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Here’s a transparent look at our top line revenue and traction to date: We’ve secured distribution and have big plans for expansion. Currently, we’re distributed by Young’s Market in California and Vin Sauvage in Nevada. We are in Raley’s, Nugget Markets, Total Wines in Sacramento, BevMo in the greater Sacramento area, and many restaurants, bars, and liquor stores. The J.J. Pfister story spans more than 170 years, beginning with a humble knitting company founded by our family patriarch, J.J. Pfister. J.J emigrated to the United States from Switzerland in 1869 and went on to found a knitting company in San Francisco in 1876. His business survived the 1906 earthquake, and he won an honor medal at the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition. Our J.J. Pfister logo, a combination of a knitting machine and a copper still, marries our past, present, and future as we carry on the tradition of excellence started by J.J. Pfister in the late 1800s. We’ve laid the foundation for success one building block at a time, starting with our designer production and tasting room. Our state-of-the-art stills are manufactured in Italy and include a continuous still, pot still and rectifying columns. We can make any spirit with these, and they are designed to save labor cost by completing runs within an eight-hour day. All told, our facility includes: The US craft spirits market is booming, outpacing even the craft brewing market! The industry is expected to reach revenues of more than $20 billion by 2023, growing at an explosive CAGR of over 32% between 2018 and 2023.Big brands can’t replicate the craft experience, but they can acquire it. And in recent years, the numbers have been staggering:From rave reviews to features in the New York Times, the word is out about J.J. Pfister.When J.J. founded the J.J. Pfister Knitting Company, he made a part of his mission to give back to his community wherever possible. When the earthquake of 1906 struck, he did just that. So when Covid-19 began its devastating sweep through California, we committed to continuing JJ’s legacy and stepping up for our community. This involved making the difficult decision to temporarily pause our production of craft spirits and instead begin producing hand sanitizer.\u0026nbsp;In the space of just two weeks, we were able to bottle over 16,000 gallons of sanitizer for first responders, including health care facilities, police and fire departments, utility companies, essential businesses and government agencies. We have also been able to donate hand sanitizer to charities such as Loaves and Fishes, The Food Bank, Guardian\u0026nbsp;Angels, and Students for Health Care.We have multiple revenue channels established, and more slated for the future. Thanks to our versatile Type 74 license, our income streams include:70%\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;our customers are repeat customers, and our brand recognition is high in the Sacramento area. We have additionally recently expanded our sales team to include representatives in the San Francisco Bay area, the Los Angeles area, Sacramento, and Nevada.In a key move, we recently unveiled our very first whiskeys—our High Rye Bourbon and Rye Whiskey. And we’re proud to say that both blends are so smooth you can drink them neat (that’s without ice or water). In addition to selling at a substantially higher price point then clear spirits, whiskies are amongst the most popular consumer spirits. Revenues in this category grew by 10.8%, or $387M, in 2019, and the whiskey market is slated for 5% CAGR from 2019 to 2025. Note: Our whiskeys are not yet organic, but are blended in-house by our master distilling team and will be organic in future iterations! Our 2020 milestones have included:\u0026nbsp;Since expanding into the Arizona and Nevada markets, our next key landmark entails getting our sales to 10,000 cases of product—which we project will be achievable in the next 2 to 3 years. The 10,000 case threshold is key in the craft spirits market, and puts us in a position to entertain an equity Investment from a large spirit house. Our type 74 license also enabled us to launch food sales in our tasting room this quarter, which will enhance our status as a visitor destination in the thriving Sacramento tourism industry. As we continue to establish traction and rollout these next steps, we estimate that our value will be 6-8X top-line revenue. We expect revenue to be $3M within 4 years, and $10M soon thereafter. They say it’s harder to establish a craft distillery than to fly to the moon and back, and we’ve done it! We have traction, we have distribution, and we’re primed for growth. 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Impressive branding on your website and social handles, too. A couple questions as I consider contributing to the cause: 1. Are there any long-term aspirations to sell the company or take it public? As a crowdfunder, I'm wondering how I'd...","answer":"Kenneth, thank you for your interest and your questionsLong term we are keeping our options open. With growth it is expected a large spirits house will have an interest in us for market share.\u0026nbsp; Our growth potential is outstanding with a 33% CAGR.We are hopeful we will have positive income in 24 months.Our differentiator is highest quality spirits, unique in flavor and mouth feel, many are organic, great story, and we can distribute on line. Our secret sauce is our distiller group which h..."},{"question":"Hi I like your pitch and am considering investing in your company. I love that your company is making hand sanitizer. Is the hand sanitizer going to be a permanent product from your company at some point? I personally think hand sanitizer will be a long term product for many b...","answer":"We will have hand sanitizer but our core business is our spirits. Thank you for asking."},{"question":"What type of investment is this, common stock, preferred units or bonds? What is ROI?","answer":"Thank you for the question. We are an LLC so the ownership is called a membership.\u0026nbsp; The ROI will depend on the value of the company. Currently we are valued at $10M.\u0026nbsp; Craft distillers are valued at 8X top line revenue. We are growing at 200%+ year on year in the best space for alcoholic beverages.\u0026nbsp; We will look for equity investors from the big spirit houses when we reach 10,000 to 20,000 cases sold yearly with revenues approaching $5M.\u0026nbsp; tx Kevin"},{"question":"Thank you for your response how are the dividends paid and can they be reinvested? at what rate were dividends paid in the past?","answer":"Thomas, hello. Thank you for your question. Our investors will have membership positions in the llc. Our plan at present is to get to 10K to 20K cases and then entertain an equity sale to a large spirit house.\u0026nbsp; The investers will get their investment back plus gain and maintain ownership in our company.\u0026nbsp; We are not planning on dividends at present. tx Kevin"},{"question":"What is the minimum investment? When is the funding closing?","answer":"Thank you for checking.\u0026nbsp; Funding is closed.\u0026nbsp;"}],"recent_posts":[{"id":174196,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:174196","title":"JJ Pfister Distilling Company","preview":"Pacific Rails Spirits launched February 2024 to address our changing market. The market demanded more interesting packaging, unique superb spirits which can compete with major brands, and data driven sales support with social media, scans, demos. We accomplished all that. Our sales strategy is to focus on chain stores and we will be in Raley's and Total Wine, in July. 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VISITOR CENTER - We were required by Sacramento County to upgrade our kitchen which we did. We now have a state of the art kitchen and an upgraded private rental space which is frequently used. We are adding attractive new menu items to increase revenue. We remain popular and have added live music on Fridays. We are growing and expect at least a 50% growth rate year on year.MARKETING - We have freshened our marketing approach targeting social media extensive...","published_at":"2023-06-28T14:51:55Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/165178"},{"id":139930,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:139930","title":"Investor Update 2/22","preview":"J.J. Pfister Investor UpdateDear J.J. Pfister Distilling Co. investors,\u0026nbsp;As we close out 2021, I am writing to provide an update on the J.J. Pfister Distilling Company.\u0026nbsp;2021 ResultsIn 2021, we achieved almost 200% growth rate YoY with total revenue of $682k (visitor center, $360k; outside spirits $286k; hand sanitizer $36k).\u0026nbsp;The Visitor CenterThe J.J. Pfister Visitor Center experienced substantial growth and is now a significant revenue engine. 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