Member price
$95
per bottle · 2 per stave
A democratic, crowd-funded bourbon club. Members pledge on barrels we've picked. When a barrel hits its threshold, the distillery bottles it and ships the cases to our Saint Anne tap room — we ship to Illinois members or hand off for pickup. If the barrel doesn't carry, no one's charged. You can't come out behind.
Single-barrel picks from distilleries we respect. Mostly craft, some allocated as we earn volume. Every option posted with mash bill, age, and our landed cost.
Each stave is a pre-order on two bottles. Your card is on file but not charged. The barrel commits only if enough members agree. No commit, no charge.
The distillery ages and bottles the barrel under their own license, then sends the cases to our Saint Anne tap room. We ship to Illinois addresses, or you pick up in person on release day. Often it's a party. The theater screen still works.
Every barrel shows what we paid landed, what you pay, and every line in between. Members see the math. If the margin looks wrong, say so — it's your club too.
Hard cap on every drop. Oversubscribed barrels go to a lottery weighted by past participation. No seniority-only gatekeeping. No backdoor allocations for friends.
Membership terminates if a CrowdCask'd bottle turns up on the secondary market. Bottles are for drinking. This isn't a whiskey fund, and we don't want the people who'd treat it like one.
"No one has the ultimate palate. But a room full of serious drinkers, voting with their own money, tends to pick pretty well."
Saint Anne is a small town on the Illinois-Indiana line, about seventy-five miles south of Chicago and twenty minutes from the state line. We're restoring a 1940s supper club there — original screen still in back, upstairs storage, enough parking — as the home base for bottled inventory, pickup days, and member events.
It isn't the pitch. The pitch is the democratic model — pledging, commit, release, transparency. The building is the solution: cheap real estate, good bones, a destination worth driving to for pickup. If the model works here, we'll do it again somewhere else small.
I'm Josh. I run a coffee shop with my wife in Saint Anne, Illinois. We've lived in small towns long enough to know two things: the good stuff is rarely where you expect it, and if you wait for it to come to you, you'll wait forever.
CrowdCask'd exists because I got tired of watching the bourbon world pull in two directions at once — toward hype-priced allocated bottles nobody can actually buy, and toward samey single-barrel picks sold through channels with no real curation discipline. I wanted a different proposition: a small group of serious drinkers backing barrels we actually want, at prices tied to cost instead of secondary-market theater.
No one has the ultimate palate. But a room full of people with skin in the game tends to pick pretty well.
We're starting in Saint Anne because the real estate is cheap and the building is beautiful. If the model works here, we'll do it in another small town. Then another one.
Join the waitlist if any of this sounds right. You'll be one of the first.
Waitlist is free. Membership opens when the first barrel hits the ballot.