looks like this ha sold. why not remove it from the forum?
https://www.distillerytrail.com/suppliers/listing/kothe-1000-liter-and-kothe-2000-liter-stills-and-related-equipment-for-sale/
it is bigger than the opening. you can spin it in, or move it back and forth. it's not that difficult. We have used a smaller one (seen in the background of one of the photos), but the bigger one is much more efficient.
We are selling this coil. we used it with a mixer in a 330 gallon stainless steel hoover tote to cool our mash. it has a thermometer well, a fork lift hook-up, and stainless cam-lock fittings.
we are asking $1,200.
brad@flatrockspirits.com
We used 15 gallon barrels for our bourbon. We dumped the first bottling at 2 years. the bourbon won a bronze medal at the San Diego spirits festival, and a gold medal at the '15 ACSA conference. Each bottling after that had aged longer until the last 15 gallon barrels we dumped were 3 years old. We felt like it got better.
We were told that we couldn't hand write the proof on our labels. Has anybody else had this problem in the past? if we have to print labels for each bottling of "Cask strength" whiskey it's going to be costly.
any thoughts?
Can anybody show me diagrams of starch molecules that we are dealing with in a whiskey mash? The starch in the grain is changed during the cooking process to make the conversion process more effective, right? I'd love to have big starch molecules painted on the wall in the different forms...does that make me a nerd?
Brad
we use a la milpa bur mill. wish we would have gone with the hammer mill. we like the bur mill, but it's slower than the hammer mill.
http://www.csbellco.com/hammer-mills.asp
Is anyone using caramel to color rum? We had planned to do this but we are having trouble getting a dark enough color without the caramel tasting bad. We are looking for a good way to color a spiced rum. Thanks for any help.
Brad
We have an issue with our bourbon. it's bottled at 90 proof. we filtered it using a 1 micron filter. now we have snowflake/jellyfish looking things suspended in the bottles. we are needing to bottle more and want to get it right. our chiller only chills to 35f. is that cold enough to chill filter? is this an issue that chill filtering will solve? maybe a .45 micron filter fixes it? thanks for the great info.
Brad
Very cool. Congratulations! We received a bronze as well for our bourbon. Happy to have another award, it adds credibility to our brand....i hope.
Brad
We submitted our Stillwrights Straight Bourbon Whiskey to be judged, and still haven't heard any results from the judges. Some of the reviews i read about the event were less than impressive. Wish i could have been there. What were your thoughts?
Brad
We built ours. it's not as beautiful as some, OK, it's not beautiful at all. But the thing damn thing works! We would love to have a big beautiful Vendome still someday, but for now we'll settle for our homemade version.
Brad
Has anyone changed a label from exemption to cert. of label approval? I'd like to do that with all of our products and wondered how long the process will take.
Thanks,
Brad