Golden Beaver Distillery

Moisture from rain, dew and snow will leech into the barrel. Overall, not legal or a good practice. You can store in outbuildings or storage containers like a shipping connex that can be locked with a TTB approve lock.

Hugo We use propane as our fuel source, too. Recommend, steam jacketed and low-pressure boiler.

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We use an Xpressfill filler - https://xpressfill-com.3dcartstores.com/Volumetric-High-Proof-Spirits-4-Spout-Bottle-Filler--XF460HP_p_28.html A cheap handle capper from Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Handheld-Electric-Sealing-Diameter/dp/B08B3ZHM5H/ref=sr_1_47?dchild=1&keywords=bottle+capper&qid=1623109524&sr=8-47 Laber is a Bottle-matic II -https://www.propacksolutions.com/bottle-matic-16-ii-label-applicator.html We do 50mm, 375mm and 750mm with this system. We also use a Mori 6 head gravity filler.

In your case use LibDib.com You still need to do the sales leg work but they can do the warehousing without the rent cost and permitting. Also gets you out of doing A/R and chasing $$$ from your on and off premise accounts.

The other option is to immediately ship to your wholesaler's warehouse after you bottle and avoid storing onsite completely. Good luck.

That's the easiest way. You will need to check with your Fire Marshall on how much you can store. You will also need to add the container to your DSP TTB and CO ABC.

Got room for a shipping container on the current DSP?

No Fire Marshall issues. We vented using small round vents on the sides (15 of them) and two roof vents. Remember that alcohol is heaver than air so the side vents need to be at floor level.

Looking for a couple of new or used plugs for one of our little stills. Thanks Kris

You just adding the rings between the plates?

I really don't want to make vodka but there is a call for gluten-free vodka that we can produce from our rice spirit in a third distillation with the column.

Where are they sourcing the SPP?

Yes, 20' x 3 rows = 54 barrels. Cost of the container, timber, hardware and paint comes in at $4K. Depreciated over 3 years, costs you $24 per year/per barrel to store them. BTW, the taper is 9 degrees. The ends of the 4x4 in the middle are tied with 1/2" pipe sunk in 4" on each end. Allows you to pull them apart to remove the rails easily.

Consider using a mid-grain rice (Louisiana or California) instead of corn and FP-1 yeast from Ferm Solution. After the second run it's pretty neutral. We have to use a rice malt to retain some flavor characteristics in our whiskey or it will be fairly tasteless / one dimensional. Rice is also 1/2 the price or more of corn.

4x4s tied with all-thread. I’ll post a pic when I return to the distillery next week.

Pump water from the pond and use tube-in-tube heat exchangers from @Southernhighlander, cheap and portable. You can heat and cool what you need cheaply without the need for a bunch of engineering costs. If your distillery takes off you'll outgrow what you design today - that can get expensive, we're experiencing it everyday.

We run a propane fueled boiler (Aldrich) works great - more BTUs than natural gas. It's also not a greenhouse gas. I would focus on keeping it simple and work to "greening" your facility after you are profitable. Building and outfitting a distillery will cost you 3x as much money than you think it will and take 2x as long without a green goal adding to the cost. Don't think you need a coil to perform the heat exchange - dump the return water back into the pond at the furthest point from the intake.

Stacking the next row next week.

There is no sensor for the notch and the width of the path is approximately 4.5".

We bought this labeler/heat shrink from Stumpy's two years ago and it turns out it will not work with the tall labels we have decided to use for the majority of our bottles. Paid $7,500. Will sell for $6,500 FOB Chico, CA. Images with the housing covers off.

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OK, I'm a pot still guy so this question is for all of you with experience dealing with columns and plates. We're going to start running vodka as an adjunct to our normal rice whiskey production. The plan is to set aside 50 gallons of our second distillation run distillate and run it for a third time in a 4-inch column. My question is as the distillate will be proof down to 60° or so, how many plates should I anticipate needing to produce 192° vodka. We have twelve plates but I thinking we will only need about half of them. Is that correct? Thank you in advance for the feedback. Kris