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  1. I am looking for a direct electric element heated boiler around 120 litre (32 gallon) charge capacity. Please let me know if anyone has anything available new or used. Preferably in Canada
  2. Thanks Nick for starting this post. It has developed into a great post in many ways I have many years of business ownership, consulting, professional board experience, regulation development, government lobbying for legislative purposes, and a ton of other things, but this isn't a post about my resume!! Firstly, no business gets anywhere in the long term by cutting down the competition. If you want to be better than the competition, don't cut them down, just BE better than the competition. Whether that is better customer service, better location, fancier bottle, etc etc etc, but it can be very subjective when you say better product. Keep in mind that you are producing a product that you are proud enough of to put your name on. In the end, the product will speak for itself. However as history has shown, marketing can make it better than it actually is!!! but that's a different topic Secondly relates to the the direction that micro / craft / artisan distilleries will take over the next years. This to me this is a craft, your interpretation of what a specific spirit should be and how it should taste and how it should be produced (within the constrains of the governmental guidelines and of course a safe drinkable spirit). If it is what people like, they will buy it and if not, it will fail. Regulations are important but look at how long it has taken to have regulations, set in place many years ago by the big players, changed to allow this fledgling craft industry to even exist. Regulations are often put in place lobbied by those who have become established trying to protect their own livelihood by restricting new business from entering the marketplace. The basis of self-protectionism, now that I'm in, lets try to shut the door. Careful thought needs to be taken to over-regulation of a new ARTISAN industry or all we are doing is repeating history. It can be a slippery slope if we regulate the art out of artisan. Just my 2 cents
  3. Unless we have drastically underestimated the effective output of an 8" column, my math is as follows which led me to my question. We had it figured that we were going to be in trouble around the end of year 4 if all of our production was vodka. In actuality late year 5 as not all of our product will be vodka. 140 gal charge x.08 (average beer) = 11.2 gal potential x 90% recovery = 10.08 less 35% cuts = 6.52 gal * 2.5 = 16.38 gal = 62litres = 5.1 cases per day. I was just trying to get an idea, based on real life experience and not math, when did you really start to have a need to upgrade and did you wish you would have just got bigger equipment right from the start.
  4. All I have for details right now is it is a steam jacketed boiler 150 gal, with 12" pot off the boiler, a separate whisky column 4 bubble cap plates next to it, separate vodka column 12 bubble cap plates next to it, rc dephlegmator on top of whisky and vodka, pc. volumes above are based on 60% vodka 40% whisky production first 2 years will be part time 24 hours a week full time from then on but do not want to be running the still 8 hours a day 7 days a week to keep up I'm trying to get an idea if it is a mistake to go 8" and should we just go straight to a 12"
  5. Just out of curiosity, for those of you who started with an 8" column, at what volume of production did you outgrow it and need to upgrade? I've been offered the opportunity to pick up a used 150 gal boiler with an 8" pot/4 plate whisky/12 plate vodka combo but am wondering at where the advantages of a smaller initial investment ends and upgrading to a 12" becomes a necessity. Our goal is to have a very clean vodka so will be doing a strip run / spirit run for our vodka. I have done a ton of theoretical calculations but would like some real world experience on where production demand exceeds the true capabilities of an 8" setup. Volumes are projected as follows Year 1 625 cases Year 2 750 cases Year 3 900 cases Year 4 1050 cases Year 5 1350 cases Any information on your experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
  6. Sorry, double post due to server error
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