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  1. Hey Everyone, Just delisted our hand sanitizer and happy to be finally done with making it. I have about 1,000 gallons left of denatured alcohol and I would love to find a use for it other than the old dilute and dump. Don't need to make any money but if anyone has found any other industries or uses that we can donate to I am open to hearing about it.
  2. I appreciate the quick response. Was hoping to go through a supplier so that we could continue to get the bottle reliably moving forward over the next few years. This is a great start though, appreciate it.
  3. I know this is beating a dead horse with all the shortages and shipping delays right now, but does anyone know of any glass suppliers that have inventory in stock? We have a contract client that is flexible on style and shape so I am open to working with anyone that has decent inventory in stock. Everyone I have talked to is quoting me a 6-8 month lead time which is (I think) ridiculous. Anyone have any ideas or leads?
  4. So some background, we have been using these bottles from the same supplier for 5 years with no problem and I have never seen this issue in my history of 10 years of distilled spirits production with any glass. We use compressed air to blow out bottles before fill and we are using a timed pump filler to fill. Hard to get a picture of it but it looks like condensate marks or stretch marks in the glass itself. I dumped it and tried wiping away the residue on the outside and inside and it doesn't come up. In the same pallet of glass this issue only appeared in the 100 proof tincture spirit we produce and the 80 proof vodka that went into the same bottles didn't have this issue. I am stumped honestly. Does anyone have any idea what this is?
  5. I had a request from a local farm that wanted to buy bulk alcohol for tincture making purposes somewhere between 10-15 gallons. They have a state permit for purchasing bulk alcohol right now from a control state. However they don't have any federal permits and looking through the available permits I couldn't find one that they really fit in (wholesale was closest but they don't need to resell it). They have been buying from a big supplier for years and I want to help them out but I cant figure out how they can do it without a TIB permit from the feds. Does anyone have any experience with this? They are across state lines so I really want to make sure I am not doing anything illegal.
  6. A lot of the European equipment comes standard with DIN fittings. We ended up just getting a bunch of DIN to triclamp adapters with teflon gaskets and were way cheaper than getting the pieces switched out by the manufacturers. Unless you were really tight on space I would recommend just getting adapters.
  7. Looking for anyone that has extra Decanter Contessa Bottles 750ml bottles. Happy to pay well above market rate.
  8. Frederick, Maryland. Shoot me an email at braeden@mcclintockdistilling.com with your address and I can get estimated shipping.
  9. We short age ours in a Madeira wine barrel. Starts off bright pink like a Rose but fades to a lighter pink (salmon) after 9-12 months but doesn't turn brown like some of the other solutions we tried.
  10. You don't have to redistill after macerating to be classified as a "Flavored Vodka". For proofing anything with obfuscation (especially if you are adding sugars) you should do a bench distillation to proof (if using like a snap50 or DMA35 equivalent digital densitometer). If you have one of the fancy tabletop machines that run like 10k you can put the spirit right in and it can proof it with sugars and suspended solids.
  11. We have a few hundred 270 gallon IBC totes that we are trying to get rid of. All refurb in like-new condition. $80 FOB per or best offer.
  12. What is the heating source for the still? We use an undersized agitator that works fine (including grain-in mashes) for a steam jacket still, but you would definitely need more agitation for direct or jacketed heating elements.
  13. Hey Everyone. I am in search of a high quality digital PH meter that works with suspended solids. We have been using a cheaper model for years that seems to need to be re-calibrated every week or two and we have been replacing them about once a quarter. Does anyone have recommendations on a good, lab quality meter that they have used?
  14. Awesome thanks so much. It was the 10 mile limitation that I couldn't find anywhere out so I appreciate the attention to the memorandum. Appreciate it everyone!
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