The 1st time I ever visited Hawaii I went to the top of Haleakala volcano when I saw an amazing plant called a Silversword plant. Looks like a yucca, but with fine hairs to capture moisture out of the air:
When I was leaving I went looking for a bottle of local rum to take home and couldn’t find any, all of a sudden I plucked a little mind grape, but did nothing with it. Then last April I discovered I could do trademark searches online, so I looked for Silversword and found only a video poker manufacturer and decided to claim it for myself. 6 months later I received a trademark and started pieceing together what I’d have to do. It looks as if I’ve got someone to partner with on the distro/sales side and now am in the process of getting a bottle sculpted and 3D scanned for CNC mold making. Gonna sorta look like this:
Can contract out the brewing and distilling at a reasonable price on the islands, shipping in bulk to the mainland and getting it bottled in California. Can get the cases designed here in town and printed close to the bottlers. Taxes are $2-3 a bottle between the feds and state. Upfront costs are molds & permits along with initial batch costs which ain’t bad at all, then there’s marketing. We can keep it slow at first and use our contacts in the biz, then when it cashflows we can get into pushing the product wide.
Lots of work to be done, but at least progress is occurring.
Update: Got a url, bar codes for bottles and cases, setting up a meeting with a glass manufacturer.
