Craft distilleries are booming, but the real boom still hasnt quite hit, growth seems to be exponential, we've consistently doubled sales every year since starting we've got a couple more years till we're really in the thick of it.
5 years ago there were less than 10 craft distilleries in the USA, a year ago there were about 200, now there are over 500.
We have quite a variety of customers running our stills, Bourbon is a common product, as are Rye and Wheat whiskeys. Craft Vodka is booming, but I think rum is ready to go crazy.
I have a Client in Hawaii making rum agricole from Native Hawaiian Sugar Cane Species that were on the brink of extinction. unlike most rum agricole, this tastes fantastic.
another client is making corn whiskey and Bourbon from Heirloom corn varieties, that go from ground to the bottle within less than 2 mile radius.
there is lots of neat stuff out there, all these little craft distilleries are fantastic to visit if you appreciate the hands on nature of any sort of craft production.
I do all my design work in AutoCAD, and all my calculations in Excel, there is little published on the math for distillation systems, I had to develop my own model and refine it through experience. Our first designs proved out well, but we've found a number of places where performance could be honed.
You can see a
map of all the distilleries running our Equipment, its about 4 months out of date, we've deliver quite a few more systems since it was last updated.