Forgive me, I'm sure this has been covered or I should have seen it in the regs, but I haven't been able to find this in my searches. What are the regulation regarding building your own still? We are looking at taking over a brewery, so the only large piece of equipment we need is the pot still. As everything else in place, we are hoping to start making some lovely product as soon as we can get through our licensing (changing it with TTB and local gov from brewery to distillery), but many of the builders I've talked to have at least 5 month build times. We have guys on our team with a ton of engineering and welding experience (a few bored aerospace engineers), but how is this handled by the TTB? do we submit still designs along with our floor plan? is this something we can't do without a separate license? Any insight the pros on here can give us is much appreciated.
Cheers,
Josh