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Some of our beardos have efficiently used the beard nets (like hair nets but beard nets) to help better seal their respirators. On the other hand our bearded dragons simply use their extended facial hairs tied like a shemagh around their craniums to filter grain dust. The choice is yours bearded one.

-I like HFS' Orphan Girl and Neversweat. -I still haven't found anyone who can make a better old-fashioned than me if I have a bottle of Starlight's Private reserve brandy on hand. -I believe that bluecoat gin is phenomenal and I can't wait to try some of Cassell's other products out of his new operation in philly (and elsewheres) -Mississippi River Distilling Company makes (or made) an unbelievable coffee liqueur. -I like death's door's gin, but Im gonna credit JJ on that instead of the distillery- can't wait to see what the Bently heritage estate has in store for us big dog! -Although not craft distilled, it absolutely was "craftfully" blended (and around here we have a saying that we probably stole from else where: Distillers are rock stars, blenders are porn stars.) the original Bourye from highwest was delectable. I have a half a bottle saved for a rainy day but I don't know what occasion will actually call for that much fantastic

Hey guys, slot drain is in and I love it.... I'll respond directly to some comments below and then I'll let a sleeping thread lie..... Lenny: The slot drain for sure looks really good. We have hard plumbed drains for most of our tanks/vessels into our trenches so I'm not removing a lot of grates on my standard trenches, but I do see why that would be a concern in other facilities. The slot drain systems have a catch basin with a strainer basket, you can pop the top on there and run the hose straight into the basin to drain just like a standard floor trench, I would remove the strainer basket for that application but who knows, maybe someone is trying to fish a lost hat out of the mash [don't ask ; )]! Silk City: The 9000 model can be hard plumped for CIP or one could affix a nipple for temporary hook up for CIP. Also all models come "flush flow" ready, so you can plumb a line, or rig up your own temporary removable hook up to that line, to help keep things fresh and flushed. The paddle helps as well. I have found that partially blocking the drain into the basin and running weak CIP concentration fluid through there cleans it like a dream! The CIP functionality is really cool though especially if you're doing a range of whacky products (trench drains can sometimes turn into a dunder pit, as you know you cleaned yours all day last month!) The "flush flow" helps not only for cleaning and rinsing the drain, but also can help with getting rid of material that is too hot for your drain system. We haven't done that because our build included cast iron plumbing for this exact reason, but it popped into my head while I was typing this up. Skaalvenn I can imagine, you would probably lose many. But then think of the feeling you'll get when you FOUND THEM ALL IN THE STRAINER BASKET! Philstill- I hear you on that and you are absolutely right on your +1s, but all that equates to time away from product development, distillation and fermenting time, and time to do paper work! As for your other concern, I think depending on ones mash method and dist. style we all have different specific needs. Our mash for instance is essentially homogenous, very thick but virtually no solids and I would rather us flush solids down the toilet, or if they're organic throw them into our compost then send them to water treatment in our regular drain lines. We haven't had any issues with flow rate, and I don't see one arising. We haven't been in the situation where an amount of liquid so great needed to be drained that it would pool and begin filling the room with fluid, which is kind of what I envision from your statement. So at the end of the day, everyones operation is different and so are the needs of those systems, but in our operation the slot drain has thus far been a success! All of our stillage is repurposed though and we do not deal with a lot of solids going down drains so if that is your reality maybe it wouldn't be the best application for you who knows, but if thats not your reality you might really love the slot drain! Cheers y'all!

We have a lot of great vendors here in dairyland but a few tips from hard lessons learned- have your probes/therms calibrated and tested regularly, make sure lines to and from your therms are of the appropriate resistance for the system you're trying to integrate into, and make sure your controls (whatever they are simple or advanced) are wired correctly and tested often. Quality therms themselves are great but they need adequate infrastructure to support them, which requires maintanenance.

I'd like to see inside of fermenters near the corners where sides of walls meet bottom and also one of theta edge of the walls from the top looking straight down, am interested!

Also, if you go deep into tails, it sounds like you're not doing stripping runs but it would also happen very late in a strip if you go low, are you getting black fatty/waxy/ashy residue coming through? Do you run a parrot/spirit safe?

