Lost Spirits

Lost Spirits is a working distillery with an amusement park-like tour founded by Bryan Davis and Joanne Haruta.[1] The distillery was initially located in Salinas, California, where it opened in 2010.[2] In 2016, the distillery was moved to downtown Los Angeles, California[3] and later moved to Las Vegas, Nevada.[1] The experience of visiting Lost Spirits has been described as "cult hit among spirits geeks".[4] The distillery attracted attention after Davis developed technology to create mature whisky and rum within days.[5][1]

Lost Spirits
LocationLas Vegas, Nevada, USA
Founded2010
Key peopleBryan Davis
Joanne Haruta
Cases/yr15,000 - 25,000
Websitewww.lostspirits.net

Technology

In 2015 the company attracted global media attention when Davis announced that he had invented a new means of aging spirits. Davis's process was shown, using modern analytical chemistry, to replicate the chemical reactions which take place as spirits age in barrels.[6][1] The process aims to replicate the aging process in a laboratory while producing the same chemical signature and taste.[5]

Whisky made using Davis' process performed favorably in blind tastings hosted by Whisky Advocate,[7] and won a Liquid Gold award in Jim Murray's Whisky Bible (widely considered the world's most influential whisky critic).[8][9]

Las Vegas Distillery

In 2021, Davis and Haruta moved the distillery to Las Vegas.[1] The new location included a tour described as "equated to an adult Disneyland."[10][11]

References
  1. Null, Christopher. "This Guy Says He Can Make 20-Year-Old Rum in 6 Days". Wired. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
  2. "Lost Spirits Distillery".
  3. Tuttle, Brittani (2020-05-14). "Lost Spirits Distillery to open new interactive experience in Las Vegas". Attractions Magazine. Retrieved 2021-10-08.
  4. Perrottet, Tony. "The Madcap Chemists of Booze". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  5. Goldfarb, Aaron (2015-09-26). "Great Rum Without Rotting Goat Heads". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2016-07-17.
  6. Cummings, Joanna. "Shaken and Stirred". The Analytical Scientist. Retrieved 2016-07-17.
  7. "9 Whiskies That Weren't Aged in a Traditional Barrel". Whisky Advocate. 2018-11-12. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  8. "Jim Murray: The Life Of A Whiskey Legend". 2019-07-16. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  9. Cooper, Harris (2021-06-29). American History Through a Whiskey Glass: How Distilled Spirits, Domestic Cuisine, and Popular Music Helped Shape a Nation. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-5107-6402-6.
  10. "Down the rum rabbit hole: The booze fantasia at Lost Spirits Distillery". Las Vegas Review-Journal. 2021-07-23. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  11. Bustamante, Lou (2018-12-06). "Disneyland Has Got Nothing on This". Alta Online. Retrieved 2021-10-08.

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