Drunken MonkTraining Grounds

Basic Bitch Basic Training

Start with what you taste.

You already know these flavors. We are teaching you how to find them in whiskey.

Choose a noteExplore all 40 or begin with the ten easiest landmarks.

Interactive Basic Bitch bourbon flavor wheel Eight illustrated whiskey flavor families arranged in a circle, each with five clickable tasting notes.

Two ways forward

Learn the note. Then find it in the wild.

01

Take a guided lesson

Use familiar aromas and three contrasting pours to build a flavor memory.

 02

Enter Field Training

See how Arizona Barrelheads picks express the same notes in singular barrels.

The method

Confidence before vocabulary.

Training Grounds begins with flavors people already recognize, then adds proof, oak, grain, finishes, and production only when those ideas become useful.

A barrel-proof Yokai bourbon beside a tasting glass