Dude Poole
Author/Podcaster
D.T. Poole is the author of the Bourbon Barons series, a multi-volume narrative history of American bourbon stripped of the mythology and told straight.
He started researching bourbon history in 2019, after a tour guide at Buffalo Trace made a passing comment about E.H. Taylor Jr. being something of a swindler when it came to selling his bourbon. He could not stop thinking about it on the drive home. What followed was years of reading, note-taking, and discovering that the real stories behind the men who built American bourbon were more interesting than the promotional versions — consistently, without exception.
His father used to tell him he should write a book. After his father passed away, he went through his notes and decided to try. He wrote the Bourbon Barons series in the background of a full life — working a regular job, owning and coaching at a fitness gym, and hosting the Bourbon Hunters Podcast — a few hundred words at a time, across more early mornings and late evenings than he can accurately account for.
He is a certified Executive Bourbon Steward and has been hosting the Bourbon Hunters Podcast since 2019
