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April 26, 2024

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Used iStill 500 Hybrid for Sale!

Message from Rummieclub Distillery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands:

When we started the Rummieclub Distillery in 2019 we used our savings to buy this beautiful iStill. Now we are closing our distillery and we are looking for a new home. The still is equipped with a Jet Propulsion Agitator system, a boiler radiator, a manhole and a Reflux Capacitor. The still is equipped with a hybrid column. We also have a 6l iStill Mini product development kit for sale, extractor included.

In total we ran about 275 distillations with the still which translates to about 2 distillations per week. These were mostly rum and gin distillations.

Our distillery closes at the end of May so the iStill is available immediately.

If you are thinking of giving our iStill a new home, please know that it won the Best Dutch Contemporary Gin Award in 2022 and 2024!

We are aiming for 35.000 euro for the iStill500 and the iStill mini together. The receiving party is responsible for the handling of shipping.

You can contact us at destilleerderij@rummieclub.nl.

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April 18, 2024

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Special Offer: Full-Options iStill 2000!

The offer?

We have an iStill 2000 Hybrid available for an Australian customer. It is a new iStill 2000 Hybrid, model year 2023, that was never used or even unpacked. The unit sits at our warehouse in Rotterdam and is ready to be shipped to its new owner in a matter of days.

Is it for you?

Are you in a hurry to open or expand your distillery? Do you want a unit with a discount? Do you want the best and most versatile still & distillery on the market? Then this unit might be for you. It features the hybrid column so that it can distill any product. It has indirect heaters, the boiler radiator, and the J-PAS agitator system, so it can also mash and ferment. The 500 liter iStill Extractor is also included. Ah, and you get the online iStill University Craft Distillers Training for free.

The iStill 2000 Hybrid can mash, and ferment, and distill any spirits. Whisky, brandy, rum, vodka, gin, or liqueurs. You name it, the iStill does it. It can produce 2000 bottles gin in one run or distill an 8% whisky beer into a 220 liter barrel of 60 to 65% new make spirit in one go.

Pricing and special offer

The unit, including the above-mentioned options, costs EUR 120.000,-. Crating, transport, and transport insurance add EUR 5.000,- to the bill, bringing the total value of this order to EUR 125.000,-.

The special offer includes a pretty hefty price reduction of EUR 25.000,-. This means this iStill 2000 distillery can be yours for just EUR 100.000,- instead of EUR 125.000,-. Do you want to order it? Then email Odin@iStillmail.com and include your company details so that we can draw up the corresponding Purchase Agreement.

iStill 2000 Hybrid, full options, with Extractor …

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April 17, 2024

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Pegasus Distillery’s Statement!

“When we started, the choice of our stills wasn’t just a decision; it was a statement. We chose iStill, becoming one of the very first users at a time when skepticism was the norm. Despite the doubts and advice against it, we saw what it could be – a perfect match for our vision.

We didn’t just choose differently, we chose smartly. Our distillery now boasts the most advanced stills in the high-end market, capable of over 2500 adjustments, ensuring our recipes are followed with precision. This isn’t just distillation; it’s the future, automated to perfection, ensuring each bottle of Pegasus maintains the quality and uniqueness our customers love.”

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New iStill Mash Pump!

Introduction

We upgraded the iStill Mash Pump. It now has better heat-management and performs better at lower speed settings. It also comes with a new housing. Underneath, you’ll find the specifications, pricing, as well as pictures.

Specifications

The new iStill Mash Pump:

  • Has variable pumping speed, with improved lower-end performance and cooling;
  • Transfers up to 550 liters per minute (145 gallons);
  • Handles particle sizes up to 18 mm;
  • Has a new 1.1 kW engine that runs on 230-240v;
  • Is a centrifugal pump;
  • Can elevate liquids to a height of 9.5 meters (31 feet);
  • Handles fluids with temperatures up to 110 degrees Celsius;
  • Works in environments of up to 40 degrees Celsius;
  • Is build into a frame and iStill specific heavy-duty housing;
  • With push bar, and braked wheels;
  • Has an on/off switch and a variable speed knob;
  • New and upgraded electrical harnas and power management;
  • Comes with four hose pillar connectors, suited for 60 mm (internal) diameter hoses;
  • Comes with 2 year warrantee.

Pricing

The new iStill Mash Pump has an introduction price of EUR 4.000,-. Crating and transport add EUR 750,- to your invoice. If you want to order one, please reach out to Finance@iStillmail.com. The first 10 orders will be sold at the EUR 4.000,- introduction price. After these initial orders are placed, the commercial price will be EUR 5.000,- for future orders of the iStill Pump.

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April 2, 2024

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Private Distilling while Saving for your iStill!

Introduction

The easiest way to start your own brand of gin, vodka or rum? With private distilling you choose from one of the recipes of the award winning development team at iStill. You place your order and we start producing for you. Just send us your label with your own brand and let us take care of the rest. Now you can focus on building your brand and growing your business.

And there is more: you’ll be saving for your own iStill at the same time. When you are ready to open your own distillery, you can use these savings as the first downpayment on your iStill and on getting ownership over the recipe!

Step 1: Choose a recipe

We have a range of top of the bill recipes, guaranteed to win you medals in competitions. Don’t believe us? Have a look at our Hall of Fame here: https://istill.com/halloffame

Step 2: Place an order

Order your first 1000 bottles, so we can start distilling for you. Yes, you can place an order as small as 1000 bottles!

