DISTILLING SERVICES
DISTILLERY Solutions
Our experienced distillery consultants & engineers will work to find innovative, cost-efficient, sustainable solutions that will help your distillery grow. Our multi-leveled approach considers all of the individual elements of your distillery – from proper business planning and design layouts, to equipment selection & sourcing, as well as regulatory standards and safety procedures you’ll need in place.
We will also look at the entire production process you’ll use for creating your spirits, and assist on workflow items like process flow design, water treatment & waste-water requirements, and ingredient selection & sourcing to ensure you are producing and selling the best products in the market. Whether you’re starting a distillery from scratch or have been making award-winning spirits in your current facility for years, our team here at BoozeWerks will create a custom solution for your business.
PLANNING & STARTUP ASSISTANCE
Business Planning
Our team is available to help & consult with you on your existing business plan for your new distillery. We can assist with general guidance on numbers and business practices to fine-tune your plan to be ready to put in front of investors and small-business loan officers.
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If you do not have the time to run down numbers and generate that plan, let us build it for you!
Facility Design
You have the perfect location in mind, but you don’t know what’s the best way to set it up? The BoozeWerks team are experts at making sure your space will fit your needs when it comes to equipment production workflows. Need to make sure the Barrel Room is big enough? That you have enough fermenters to keep the still running? Have that “speak-easy” space for the customers to visit? We’ll take care of it.
Plus, if you already have an Architecture/Engineering team on board your project, our distillery consultants can assist them in knowing what standard industry practices & design requirements they should be using in helping you develop the final design, as well as leave room for growth.
Equipment Selection and Sourcing
What’s my budget? Pot vs Column Still? Copper or Stainless? Barreled for 3 years or 6? Rye or Corn? Bottles, Labels, Corks/Tops?
When deciding on what equipment you need and where you need to order it from, there are sometimes an overwhelming number of choices. When you need to have a good handle on exactly what it is you’ll require and when it needs to be there to make the dream come true, that’s where the BoozeWerks Team can get you squared away. We can shop the various manufacturers to find the right equipment, at the right price, in the right timeframe to hit the project’s budget goals.
Workflow design & Compliance
Regulatory Standards & Compliance
How well do you know the TTB Regulations, or your local jurisdiction’s alcohol rules? Your ‘Bonded Facility’ area vs your ‘Tax-Paid’ section? Our distillery consultants here at BoozeWerks are well versed in how to approach the various rules & regulations that you need to know to run your distillery. Each location has its own rules specific to that town/county/state/country and we can help you navigate these pitfalls.
Workflow & Process Design
When it comes to workflow and how the facility is laid out, minor adjustments or specific design elements can make a big difference. One of the most important aspects of thinking through what the production process will be (besides just mashing, fermenting, distilling & aging) drives a number of design decisions as to where and why we place equipment and working spaces in the spots we put them. Delivery entrances & grain holding areas, bottling & distribution accessibility, hard versus flexible piping, and more are just some of the items that can affect workflow design.
Marketing & Media Planning
I’ve got a web page, and an Instagram account – that’s all I need, right? In the modern digital marketplace, you not only need to control the name-space for your brand, but you need to know how to utilize the various platforms to their fullest potential. What venues are of more value in your specific geographic location vs somewhere else? How do I let the world know that we exist once we open the doors? Our marketing experts can assist you in knowing what platforms are of value to your business, and which ones are worth ignoring
Workflow design & Compliance
Safety Planning
The BoozeWerks team will help you create & have the proper safety procedures in place to operate your facility in a controlled manner. Where & how are chemicals being stored? Are your employees wearing the appropriate protective gear? Do you have the proper equipment to handle an emergency? Which personnel are trained and approved to handle certain job duties vs others? Proper safety rules and procedures are of utmost importance and go a long ways in ensuring a quality working environment & final product.
Production Efficiency
We’re getting 81% efficiency and it’s taking us 4-hours to do our stripping run. Is that good or is that bad? For facilities that are already up and running, we can assist in tracking down those little ‘bugs’ in your process that are hurting your bottom line. Saving a little loss of product here, shaving a some process time there – and suddenly you can boost your numbers by a few % – and that’s real money in your pocket. Our BoozeWerks team can analyze your current process and recommend where you could find the best cost savings that will affect your bottom line.
Expansion Design
Your barrel room is bursting at the seams, your production capacity is maxed out, and you’ve got orders from your distributors sitting in your inbox. It sounds like it’s time for an expansion – but how do you go about that process? Do you expand in place? Do you look at a second facility? or Do you move everything into a new & larger location? Running a current business while trying to plan an expansion can be daunting, and our distillery consultants can ease some of that burden with whatever expansion project you have in mind and get you started on that path toward even greater revenues.