Sugarlands Distillery has largest pot still in the US

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Interesting article but look at their pot still in comparison to the person installing it.
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Nice! 4,500 gallon boiler feeding a four plate 36” CM column. Looks like a 3” feed into the column. Will 3” be adequate for my baby boiler? Lol...

I wonder if they strip/spirit and fill that with low wines? Pretty massive!
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I wonder if they strip/spirit and fill that with low wines? Pretty massive!
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I was doing some math on that. Pretty unreal numbers
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Sugarlands … don’t they make Mark & Digger’s recipes?
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Yes, i think a few of em got together and started it, i know several from the show have theirs there
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Kick ass still. I guess what bothers me is when they call taxed un-aged whiskey “moonshine”.
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Stonecutter wrote: Sun Jul 25, 2021 1:35 pm Kick ass still. I guess what bothers me is when they call taxed un-aged whiskey “moonshine”.
So that the hipsters buy it.
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Deplorable wrote: Sun Jul 25, 2021 1:47 pm
Stonecutter wrote: Sun Jul 25, 2021 1:35 pm Kick ass still. I guess what bothers me is when they call taxed un-aged whiskey “moonshine”.
So that the hipsters buy it.
Haha!! Exactly
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Personally I hope they're successful. Assuming they continue to use TN grains. This keeps beautiful farms from turning into subdivisions.

Living in Tennessee, I'm passionate about keeping money local when possible. When I decided that in the interest of final product looks. I chose to buy a custom TN built still, rather than build my own.( didn't trust my craftsmanship ) By doing so I helped a family one county over. Instead of filling someone's pocket several states away.

I hope tourist continue to visit the distilleries in Sevier County and across the State. I wish them luck
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SmokyMtn wrote: Thu Jul 29, 2021 5:10 am Personally I hope they're successful. Assuming they continue to use TN grains. This keeps beautiful farms from turning into subdivisions.

Living in Tennessee, I'm passionate about keeping money local when possible. When I decided that in the interest of final product looks. I chose to buy a custom TN built still, rather than build my own.( didn't trust my craftsmanship ) By doing so I helped a family one county over. Instead of filling someone's pocket several states away.

I hope tourist continue to visit the distilleries in Sevier County and across the State. I wish them luck
I understand where you are coming from. In our state years and years ago they took a valley that was great farm land and made it into industrial buildings. I always felt they should of saved the farm area and built on the foothills.
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Bushman wrote: Thu Jul 29, 2021 5:47 am
SmokyMtn wrote: Thu Jul 29, 2021 5:10 am Personally I hope they're successful. Assuming they continue to use TN grains. This keeps beautiful farms from turning into subdivisions.

Living in Tennessee, I'm passionate about keeping money local when possible. When I decided that in the interest of final product looks. I chose to buy a custom TN built still, rather than build my own.( didn't trust my craftsmanship ) By doing so I helped a family one county over. Instead of filling someone's pocket several states away.

I hope tourist continue to visit the distilleries in Sevier County and across the State. I wish them luck
I understand where you are coming from. In our state years and years ago they took a valley that was great farm land and made it into industrial buildings. I always felt they should of saved the farm area and built on the foothills.
Yep. Its happening still to this day. Great farm land in Kent, Puyallup Orting, South Prairie, etc. all being covered in concrete warehouses, and subdivisions, while we ship in food from other areas adding to the cost for the consumer.
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By local! Always benefits the community rather than shareholders. Have watched three flyshops go belly up to the big box retailers and internet in my own community and over the last 40 years have seen millions of black gumbo river bottom farm land get sub-divided and covered in concrete between my home and Dallas. Please don't get me started.
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To change directions a bit looking at the guy on the boiler and the size difference, how would you like to do the leak testing on a rig that big?
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Instead of pressure testing it, I'd only pour it full with water to see if it leaked.
That and have a water trap for a PRV to protect the copper pot from vacuum and over pressure. :wink:
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Stonecutter wrote: Sun Jul 25, 2021 1:35 pm Kick ass still. I guess what bothers me is when they call taxed un-aged whiskey “moonshine”.
Just my 2 cents worth.
To call taxed un-aged whiskey “moonshine” doesn't bother me.
I'm rather proud they are making whiskey, instead of buying GNS and bottling it like many folks do. :thumbup:
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When I use the word “they” I mean legal distilleries in general. It’s a gimmick to use the word moonshine so I am not a fan. I’d still drink their booze. I try to buy local and craft when I can. It broke my heart when I discovered that one of my favorite local distilleries (High West) got most of their products from MGP. I still drink their swill. High West has come out with a un-aged whiskey they simply called “Silver”. Not a huge fan of fads and gimmicks just my 2 cents :wink:
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The smoke and mirrors of marketing... Just set a couple drams of different make side by side and judge it by how it tastes and the consumption experience. I do enjoy a nice clean white middle hearts jar but not typically the unaged stuff that’s sold along with a tiny little barrel.
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Certainly is pretty.
If I was setting up a commercial still it would be stainless rather than copper but I suppose marketing over enginerding.
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tiramisu wrote: Fri Jul 30, 2021 11:11 am Certainly is pretty.
If I was setting up a commercial still it would be stainless rather than copper but I suppose marketing over enginerding.
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ShineonCrazyDiamond wrote: Fri Jul 30, 2021 11:50 am
tiramisu wrote: Fri Jul 30, 2021 11:11 am Certainly is pretty.
If I was setting up a commercial still it would be stainless rather than copper but I suppose marketing over enginerding.
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No I mean marketing.
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Generations of experience would disagree
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