Lost Spirits

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Lost Spirits
LocationLas Vegas, Nevada, USA
Founded2010
Key people Bryan Davis
Joanne Haruta
Cases/yr15,000 - 25,000
Website www.lostspirits.net

Lost Spirits was a working distillery and immersive circus show located in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was founded by Bryan Davis and Joanne Haruta. [1] [2]

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The distillery was initially located in Salinas, California, where it opened in 2010. [3]

Lost Spirits closed at the end of April 2024. [4] [5] At the time of the closing Lost Spirits had hosted over 250,000 guests in it's Las Vegas location [6] and was generating an estimated $12.9 Million in Annual Revenue [7] .

Technology

In 2015, the distillery attracted attention after Davis developed technology to create mature whisky and rum within days. [8] [1]

Davis's process was shown, using modern analytical chemistry, to replicate the chemical reactions that take place as spirits age in barrels. [9] [1] The process aims to replicate the aging process in a laboratory while producing the same chemical signature and taste. [8]

Whisky made using Davis' process performed favorably in blind tastings hosted by Whisky Advocate, [10] and won a Liquid Gold award in Jim Murray's Whisky Bible (widely considered the world's most influential whisky critic). [11] [12]

In 2016, the distillery was moved to downtown Los Angeles, California. [13]

Circus

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." [14] [15] The Las Vegas version featured a large cast of live actors, acrobats, contortionists and singers. [16] The experience of visiting Lost Spirits has been described as "cult hit among spirits geeks". [17]

In 2023 Lost Spirits was listed on the annual Thrillist list of the best live shows & musicals in Las Vegas. [18]

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