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!