Bespoken Spirits
Creating World Class Spirits with Proprietary Innovative Wood Finishing.
$717,279
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TJ founded Cypress Semiconductor in 1982 and led it to a public offering 29 months later in May 1986. Rodgers served as Cypress’s CEO for 34 years until stepping down in 2016 as the longest-tenured CEO among all publically-traded companies.
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Bespoken Spirits uses science and precision to finish fine spirits, earning 217 industry awards as proof to making world class spirits.
When a ground-breaking technology arrives that changes the world we live in, that technology is labeled disruptive. When society switched from horse-drawn carriages to automobiles at the turn of the 20th century, the automobile was a disruptive technology. If that new technology is clearly superior than its predecessor, it will quickly become the standard modus operandi. This truth has shaped companies like Apple, Tesla, and Traeger.
Bespoken Spirits has invented a new disruptive technology in the $500 billion-dollar spirits industry. For centuries, whiskey has been produced by aging it in oak barrels for years at a time. Barrels were developed simply to store liquid, and they were charred with open flame to sterilize. The happy accident was the discovery that these rather poor storage containers imparted wonderful flavors and aromas to the spirit.
Bespoken's patented process extracts the same amazing flavors and aromas using 30X less wood than barrel aging. You read that right - 50 gallons of award winning whiskey are produced with only 3 pounds of wood. A traditional 53 gallon barrel weighs 100 pounds. And that mediocre container suffers from evaporation called the “angels’ share”, which is now recognized as a cause of the unsightly black mold growing in and around many whiskey distilleries. Bespoken avoids angels' share by finishing in stainless steel.
To produce so many award winning spirits (217 and counting), Bespoken Spirits uses a thorough and disciplined approached, led initially by their founder (Ph.D. in Materials Science) and now by their CEO (Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering). Over 5 years, literally thousands of trials were created in parallel to find those relatively few amazing results. Bespoken is all about rapid learning, something difficult in an industry where traditional techniques require years.
In addition, the oak trees needed to make the barrels to store the whiskey, estimated at one tree for every two barrels, add to the overall cost of the product. With the Bespoken process, millions of oak barrels will be saved, and so will the environment. In terms of ESG, Bespoken Spirits gets an A+ for saving all those oak trees, as well as eliminating the destruction of the environment and pollution created in the process.
When the natural compounds in the spirit react with the natural compounds in the wood, this is what creates your whiskey; for example, there are over 200 chemical compounds in whiskey alone. It has been proven that the compounds found in Bespoken’s whiskey match those in whiskeys aged for four years and longer.
Bespoken Spirits continues to amaze disbelievers that such a fine product can be produced so efficiently, and the proof is the company’s 217 medals awarded at spirits competitions in Europe, New York City, San Francisco and elsewhere. These are blind tasting awards which came against traditional whiskeys.
Bespoken Services Division can make private labels for any individual or organization: non-profits, retailers, restaurants, celebrities and athletes. With collaborative innovation, partners help Bespoken design the flavor and aroma profiles. Bespoken handles compliance, supply chain, production and distribution. Partners bring an emotional connection to an audience for a built-in customer base. The result is revenue for partners and Bespoken alike.
Now, for those potential investors and whiskey enthusiasts whose interest has been piqued by this fantastic story, consider one more thing — Bespoken Spirits has yet to go public and is still unknown by many. The company has generated revenue for the past 5 years, with the last 4 quarters each bringing record revenue.
Bespoken Spirits Chairman is entrepreneur and Silicon Valley legend, TJ Rodgers. TJ's companies have and will continue to change the world.
Bespoken Spirits has entered the major league of whiskey, something another major investor in Bespoken Spirits, Derek Jeter, knows very well — he is one of the all-time greatest baseball players in Major League Baseball hailing from the New York Yankees. As both TJ Rodgers and Derek Jeter understand, success is never given and must be earned through hard work. That is also something the management and employees of Bespoken Spirits understand well.