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    I'd second salish. https://www.mountainroseherbs.com/is an excellent supplier of high quality organic botanicals
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    Ilias, ive listened to a few of the podcasts and they are good. Well produced, informative and insightful. Keep up the good work and best of luck with your venture
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    Dylan, Welcome to the community. There is a wealth of knowledge and experience to be had here on the forum. Best of luck on your journey down the distillery road
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    Hi Matt, welcome to our little community. There is a wealth of knowledge to be found here. Best of luck on your journey down the distillery road
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    I'd say no on the groupon it devalues your tour and from my experience has yielded low increase in foot traffic
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    Well said Mash. Id also say that if you start with a slightly higher than expected price, you can always lower price to increase sales. It is safer to take this route than to start with a low price that competes with big distilleries. If you participate in the price race to the bottom you will encounter big problems if you try to raise your prices in the future.
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    Bring back an old thread here with a more specific question. How many employees full time does your company have? When I say full time employees this includes the owner of a company. How many cases per year are you selling? To break it down further if your do have employees. How many sales people versus production people? Id love to hear some input on this
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    Latkasimka, good to hear the momentum is starting to roll for you, As your sales continue to grow a whole new set of hurdles will arrive with staffing challenges and many other roadblocks. In the meantime congrats on things going good!
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    Tours are a small but important part of our business. We do our tours on a drop in basis and give as few as one tour to as many as 10 in a weekend. Foot traffic varies widely for us and stumpy is right, a good tour will nearly ensure bottle sales
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    Hi George, If you want to do the drive to Buellton, Id be glad to show you around Ascendant Spirits. PM me if your interested
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    I would reccomend something other than tube in shell. A friend ruined a 1" tube in shell when he attempted to pump a high rye bourbon through it and the mash turned to a dense sticky mess. It clogged so badly that we had to cut open the tube in shell to clear out the clog and weld it back together. We use an immersion chiller here at our place. It works great and takes the temp on a 500 gallon mash from 150 degrees to 85 in about 90 minutes
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    Hi Dillon, Welcome to the forum. What distillery are you working at?
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    John, welcome to our little community. There is a wealth of knowledge to be learned from our forum. Best of luck in the long endeavor ahead.
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    Welcome to the forum John. Please take a minute to post to the welcome introduce section of the forum and tell us a little bit about yourself
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    Heads, Hearts and Tails tanks. The three tanks are there to make it easy when you make your cuts.
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    http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article42965967.html Has anyone heard this story, or could provide more details as to what happened?
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    Yes and no. The law was signed into effect but the legislation does not go into place until the new year. Once the legislation is in place it will create a new permit to allow for direct to consumer bottle sales. You must then apply for said permit before you can sell bottles. If you need more info about this talk with cris at the CADG he knows more about it than i do
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    Joe, welcome to the forum. it is a long winding road indeed and a very rewarding one as well
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    +1 on tapi. great products service and prices
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    BBQ more often. Heads = great lighter fluid
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    Latkas, we have had some luck selling ours to homebrewers and local breweries. We also reuse some of our bourbon barrels to lay down corn whiskey for a few years down the road
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    Robert welcome to the forum and the industry. Best of luck as you grow your knowledge and craft
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    Steve, what you have read is correct. The hopped beer foams ALOT and the foam if it makes it to your column will clog up everything. That said, hopped beer also makes a delicous single malt
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    sundays are WAY slow for us. Not really sure if it is worth it to staff our tasting room on sunday
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    1+ on sonnys comment. wash your bottles with spirit and you can fill immediately. closed loop rinse system makes it easy
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