The person behind it
Why I started DEVIANT
For more than a decade, I spent my nights behind the bar creating cocktails and hearing the same question from guests:
“How do I make this at home?”
I realized that recreating a true craft cocktail experience wasn’t easy. It usually meant buying full-size bottles of specialty ingredients, expensive bitters, and unique syrups you’d only use once or twice.
So I started imagining a better way.
The idea for DEVIANT lived in my head for years. I kept telling myself I’d start it someday. Then life reminded me that someday isn’t guaranteed.
After losing both of my parents, I made a decision: I was done waiting for the “perfect time.” I took everything I loved—craft cocktails, creating recipes, and bringing people together and finally built the company I’d always imagined.
DEVIANT exists for people who believe life is meant to be experienced, not postponed. Every month is an invitation to step outside your routine, learn something new, gather the people you care about, and deviate from the ordinary.
Because life’s too short to keep waiting.
— Jordan
Founder, DEVIANT Cocktail Club