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  1. I have been approached by a local business about the possibility of making alcohol flavorings for them to resell to the bakery industry. They are currently buying them from a distillery in a different state, and would like to have a local supplier. I am sure there has to be some specific rules and regulations for this niche -- can anyone steer me in the right direction?
  2. We freeze them dry. Then we pack them into mesh bags and macerate in the still. I don't use my gin basket, I just leave them in the still while I distill.
  3. Sorry for the lack of detail! I have spoken with several other gin makers, and I think I have the answer I need.
  4. I suddenly have a problem with my latest batch of gin lacking flavor after I have measured out a sufficient amount to proof and bottle. I mean this gin tastes like nothing. Do I have to macerate this batch and redistill?
  5. I am looking for some other advice, and found this thread -- so here is some very late to the party advice. DO NOT GRIND. I freeze mine, and I believe it breaks down the interior cell walls. Then macerate for about 48 hours.
  6. Thanks, Foreshot. Question: ETOH at what proof. And did you distill at all? I made my first passes at pretty high proof with a lot of elderflower, thinking I would be watering it down quite a bit to 40 proof, and wanted to maintain the flavor. That seems to have been a serious error in judgment, due to the aforementioned noxious smell.
  7. Has anyone tried making elderflower liqueur with dried flowers? If you have, have you had a problem with the smell of the stuff?
  8. I would be interested in advice on this point, as well.
  9. Is there any guidance on what "adequate size to be easily read" means? Is 24 point type big enough?
  10. Thank you! I read it one time, and then couldn't find it again. Do I need to submit them for approval?
  11. We think we are about to be ready to start distilling -- and we are assembling our packaging suppliers. For boxes, do you recommend printing them or just labels? Our distributor recommended not spending a lot of money on the boxes, at least in the beginning. Second, I cannot seem to find a definitive answer on what the TTB requires on the boxes, and if I need to have them approved. Any guidance?
  12. I am also asking about labels on cases -- our distributor suggested that we just use labels at first, since it's not likely anyone will see the boxes for a while. My question: I cannot seem to find the definitive answer on what does the TTB require on boxes, and do I need to have them approved?
  13. Glad to hear that you had better results than we did. Likely our situation was a bit different. First, we have committed to sourcing everything as close to 100% local as possible. We eventually took all of the paperwork already submitted to BB&T to a small town bank, they came in for a site visit the same day, two days later we were approved (at prime plus 1%) and we were on our way. The local guys were great, but BB&T was just too big for us (we never actually met the Underwriter, we just had a long series of phone conference calls with the same questions being repetitively asked and answered). They also became fixated on our third partner’s hospital business in Texas. Given that our loan was being secured with a personal asset of said third partner, the information insisted upon regarding his hospital partners was deemed unacceptable by all on that end. In any event, the small bank we have chosen is thoroughly invested in our community and is a participant with us more than a mega-bank could ever be. Totally our bad in the delay in knocking on the small local bank's door. Hope y'all have a glorious startup!
  14. We've also been shopping for a distillery tracking software package, and will probably go back to our original business plan concept to create our own system. So far all I've found is expensive cloud based stuff, wherein we do not physically control nor actually possess either the software or our own data. We only have a selection of the two worst ISP's on the planet here, and this adds significantly to the unacceptable quotient on the best of days, not to mention that my wife (another third of our startup) is a recovering attorney and the cloud makes her very nervous and grumpy faced. I'm an antique engineer of three flavors and have never met a computer code that I couldn't tame, but right now Microsoft Access is still my first choice. Simple, user customizable, secure, and user owned and controlled. The cloud will be our BACKUP, not our primary, as it should be, personal and professional responsibility-wise. Consider the "distillery program competition" gauntlet mentioned above thrown. May take a while, but count on it. More than a one-time couple of hundred bucks for a supported (updates and such) package is what should be expected. If anyone else beats me to it, my checkbook is ready. If anyone else is in-process, free consultations upon request.
  15. A pleasant surprise hearing from you, Tory. I'll be slammed tomorrow, but I'll email you what we're looking at importing and see what you can do with it.
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