Distilling Equipment

20 March, 2023

What is a Grist Hydrator?

What Is a Grist Hydrator? A grist hydrator is a very handy and easily overlooked piece of mashing equipment that every brewery and distillery should be pretty familiar with. People don’t promote grist hydrators too…

16 March, 2023

Distillery Planning Series: Batch vs. Continuous

Batch distilling has been around for thousands of years, and somehow there’s always something new to learn about the process and how it all works. Distillation itself is a commonly used process in various industries…

7 March, 2023

Differences of a Copper Onion, Helmet & Expansion Chamber

Copper has been a staple material in the distillation of alcohol for centuries. Its unique properties make it an ideal choice for creating essential components of distillation apparatuses such as onion-shaped stills, expansion chambers, and…

1 March, 2023

4 Ways to Be a Greener Brewery

Becoming a green brewery or distillery is a very broad topic, with lots of possibilities! However, it is easy to start becoming an environmentally friendly brewery. With Global Warming upon us, a lot of breweries…

12 February, 2023

Distilling Equipment Benefits of Having a Bluetooth Thermometer

When it comes to distilling with the humble pot still, I have always believed that utilizing a thermometer was, at best, a superfluous luxury. Vapor production with a 10% beer typically starts right around 190°F.…

11 January, 2023

A Guide to the 3 Chamber Still

For those of you new to the distilling world, a 3-chamber still is a semi-continuously fed still that has a reputation for producing very robust, aromatic finished spirits. Most notably rye whiskey and rum. Evidently,…

3 January, 2023

3 Benefits of Investing in a DoubleDragon

Welcome to January's new blog posts with StillDragon! We hope that you all were able to enjoy the holidays with family and friends! What we are going to be talking about today is a lot,…

15 December, 2022

Choosing The Right Distillery Equipment

Choosing distilling equipment can be about as complicated a task as you want it to be but it isn’t as daunting as it can seem at first. Distilling has been practiced for thousands of years,…

1 December, 2022

Starting a Gin Distillery: What to Know

By Larry Taylor If you are seriously considering getting into the distilling business, the first thing you’ll need to understand is that you had better be passionate about spirits and all the work needed to gain…

25 October, 2022

Why StillDragon Prefers Plated Columns to Packed Columns

Quite often, we have been asked about mixing different distillation mediums, the differences and whether or not to install a copper packing material with plate sections in your vodka still column? Truthfully, a hybrid solution…

4 October, 2022

How Much Does It Cost To Run A Still?

Distillery overhead is sometimes hard to pin down because each product has different variable costs. Fixed costs are relatively easy to calculate since you’re likely not hiring new employees or buying new equipment every month…

26 September, 2022

Stop Buying the Wrong Vodka Still – Vodka Columns: Single vs Double

Vodka stills come up pretty often around here and we’ve written several articles about them in the past year. Whether you’re using our Crystal Dragon, Stainless Steel, or Copper Column, it’s important to make sure…