Howie’s Spiked Alc-A-Chino

WE TAKE WHAT CONSUMERS LOVE...AND SPIKE IT!

Last Funded May 2025

$64,850

raised from 34 investors

Highlights

$1M+ Revenue

Earned over the last 12 months

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Not a start up! $2.4M in spiked coffee revenue since inception and over $4.3M raised by our team.
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Poised for significant growth: revenue estimates are on track to exceed full year 2024 by May 2025.
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Coffee Shop Inspired brand vision is unique and taking hold in Ready-to-Drink Alcoholic Beverages.
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Distributed in 22 states with top-tier distribution companies.

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Pitch


A Coffee Shop Inspired Buzz!

We Found Innovation Hiding in Plain Sight:

  • The major coffee houses have already blazed a proven trail of consumer preferences.
  • Alc-A-Chino Is Inspired by those successful coffee shop product trends.
  • We are defining a category through a familiar, comforting ritual. Take what consumers love and spike it!


Our Objective: To be a Category-Defining Brand

We’ve focused on three key elements for our Award-Winning product:

  • Premium Flavor: Smooth, bold coffee shop favorites that hit just right.
  • Appealing Packaging: Designs that pop off the shelf like a fresh chalkboard menu.
  • Premium Ingredients: Thoughtfully sourced ingredients and natural flavors. No artificial colors, flavors or high intensity sweeteners.

As we say, the Liquid Must Deliver, or Why Bother?!


Brand Strategy and Vision:

With our new strategy consumers can choose from:

  • Our 13.5% ABV flagship espresso martini now in a 6.75oz clear can! The perfect pour available in Vodka Original, Vodka Mocha and Bourbon Vanilla.
  • A gluten-free, highly sessionable, nondairy Harder Coffee available Salted Caramel and Mocha flavors. The 12 oz cans boast 5% ABV, while the 16oz singles fit the niche of an 8% ABV depending on the market.
  • Our new Hard Refreshers made with real fruit juice, cane sugar, green coffee extract, and natural flavors at 5% ABV. Available in 6 packs of 11.5oz cans or sold as individual 16oz cans and three flavors: Strawberry Acai, Tropical Passion, or Mango Dragonfruit.

Alc-A-Chino is everyone's favorite coffee shop order, now spiked!

Small & Strong

Spirits

13.5% Alc.

Made with Arabica Coffee, Cream and Cane Sugar

Makes 6.75oz impactful and different

The Perfect Spiked Iced Coffee

Sugar Brew

5% ABV multi pack & 8% ABV singles

Made with Arabica coffee, Oat Milk and Cane Sugar

Spiked Coffee that is Sessionable and light

The Perfect Coffee Shop Refreshment

Sugar Brew

5% Alc.

Made with Real Juice, Cane Sugar & Natural Flavors

Refreshing all day long

Compelling Market Opportunity:

For 2025 we have launched a new brand vision that is broader than our previous one of only spiked coffee. “Coffee Shop Inspired” is designed to capture a range of consumer interests and industry trends more fully:

  • No other brand has developed a spiked “coffee shop inspired” portfolio of products.
  • This is NOT a flavor strategy or some new idea, we take what is consumer proven and spike it!
  • The Espresso Martini is one of the top five most requested cocktails.
  • Oat-milk is amongst the most popular non-dairy milks added to coffee.
  • Premium RTD alcoholic beverages are here to stay (as are coffee shops!).
  • The spiked coffee category is in its infancy and still fragmented, we aim to change that.
  • Non-Alcoholic RTD coffee is a multi-billion-dollar category and RTD hard coffee is only tiny fraction the size of non–alcoholic RTD Coffee.


The PR%F Awards 2024 spirits, wine and beverage competition in Las Vegas just shared with us that.…

  • Alc-a-Chino Tropical Hard Refresher has received 95 points in the Masked tasting, gaining a Gold Medal, and has also received a Double Gold Medal in the Unmasked design competition
  • Alc-a-Chino Vanilla Non-Dairy Hard Latte has received 90 points in the Masked tasting, gaining a Gold Medal, and has also received a Gold Medal in the Unmasked design competition.




Strong Organic Social Media Growth

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Why Invest in the Spiked Coffee Shop Buzz?

  • Consumers, distributors and retailers have responded with enthusiasm to the coffee shop-inspired vision
  • Our new brand vision provides an inflection point from which we anticipate significant growth in 2025
  • Casey’s General Stores (the 3rd largest convenience store in the U.S.) has launched Alc-A-Chino in Q1 2025, and we have other major retailers in line.
  • An extensive (and growing) network of more than 100 Anheuser Busch and Molson Coors wholesalers distribute our products.
  • We have a robust and unique Innovation Pipeline.
  • No other brand is pursuing a spiked “Coffee Shop-Inspired” portfolio.
  • The management team has experience in building and selling beverage businesses.






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