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SlickFloss

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  1. Malic îs great Lactic is great too depends on your spirit type and your product goals Citric adjustments have been something identified by spirit judges as a noticeable flaw in some distillates, not everyone who has ever adjusted with citric but some in contests have received that feedback. In my experience through my career working with a few larger operations in and around Louisville and cinci citric adjustments sparingly used except for in infected ferms just my .02 Slick
  2. It is not industry standard (to my knowledge) for storage agreements to gauge barrels for transfers in bond. Almost every large scale storage only operation is usually not liable for loss or leaks via contractual protections. Usually worded somewhere along the lines of taking reasonable best action to identify problematic inventory but not liable for losses. If your business is to handle barrel storage for other people, protect yourself from losses up front contractually and charge for all your time on the account (sample pulls etc.).
  3. We can run custom runs for you if your interested in white dog (tankers, totes, new bourbon barrels if YOU can get them)
  4. Sour beers are full of what are known in whiskey as faults (acetics etc) I have elected to not even plant that field Could be wrong just my .02
  5. You will not have a better yield removing yeasts, you will have less yield you will lose ethanol in that filtration. They're probably thinking yeast yikes activity yikes but they're not keeping into account the yeast are pulverized into oblivion and no longer alive, thus non active. The large consequences to address for waste water treatment are BOD (biological oxygen demand), TSS (suspended solids), and PH (assuming all your alcohol is out of refuse stream). Biological Oxygen demand can really only be addressed with dissolved oxygen- oxygenated water or ozone. If the other two are handled this one has more leeway. PH can be adjusted, needs to be neutral. PH cannot feasibly be diluted out it must be chemically adjusted, getting close to neutral PH with a large volume has the same impacts on the system as a high PH in a small slug. TSS can be diluted, but it makes your refuse stream larger (which makes neutrality that much more important).
  6. Your team sucks and your boss is a loser totally kidding I love you
  7. It would need to be incredibly sanitary. Ethanol will grab ahold of any malodors and bacteria love to infect barrels. Legally it couldn’t have a dirt floor and practically it’s be difficult to manage inventory with a dirt floor. Polished concrete floor for palletized storage or single story rick or poured footings pad and floating pad for multi story ricks
  8. Hey swimming I’m PMing you right now
  9. Run off a gas burner or are you using a fire box? If the latter I would recommend exploring ways that you keep the firebox somewhat "outside" in a sheltered area and you flue the fire box to the still and then your exhaust vent runs to the other side of the building/structure and you look to keep your still on the process side inside or in a generally sheltered area. Not recommending you just do it blindly, recommend you explore ways.
  10. planning to move a distillery later is a very large expense that needs to be understood up front. You are literally redoing all infrastructure expenses (process piping, steam piping, plumbing, etc.). You're paying to move all essential equipment a second time. Re set the equipment. Recertify it depending on your state. Ugh...... Thats a hard commitment!
  11. So I’m gonna throw a bit of high level chemistry at you here rather absurdly and not go into any of it….. -a barrel is a solution of etoh water aldehydes etc and gas contained in wood that is not sealed - whatever room that barrel is in is a solution of gases solids liquids all struggling to reach equilibrium -hunidity and temperature (so end of the day literally basically pressure right) will impact barrels aging as they try to reach equilibrium -drier atmosphere lose more water proof go up more humid lose more etoh proof go down -the “interaction” of oak and wood essentially ceases under 40 f -the best place in the world to make young commodity bourbon is basically Kentucky and its peers latitudinally (longitudinally? Left to right!!!) because it has full aging cycles daily. Even in winter the ricks will get warm enough to encourage aging and nights will go dormant to reawaken in the morn -Always open to questions. If you’d like help designing an aging facility, distillery, or barrel storage in general were available as consultants. We have 7k barrels aging in our open air Rickhouse currently with plans for additional storage coming soon. cheers slick
  12. We have one we made ourselves have to order the volumetric filler custom wrve been audited on this twice already so be careful! As soon as they hear you’re doing this they will come, and if you’re not nuts on (we were) you’re fucked also, no one will build this for you affordably. Contract it out for cash or do it yourself. Definitely reccomend getting a verified/certified volumetric filler
  13. You need to provide more information on the original still before anyone can diagnose your problem with scaling. It's likely a method issue but without more information there's no way to be sure.
  14. This thread is like 6/7 years old. Wtf.
  15. We use an in ground water reservoir for a closed loop cooling system off our big column that has a loop through the warehouse floor for heating in winter. Using the resevoir without the chill water tower operating is not enough coolant to last a single shift and that was when it had been below 0 outside for quite a while. You could possibly find a solution depending on the reality of your geography. You’d be better off making a closed loop system for yourself. Or scavenging into totes for cleaning mashing etc per Paul’s Rec
  16. Ripping PGs in south central WI and do a lot of consulting work, my cv is available in the form of a tour of our facility, welcome to the community good luck
  17. Not trying to squabble for consulting business throw mud or undercut anyone but I could smoke that quote…. Paul could likely get you a quote cheaper than that and he has great resources for additional support in operation….. if your ever looking for some custom work stuff always quote him out on it we got and awesome dual filter cart from him…. Youd need to make sure your lyne arm can keep up with your kettle and your condensors with both of those. As long as you check those boxes and tbey create a connected path physically anything can be a still.
  18. 100% any kettle can be turned into a still it just depends on budget which ultimately will limit efficiency (not just cost but run time).
  19. Ground whole grain? Screened? How much is your indeterminant amount of water? Is it 20 gallons? More? Less? I’m assuming you have checked the upper maximum temp of your alpha amylase enzyme with your supplier.
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