Liquor Creek

Thank you all for your informative and prompt responses. This answers my questions and will help us better select our still.

Greetings Everyone, We would first like to thank you all for paving the road for start ups like us, and making so much information available. We hope to be able to provide valuable feedback, just as so many before us have. Liquor Creek is a LLC here in the Northwest. We are a group of guys who have grown up together and we intend to start our craft distillery soon. Logan is a mechanical engineer. Alex is Public Relations Specialist. My name is John, and I am a microbiologist. We all maintain this account. We look forward to being an active part of this community. Sincerely, John

Our company is in process of purchasing a new still. Three different places have now advertised their "storage tanks underneath the columns" feature. The stills have two or three large towers with columns on them and below each column there are these storage tanks attached with either a little peak-hole or manhole. I believe the first two tanks are to be filled with water. I realize this is a little vague, but I cannot find out a definitive name for this feature to more accurately describe them. 1. Is there a name for these tanks? 2. What is the function of them? Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks, John