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  1. When dealing with herbs/spices that have restrictions (wormwood, licorice root, cinchona, etc) you can do some research and get an idea of the extraction rates . Then submit your formula based off that. They may ask you to send a sample, they may not. I had to send one for thujone levels of the wormwood even though it wasn't remotely close to the limit, for the same product they merely had me tell them the ppm of the unpronounceable compound in licorice root. In that scenario I best guessed based on research done on extraction rates, it was such small amount that I would have needed 1000's of times the amount of licorice root to hit the level. If you just submit a best guess formula they will certainly tell you what they need to do. You can always call them too, they are extremely friendly and helpful.
  2. Jo-el-Lo, Napa Valley and others who make grape based spirits, Brandy, in California, as far as I can tell are allowed to ship as it is treated as a wine by state law. That's a very coarse breakdown of the law, I would definitely read up on the law before using this knowledge.
  3. Fire Marshal. Number one cause of delay for us. We talked to him twice prior to starting our project, then toured him through our space before we signed our lease and his response each time was "Looks good, it shouldn't be a problem." It then took him nearly 3 months to actually put his signature on paper for our permit, and once he did he added a good three months and $100,000 in costs to our build out. He had (has) no idea what to do with a distillery.
  4. We used Rotra just last week. We have no idea if they were cost effective or not, just that our still made it from Long Beach to us in a fairly short amount of time. This was our contact. Indira Ivojevic Ocean Import Associate indira@rotra.com T: (630) 274-2806 F: (630) 766-5753
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