Kentucky straight rye
4½
Neat, at a hotel bar in Houston. Friday night.
- Rye spice
- Cherry
- Black pepper
- Toasted oak
Your friends gave it 4 and 4½ glasses. Everyone: 4.2.
The Hunt
Spot a hard-to-find bottle on a store shelf and post it. Hunters near you hear about it while it’s still there.
Wheated bourbon, 12 year
Corner Bottle Shop, 4 miles away
$39.99 on the shelf. 3 left.
Verified at the store 25 minutes ago. Still there, say 2 hunters.
Barrel-proof bourbon, fall batch
Main Street Wine & Spirits, 7 miles away
$64.99 on the shelf. 1 left.
Verified at the store 2 hours ago.
Single-barrel rye
Westside Liquor, 11 miles away
Gone. Two hunters reported it gone yesterday.
Example sightings. A sighting is tied to the store, never to where you are, and Pourhound never handles buying or selling.
Pourhound now
On your hunt list: Wheated bourbon, 12 year. Spotted at Corner Bottle Shop, 4 miles away. 3 on the shelf.
Rate what you taste, and where
Every pour gets a rating, the notes you tasted, and where you had it. Next time, you know what to order and where to find it.
- Rate in glasses
- Half glasses included, because some pours sit right between.
- Name what you taste
- Pick notes from the flavor wheel or write your own words.
- Remember where
- The bar, the tasting room, the friend’s porch. The place stays with the pour.
- Compare
- See what your friends and everyone else tasted in the same bottle.
What else it does
The rest of what a whiskey lover keeps in their head, in one place on your phone.
- Label Finder
- Snap the label, and Pourhound finds the bottle for you. No typing long names at the bar.
- Your shelf, with levels
- Add a bottle, log pours from it, and watch the level drop. Open, sealed, and killed bottles all stay on your shelf, so you always know what you have.
- Friends and the feed
- Follow people, cheers their pours, and see what they’re drinking and where.
Why we built it
“My shelf is full, and I can never remember which bottle I liked.”
It started with the whiskey lovers in our own family. Notes lived in phone photos, half-remembered conversations, and the backs of receipts. Pourhound is the workaround: one place that remembers for you.
Where it stands
The pilot opens 13 November 2026 with a small group of testers. Android testers get the app, and iPhone testers use the web version until the App Store release.
We’re adding people in rounds. Join the interest list, and we’ll write when there’s room for you.
Join the interest list
Tell us how to reach you and what phone you use. We’ll write when there’s a spot for you in the pilot.
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