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!