Broken Anvil Distilleries

Thanks. Although I don't have a mechanical background, I find the idea of purchasing milk tanks from local operations and giving them a second life as fermenters, mixing tanks and CLTs in my setup exciting. I've even heard of breweries welding a setup stacking dairy tanks but I am not brave enough to stack 600 gallon tanks full of hot liquids that were never intended for stacking, no matter how much space I'm conserving.

Also interested in what you found out. I've only identified one company and the guys seem fantastic, but their price was out of my budget.

Has anyone looked to use glycol in the jacketing of dairy bulk tanks? I know the old muellers were initially built for freon, but is it safe to assume there is enough surface area to cool a fermenting mash using a higher concentration glycol running through the same system? If anyone has found older Mueller manuals that give dimensions , specs, etc. of the jacketing, I would be very interested. Cheers.

And I thought 4000 sq ft was going to be too big for a medium sized operation! I don't know about others, but lease is my budget killer.

No one knows how to deal with a distillery in might part of Ontario either.

Any new experiences? I also have DYE on the list of potential suppliers but have so little information to work with that it makes be wary.

For Ontario, in addition to excise, you'll have to pay 139.7% markup (in addition to excise), a bottle levy of ($0.38) per litre, an environmental fee for packaging ($0.09), after which sales tax (13%) and a bottle fee ($0.20) will be added before retail. There is only the provincial liquor board as a buyer/retailer.