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2015
- Santeria Rum wins a Gold Medal -
Santeria Rum is awarded a gold medal in the premium aged spirits category, by the RumXP's at the Miami Rum Renaissance Festival.
- Best New Spirits of 2015 -
Santeria is named one of the best new spirits of 2015 by Serious Eats.
- Santeria -
Rum Reimagined
Lost Spirits designs Santeria Rum for client Distillery Rational Spirits, using classical Jamaican "dunder" rum techniques, but introduces new bacteria never used in rum before. Lost Spirits helps Rationals for manny months then returns to its workshop distillery in Monterey County.
- GEAR PATROL GP100 -
Lost Spirits is one of only 6 distilled spirits products named to the GP100 top 100 products of 2015.
Lost Spirits wins global prize for Innovation
Lost Spirits wins the Global Spirits Master Title from leading industry publication Drinks Business, for its work proving that it is possible to mature spirits in a lab setting.
NEW!!! WATCH EVENING SHOWS WITH PERFORMERS 7PM, 9PM OR EXPERIENCE DAY DRINKING WITH MAGICIANS! 2PM, 3PM
2022
Lost Spirits builds a circus troupe of performers, acrobats and magicians
July 2022
Lost Spirits Distillery reimagines the Las Vegas distillery as a free wander experience filled with some of the world's best performers and starts hosting cocktail parties and shows nightly with over 44 performers.
Cocktails and three new rums are introduced
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea a 16-course fine dining experience opens
March 2022
Under the healm of Lost Spirits Distillery and Chef Taylor Persh a new fine dining experience opens and rapidly sells out becoming one of the hardest restaurants to get into in Las Vegas.
Link here
2022
2021
2021
Lost Spirits Complete's it's buildout and Opens its new site in Las Vegas, NV
August 2021
The company launches its new rum distillery and hosts well over 40,000 guests. Men's Journal names it the Best Drinking Experience in Las Vegas.
EX Machina is perfected
August 2021
An angel feeding device is perfected to mimic the "angel's share" that is normally through evaporation in a barrel. The device is used to make Ex Machina. Patents are filed.
Additional portfolio patents are issued across the globe for various other technology around spirits aging and IP.
2020
Lost Spirits Starts its buildout in Las Vegas, NV
December 2020
Lost Spirits and 14 team members build the site to include artwork, restaurant space, and distillery permitting on a budget of less than $5 million.
Lost Spirits moves it's team to Las Vegas, NV
May 2020
Lost Spirits' takes it's 14 team members to Las Vegas, NV to build out two buildings into a fully licensed distillery and operational tour site at AREA15 and conceptualizes all building plans in isolation during the pandemic.
A World-wide pandemic hits
March 2020
The company lays of 70 people and closes its doors in Los Angeles due to the uncertainty of COVID-19.
Fish or Flesh
Fine-dining experience opens
January 2020
Lost Spirits opens Fish or Flesh fine-dining experience in Los Angeles, CA and gets rave reviews. Critics come to see the space and it is nothing like anyone has seen before.
2019
Lost Spirits Re-opens
July 2019
Lost Spirits manages to re-open the distillery with double the capacity of the old facility, a fleet of buses and a new restaurant space.
Lost Spirits shares top secret information about one of its relationships abroad
April 2019
Lost Spirits announces its partnership with philosophically progressive technologist and lover of futurism Roshini Jaiswal of the Jaiswal family of India. LINK
- World Whisky of the year -
March 2019
Internationally acclaimed critic,
Dominic Roscrow names Lost Spirits'
Crying of the Puma
Wizards of Whisky
World Whisky of the Year link
Smithsonian Magazine
Smithsonian Magazine puts out a huge spread about Lost Spirits Distillery in its publication. link
- rated 94 points -
in Jim murray's whisky bible
2018
Lost Spirits Abomination Sayers of the Law is rated 94 points in Jim Murray's whisky bible.
2018
Lost Spirits' Jamaica Rum wins - best of class -
2018
Jamaica Rum by Lost Spirits wins best of class in 2018 from the Spirits Business Magazine.
- Best in class -
International Rum Festival in Miami
Lost Spirits' Navy 61 Rum is named one of the Best in Class by the Rum XP judging pannel.
Lost Spirits Distillery's experience
takes home first place in nearly every industry award.
Tied for Best Distillery Experience in the World
Link
America's top craft experience
Link
World's best distillery tour
Link
2017
LOST SPIRITS OPENS IN LA.
Lost Spirits LA opens and wows guests with a speakeasy style facility housing a boat ride and Disneyland-esque space right out of a movie.
- hello world -
meet TESSA
The Lab team programs an autonomous computer system to run the distillery freeing up time to work on new creations in the lab. Affectionately called TESSA, she regularly signs her name on bottles in her new role as master distiller. She even gives distillery tours.
2015
- Santeria Rum wins a Gold Medal -
Santeria Rum is awarded a gold medal in the premium aged spirits category, by the RumXP's at the Miami Rum Renaissance Festival.
- Best New Spirits of 2015 -
Santeria is named one of the best new spirits of 2015 by Serious Eats.
- Santeria -
Rum Reimagined
Lost Spirits designs Santeria Rum for client Distillery Rational Spirits, using classical Jamaican "dunder" rum techniques, but introduces new bacteria never used in rum before. Lost Spirits helps Rationals for manny months then returns to its workshop distillery in Monterey County.
