daveflintstone

A reasonable ballpark estimate is 100%.

The distributor will add their margin (margin not mark up; the two are different) after adding in all costs, including state and county alcohol taxes, transportation, etc.

The retailer will also add margin (again, not mark up).

Obviously different distributors and retailers have different margins (Costco = 14%!), but ballpark it at 100% increase to get average shelf price.

100%.

.and now for something completely different

Pernod Ricard-owned Absolut vodka is introducing a new vodka series in partnership with local entrepreneurs around the globe. The Our/Vodka initiative, which began last year in Berlin, will now spread to 11 cities across the U.S., Europe and Australia. In each city, Absolut has linked with local partners to open micro-distilleries that will produce vodka with a focus on local ingredients, although each will have the same recipe and be packaged in a small bottle with a crown cap. Absolut’s partners will have responsibility for running the individual businesses and marketing the new offerings.

An Our/Vodka distillery in Detroit is set to open in June, with projects in Seattle (opening in September), New York (November), Amsterdam, Los Angeles and London to follow later in the year. Our/Austin, Our/Miami, Our/Nashville, Our/New Orleans and Our/Melbourne vodkas are scheduled to begin production in 2015.

The distillery in New York, to be based in Manhattan, will double as a tasting room, shop and event space, while the Detroit distillery will partner with local organizations for events and communal forums. The Berlin distillery, opened last March, also serves as an event space and a liquor store.

If there is no way to remove the methanol from your product where did the age old practice of taking off the heads come from? I'm a third generation shiner and this is the way it has always been done. Anyone that has smelled or tasted the heads first coming over will tell you it's no good, the heads are akin to nail polish remover or paint thinner and if you drink the heads you will go blind.

OMG I'M BLIND!!1

Nominated for silliest post of the month. Unless this is an April Fools joke.

You can successfully use a much smaller one for air sparging, in fact the smallest oil-free one you can find at HD or Lowes will suffice. As mentioned, the important thing is to filter the air before it enters the bottle.

I'm looking for this http://www.fermentis.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/EthanolRED_EN.pdf

Where can I get Fermentis (Red Star) ethanol red yeast?

If you want to review a business please do it elsewhere.

read: if you want to speak truthfully about real issues that affect real distillers, gtfo.

ok, bye.

even table sugar level refinement, if its from a cane base, its still technically a rum.

beet sugar base, not sure what you would call it, but theres no legal reason you wouldn't be able to use this for a base in your liqueurs. Sugar beet Neutral is common in Europe.

No, sugar cane based ferments and distillations are not technically a rum, anymore than corn based ferments and distillations are technically a whiskey. The type of commodity alone does not determine the class of liquor.

So to answer the original question, there are no restrictions on type of commodity used for base liqueurs.

I wish I had more scores with french women.

Excellent advice.

Correct. We can not self distribute in any form. We can sell two bottles per person per year through our tasting room.

Is there any attempt or intention to enforce this silly rule? Are there inspectors visiting a tasting room 10 months apart attempting to catch you selling a contraband 3rd bottle? What are the consequences of non-compliance? Seems like an impossible record keeping task for a tasting room.

Natrat were you building cartons with preassembled inserts or assembling those too?

Rock Tenn has a minimum that would equate to around 5000 750ml 12 packs. 375ml 12 packs will have a higher minimum.

Well I guess it is a bargain. And certainly quiet since almost everyone left after the devastation about 15 years ago. Entirely dependent on foreign aid, most of the island an off-limits exclusion zone buried under volcanic ash; to each his own I suppose. Maybe I'll pop down and poke around in a few weeks. Want to go halfsies in a distillery?

Montserrat? You've got to be kidding.

That is my passport photo.

I simply google "corrugated cartons" and the location, and bingo. I just did that with Virginia and up popped a bunch. I think there are hundreds of corrugated manufacturers across the country.

ditto on the st. pats gun. Literally a second a bottle. A day of 2700 bottles results in very few do-overs.

You can borrow mine to try it out.

Anyone know where can I purchase 6 bottle cartons for 375ml bottles?

Just about anywhere. There are many corrugated manufacturers around, cartons are bottle specific so you will get them custom made.

I've been agitating people for years but I don't bother the fermentation.

much mahalos

Thanks for the info.

Can you double stack the half height pallets? The cost of shipping a container half empty because of half height pallets will outweigh the unloading issue I think.

I'm considering purchasing bulk bottles for the first time. I've always had bottles delivered in cartons: dump out, fill, repack.

Question for those who receive them bulk packed: how time consuming and difficult is it to assemble all your cartons?

If anyone has experience with both, that would be a most helpful comparison.

No residences in same building. No vagueness in the rejection of my application.