~ A Speakeasy ~
The password, please.
Don't know the word? Slip the doorman a note.
The doorman wants to know. Are you of legal drinking age in your country?
A brand, a novel, an EP, and a line of whiskey. Every one of them built from the same family, and every one of them telling a different kind of lie.
Every lie a family tells has a different color. Ours come in five. Arriving on shelves in twenty-thirty.
For the silences that keep the peace. Bright, honest on the nose, warm on the finish.
The one you tell your mother. Soft vanilla, honeyed wheat, a forgiving finish.
The lie we tell to protect them. Cherry, charred oak, tobacco, and a long, considered finish.
The lie told under oath. Smoke, dried plum, black walnut. Patient. Weighted.
The ones passed down. Fourteen years. Oak, leather, black tea, and one single barrel at a time.
Six cocktails from the back of the book. Some of them honest, some of them not. The missing ingredients are blacked out, as they were in the original ledger. Hover, or tap them, to see what Cora wrote down.
House signature · a Reed House original
Slap one sprig of rosemary in the palm. Shake hard with ice and the rest. Double strain over one large cube. Lay the second sprig across the glass. Drink slow. Speak soft.
For two glasses · never drink alone
Dry shake sixty seconds. Add ice. Shake hard until the tin frosts. Strain into two coupes. Three drops of bitters on the foam, one glass at a time. Tell each other the truth this time.
Nineteen twenty-one · a classic
The honey syrup is the whole point. Warm honey and water until it pours like silk. Shake the lot over ice until very cold. Fine strain into a coupe. Express a lemon peel and drop it in.
Dark · bitter · slow to confess
Stir, do not shake. Thirty turns, slow, over good ice. Strain into a chilled rocks glass with one large cube. Express the orange peel over the top and lay it in. This one has things to tell you.
Nineteen twenty-two · a summer thing
Muddle mint and lemon wheels in a shaker. Add everything else and ice. Shake hard. Double strain over crushed ice in a rocks glass. Garnish with a mint bouquet, slapped to wake it up.
The one that started it all
Build in the glass. Stir thirty seconds with one large cube. Flame the orange peel over the surface and drop it in. The simplest drink in the house. The hardest to do right.
Looking for something less haunted? Browse the full Recipe Book. Nine house cocktails, none of them redacted.
Before the bourbon there was a book. Before the book there was a family that kept its secrets in a ledger, a folder, and a barrel.
a novel
Mara Reed has spent ten years building a company she is about to lose. On a Tuesday in Nashville, her attorney hands her a folder. Inside: a deed, a second name, and the outline of a family she was never told about. What she does about it is the question the novel asks for four hundred pages.
Set on Newman's Ridge, Tennessee, drawn from the Sizemore and Reed family lines and a century of oral record, Noble Lies is the first book in the Family Secrets trilogy. One hundred and two thousand words. Eleven songs on the soundtrack, written and performed by K.T. Reed. One sealed barrel.
Reserve a copy Hear the SoundtrackMara Reed inherits more than a distillery.
Josephine's son, Billy, goes to Oklahoma's death row for a murder he may or may not have stopped.
Every Reed, accounted for. Every lie, finally told.
Family Secrets · A Legacy · A Bottle of Truth
Half Truth. Little White Lies. Noble Lies. Blue Lies. Lies That Bind. Five bottles. Five shades. Every expression tied to a Reed, to a chapter, to a specific kind of lie a family learns to tell.
Every Lie Has a Color
Meet the BottlesEleven songs to go with the book. Wind the crank, drop the needle, and let the house tell it the way it wants to be told.
eleven songs for Book One
Until the first barrels come off the rick in twenty-thirty, there is the rest of it. Things for the whiskey drinker. Things for the one who waits.
A note on the goods. · The novel and the soundtrack are coming with the book launch in twenty-twenty-six. The gift line is being built now and will open in advance of the first bottle release in twenty-thirty.
If a particular item interests you, leave word at knock@bourbonstateofmind.net and we'll put your name in the book. First in is first out.
Hardcover first edition with hand-numbered bookplate for the first thousand.
Releasing Spring 2026 Reserve a CopyEleven tracks on vinyl and download card. Written and performed by K.T. Reed.
Releasing with the novel ReserveThree hundred recipes from Cora's hand. Three editions: paperback, hardcover, and a leather edition limited to one hundred.
Reservations Open See the BookHeavy-bottomed tumbler, etched with the Reed House crest. Sold in pairs.
Pre-Launch · 2026 ReserveQuarterly subscription: a chapter excerpt, an unreleased song, a cocktail recipe, one small object.
Opens Fall 2026 Hold my placeShaker, jigger, bar spoon, and the Family Recipe booklet. The full six cocktails, unredacted.
Pre-Launch · 2026 ReserveNine soapstone cubes in a felt-lined wooden case, branded.
Pre-Launch · 2026 ReserveThis is only the sample case. The full Gift Shop has the box sets, the subscription drops, the merch, and the digital goods.
One door. Every letter comes through it.
Questions, press, orders, partnerships, ghost stories. Every letter comes through this door.
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