- GEAR PATROL GP100 -
Lost Spirits is one of only 6 distilled spirits products named to the GP100 top 100 products of 2015.
Lost Spirits wins global prize for Innovation
Lost Spirits wins the Global Spirits Master Title from leading industry publication Drinks Business, for its work proving that it is possible to mature spirits in a lab setting.
2020
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2014
- The Unveiling -
Lost Spirits demonstrates to the world that the technical breakthrough it had carried out in 2014 could be done at scale production volumes. The company takes on its first outside partners to help bring the technology to customers, Rational Spirits with the first rum license, and Rattleback Rye with the first whiskey license. Both of whom will soon begin planning The Lab.
- Silicon Valley -
After the aging breakthrough, the team closed the Lost Spirits Distillery, in Monterey, California and moved to a stealth location in the hills above Silicon Valley. In the seclusion of the hill top engineering facility the team worked day and night to build the machine.
- The Announcement -
Lost Spirits announces that the critically acclaimed Colonial Inspired Rum was in fact only 6 days old and was the product of a technological breakthrough. The company also published the forensic chemistry showing that the rum was chemically 15-20 years old.
- Critical Acclaim -
The Lost Spirits Colonial Inspired Rum enjoys critical success, winning top ratings. It is often compared to some of the worlds top rums. Only 25 cases were made. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- The "Cuban" Inspired 151 -
Fully sippable at 151 proof and dangerous in drinks, This rum stood as a great example of what high tech production methods can lead to and it still stands as the most back ordered spirit ever produced by Lost Spirits.
- The "Polynesian" -
An early attempt at what would soon become the aging miracle, the Polynesian inspired rum was beautifully unbalanced. It overproduced oak aging derived fruity esters by a factor of 2:1 but with the complexity of fine spirits. The unnaturally fruity rum become known for its ability to punch up the complex fruit flavors in craft tiki cocktails - gloriously.
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- best of class -
The International Rum XP's award the Navy Rum with two Gold medals in two categories, including the coveted best in class medal.
- The Navy 68 wins a Gold medal -
Lost Spirits Navy 68 takes home a gold medal from the Los Angeles Craft Spirits Competition.
- Splice The Main Brace -
The 68% "Navy rum" was designed to taste like what we imagined the rum of the Pirates of the Caribbean series would taste like. The fermentation involved carefully chosen bacteria strains to develop richer flavors, and the aging was tuned to produce more phenolic smoky aromas than nature would allow .
2016
- Later 2016 -
Out of love and respect for the customers and fans, Lost Spirits begins a new site build at an undisclosed location. The experiential location will boast advanced technology and cutting edge distilling techniques.
Designed with the booze geek in mind.
- Late 2016 -
Lost Spirits conducts additional product research using its in-house tools and rapidly shifts directions in favor of returning to its roots and collects all rights to its licenses back.
- Charleston Move -
the alliance
Rational Spirits invites the Lost Spirits team to move from Silicon Valley to Charleston and join forces to create The Lab. An opportunity too cool to pass up.
- adding whiskey to the mix -
Research and Development partner, Rattleback Rye, joins forces with Lost Spirits and Rational Spirits to jointly fund The Lab. Work on the whiskey project intensifies.
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2012
2013
Lost Spirits Opens for Tours
October 2013
After 2 years of requests the distillery finally opened for tours. The tour experiance was covered by the Los Angeles Times, Spirit Magazine, GQ, and numerous others spurring tickets to book out months in advance.
Earlier in 2013
Lost Spirits launches Leviathan III Single Malt
2013
Leviathan III made with sea brine is an interesting comparison between the other two Leviathans. Each including barley that has been peated to 110 ppm. When yeast are stressed they become more inclined to produce acids and esters. These become precusers and building blocks for later.
- Umami Single Malt -
2013
Umami is fermented using sea brine from the Pacific Ocean, creating a savory quality and complexity unlike that of any other single malt.
Lost Spirits launches Seascape II
Single Malt
2013
Seascape II is a revision of our earlier Seascape malt experimentally fermented using sea brine. During our studies we found that yeast cells thicken in sea brine fermentations. They also reduce their reproduction levels and live much longer or in some cases become seemingly "immortal".
Lost Spirits launches Bohemian Bonfire
single malt
2013
Bohemian Bonfire is a very bright expression. This product is an example of how drastially a product can change its character depending on when the distillation custs are taken. Bohemian Bonfire has tighter cuts to end at a higher proof.
Calafia Launches
October 2012
Calafia explores peat harvested from an island near the Sacramento Delta. It, along with Ouroboros are the the only malts smoked using regional peat from California. It creates a totally different experience from Islay peat. This release went entirely to Germany.
FIRE DANCER IS RELEASED
2012
One barrel is released to Germany which is 100% of the supply. Made using peat smoke barley, fermented and distilled in-house.
2010
Lost Spirits Distillery the company is formed
July 2010
Bryan Davis and Joanne Haruta pretend they are retired after returning from Europe on a giant adventure, founding an absinthe company in their 20's and settle on a farm in the middle of nowhere to live off the land to dedicate their lives to the art of booze making.
They form Lost Spirits Distillery in the middle of the artichoke fields
in a small town just 7 miles from the Pacific Coast in Monterey County, CA. and carry out their dream.
2012
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