Black Creek

Agreed. I run mine at 94 degrees. Most rum yeast runs hot.

Been a screen printer for 40 years. Even I do not print my own labels. Label company can do it cheaper than I ever will. I would advise you not to try screen printing in house if you have never been a screen printer. Been thinking about a laser myself for leather labels for our higher end products and other items for the tasting room and my sign business customers. Lasering a bottle requires an additional accessory to roll the bottle under the laser.

If it flowers use it for seed cane. jmho

I use an enolmatic and while slow, you could do this yourself. Keep the bottling cash for upgrading your own bottling area. In house is under control.

Jason (Sugar Daddy) might be a good source for you. He is in South Florida.

Try bascom maple.

Just me or is getting a couple hundred boxes at a time and dividers for packaging just a nightmare. I can print the dang things myself just need em blank. Had one supplier tell me a minimum of 7000 lineal feet but no idea on price til he had time to go over measurements. Crickets since. My storage room has boxes displaying everyone's product but mine, lol

I use barproducts for shot and rocks glasses. Very good experience to date.

No backset ( although I can see instances where you might use some), ph crash needs a little adjust after 24 hrs, I am very small and in no hurry so no supplement nutrition. ferment can take 10 days or so. If you want it quicker, feed it.

100% Panella in my craft distillery from Sugar Daddy. Waiting on next shipment. Makes an excellent rum.

9-12 months and beyond. Depends on product. Generally around 7-9 months I start doing occasional tasting until I am satisfied it is ready for gauging and bottling. I have some 2 year old rum now that has a nice creamy sweet front end in both white and matured on wood.

Non issue so far. I do intend to pick up a couple jack daniels barrels from my sugar guy next trip and fill those for a bit see what happens.

Almost don't want to know how much they want for those. I use stainless barrels with spirals for my rum. Happy with that.

Buying direct from China is a recipe for failure. Use a reputable manufacturer. One thing to look for is how will you get service when needed. A cheap piece from china can save you money if it works at all when and if you actually get it, but if you cannot get it serviced or repaired it is dumpster fodder at first failure.

Been in the sign biz 40 years. Desktop lasers, large format printers, etc have become available, affordable and fairly easy to learn the software if you are at all computer savvy. The detail you can get with a laser on wood is amazing. No messy inks, stencils, etc. Win win.