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Hi everyone! First off, thanks to everyone who shares their knowledge on these forums. I've been reading them for a long time, and I'm excited to be starting down the road to becoming a distiller myself in the coming year. My name is Jon, and I'm building a plan for a small scale brandy distillery here in Ontario. Will be a part-time endeavor at the start, and I've had the chance to work with a local distillery for some time to get an understanding of all the joys of distilling in Ontario, and travel North America through my 'day job' and meet and work with other distillers in the US and Canada as well. I'm really interested in traditional, pot-still distillation for both brandy and whiskey, and I feel it's worth the extra effort. I'm of the mind that if I start small, and work to build a brand and following, I can make Ontario brandy successful, and produce some other fun products along the way that people get excited about. Looking forward to being a part of this community, and one day sharing some of the knowledge I pick up along the way. I know it will be a long, difficult, frustrating, expensive, not particularly profitable journey. But it's mine, and I can't wait to take it!

I had posted a diagram in this thread: But it appears the image I posted was lost in one of the forum upgrades. After some searching, I think I have found it once more, although it appears this is actually for a triple-distilled Scotch.

Hi!, I have had only one experience with TB, but it was really bad. I was not handling any of the transaction or the details, but one of my clients had been working for the better part of a year to secure a large quantity of custom molded bottles through them that were made in China. They had a custom mold made that produced some embossing on the bottle and then it was to be ACL'd. Delay after delay kept occurring and they finally said they couldn't supply the bottles leaving my clients on the hook. They scrambled about and sourced bottles manufactured elsewhere and had to settle for a lesser design than they had intended. It didn't seem as though TB was on the ball in this case. But, that is only one experience. They are a very large company that has been around for a while. I figure like any business, if you do enough volume you are bound to run into problems from time to time. Given the odd state the glass business has been in for the last 10 years, this has to amplify this possibility. Hopefully you get other feedback that will aide you in determining if you will want to attempt to engage them for your needs. Eric Watson AlBevCon