Can you show pic of your distillate? Are your dephlegs guts copper? How big is your boiler and can you fit inside of it? We had some similar issues a while back during our commissioning process we got all types of wild colored distillates if you wanna talk through some of our solutions

Do a forum search and you will find a lot of negative reviews on this forum..... they seem like great people when Ive met them at the expo but from what I've read they seem over stretched and way behind on lead times and they haven't corrected their estimated time frames..... Good luck!

Update: We have installed a 9 ft 8 in slotdrain in prod area where we had to repour to fix flow issues. After my concrete has cured and we pour flocrete I will update on how I've liked system and wether I recommend for others, so check back in about 1 month.

Compare your lab work to organic and see what chemicals from farming come through with your distillate.... I know not everyone agrees, but we believe that organic farming to feed the earth is not a sustainable long term solution, but that it does have merit in terms of distillate mash for flavor as well as chemical composition. Flavor wise: maybe not so much in a sweet corn mash which we don't cook anyways, but using organic heritage corn over Briess commercial gives us better flavor in our Rye (R, C, M) and Bourbon Mashes (C, W, M). Edit: And Organic Certified Spirits means a distillery uses certified source for organic grains, in a certified organic facility using an organic process. If you deviate form one of those three, a spirit is not certified organic.

Out of curiosity could you just swap out the kettle for a larger size and run the same column?

I don't mean to hijack but what if you made a beer from a mash entirely of cereal and used hops in a botanical chamber?

We have what we call LMFs set up where the distributor and I both put a buck a case into a local fund for use in that market. This is money to help cover cost of tastings, special menu printings, specialty POS items, events and promotions, cosponsored marketing material, help offset cost of holiday VAPs etc. We monitor the balance of the account with the distributor and we both have to agree for any money to be used.

What type of programming are you doing w your dist?

Less is always more in print. Concision is key, attention span has diminished beyond existence in most consumers. Just be wary of inventory, I have seen hundreds of thousands of dollars in POS rotting away in distributor sales warehouses that never actually gets picked up or utilized by reps (until the day you come in for a work with) No one will sell your brand if you don't. You can provide the best marketing materials and see no results if you aren't in the market working with reps yourself. Be your own disciple. The key to distribution is multiplying yourself.

Hawkeye here! That is some sweet hardware amigo. I'm in WI I'll have to drop down with my COO sometime and check you guys out.

We're thinking of installing a 15 foot section in Jan. to see if we want to convert for our expansion, I'll keep you guys updated on how it goes. I'm sick of power washing trenches, bring on the CIP!

I don't want to trash any supplier I haven't actually purchased from publicly- but check your DMS!

We had same issues with repurposing similar tanks by same brand. I emailed tankinfo@johnwood.com and we figured out a calibration sheet for us to use.....

They'll ferm its all sucrose glucose and fructose Theres a spirit called Warragi made all over Africa in former UK colonial countries.... IN war time when gin stocks were low in colonies the troops recruited local help to ferment and distill local fruit- often one of the many species of african bananas was a major constituent of most of the mashes...... Term "Warragi" developed from linguistic differences between colonial soldiers and locals, "War Gin" morphed into the vernacular "Warragi"

Snake oil salesmen. Don't contact this boner. If he were any good at marketing he would have one, if not multiple, brands in market. "Spinning" a story like he says is actually lying. The state of the union in our industry: People are getting sued for "marketing" (lies). Theres a difference between outrageous advertising (John Jameson diving in the sea etc.) and untruthful marketing (lying about your experience, qualification, process, heritage, etc). [insert double bird here]

Dead piling in vertical storage stacks on pallets is far more efficient safer to handle and will allow you to fit more barrels then traditional ricking structures or using racks. One thing you can do is seal the bung mid barrel and drill out a hole on the top, then pump in and out through top- this will make handling barrels exponentially easier quicker and safer- but you lose the romance of rolling barrels around and popping that stave mounted bung cheers bro

Dead piling in vertical storage stacks on pallets is far more efficient safer to handle and will allow you to fit more barrels then traditional ricking structures or using racks. One thing you can do is seal the bung mid barrel and drill out a hole on the top, then pump in and out through top- this will make handling barrels exponentially easier quicker and safer- but you lose the romance of rolling barrels around and popping that stave mounted bung cheers bro

Give us some still porn stats here, this is just a beer stripper right? How many plates? Height and number of columns (if its not a beer stripper)? Where will you be located? Welcome to the team!

If i was purchasing equipment again on that budget I would go to Affordable and get the most rockstar shit I could afford.