Excitement is mounting around the distillery as we begin preparing the American chestnut samples for the test aging reactor.  In a matter of a few short days we will be the first people alive to taste an American chestnut rye.

But first, lets summarize the last Journal...

After digging through stacks of century old documents, it is now clear that it is only a matter of time before someone recreates a chestnut matured whiskey or rum.  If we want to make sure we are the first to do it, we need to find a source of American chestnut wood an...

At Lost Spirits, we made history in late 2014 by proving, for the first time, that it was possible using photocatalytic degradation of oak polymers, and forced esterification, to replicate the chemical signature of aged spirits in a lab.  More about that at the technol...