{"id":218834,"date":"2025-09-11T09:16:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/?p=218834"},"modified":"2025-10-13T10:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:49:17","slug":"derek-truckss-pocket-bourbon-and-his-never-ending-search-for-dusties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/articles\/derek-truckss-pocket-bourbon-and-his-never-ending-search-for-dusties","title":{"rendered":"Derek Trucks\u2019s \u201cPocket\u201d Bourbon and His Never-Ending Search for Dusties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The single coolest moment of writing a <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/pappyland-a-story-of-family-fine-bourbon-and-the-things-that-last-wright-thompson\/a7028d38efdfa975?ean=9780735221277&amp;next=t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">book on Pappy Van Winkle<\/a> happened while sitting backstage at a Dead &amp; Company concert on a beach in Mexico. (Yeah, yeah, I know it\u2019s humble brag obnoxious, but now I can write off that trip, and the story actually is relevant to the topic at hand, I swear.) Derek Trucks, sitting in with Mickey Hart, came out of his dressing room and told me how much he loved the book, and as we sat around talking, I realized that the world\u2019s best guitar player was actually a phenomenally educated bourbon geek.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<!-- Promo shortcode start --><div id=\"nlf-1c\" class=\"gg-promo topic-distilled big\"><div class=\"grid\"><div class=\"title\">Get Our Bourbon Newsletter!<\/div><div class=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/promos\/bourbon-newsletter-big.jpg\" alt=\"glass of bourbon with ice\"><\/div><div class=\"right\"><form id=\"nlf-1\" method=\"post\" class=\"form\" action=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/newsletters\/\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"gg_form_submit\" value=\"nlf-1\"><div class=\"dek\">Distilled is our newsletter about the South\u2019s favorite spirit.<\/div><div class=\"action two-items\"><div class=\"input-left\"><input type=\"text\" name=\"email\" class=\"email-input\" value=\"\" placeholder=\"you@example.com\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"group_id\" value=\"151240180\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"shortcode_form\" value=\"nlf-1\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"subscription_99416\" value=\"on\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"prev_page_id\" value=\"218834\"><\/div><div class=\"gform_footer\"><div style=\"display:none;\"><input type=\"text\" name=\"nl-nov-st\" id=\"nl-nov-st1\" value=\"\" autocomplete=\"off\" tabindex=\"-1\"><input type=\"text\" name=\"nl-nov-b\" value=\"\" autocomplete=\"off\" tabindex=\"-1\"><input type=\"text\" name=\"nl-nov-r\" id=\"nl-nov-r1\" value=\"2025-11-14\" autocomplete=\"off\" tabindex=\"-1\"><input type=\"text\" name=\"nl-nov-et\" id=\"nl-nov-et1\" value=\"\" autocomplete=\"off\" tabindex=\"-1\"><\/div><button data-sitekey=\"6Lc-hRkaAAAAAI84hbB81Jl48pGievR_C_UgHdnY\" data-callback=\"on_submit_nlf_1\" data-action=\"submit\" class=\"g-recaptcha button button-primary after-email\">Sign Up<\/button><\/div><\/div><div class=\"captcha-terms\"><p>This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google <a href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/terms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p><\/div><\/form><script>document.getElementById('nl-nov-st1').value=Date.now();document.getElementById('nl-nov-r1').value='';function on_submit_nlf_1(token) {document.getElementById('nl-nov-et1').value = Date.now();document.getElementById('nlf-1').submit();}<\/script><\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- Promo shortcode end -->\n\n\n\n<p>We knew some of the same people in Kentucky, like professional woodworker (and amateur Elvis impersonator) Ed James and Ed\u2019s father-in-law, Julian Van Winkle III. I think we talked for the first time then about how Derek was about to bring out his own bourbon line, <a href=\"https:\/\/asspocketwhiskey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ass Pocket Whiskey<\/a>, although my memory is a little, well, I was at a Dead show on a beach in Mexico where waitresses wandered the crowd with trays of free cold beers and free salty margaritas. I regret nothing. <em>Lash the mast!<\/em> Derek played perhaps the most magical music I\u2019d ever heard that night, in a band with four world-class drummers, the late-night set that drew revelers out of the shadows and out of the surf to pack the lawn in front of the stage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"733\" height=\"1100\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20240920-BSP06498-733x1100.jpg\" alt=\"Ass Pocket Whiskey in front of a stage\" class=\"wp-image-218844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20240920-BSP06498-733x1100.jpg 733w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20240920-BSP06498-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20240920-BSP06498-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20240920-BSP06498-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20240920-BSP06498.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\" \/><div class=\"wp-caption\"><div class=\"image-credit\">Photo: Bradley Strickland<\/div><div class=\"caption\">Ass Pocket Whiskey.