About Common Cask
Common Cask is an independent catalog of American whiskey: 576 bottles from 35 distilleries and independent bottlers, each with its proof, age, suggested retail price, rarity and a community rating. Nobody pays to be listed, ranked or featured.
Where the ratings come from
A bottle's community rating is the plain average of every score held for it, on a 10-point scale, shown alongside the number of scores behind it.
Most of those scores were not entered on this site. They come from public whiskey reviews posted on Reddit, in communities such as r/bourbon and r/whiskey, matched to the bottles in this catalog and rounded to the nearest whole point. The reviewers are not affiliated with Common Cask, and their scores are not tied to accounts here. The remaining scores are entered directly by Common Cask members.
As of the latest count there are 20,853 ratings: 20,831 from public Reddit reviews and 22 from members.
A single enthusiastic score shouldn't top a chart, so a bottle needs at least 5 ratings before it appears in any ranking or “top rated” list. 204 bottles currently qualify. Bottles with fewer ratings still show their average, marked as unranked.
To add your own score, open any bottle in the explorer, sign in, and rate it from 1 to 10. You can add nose, palate and finish notes if you like.
Where the bottle data comes from
Proof, age statements and styles are compiled by hand, mainly from what producers publish about their own bottles. Prices are suggested retail prices, not what a bottle sells for on a shelf near you or on the secondary market — for allocated bottles the gap can be large.
Rarity (common, limited, rare, allocated, unicorn) is our own estimate of how hard a bottle is to find at retail. Treat it as a guide rather than a measurement.
Entries marked as community entries were submitted by members and reviewed before going live. Producers labelled NDP are non-distilling producers: they bottle whiskey distilled elsewhere, and the source distillery is listed where it is known.
Corrections and additions
Catalogs like this are never finished. If a bottle is missing, sign in and use Submit a Bottle in the explorer. If something is wrong, open the bottle and choose Report incorrect information. Both go to a review queue before anything changes.