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Bourbon Decoded
Read the Label. Skip the Hype. Drink Better.
DSP codes, mashbills, the 9-year sweet spot, the 30-bottle library, the honest truth about Pappy.
Five PDF ebooks from the editors of Boozemakers. Three are free with email signup — Bourbon Decoded, the moonshine-history read Spirits & Outlaws, and the home-bar handbook Cocktail Codex. The two paid flagships go deeper than any free guide can.
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140+ pages each. No paywall, no upsell wall. Drop your email, get the PDF, read it on the porch tonight.
Free with Email
Read the Label. Skip the Hype. Drink Better.
DSP codes, mashbills, the 9-year sweet spot, the 30-bottle library, the honest truth about Pappy.
Free with Email
A Whiskey-Drinker's History of Moonshine, Bootleggers, and the People Who Made Modern Bourbon
230 years of American moonshine. Whiskey Rebellion to Popcorn Sutton, plus a 10-bottle drinking companion.
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The 12-Bottle Bar, the Five Cocktail Families, and How to Host Like You Mean It
12 bottles. 5 families. 50+ recipes. The hosting playbook that turns you from bartender into host.
The Flagship Books
The paid books are what we’d hand a serious friend. The framework, the bottles, the pairings, the hosting playbook — all in one PDF. Use code HALFOFF at checkout for 50% off.

The Complete Guide to Tasting, Choosing & Enjoying Fine Spirits
The flagship guide. Tasting framework, palate development, the 50-bottle library — every spirit category covered.

The Honest Beginner's Cigar Guide
Wrapper to ash. The 25-cigar starter humidor. The pairings that work. The etiquette nobody tells you.
Yes — the three free PDFs land in your inbox in under a minute, no card, no trial. The free ebooks are deep single-topic guides: bourbon hunting, moonshine history, cocktail families. The paid flagships are the cross-category masterworks — every spirit, every cigar, the universal frameworks behind everything we write.
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