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We have a custom bottle with our distillery name etched in it that’s made for us in china. We have some difficulties with lead times, customs, and general communication, however. Does anyone have a custom bottle supplier they can recommend?

Higher quality and purity than technical grade. Available by the 55 gallon drum. $30 per gallon.

We’re in the market for a bottling/labeling machine for 750 ml and 375 ml bottles. Also interested in automated waxing machines.

We’d like to buy several (maybe 5) 300 gallon cypress fermenters. Anyone know a good source for these?

Hi all, can anyone recommend a good inexpensive source for 50ml bottles? Happy 4th!

Awesome. We're on it.

We're looking at possibly opening a small cocktail bar next to our distillery. I'd love to hear from other folks in terms of what impact it has had on your financial picture (i.e. revenue/profit relative to your tasting room sales, etc). Of course there are a million variables that would impact results, but would just like a bit of anecdotal information if possible.

Greetings, We are in the market for a cream base for a new product we plan to introduce. I see that there was a recent post on a new cream base coming to market, and I have contacted that distillery already about procuring samples. Are there other cream base products on the market that folks are using? A google search hasn't yielded much, so hoping others might have some helpful insights... Thanks!

So selling at farmers markets has become legal here in WA state, and I assume it's legal in some other states as well. Anyone doing this? If so, how is it going?

Do you find that to be the case for your distillery as well? And if this is indeed the "slow season," when do you typically find sales start picking up?

Ok, signed up with groupon for tour promotion. I'll update on how it works for us once we know. I must say, though, we have found tours to be helpful. We're having good conversion on those visitors. Thanks for everyone's feedback on this topic.

And by the way, where were you on the night of the 12th...

Re-reading my question, bluestar, and I sound like an fbi interrogator. Sorry. Feel free to pm me if that's preferable. We're gearing up for our annual planning session and I'm going to be pushing hard for adding tours.

Thx, bluestar. Do you use some sort of online booking software to reserve spots and take payment, or is it a more manual process? And how many tours a week do you do with how many people?

Follow up to this question. We've established that tours are important/worthwhile. Has anyone used groupon to promote them? Good experience/bad experience?