I am a soon to be startup in Winnipeg, MB Canada and am doing my final sizing on equipment. I have settled on a 200 gal still (budget and volume fit) and while I had planned to match my mash tun I am interested to hear if many have doubled the size of the mash tun (eg 400 gallon) and split the mash into 2 fermentation tanks to be distilled one day after the other?
I will be understaffed and think this might save me doing a mash for each batch for the still. The fermentation tanks will be jacket cooled so I can drop the temperature a bit to keep contamination to a minimum.
Thanks in advance for any comments.