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  1. Are you selling any whisky in barrels if so what are they worth Kim
  2. Contact cask canning in calgary they may have a contractor they can recommend
  3. I think there is a cooperage in southern ontario we have never used them but have never heard anything bad about them. As far as char level for canadian rye i cant say because we dont make canadian whisky . Tim
  4. Lots depends on where your from shipping is a killer
  5. Engineering comon sence ......now thats funny silk . But seriuosly silk city is bang on with what we experianced in our original build . Our architect /engineer layed out the plan for us and then we pitched it to the inspector , they agreed on 6 air changes a hour ,,,,we installed euiptment that does 13 changes a hour , everyone is happy . Sometimes over kill shuts alot of mouths .
  6. Not all stainless is stainless , we bought sight glasses from a vendor that fit a 4 inch column on a rd still . The bolts that hold the sight glass together rusted within a month , bottom line is vendors buy stuff from all over world and dont test if its stainless or jus shiny . Buyer beware . Tim
  7. I think leaving adequate head space is the cure , for example we have 600 gallon ferments in 700 gallon fermenters and that seems to be lots of room .
  8. Those old cast radiators are very cool and very artsy fartsy once there all painted up . Keep your eye out for an old hospital or school thats being demolished, the demo crew usually sell them off at scrap price . Some will handle steam while others were used with hot water depending on the type of boiler that was in the facility .
  9. Our house is about 500 feet from distillery so about 1000 feet of one inch pex insulated and buried . I should add we use a worm tub for our stripping still , hydronic water ciculates from worm tub to house ,then back to hydronic mixing board in distillery , from mixing board to big chiller in warehouse , then back to worm tub . The big chiller is regulated by thermostat to ensure the last of the heat is pulled out before it returns to worm tub . We also added a steam line in the lyne arm so we can heat the worm in the event that the still is not runing and heat is needed . The spirit still (tube and shell condenser and deflag)is plumbed into the small chiller and can be run thru cement floor if small chiller is not able to keep up . Tim
  10. We heat the distillery and our house with hot water produced from our chiller system , we have 2 chillers and lines in our concrete floor as well as a radiator in the plenum of the house furnace . All in all it works very well . Tim
  11. This is great info thanks guys for sharing your secrets . Tim
  12. Welcome to the forum , there lots of priceless info on here that you 'll enjoy , and lots of people that have made a success of the industry . Hope it works out for you . Tim and Kim
  13. Don't have any numbers for you because our facility is closed to the public ,no tasting room . But I wanted to say is your logo looks great , nice to see distilleries showing off there brand .
  14. For anyone into net Felix check out the documentary called ..Rotten...an in-depth look at the food industry but in particular check out the episode on wine . I find that the problems there having with bulk fake wine very interesting . Much the same as problems with bulk spirits .
  15. Your exactly right when u think what it has cost to get up and running and be profitable a million bucks don't buy shit .
  16. Oops spelling error I meant to say it all depends if you want to leave your family a business or leave them a bag of money lol .
  17. Interesting stuff thanks guys , guess it depends if a guy wants leave your family or leave them a bag of money . And weather I figure at my age do I want to start from scratch with in the confines of the non compete....lots to think about
  18. Hello I have a question for all you well established distilleries . If you were offered a buy out for your distillery , equipment, recipes, and all rights to your name and product names would you take it ? Would you take the money and run or continue to do what your doing and cashing in on the long game . Tim
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