What is Bourbonado Community?

Bourbonado Community is a free Skool group for bourbon enthusiasts, founded as part of Barrel & Stone, a store for bourbon accessories. The group was created in May 2025, and Barrel & Stone presents it as a place for flavor, stories and connection without snobbery.

How much does Bourbonado Community cost?

Bourbonado Community is free to join on Skool; its listing shows no charge, read 30 Oct 2026.

How many members does Bourbonado Community have?

Bourbonado Community lists 5,383 members, read 30 Oct 2026.

How has Bourbonado Community's membership changed?

From 4,981 members on 5 Sept 2026, our first reading, to 5,383 on 30 Oct 2026: up 402, or 8%.

How does Bourbonado Community compare with other content and audience building communities?

Bourbonado Community is free to join, where the median priced content and audience building listing charges $27 a month. The niche median is 540 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.

What do you get inside Bourbonado Community?

Bourbonado Community publishes 54 course modules, 6 courses, 42,874 posts, 17 admins. Communities with the most course content.

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Bourbonado Community review

Bourbonado Community publishes 54 course modules on Skool. It is free to join.

A review on the numbers, not an opinion: nobody here has joined Bourbonado Community, and nothing below is a verdict.

Bourbonado Community is a free Skool group for bourbon enthusiasts, founded as part of Barrel & Stone, a store for bourbon accessories.^[1]^[2] The group was created in May 2025, and Barrel & Stone presents it as a place for flavor, stories and connection without snobbery.^[1]^[2]

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Members: 5,383
Published price: Free to join; no paid tier published here
Members, last 28 days: +223; 2 Oct 2026 to 30 Oct 2026
Rank by members: #350; of 6,077 sellers listed here
Size rank in niche: #108; of 1,230 sellers listed in content and audience building, by published members
Check the Course score: 97; A+, exceptional
Niche: Content and audience building; 1,308 listed here
Created: 7 May 2025; Skool publishes this date
Readings: 10; since 5 Sept 2026

About Bourbonado Community

Members get monthly live sessions with master distillers and bourbon creators, and the group names master distiller Jeff Arnett and YouTube creator Randy Sullivan among its interview guests.^[1] It also offers free Whiskey University courses and member-only monthly giveaways.^[1] Barrel & Stone's site adds virtual and in-person meetups, Zoom tastings, reviews and member votes on barrel picks.^[2] The group says it removes toxic members quickly, and joining requires answering three bourbon questions.^[1]

Barrel & Stone also sells Bourbonado merchandise for members, including hoodies, flasks, hats, coasters, flags and quarter-zip pullovers.^[2]

Sources

Skool listing: skool.com/bourbonado, as collected 27 Sept 2026
Official website: barrel-and-stone.com, retrieved 28 Sept 2026

Compiled by Check the Course from the sources listed, to the best of our ability.

What the listing describes

NicheContent and audience buildingFormatCommunityIncludesLive sessions

Read from the listing’s own words: what is offered, never how well.

What is inside

Course modules

Courses

Posts, all time

42,874

People running it

Counts published by Bourbonado Community on its own page, read on 27 Sept 2026: how much is included, never how good it is. Listed as run by charlie-waldner-8250.

How we knowSourced & dated

Observed on 30 Oct 2026 from Skool source page archived copy 90bce92a911e.

Observable monthly ceiling

monthly price

5,383

published members

theoretical ceiling per month

This community is published as free, so the figure is zero. Its members are an audience, not customers. Nothing here estimates what that audience might be worth, and no price is applied to it anywhere on this site.

Against the content and audience building niche

Percentile among the other 1,307 content and audience building listings here, each seller counted once for size.

Size91st

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Check the Course Score

97A+Exceptional

Ahead of 97% of the 13,577 Skool communities we track, including ones without a page here, on the measures below, each read from a figure Bourbonado Community published itself.

Size 53% of the scoreahead of 96%
Growth 27% of the scoreahead of 66%
Track record 20% of the scoreahead of 61%

An algorithmic position among tracked listings: not an endorsement, a guarantee or advice. How the score works.

Net member count up 8% between our first reading, on 5 Sept 2026, and our latest, on 30 Oct 2026.

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Evidence and signals

Listed on 5,383 members.

Evidence: measured.

First recorded: 5 September 2026our first reading, not its launch
Elsewhere: Website

Tracked over time

Member change

+38+0.7%over 4 days+223+4.3%over 28 days

Price change

Unchanged at all 9 readings with a price

10 observations over 55 days.

Member count

Observation log

Observation log
Observed	Members	Change	Price	Ceiling / month
30 Oct 2026	5,383	+38	Free to join	Not calculated
26 Oct 2026	5,345	+33	Free to join	Not calculated
22 Oct 2026	5,312	+41	Free to join	Not calculated
18 Oct 2026	5,271	+35	Free to join	Not calculated
14 Oct 2026	5,236	+31	Free to join	Not calculated
10 Oct 2026	5,205	+16	Free to join	Not calculated
6 Oct 2026	5,189	+29	Free to join	Not calculated
2 Oct 2026	5,160	+19	Free to join	Not calculated
27 Sept 2026	5,141	+160	Not recorded	Not calculated
5 Sept 2026	4,981		Free to join	Not calculated
Average per week, last 28 days2 Oct 2026 to 30 Oct 2026		+56
Average per week, since first reading5 Sept 2026 to 30 Oct 2026		+51

Milestones observed

Milestones observed
Members	Crossing	Between readings
5,000	Passed	5 Sept 2026 and 27 Sept 2026

Course content readings

Course content readings
Observed	Posts	Modules	Courses
27 Sept 2026	42,874+3,030	54	6
6 Sept 2026	39,844	54	6
Added per week6 Sept 2026 to 27 Sept 2026	+981	0	0

Common questions about Bourbonado Community

What is Bourbonado Community?: Bourbonado Community is a free Skool group for bourbon enthusiasts, founded as part of Barrel & Stone, a store for bourbon accessories. The group was created in May 2025, and Barrel & Stone presents it as a place for flavor, stories and connection without snobbery.
How much does Bourbonado Community cost?: Bourbonado Community is free to join on Skool; its listing shows no charge, read 30 Oct 2026.
How many members does Bourbonado Community have?: Bourbonado Community lists 5,383 members, read 30 Oct 2026.
How has Bourbonado Community's membership changed?: From 4,981 members on 5 Sept 2026, our first reading, to 5,383 on 30 Oct 2026: up 402, or 8%.
How does Bourbonado Community compare with other content and audience building communities?: Bourbonado Community is free to join, where the median priced content and audience building listing charges $27 a month. The niche median is 540 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.
What do you get inside Bourbonado Community?: Bourbonado Community publishes 54 course modules, 6 courses, 42,874 posts, 17 admins. Communities with the most course content.