The title compound, C(12)H(16)O(2), is approximately planar (r.m.s. deviation = 0.030 Å), apart from two methyl groups of the tert-butyl unit [deviations of the C atoms = 1.140 (2) and -1.367 (1) Å]. In the crystal, inter-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules into hexa-meric rings with R(6) (6)(48) graph-set motifs.