![]() Davis takes great delight in describing the "super cool" production process for Jamaican rum in Jamaica. We're escorted through a maze of vines, whistling cicadas and talking parrots to a showcase of Jamaican and Navy rums. One of the distillery's phantasmagorical 'rides'.īut this is just a small challenge for a distillery that ages whiskey in a week. Properly aged bottles routinely cost more than $1000 each Lost Spirits are able to sell them at the much friendlier price point of $US40. The result was 'aged' whiskey in under a week. Using modern analytical chemistry, Lost Spirits were able to replicate the chemical reactions which take place as spirits age in barrels. Like the mad scientist in HG Wells's 1896 tale, Davis spent seven years trying to "hack" the whiskey method. "You can't make rum in a dry arid climate, you need a hot humid jungle. It's The Island of Dr Moreau meets Pirates of the Caribbean for grown-ups. Then there's a sudden thunderstorm on this sunny LA day. A colonial-era verandah looks out to a strange tropical jungle, filled with chirping crickets, colourful, conversational birds and other bizarre creatures. What we've stepped through to, however, is another world. Despite this, it's just another inconspicuous building in downtown LA's arts district. We've stepped through a door with an old-fashioned brass door knocker shaped in the head of an indistinguishable creature. "Welcome to the jungle," Davis beckons to our group.
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