Frequently Asked Questions

Pretty much the same way that barrel-aging works: base beverage, wood, time. No "special tricks" are required. That being said, "special tricks" can be used in the process and have been provided for in the PATENTED process. 

This is easy to do. If you can make a mash, or make wine, or any of the things that are done to make alcoholic beverages, then you can do this. The more-advanced options possible in the process do take more care if you were to choose to go that route, but they aren't requirements by any means.

No, you don't need any of that. As stated above, though, if you want to be a chemical head or physics nerd then both the process and the PATENT are set up to accomodate you and you can have at it and push the envelope. Whatever new things that you figure out are yours to keep.

This is one of those difficult to answer questions, as it depends on many things: What are you making? What is your end market? How much flavor profile depth? Do you have a very basic system, or is it a more-capable version? What is the starting quality of your base material? Etc., etc.  But, typically and without getting bogged down into the nit-picking depths of dot-chasing, you can have a finished product in 1 - 8 hours. Longer doesn't usually hurt and can open up additional options, shorter tends to get a more-raw product if no other compensations are introduced. There are many variables here, and so there isn't just one answer. This is not a soda vending machine where you insert your cash and press a button; this is a fully-fledged process with a lot of possible variations.

The equipment costs are very reasonable given what you receive in return. Speaking of returns, with the equipment properly utilized ROIs should be considerably less than two years, more like one year or less using basic manufacturing cost/sales models. Similar to the prior question, this answer is dependent on many variables. For instance, the cost difference between a stripped-down absolute low-cost fully-manual budget system producing a completed batch in 24 hours and a fully-automated, fully-twinkle-bell-equipped doubly safety-redundant touchscreen PLC marvel producing the same volume of completed product in 1 hour would be fairly astonishing. Probably only the Bigger Boys could write a check for the latter system. For a data point, though, a stripped-down, cheap, cost-conscious, and very basic manual system capable of aging a 50 gallon batch in 1 - 3 hours would probably have hardware costs of somewhere in the $5000 - $15,000 range. Less than the lower end of that range is possible if you do all of your own fabrication. In the end, you get what you pay for.

You are responsible for your system costs, what you purchase from us is the PATENT process license fee in order to legally use this process and therefore receive patent protection from a competitor's non-legal use of the same. We do not pre-make and pre-package up pre-built units, there are too many customer-driven variables for that to work out well for either party.

That being said, please see the Services section of this website; we can help, advise, specify, or even build you a system that meets your various requirements if you so need. We can provide multiple variations of process system involvement depending on your needs, ranging from free advice/guidance up through full system design and fabrication. 

Because it allows you to produce lab quantities of 2L or thereabouts in the same short timeframe as the production equipment and, if you find something you like, immediately scale the lab settings up to whatever-sized production aging equipment you have; the product turns out the same. No guessing, no re-discovering, no lost production-sized batches trying to find the new settings to make that initial lab-produced flavor profile.

I would consider it unlikely to make it "taste just like Name Brand X" unless you are using their base.  Mash bills, grains/grapes/fruit/agave/molasses/etc. vendors and supplies, mashing/musting processes and procedures and timings, yeast strains used......all of these (and so much more) contribute to and alter a base beverage flavor. All of you are craftsmen and craftswomen and understand that each and every one of these items plus many more make a difference and may not be possible to replicate. This is a good thing. This makes and keeps various products unique, including yours. The vast majority of all spirits producers use either Char #3 or Char #4; but each and every one of them taste differently, because it all starts with the base material.

And this question does bring up a good point. For instance, if the base beverage is corn/sugar liquor, then after aging you will have aged corn/sugar liquor; aging does not magically convert it to a 75-15-10 mash bill. Another example: A less-complex strain of yeast will not produce the same number and variety of congeners as a more-complex yeast variety, and therefore will bring less to the aging table. Hence, a less-complex yeast will age to a less-complex aged beverage and a complex strain of yeast will produce a more-layered and more-detailed final product.

What you put into it is what you get out of it.

I have no idea. Nor do I care. This aging system and process was developed independently with zero prior knowledge of any other aging methodologies; upon apparent success an international patent search was performed by a qualified and degreed patent attorney and their third-party PhD patent search chemist(s); based on the lack of any competing or obstructing patents and on the advice of two different patent attorneys, a full non-provisional U.S. patent was filed. The USPTO has given their Notice of Allowance to grant a patent, and PCT National Phase entries have been pursued in 50+ countries worldwide.

The process and system works as stated, is user-friendly, is user-adaptable, is user-improvable, and is of low overall cost. Any intellectual property that you develop as a licensed user of this process and system is yours to keep. You do the work, you put in the time and effort and creativity and knowledge and skill, you keep the rewards. That may be a difference between this system process and the others.

Possibly to some extent. It would depend on what corrections were required. It has been used before for that reason, but certain corrections to that base may be required that are outside of the scope of this system and process.

Exactly. 

Serious inquiries only, please.