<\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When Derek and I got home, we connected to talk about how I want to write a half deeply reported biography and half magical realism novel about the life and death of Col. Bruce Hampton, and of course, to talk some more about whiskey. He told me how much time he spends on off-days when touring the world with the <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/video\/back-porch-session-tedeschi-trucks-band\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tedeschi Trucks Band<\/a> rummaging around liquor stores looking for dusties. Once, he\u2019d come to celebrate B.B. King\u2019s famous Ebony Lounge in Mississippi, because B.B. played with Derek and believed him to be a member of the chosen tribe of true greats, and Derek ended up in some small-town Indianola liquor store just down from the juke joint. There he found an Old Fitzgerald, made in 1951 and bottled in 1963 by Pappy Van Winkle himself at the Stitzel-Weller Distillery. He bought it immediately and sent the bottle to Julian, figuring it should stay in the family. It\u2019s a little like B.B.\u2019s ghost had cosmically rewarded Derek for making this pilgrimage of respect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat was like finding a pack of \u201952 Topps,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a long time he\u2019s done Buffalo Trace barrel picks with the Van Winkle family, and his time around Julian has given him a strong understanding of how great bourbons are selected and curated. Trucks had for years turned down offers to put out a whiskey. He didn\u2019t want to just churn merch, not when he cares so deeply about the craft and history of the spirit. Then he got access to a small number of really special barrels. This became his first release of Ass Pocket Whiskey, which he selected with his brother David. People can only buy it in 200 milliliter bottles, so the (almost) half-pints fit perfectly in a boot or in the back pocket of a pair of Levi\u2019s (or more likely Blue Delta) jeans. Hence the name. It\u2019s designed to be opened not collected.<\/p><div id=\"div-gpt-ad-8032565\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad mobile inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3540458\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad tablet inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-5402988\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad desktop inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_3979-Enhanced-NR-1100x733.jpg\" alt=\"Ass Pocket Whiskey in a back pocket\" class=\"wp-image-218845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_3979-Enhanced-NR-1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_3979-Enhanced-NR-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_3979-Enhanced-NR-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_3979-Enhanced-NR-1600x1067.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><div class=\"wp-caption\"><div class=\"image-credit\">Photo: Bradley Strickland<\/div><div class=\"caption\">The pocket-sized bottles.<\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked what juice he\u2019d found for the first release. The label calls it ten years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He laughed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019m able to say,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ll just say it&#8217;s stuff if I saw, I\u2019d buy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That whiskey, sold at an affordable price, is already all gone, as is the second release, and the third (a dual release of a 9-year and a 15-year). APW just recently announced its <a href=\"https:\/\/asspocketwhiskey.com\/products\/ass-pocket-whiskey-presents-the-search-10yo-bourbon-whiskey-2-x-200ml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fourth release<\/a>, a two-pack of bottles of 10-year-old bourbon. Once that\u2019s gone, all serious bourbon geeks can do is sign up for the email list and wait for Trucks to find another batch of barrels. He\u2019s holding the line on the quality, so the next round remains just over the horizon as he travels the country with his road cases and amplifiers and his glass medicine bottle slides, always on the look for a little time machine whiskey, whether ten full barrels or just a lone bottle collecting dust on a forgotten shelf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p><div id=\"div-gpt-ad-9706682\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad mobile inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-5229576\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad tablet inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-9216158\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad desktop inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garden &amp; Gun<em>&nbsp;has an affiliate partnership with&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>bookshop.org<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;and may receive a portion of sales when a reader clicks to buy a book.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright Thompson, the author of \u201cPappyland,\u201d on how one of the South\u2019s musical greats indulges his bourbon love<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":218835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-09-11T13:16:36Z","apple_news_api_id":"6842d96a-f6a3-4e3e-b126-5ca80922ed1b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-09-11T16:55:06Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AaELZavajTj6xJlyoCSLtGw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1780,1781],"tags":[51,30352,29711,204,30280,508],"authors":[1985],"issue":[],"recipe-type":[],"class_list":["post-218834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-and-drink","category-music","tag-bourbon","tag-distilled","tag-food-drink","tag-music","tag-whats-new","tag-whiskey","authors-wright-thompson"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.3 (Yoast SEO v26.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Derek Trucks\u2019s \u201cPocket\u201d Bourbon and His Never-Ending Search for Dusties &#8211; 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