For a few years now, BourbonGuy.com has been supported in two ways. One is by generous one-time gifts through Ko-Fi, Venmo, or PayPal. These are amazingly gratifying to receive because when I get them, I know that someone did it just because they want to support my writing.
But the other way that the site is supported is through my Etsy store: BourbonGuyGifts.com. I make a lot of fun bourbon-themed items. A lot of these, like stickers, came about because I felt the need to flex my creativity in a way that was unconstrained by clients. (I love to be creative. I just get burned out doing it to promote other people’s companies.) But others came about because I wanted something for my own home and realized that it was just as easy to have multiple produced at the same time.
So if you’d like to support the ongoing mission of BourbonGuy.com to share the love of bourbon and show that you can be frugal while doing it, keep reading and see if you find something that you can’t live without. This is only a selection of the items I’ve made for sale, but they are my favorites.
The first item that I want to show off is the thing that got me interested in making an online store in the first place. My wife needed a tasting journal in which to keep the copious notes that we make in preparation for each week’s publishing schedule. She decided that she wanted something that laid flat, but was more fun than the spiral bound school notebooks that she’d been using and tasked me with creating just such a thing. Enter the wood-bound BourbonGuy tasting journal. Initially these were entirely printed on my home laser printer. But these days, I have the wood covers pre-printed from by the wood supplier. It makes for a more consistent product. It has consistently been the biggest seller on the store and I still love it. It measures 8.5” x 5.5” and is available for $14.
I informally call this piece the Kentucky Skyline. I made this as test of my laser engraving machine and loved how it looks. The frame and bottles are birch plywood and the black background is glossy black acrylic. The front nameplate is customizable with up to 35 characters. The one hanging on my wall just says “Kentucky Bourbon” on it. It measures 11.8” x 5.9” and is available for $59
At Christmas, I designed a line of Bourbon-themed ornaments. It’s not Christmas now, but I am getting a ton of “Christmas in July” emails right now so what the heck. At this point there are three designs, each cut from birch plywood and hung from ribbon. They are all about 3 inches across and are available for $14.50 for the set of three.
For something a little more timely, I have a couple of Pride-themed items as well. Both are statements of support for the LGTBQ+ community. I have the sticker above for $5 (includes free-shipping) and the 9” heart shaped engraved wooden wall-hanging (below) for $44. Both feature the phrase: “I like my Bourbon straight but my friends can go either way.”
If you want something small and fun, get a bourbon-themed sticker pack. Each of these were digital “doodles” that I did because of a sale at the printer I use for stickers. All are about 3 inches across and you can either buy them individually for $5 each or get all four as a set for $10. Stickers come with free shipping.
I’ve also made a couple of posters. One is a list of the cocktails that I like to make on the regular, including one of my own creation. The other is of the original Bottled-in Bond Act of 1897. The cocktail poster is 20” x 30” and is available for $25 plus shipping, and the Bottled in bond poster is 24” x 36” and is available for $40 with free shipping.
Of course, that is just a handful of the items I’ve made that I sell to help support the site. I’ve also got keychains, coasters, pins, and a sticker of a Penis-shaped super hero that my 30-year-old daughter drew on my whiteboard one day (I made the stickers for her, and she gets the money from those). Of course, there is one last thing to promote. This isn’t explicitly bourbon-themed, but I stick a label version on every package I send out because I really do hope that you all have an amazing day!
Did you enjoy this post? If you want to support the work going on here at BourbonGuy.com, please consider a one-time donation at ko-fi.com/bourbonguy or paypal.me/BourbonGuy. Or you could buy some merch (tasting journals, stickers, pins, posters, and more) at BourbonGuyGifts.com.