon, and life, it’s not just the finish but who you share it with.

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Identify Major Dusty Labels

Six-axis flavor framework — spice, fruit, floral, nut, oak, earth — combined with color, viscosity, and proof to identify major vintage labels blind.

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Four Roses Recipe Compass

Two questions. Ten recipes. Identify any Four Roses expression by palate alone — B vs E mashbill, V/K/O/Q/F yeast strain. The only tool of its kind.

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Photo Vault · Tasting Archive

250+ documented blind tasting session photos. The empirical record behind every Compass conclusion. Real sessions. Real bottles. Real results.

“Everything you need to sound like you’ve been doing this for years — in one tasting session.”

— John McKillop, MWC Official Whiskey Historian
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Both Compass tools are included free with every copy — yours the moment your order ships.

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Same Story. Two Cover Editions.

Every edition is the same complete novel. The “Motor-Oil” is the standard full-color hardcover. The “Honey-Barrel” is the signed, personalized edition — with a double Dusty Funk giveaway entry and 10% of proceeds benefiting the MWC children’s charity.

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John McKillop
Official Whiskey Historian, MWC

John McKillop is a Greenville, South Carolina–based author, physician, and genuine dusty bourbon collector. Every bottle, tasting note, and piece of insider knowledge in Bourbon Brothers comes from his own collection and years inside the bourbon community.

In 2020, John co-founded the Medicinal Whiskey Charity alongside the real-life Distinguished Gentleman’s Club — the same crew the novel is based on. To date, MWC has raised over $2 million for children’s charities across the Carolinas.

Bourbon Brothers was written without generative AI. The scenes, characters, and bourbon lore originated in John’s own bourbon-soaked brain — first as a feature screenplay in 2019, then converted to novel form in 2022.

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