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Thank you Ironton. We will try a different malt this morning. Best regards.

Both times, we got 13 deg. Brix.

Thank you. We bought our grains from start-up malteries in eastern america. We got some from an old maltery and when grinding, it smelled more sweety, like more sugars. For the idodine test, it got brighter. From dark brown to orange. We tried one temperature step 62-64 then we tried double temperature step 62-64 then 72-74. Both for 30 minutes. Thank you.

We filter the grain with our double bottom mash/lauter tun. This one is equiped with rakes and paddles.

Thank you for your replies. What is b-glucanase and Amylo 300? Sparging water is at 78 deg C. We got a sparging arm on our mash/lauter tun. It does sparge with low-pressure, is that a problem?. We did iodine test. At the end, it was orange color. Do you think we should try multiple step temperature? Like 62-64 deg C to get the beta-amylase to work for 30 minutes, then increase the temperature to 68-71 to get the alpha-amylase into high gear? Thank you.

oups. We are using 200 kg of malted barley and 100 kg of malted wheat. We mill both, barley fine, and wheat more groce.

Hello fellow distillers, I have a question as we are experiencing some issues with our mashing technique. Here's what we do: We have a 1200 liters mash/launter tun. We use 900 kg of grain, malted 2 row barley and wheat, with 800 liters of water. We heat the mix to 62-64 deg C and let it sit at that temperature for about an hour. After that, while filtering the grains and moving the mash to the fermenters, we sparge the grain with 500 liters of hot water to retrieve any left fermentable sugars. During the mashing, we checked the ph of the mash several times. It was about 5.5. Once the mash have been transfered to the fermenter we add about 45 kg of dextrose and we do a brix reading. We get a brix of 13, which is quite low and unproductive. We are looking to get a brix of about 20-21. Anyone can advice? Are we doing something wrong? Thank you.

Thank you. The Chapel is right beside the sea.

No. Nothing run through the deph, 100% positive. Yes we run vapor through both column.

Our boiler have 587K BTU on the output side. Columns diameter is about 1 foot. Please see attached pictures.After about 12 hours, the temperature at the upper dephlegmentor is abour 95 celcius and it just stay there. It dont come out through the condenser. Please see attached picture. Also, can you tell me how frequently you do water cleaning run? Thank you.

Hi all, We are a startup. About cleaning run (water in a 600L 28 plates column copper still), we are unable to get the steam come out of the condenser, after 12 hours of boiling. We have a 600 000 btu boiler. Is it normal? How long can it take? Thank you

Hi all, I am not sure I understand very well the calculation. Let say we have a 350 000 BTU/h boiler input. We have a 1200 Liters mash tun. We have a 600 Liters vodka still. We will run the mash tun once a week and the still twice a week. Propane gas cost 0.64$/liters. How can I evaluate the gas cost? Thanks to all!

Hi Mike, we have 120V/240V 60 hertz mono phase electricity in our building. 3HP is enough? We can put the chiller outdoor.

Ok. So for 600 liters, 200 000 BTU/H on the outpout will be good. Thank you for your answers. If anyone as other ideas, please share :-)

Thank you! What power do I need for our mash tun? 1200 liters.

Hi everyone, We are setting up a distillery and we need some advice about boiler/chiller. We talked with many still manufacturers and they have different instructions about the required boiler for our stills. We are on a tight budget, so we would like to have the community advice. Our setup will be as follow: One 1200 liters mash tun Two 1200 liters fermenters One 600 liters pot still with vodka column. We will run only one equipment at the time. Mash tun, or still, to reduce the required power required for our steam boiler. A manufacturer tells us we need 480 000 btu/h output. Another one says 300 000 btu/h output is fine. Another one talked about 150 000 btu/h output. Can someone please advice as the cost is quite changing from a 480 000 btu to a 150 000 btu. As I mentioned before, we are on a tight budget. About the chiller, a manufacturer told us we will need a 2500 liters glycol tank! Another one is talking about a 7.5HP glycol chiller. Some says we should use cold water. Could we do that? Our building as a well, no city water, so we are unsure of the quantity of available water. What is the best to cool down our mash, maintain our fermenters at the required temperature, and to use with our still condenser? What is the required power? Thanks to all!

And what about Corson Distilling systems? Anyone bought their equipments? comments? thoughts?