Old Glory Distilling Co.

We use a 2500 gallon cooler, and we run about 3500 lbs/hr of corn through our hammer mill and auger it directly into the cooker. Wheat, rye, and malted barley obviously run much faster.

We were having similar issues - also with the milled grain collecting around the inlet/slide gate with all the moisture. We finally settled on moving the outlet location on our milled grain conveyor so that we could simply use a section of flexible 4" hose that drops in the manway for grain additions. The grain no longer piles up on the cooling coils, we no longer forget to open the slide gate (because we removed it!), and probably most importantly - we're able to easily keep our grain augers/inlet tubes clean and near moisture free. 

All- We have 200 barrels of 80C/10R/10MB for sale. #4 Char Kelvin Cooperage Barrel. Barreled September 2023. Asking $1050 each. Open to offers for the entire lot. Cheers!

Hey Everyone - We're letting go of a little bit of our wheated bourbon. Everything over 24 months was pot distilled in a single pass on a Vendome 500 gallon copper pot still using a 4-plate column & dephlegmator. The barrels under 24 months were/are distilled on a 14" Vendome copper continuous column and doubler. 

Mash Bill: 73% Corn / 19% Wheat / 8% Malted Barley

Pricing is flexible depending on quantity. New make pricing is quantity and mash bill dependent. Email us at custom@oldglorydistilling.com or call 931.229.3345 for more info.

Cheers,
Matt Cunningham

We'll be there as well!

-Matt

All - We're continuing to add distillation capacity specifically dedicated to contract production. For anyone that is needing or considering new fill barrels, whether it be for one of our standard mash bills or your own, we can currently turn orders around in as little as 30 days. 

https://oldglorydistilling.com/contract-distilling/

Hope to meet everyone at our booth in Vegas!

Do you know if the jacketed portion is baffled in any way? Or is it just a 2" tube inside of an empty 3" tube?

UPDATE:

Since my initial post back in September, we've added a 2nd shift for additional barrel production capacity. We have around 1000 barrels of capacity currently available for the remainder of 2023.

We've had to increase our minimums to 24 barrels for our standard mash bills (MB#1: 19% Rye  MB#2: 19% Wheat) and 48 barrels for custom mash bills.

Here's the link to our contract services page on our website that we'll keep updated as this post ages: https://oldglorydistilling.com/contract-distilling/

Cheers,

Matt Cunningham

All - Coming up in 2023, we have excess distillation capacity that we're looking to fill on our 14" Vendome continuous copper column and doubler. We keep the 4 main grains on hand (corn, wheat, rye, and malted barley) as well as new #3 and #4 char white American oak barrels. Our minimum for a custom mash bill is 20 barrels, and if you don't want to take delivery of them immediately, we can store them in our barrel house as well. Pricing is mash bill and grain price dependent, but as of today, a standard new fill 80C-10R-10MB is around $1150/barrel. We're located in Clarksville, Tennessee about 45 minutes North of Nashville. If anyone has any interest, shoot me a PM or email to custom@oldglorydistilling.com

Cheers,

Matt Cunningham

Does anyone have any recommendations for bottle (glass) coders for an automated bottling line? The inkjet options seem to be the most cost effective up front, but we really like the CO2 laser options. Thanks in advance!

We're looking for a couple pallets of 750ml Moonshine Jugs to help us bridge the gap between now and when Piramal does another run. Anybody have any extra pallets they're willing to sell? Thanks!

Does anyone have any extra inventory of these they could spare? Our regular supplier is out of stock, and we need a pallet to hold us over until the next production run. Thanks in advance - Matt

Thanks for all that started and contributed to this thread already. We're now looking to add a control system to our dephlegmator, and just want to revive this thread to see if anyone else has done this with a PID. If so, would you mind posting specs/pics of your setup?

We plan to go the 4-20ma proportional valve route. 

Thanks in advance.

We're looking to setup a semi-automatic 50ml line with an ROPP capper. Is anyone already running a similar line or a stand alone 18mm ROPP capper? Any recommendations for equipment suppliers? Thanks in advance. 

On 12/1/2018 at 7:45 AM, indyspirits said:

We use a Zebra printer to print all of the required info. Initial investment is a significant ($1,200) but labels are about a penny each.

 

 

+1 on the Zebra thermal printer. We bought the ZP 450 used on ebay for around $200. It can print up to a 4"x6" label, and the rolls are cheap. And since it's a thermal printer, you never have to buy ink. 

We direct inject live steam to heat and use the jacket to cool.

Is this machine still available?

With the cost of smaller "half-sized" barrels being just as much if not more than the cost of regular 53 gallon barrels, has anyone simply half-filled a regular 53 gallon to achieve the same result?

Just off of the top of my head, I believe same concept of more surface area of wood to volume of liquid ratio would still apply. Thoughts?

We are!

• How to build a CO2 pump for fermentation gases
• Explain which materials are safe for handling alcohol and at what proof
• Have a "sources" page for companies that might sell an obscure piece of equipment or components commonly used in other industries, but that don't market to distilleries
• A "Things I've Learned"/"Things I'd Do Different" bullet point page ... that would actually make a good thread topic here.
• Explain simple things that we now take for granted:
  • How to dump cases of empty bottles onto a table for filling
  • Using a latex glove to separate & apply shrink sleeve flats to bottles
  • Inserting finished/labeled bottles into case partition slots at an angle/corner of the slot so the labels don't rip and tear getting caught on the sharp cardboard
  • The notch on the bottom of bottles indicates the center of the back of the bottle
• Show different ways barrels can be stacked/palletized
• How to unload loose barrels off of a semi
• Cost effective and efficient examples of grain handling systems

We run a 500 gallon still with a dephlegmator and also a 1000 gallon cooker . We have a 2500 gallon water/glycol tank that we recirculate, but we also use a chiller/heat exchanger loop to rechill the water before it goes out to the still and cooker. The chiller is a must for us. We've tried a stripping run without using the chiller and by the time we finished, the holding tank/incoming water temperature was over 90F.  Without the chiller, it would be days before we could run the still again - much less cool our mash. 

Completely agree. I should've phrased my original post to be geared more towards the gift shop ... not tasting bar. For us, we're glad to be able to serve our spirits in cocktails, but we're not set up to be a hangout cocktail bar. 

Has anyone made simple changes to their retail tasting rooms/gift shops that have positively impacted revenue? Things that made you wish you would've done them long ago? 

Maybe it was starting to offer gift cards or case discounts or a wider variety of products?

Or maybe you literally started asking the "Would you like fries with that?" question in regards to another product or piece of merchandise.

Even though this will undoubtedly vary by market, I'd love to hear everyone's ideas and success stories.

-Matt

@HedgeBird Those look incredible!

What kind of material is everyone having their stencils made from?

3 hours ago, Stumpy's said:

We built a stand for one of the boxes shown in the link:

http://www.bulkcontainerexpress.com/p/BH574565-HB.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwnubLBRC_ARIsAASsNNmaBQof6bn8QtG51BJG9y2wWPZHL4jsZ79LpTpXVj2e_Cw7d2UqjkEaArw4EALw_wcB

We just set the box on the stand above the mill and use the slide that's built into the box for controlling the grain flow. We do 2k lb per batch this way and it works like a charm.

@Stumpy's Your setup sounds absolutely perfect. Did you build it out of wood or weld up a stand? Could you post a picture of it?