Hunt
Search stores, compare bourbon-specific scores, save personal notes, and see reported sightings near you.
Explore HuntYour bourbon hunting companion
Hunt smarter. Discover more.
Stave brings your cellar, bourbon-specific store discovery, practical bottle context, verified store updates, and release planning into one focused iPhone app.
Built for the decision before you walk into the store.
One app. Better context.
Made for the bourbon hunt—not just the bottle shelf.
Most tools help you track what you already own. Stave also helps you decide where to go, what to look for, and whether a find is worth the stop.
Price Check
Separate MSRP, auction-derived market context, and a realistic Fair Hunt Price at the shelf.
Explore Price CheckCellar
Track quantities, purchase details, notes, rankings, and the story behind your collection.
Explore CellarDrops
Keep lotteries, releases, reminders, and entry status organized in one place.
Explore DropsFind stores worth the stop
A bourbon map with better signals.
Search by city, ZIP code, or the part of the map you are exploring. Stave brings relevant stores into one hunting view, then adds the details generic reviews miss.
- Stave ScoreSee a community-facing bourbon score built around allocation availability, local products, and employee interaction.
- Private Score and notesKeep your own store opinions, favorites, and hunting context personal.
- Community and retailer signalsSee reported sightings alongside fresh updates that verified stores publish directly. Expired stock is shown as unknown, not current.
New: Hunt Planner
Turn your criteria into a route.
Choose the kind of stops you want, then let Stave build an ordered hunt you can take with you.
Choose your filtersSet a stop count, Stave or Private Score threshold, open-now preference, distance, and new-stores-only filter.
Order it your wayChoose Fastest Route or Best Stores First, then optionally return to your starting point.
Take the route with youOpen the full route in Apple Maps or continue the ordered stops in Google Maps. Mark stops visited, skipped, or reorder them as your hunt changes.
Know the bottle before you buy
One shelf price. Three useful points of context.
Search the catalog or scan a verified barcode to see the numbers that help in the moment—without pretending every price tells the same story.
MSRPThe baseline retail price.
Secondary EstimateRecent auction-derived market context.
Fair Hunt PriceA practical in-store target range.
Pricing is informational and can change with market activity and availability.
Your collection, organized your way
A cellar that remembers the details.
Track the bottles you own without duplicate clutter, then make the collection genuinely useful after it comes home.
- One tile per bottleKeep quantities together while preserving purchase details, condition, storage, notes, ratings, and favorites.
- Collection insightsSee value context, cost basis, rarity breakdown, distillery diversity, and your most valuable bottles.
- Your next pourRank favorites or use Staves Pick to spin from your cellar, favorites, wishlist, or a price-friendly pool.
Add bottles on your terms
A clear path from bottle to cellar.
Use the quickest method for the moment, then review the details before saving.
- Camera-assisted entryFront and back label photos can pre-populate details for review and correction.
- Verified barcode matchWhen a barcode is known, jump directly to the right catalog bottle.
- Catalog search or manual entryAdd what you know now and keep personal collection details under your control.
Bring more context to a trade
Compare two bottles with a clearer lens.
Trade Analyzer compares current market context and rarity weighting, then explains the relative value gap in plain language.
Trade Analyzer is decision support—not financial advice or a guarantee of trade value.
Keep the timing in one place
Follow drops without losing the thread.
Track known lotteries, allocated releases, and drop windows. Follow verified-store announcements, set reminders, keep entry status separate, and organize the events worth checking.
Stave does not sell alcohol, guarantee availability, or complete trades. It provides tools and practical context for bourbon collectors.
More ways to discover
Follow the signals that matter to your next bottle.
New discovery tools keep their source and limits clear, so an approval, recommendation, or store update never becomes a promise of availability.
Coming Soon
Browse official Bourbon and Rye TTB label approvals by distillery, and opt in to alerts for future approvals you choose to watch.
A label approval is not a release date or an availability promise.
Stave’s Recommendations
Set a bottle count, budget, and Bourbon or Rye preference to explore qualified catalog baskets with concise source attribution when available.
Recommendations use MSRP context, not local stock, tax, shipping, or availability.
Community
Follow collectors, share reactions and comments, join groups, and use Activity to keep up with the conversations that involve you.
Public contributions follow Stave’s Community Guidelines and can be reported or moderated.
Verified store updates
See retailer-published inventory, deliveries, lotteries, and announcements alongside community availability reports.
Freshness is visible; an expired inventory update is shown as unknown.
Hunt smarter. Discover more.
Spend less time guessing. Make better hunts.
Stave is a modern bourbon companion for before the store, at the shelf, and back in your cellar.
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