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Looking for a decoration company that can coat bottles in smaller quantities (1 pallet). 

Looking for a broker to help divest an operating distillery. 

Hi everyone,

looking for the screw tops like Guala Closures, the aluminum screw top with additional “skirt”, like a foil top. Are there other similar types, the guala seems proprietary and hard to find. Any bottle sources for these? only need this for a small project, so not high volume. Also, is any special equipment needed to install these tops. Currently use t-cork so install manually. 

Thanks

Looking at adding an auger sometime but have a strange setup and need some help with installation and planning. Called some basic contractors but they didnt have any experience, what type of companies do design and install for grain handling?

Wow, lots of info to pour over. I would like to try 100% rye to get a better idea of the flavors. With malted rye, do you still need additional enzymes due to viscosity from the glucans? Plan would be to ferment grain in, definitely wont try to lauter. I am worried about the step mash because of the crappy cooker I have. Can you reverse mash with rye? So start higher, 145, then bring it down to 115? My brewer books dont cover rye in enough detail, what pH is optimum at those steps?

Looking to try our first rye mash. Have heard only horror stories about the gooey mess it creates. I have no problem trying a very thin mash (1.040). Can anyone recommend mash temperatures and time? I will also get some beta-glucanase to go with alpha and gluco amylase. 

Thanks for the feedback folks!

Can anyone recommend companies to screen print bottles? looking for quality first, but could do a small batch size. Bottles are cylindrical. 

Great idea. Do they return them to you immediately or do you have several and simply rotate when the bring it back next time? 

We are planning on giving our spent grains to local farmers but don't have the proper totes or drums yet. What are you using, are you getting it back immediately for reuse..etc? I am leaning towards standard 300 gal plastic totes, but the lids are usually pretty small and prevent using a shovel to still or scoop if needed. Plastic drums could also be an option. 

I see lots of people using the Enolmatic and XpressFill bottle fillers. Are you using an air rinse, liquid rinse or none prior to filling? If none, why?

Thanks

Did you get the FDA code as well?

While signing up for GS1 prefix approval, they ask

"Does your company require the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) assigned
NDC (National Drug Code) or NHRIC (National Health Related Items Code)
Labeler Code assigned as your GS1 Company Prefix?

Can anyone help here? What are you doing on bar codes?

Thanks

I am looking for several stainless steel square totes like Transtore IBC's. Any size, but prefer 180 gal and 550 gal. Would consider round if moveable with forklift and has swirl polish.

Hey folks,

i am having some issues and hoping for help. We are having trouble getting in contact with bottle suppliers. We have only heard back from One of the larger and more expensive ones, but they were very responsive. 

Does anyone have recommendations on a bottle supply and a contact? Also wondering if anyone knows where the Reyka Vodka bottles are from? 

Dont care where it's manufactured as long as quality is good and service is good.

thanks!

Has anyone experimented with different malt varieties for whiskey? What flavor profiles are like using North American 2-row vs. English or German 2-row for example. Also, how does changing from a Pale Ale to Munich ...etc change a single malt? What is the most common used in Scotch and Japanese Single Malt?

We are required by insurance to have a quality control plan and a product recall plan. Does anyone have any resources, templates, examples or consulting referrals?

Thanks SCD. This purely for our own employees safety. Unfortunately, there are areas of our facility with poor ventilation, so we want to make sure we don't have a dangerous situation. 

We are planning on installing air quality monitors inside the distillery for safety. I have found a reasonable source for CO2 monitoring (https://www.co2meter.com/), but have not found one for alcohol/explosive limits monitoring. Does anyone have any recommendations? Just looking for something simple that can be placed in 2 or 3 locations throughout the facility.

So do you recommend something more like the Shelco filters (http://shelco.com/product-categories/single-cartidge-housings/)? Do you then need 2 housings, 1 for 5 micron, and 1 with .5 micron and run in series? Which filters are recommended? And other recommended brands of housings and filters? Thanks

Well I must have mis read somewhere and seen too many plate filters at small wineries. We were thing about 20x20, but will rethink. What are some good websites for the housing filters you are talking about? We would be wanting to bottle up to 1000l, but this could take several hours to filter, no problem there. 

We are planning to use a simple plate and frame filter pre-bottling of 5 and .5 or 1 microns. There seems to be many different sizes and plate count. How do you size these properly?

Thanks for all the replies, it really helps with setup.

Who supplies the totes? Do the ranchers bring empty totes back for refills? Any ideas on finding/advertising this?

We are planning on using the grain in technique with grain ground to near flour size. What can be done with the spent wash after distillation? Seems like a lot of water and grain to simply run into drain. Does anyone have any issues with disposal? Any potential revenue?

thanks