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I've always used steel buildings with concrete floors. Usually with a ceiling height of 16' to the bottom of the rafters. As far as barrel storage options, I've used steel 2 barrel racks, and am currently using pallet racking with horizontal timbers. IMHO, Go with the 2 barrel racks. It's a time consuming, labor intensive pain in the ass to use the pallet racking system. I basically have to go caving to take samples from barrels. With the steel racks just use the forklift and move a few out of the way.

I'll be there as well. We met a few years back in Indiana at the ADI conference.

If you're doing it online, It should only take a couple of day's. If you're doing it by mail, Submit your application, And then go on vacation for a couple of weeks.

I agree with Tom. If you think you need 10,000 square feet, Go with 20,000. It's a lot cheaper to start off a little bigger than you need, and grow into the space than it is to realize that you've outgrown your space and then have to look for another facility or build new buildings. We have close to 10,000 and I wish we had 30,000 A few things people never take into consideration are, Empty barrel storage Grain storage Empty glass storage Finished product storage Packaging storage Bottling facility Just my two cents.

I use a malt Mill from Northern Brewer. It works Fantastic for me. I'm grinding about 30 pounds of Botanicals in about 20 minutes.

That's some really nice work Man.

This would be no different than boiling out your still after a Gin Run. Besides, Any decent still has a pressure blow off that is no higher that 15psi, And if it doesn't, you need to change that. Hell, My column has a blowoff set at 7.5 and it's a 42' Vendome. The only way you'd build up pressure is if there was an obstruction in the vapor line. Still though, Sounds like a monumental waste of time and energy.

Me personally, I'd never, Ever use a municipal water source to proof down either ready to bottle spirits, or ready to barrel spirits. Or to pre soak a barrel for that matter. The biggest problem I see would be the Chloramine in municipal water. For mashing it's fine. Chlorine will boil off during the mashing and the Chloramine molecule's are to large to pass over through distillation. By adding municipal water to the barrel or bottle, You're adding it directly to the product with no hope of removing it by filtration or distillation. Just my 2.155 cents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloramine

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Are you adding the NaOH to the finished product, Or in the Mash? If it's in the mash, No, Being as it's fermentation support. If it's going in the finished product.. That's a different story, And would need to be listed on the bottle as well. This might be helpful, http://www.ttb.gov/labeling/allowable_revisions.shtml

I think you should be able to, Yes Dealing with TTB can be a serious pain sometimes. There are a pile of loops and hoops, And sometimes things that make perfect sense to me, will get flagged. Just because I always want to be 100% compliant, And am obviously not a lawyer, I have a lawyer do all of my formula and COLA submissions. The Lehrman Bev Law firm are great guy's to work with. I deal with John Messinger. Absolutely worth every penny. http://www.bevlaw.com/ jdmessinger@bevlaw.com

Yes, You can. Right now COLA's are running about 26 days, so you'll get a jump on the wait. When you have the final version, Just apply for an amendment. I'm not sure exactly what you're adding or taking away, But it may be an allowable revision not requiring a new COLA at all. http://www.ttb.gov/labeling/allowable_revisions.shtml

Whiskey systems. I've got better things to do than spend 12 hours a month trying to keep up with all of the paperwork, and then still worry that I missed something. Donald and Jack are great to work with. Nik

For what it's worth, I'm running a Russel Finnex L.S.S, I wouldn't be able to run the volume that I am without it. I had a couple issues in the very beginning with screens tearing, But these guys were great to work with and had my problem sorted out pretty quick. I'm running 15,000 gallons a week through it with zero issues. I'd recommend it to anyone. If anyone would like to come out and see it run, I'd be happy to have you in Fridgid ass Wisconsin. Nik

Hi All, Can anyone point me in the direction of information reguarding the excise tax reduction for distilleries that produce in excess of 100,000 proof gallons per year? Would this be sales of 100,000pg's, or production? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Cheers