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Eastern Light
Distilling

A private placement opportunity built around premium contract distilling, scalable production infrastructure, and a team with deep experience across the American whiskey industry.

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Investment thesis

Industrial scale meets craft spirits.

Eastern Light is positioned to serve the growing demand for large scale, high quality contract distillation while combining production efficiency with strategic real estate and infrastructure.

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The origin story
Why Eastern Light exists

Solving the production bottleneck behind emerging whiskey brands.

While working to transform a historic whiskey label into a global brand, Caleb Kilburn and Cordell Lawrence repeatedly saw promising spirits businesses encounter the same obstacle: access to consistent, scalable, high quality whiskey production.

"Unlocking the potential of emerging spirits brands through resources, flexibility, and transparency."
The leadership

Operators who understand the business from the inside out.

Distilling expertise, operating discipline, and commercial experience come together at the leadership level.

Caleb Kilburn
Co founder & Master Distiller

Caleb K.

2023 Master Distiller of the Year with experience connected to major whiskey brands including Maker's Mark, Knob Creek and Jack Daniel's, alongside leadership at Kentucky Peerless.

Cordell Lawrence
Co founder & CEO

Cordell L.

Former COO of Kentucky Peerless with operational experience spanning spirits manufacturing, production planning, infrastructure, and business execution.

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Market opportunity
Market context

A market shaped by premiumization and production constraints.

Growing demand for premium spirits, cocktail culture, spirits tourism, and the expansion of non distilling producer brands creates increasing demand for reliable contract production capacity.

11.4%

Projected bourbon market CAGR presented in the investment thesis.

01

Premium spirits

Consumers continue to seek higher quality and differentiated spirits experiences.

02

NDP expansion

Non distilling producers need scalable production partners without building their own facilities.

03

Spirits transition

Long term consumption trends support continued interest in distilled spirits.

04

Acquisition activity

Strategic buyers continue to value established production capacity and differentiated distillery infrastructure.

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Production infrastructure
The facility

Built around efficiency, capacity, and scale.

Eastern Light's proposed production campus is designed to create meaningful scale advantages while supporting flexible production for multiple spirits brands.

345

barrels average daily production

20K

gallons average daily proof gallons

100K+

square feet under roof

230

acres of campus

18

planned rickhouses

50K

barrels average annual production

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Investment structure
The opportunity

Three levels of participation.

The investment structure provides differentiated economics based on commitment size, including preferred return and profit-sharing differences between tiers.

Level I

$25,000 – $99,999

~45.8% Projected IRR

Level II

$100,000 – $299,999

~47.2% Projected IRR

Level III

$300,000+

~48.5% Projected IRR
Estimated hold period: approximately 8 years. Projected distributions: monthly. Refer to the applicable PPM and subscription materials for complete terms, assumptions and risk factors.
Financial outlook

A model designed for meaningful operating leverage.

The projections presented for the offering anticipate significant revenue and EBITDA expansion as production capacity scales.

$175M

2033 projected revenue

$97.5M

2033 projected EBITDA

59.5%

Projected gross margin

Revenue & EBITDA trajectory
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Financial projections
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Full transparency

The opportunity comes with risk. That belongs in the presentation.

Early stage company

Eastern Light is an early stage operating business and therefore involves meaningful execution and development risk.

Projection risk

Financial projections are unaudited and actual operating results may differ materially from assumptions.

Illiquidity

This is a private investment without a public trading market and investors should expect a long holding period.

Competition

Eastern Light will compete with existing and emerging distilling and contract manufacturing businesses.

Next steps

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Educational information only. This presentation does not constitute an offer or solicitation of securities. Investment decisions should be made only after reviewing the applicable offering documents and consulting appropriate professional advisors.

The information presented on this page is a summary only and is subject to the more complete information contained in the Company's Private Placement Memorandum. Forward looking statements and financial projections involve assumptions and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially.