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  1. Here's more info on the iStill Masher 2000. That's 2000 liters of nett mashing capacity. A bit over 500 gallons. Introduction price for orders in by November 2014: EUR 24,995.-. Natural gas fired, computer aided mashing, oil filled double boiler jacket for heating, and water jacketed for cooling. Two 50 centimeter diameter manholes (21 inches). One for filling, the other for cleaning. Bottom dweller agitator design (> 20 bhp). Variable costs for mashing 2000 liters / 510 gallons? Around $ 10.- per 2000 liter / 510 gallons mash on natural gas. No natural gas on you premisses? An upgrade to propane/butane is available. Here's for more info and for design: http://wp.me/p3pXcR-na
  2. MG, that's the water usage for a 7 hour run on a 1000 liter molasses ferment we took - in one go - to barrel ageing strength. Dave, I am not sure my English is well enough to understand your question. The new design we took means the iStill Pump works best when "primed". So attached to our 2 inch drains (fermenters, iStill One, iStill Masher). Hope that makes sense. Anyhow, here's a link to a movie on how she runs: http://www.istill.eu/#!istill-tv/cq6j And talking about the iStill Masher? Here's a link with more information on our 2000 liters (> 500 gallons) nett mashing rig. With computer aided mashing technology: http://wp.me/p3pXcR-na Introduction price for orders up until November: EUR 24,995.-.
  3. Do you want to know more on our first iStill One to Florida? How she runs and performs? Please read: http://wp.me/p3pXcR-n2
  4. Hi Roger, Yeah, those were a few days to remember! Man, we worked our socks off! Assembling the stills, doing the first runs, getting the first product out and tasting it. My best memories are of all of us trying and tasting your first rum. Darn fine drink, right of the still! You are going to make quite the entry when that product hits the market place, Roger! Congrats on your progress and on your soon to open distillery, and thanks for letting us play a small part in the great adventure and business venture you are now living. Regards, Odin.
  5. We now sell three types of fermentation vessels. From water jacketed, with agitator, and completely computer managed to more basic lay-outs. If you want to learn more, please click on: http://wp.me/p3pXcR-mq
  6. On our website: http://www.istill.eu/#!prthe-istill-distillery/c1jxf
  7. And here's some more info on the iStill Pump: weight, power, performance: http://wp.me/p3pXcR-mk
  8. An update. We will also be equiping the iStill One with our new oversized SPP. Well, on demand, that is. When you order the SPP packed cleaning sections on the iStill One, you will get more plates. Suited for vodka making, not for whiskey or brandy making. For that you need our standard ceramic column packing. A bit more on cooling water usage as well. A 1,000 liter (260 gallon) run only asks for around 1,500 liters (390 gallon) of cooling water.
  9. We stop selling SPP as a seperate product. Why? Easy, we need all of it for our own iStills. Sorry!
  10. iStill now offers a complete distillery set-up: The iStill Masher: a natural gas and direct steam fired masher with computer aided mashing at 2,000 liter capacity; The iStill Fermenter: a water jacketed, electrically heated, 2,000 liter capacity fermenter, that’s fully computer controlled; The iStill One (formerly known as the iStripper); The iStill 250; The iStill Pump for easy mash and low wines transfer. Envision one masher, five fermenters, one iStill One, and one iStill 250, and you will have a complete distillery set-up, fine-tuned for complete proces & system integration. Setting-up a distillery used to be a frustrating and capital intensive affair. Frustrating, because of bottle-neck management. Normally, a distiller would have either too little capacity at mashing or at distilling. The integrated design, as proposed above, takes care of that. No more bottle-necks. Each and every part of the production proces in the iStill Distillery is exactly tuned to work optimally together with the other parts. And how about capital investment? To set-up a pro distillery used to cost around a million bucks. When you buy the complete iStill Distillery, you will get better performance, more flexibility, and save € 830,000. Yes, really, we offer this turn-key distillery, including assemby and testing and instruction on location for just € 170,000! What it gives you production wise? Here are the numbers for a five day per week, one man operation: Make 1,500 liters of (for example) 8.5% mash per day with the iStill Masher; Ferment 1,500 liters of wash per day (on a 5 day fermentation scheme – extra long for additional taste for whiskey, brandy or rum); Which translates to around 250 liters of 40% cut and ready to market product per day; Enough to fill over 350 bottles of 0.7 liters each; Per week that’s 1,750 bottles; With a margin of € 3.- per bottle, you will be making € 5,200 a week; That’s € 240,000 of gross profit per year, holidays included (well, you still have to sell those bottles!); Return on investment within one year!
  11. With the iStill Masher and iStill Fermenter in place, we now offer you a complete distillery. One Masher, Five Fermenters, One iStill One, and the iStill 250. The equipment is assembled and tested at your distilling site. Full product training is part of the deal. Please read: http://wp.me/p3pXcR-lD
  12. More on performance. In stripping mode, with the throttle down, the iStill One will give you over 70 liters of product per hour. At anything from 90%+ to 30%, depending on how many additional cleaning sections (for extra plates) you add. Heat up time is about an hour and a half to two, depending on batch size (1,000 - 1,300 liters). Actual stripping time is like another two hours. When you run the iStill One to finish say an 8.5% wash into a whiskey in one go, it will produce over 30 liters per hour and enable you to make perfect cuts. You do one test run, where you dial in cut points and every time you run that same wash again, you get warnings when cut points arrive. Computer aided distilling? I guess it is. Heat-up time is like 2 hours, where the actual run time on a 1,000 liter batch is under 4 hours. On a whiskey run, you can add the copper catalyst (all glass on the outside with copper oversized SPP on the inside) and maybe add one cleaning section. That will take your hearts cut to about 70%. On a vodka run, you can add all cleaning sections and take hearts to 90%+ in one go. http://www.istill.eu/#!pristillone/c1fyo
  13. More info. The first units are on their way to the USA as we speak. We did change quite a few things, in the end, and prior to market launch. Size is up to 1,500 liters now. And it does not just strip, you can also make one go whiskey, brandy, rum, gin, and vodka. Very versatile. The attachable cleaning sections (maximum 3) help you raise the number of plates from anything like 1 to 10. Because of versatility, we renamed the rig. It's the iStill One. The one rig you need to help take your craft distilling experience to a whole new level. For more reading, please see: http://www.istill.eu/#!pristillone/c1fyo
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