Hello all.
I’m an unusual breed of New Member, but hope that there’s room for everyone. Bearing in mind the more progressive Regulatory attitudes to distilling recently, new designs, markets and opportunities are clearly on the horizon. For example, the proposed new USA home distillation rules comfortably accommodate the type of tiny still which I’m developing, as do similarly progressive actual and proposed Regulations elsewhere. So here goes!
I am a still developer with a sharply-focussed eye on creativity and innovation. You should know that I most firmly believe in bringing quality distillation into the Consumer domain: every home that wants one should be able to get one, set it up and run it with minimum fuss.
SAFELY!
Those who live in small apartments will already realise that space limitations, not to mention current illegality, make conventional distillation pretty much a non-option on multiple grounds. With likely legalisation (for those Products prepared and able to meet Regulations) at hand, this is my target niche market - a market sector for suitable, legal, equipment which is likely to become orders of magnitude larger than any other.
My work shows very clearly that my "nano-still" provides pretty much all of the requirements of ordinary Consumers: ease-of use, quality, intrinsic safety and sufficiently low cost. There's some big surprises in there for traditionalists.
I'm not here to rock the boat. I simply believe that Big Change is almost upon us and like most other things, it will be Consumer demand which opens up New Territories. It doesn't necessarily follow that existing professional distilleries will suffer. At all.
More to come, but please let me know if I've sensed it wrong and that my discussion of a new branch of distilling here are misplaced?
Hope you are now initially enchanted.
..... inspired by the famous "Harry".