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The refurbished original Willett column still  is housed in this 4-story building

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This lovely copper pot still was built to the Kulsveen's
specifications by Vendome, Inc., perhaps the premier
manufacturer of American whiskey distilling equipment.


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Like many European-style pot-still/column still hybrids
it has what amounts to a complete column still array
of switchable plates and taps. However, these are
installed in a tapering "gooseneck" tower, such as
are usually seen only on dedicated pot stills. This allows
the distiller to close all the valves and use the equipment
as a simple pot still, or open them up and use it like
a copper column still, which is how Drew Kulsveen made
the whiskey for the first sixty barrels they produced in January

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Check out the complexity of the condensers. Alcohol vapor can
be routed into just about any sequence the distillery wants in order
to produce the results s/he is looking for.

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The cisterns that Molly is looking at are the original cisterns
used by the Willett distillery, at least from the 1940s

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These are the try-boxes for the pot still and the doubler.

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Tools of the Trade

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