The Deeper Room
Everything in the Lodge, plus the board.
The Lodge is free and it stays free. It covers the shelves — what surfaced near you, and when. The Inner Circle adds the thing a shelf cannot give you, which is the drawings: every allocated-bottle lottery the Hound tracks, with the rules for who may enter and the link that lets you enter it. It also holds the pen on the Pour Wall — anyone may read it, and members write it. Seven dollars a month or fifty-nine a year, renewing until you stop it, and you can stop it yourself in a few clicks.
Free against paid
What the seven dollars buys.
The Hound would rather show this plainly than dress it up. Most of the list is free, and it is staying free.
Lodge
Free
Circle
$7
Four of those six rows cost nothing and always have. A membership that quietly resold them would not survive the first reader who checked, so the Inner Circle is sold on the last two rows alone — the board, and the pen on the wall. If neither is worth seven dollars to you, stay in the Lodge and keep everything above them — the Hound would rather have you reading than paying.
The Last Row
The Lottery Board.
No. 01
15 programs, 12 states, one page
Allocated bottles in control states are handed out by drawing, and the drawings are scattered across state boards, county boards, and portals that do not talk to each other. The board pulls them into one list and marks which are open now and which sit between rounds.
No. 02
Who may enter, spelled out
This is the line that costs people the bottle. Idaho takes Idaho residents and active-duty military stationed there, and wants an ID matching the entry name at pickup. Alabama wants the name and address to match an Alabama ID exactly. Wake County excludes the areas running their own boards, and Maryland runs two separate tracks. New Hampshire asks for no residency at all, only an outlet named for pickup. Every program on the board carries its own rule, and once you are signed in the board sorts them against the state you gave at signup.
No. 03
The official link, and the date it was checked
Entry always goes through the authority's own page, never through a form of the Hound's. Each line carries the source and the date it was last read against that source, so a stale rule is visible as a stale rule rather than passed off as current.
No. 04
What has come through them
Past rounds on programs the board tracks have offered Pappy Van Winkle, the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection, Weller, Old Forester Birthday Bourbon, Blanton's, and Michter's 20 Year. What any future round holds is the board's to report when the authority posts it, and nobody's to promise beforehand.
A drawing entered is not a bottle won, and the Hound will not pretend otherwise. What the board removes is the quieter way these bottles get lost, which is never learning the drawing was open at all.
A redacted line
What a board entry looks like.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania PLCB (Fine Wine & Good Spirits)
The lottery rotates allocated bourbon; recent draws included Blanton's Straight From the Barrel and Blanton's Gold.
Who can enter: PA residents & licensees, 21+, with a verifiable PA billing address and an FW&GS store.
Entry windows rotate. Confirm the current window at the official entry link.
Verified 2026-07-09 · source withheld in this preview
Only the entry link and the source are withheld here. Every other word on this card is what a member reads, pulled from the live board as this page was built.
Before you pay
Whether the board is any use to you.
Most of these drawings are residency-gated, and that is the first thing worth knowing. Pennsylvania wants a verifiable Pennsylvania billing address. Ohio wants a valid Ohio ID. Alabama wants the name and the address to match an Alabama-issued ID exactly. If you live somewhere with no program of its own and you do not travel, a good share of the board is reading rather than an entry you can actually file.
There is an exception, and it is the reason the board is worth keeping even from a state with no program of its own. The New Hampshire drawing publishes no residency requirement at all — twenty-one and over, a verifiable mailing address, and an outlet named for pickup. Winning still means collecting in person inside a deadline, so it is a drawing you enter knowing there may be a drive at the end of it. The board flags it for exactly that reason.
Beyond that one, the board earns its seven dollars for the reader who lives in one of these states, who keeps a second address in one, or who is willing to plan a pickup around a round worth planning around. Several programs require the winner to collect in person inside a deadline, and the board carries those deadlines because they decide whether an entry is worth filing at all.
If none of that describes you, stay in the Lodge. It is free, it covers the shelves you can reach, and the Hound would rather keep a reader than collect seven dollars from someone the board cannot serve.
Plain answers
The questions worth asking first.
Is a membership a chance at a bottle?
No. The board is information about drawings that state and county authorities run themselves. Entry happens on their page, under their rules, and the Hound has no hand in any outcome and no stock to sell you.
Does the Hound take money from distilleries or shops?
There are no paid placements, no sponsored sections, and no affiliate links inside tasting write-ups. Membership is the only thing anyone pays for here, which is the point of charging for it. The disclosures spell out the rest.
What happens when I cancel?
Manage or cancel your membership yourself, at any hour, in a few clicks. One email to intel@bourbonfoxhound.com does the same thing and is handled the day it is read. Either way the charges stop, and any charge is refunded in full on request within thirty days of it. You drop back to the Lodge with every free thing intact, and nothing about the shadow invites or the dispatch changes.
What if a rule on the board is wrong?
Write to intel@bourbonfoxhound.com and it gets checked against the authority's own page. A correction moves the entry and advances its verified date. The Hound would rather be corrected by a member than quietly wrong in front of one.
Founding Members
Already in.
Everyone who signed up before the doors opened is grandfathered into the Inner Circle. No charge, ever. Sign in with the same email — the door already knows the name.
Seven a month · fifty-nine a year
Step into the deeper room.
Checkout runs through Stripe, so card details never touch this site. Seven dollars renews monthly and fifty-nine renews annually until you stop it, you can stop it yourself in a few clicks, and any charge is refunded in full on request within thirty days. The terms say it at length.
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