Step 3: Add a lease to your order

Is your brand taking off and are you thinking of starting your own distillery? Then add a lease to your order. With every order you place, we place at minimum a EUR 2,- fee on top of every bottle. But you can decide to go for EUR 3,- or EUR 4,- instead, as it makes you save faster.

When you are ready to order your iStill the fee is your first down payment. It’s like saving while selling. A first batch of 1000 privately distilled bottles now adds EUR 2.000,-, EUR 3.000,- or even EUR 4.000,- to your iStill savings account. A total of five batches will increase that amount to EUR 10.000,-, EUR 15.000,-, or even EUR 20.000!

Step 4: Send us your labels

The brand is yours and so is the label. Design a label to fit the bottle (we will send you the specs with your order) and we will take care of bottling and labeling.

Step 5: Receive your bottles

After six weeks we will send you the bottles, ready to go on the market. We help you out with customs and transport. Or we can bring you into contact with some of our worldwide distribution partners, like BeMakers.

Step 6: Sell and repeat

Now it’s your turn. Start your sales and become a successful brand. You are on your way to become a distiller. What’s next? Well, the future is bright!

Step 7: Add the recipe to your order

Ready to take distilling into your own hands? With your final payment we add the recipe development fee to your order. Your iStill now comes equipped with the full recipe and SOP. The recipe? It is yours now. The still is yours as well. Plug it in and start distilling your own!

THE RECIPES

GIN MEDITERRANEAN

Citrus on the nose. Two dimensional gin, with a slight kick at the end to get it just over into the third dimension. Warming, mediterranean flavors, where the juniper serves a basis for the citrus and aniseed flavors. Perfect for mixing.
Price: € 6,- per bottle
Minimum additional lease fee: € 2,- per bottle
Recipe fee: € 5000,-

GIN D’ARC

Juniper, coriander and hint of smoke. A three-dimensional gin with smoked tea as an ingredient. Spices and citrus are well balanced out. Perfect for sipping.
Price: € 6,- per bottle
Minimum additional lease fee: € 2,- per bottle
Recipe fee: € 5000,-

GIN FOREST FRUIT

Strawberries, raspberries and other red fruit mix perfectly with the lighter juniper and coriander flavors. Fresh and sweet and great for mixing. Also available as a pink gin.
Price: € 6,- per bottle
Minimum additional lease fee: € 2,- per bottle
Recipe fee: € 5000,-

GIN NAVY STRENGTH

Not for the faint-hearted. The combination of a high ABV and loads of juniper and heavy citrus, like tangerine and grapefruit make this a great gin for cocktails.
Price: € 7,25 per bottle
Minimum additional lease fee: € 2,- per bottle
Recipe fee: € 5000,-

VODKA SMOOTH

A very smooth vodka, distilled from wheat and buckwheat. The combination gives you an almost creamy mouth feel.
Price: € 4,- per bottle
Minimum additional lease fee: € 2,- per bottle
Recipe fee: € 8000,-

VODKA MEDIUM

A vodka with a little bite and a small hint of citrus at the back. This vodka is so well distilled on the iStills, there’s no need for charcoal filtering anymore.
Price: € 4,- per bottle
Minimum additional lease fee: € 2,- per bottle
Recipe fee: € 8000,-

VODKA RYE

A throwback to the old days of vodka making, when the grain was allowed to shine. A fully rye-based vodka with some peppery notes in the finish.
Price: € 6,- per bottle
Minimum additional lease fee: € 2,- per bottle
Recipe fee: € 8000,-

RUM PIRATE

White rum with a fruity first dimension and a great explosion of taste in the middle of your mouth. Perfect to drink on the rocks or used as a mixer.
Price: € 5,- per bottle
Minimum additional lease fee: € 2,- per bottle
Recipe fee: € 9000,-

RUM CAPTAIN ODIN

The perfect dark rum, distilled from the best molasses and matured in oak casks. To savor in it’s own, enjoying the three dimensions usually only found in rhum agricole.
Price: € 5,- per bottle
Minimum additional lease fee: € 2,- per bottle
Recipe fee: € 9000,-

RUM NAVY STRENGTH

The navy strength version of our Rum Pirate. At 57% ABV it will take you on a trip across the seven seas.
Price: € 8,- per bottle
Minimum additional lease fee: € 2,- per bottle
Recipe fee: € 9000,-

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Do you want to learn more about private distilling and iStill’s lease option, please reach out to Sebastiaan@iStillmail.com or Odin@iStillmail.com

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A Warm Welcome to New Owners of Second Hand iStills!

Introduction

As iStill is now almost 11 years on the market, we see a slow yet steady increase of existing craft distillers purchasing existing iStills from their original owners. On behalf of the iStill Team I wish you a warm welcome to the iStill Family! Please be informed that we will treat you as any other customer. And that we expect you to treat us in the same manner. What that entails? That we want you to learn how to distill with the iStill and that we want you to connect with us as well as with your fellow iStillers. Let’s dive in deeper!

Connect, Register, Upgrade, and Check (mandatory)

If you buy a second hand iStill, we want to get to know you! So please reach out to us, and inform us about your distillery (name, location, contact person) and about what iStill you bought (type, serial number). Based on your information, we’ll plan an upgrade session, where we’ll put the latest software on your iStill. We’ll also check run hours and alarms, and inform you accordingly.

The software upgrade and check-up of your second hand iStill costs EUR 500,-. Please connect and register with us via an email to Finance@iStillmail.com. Finance will invoice you for the software upgrade and alarms check. After you paid the invoice our Support Department will propose a date and time for the upgrade and check-up to take place.

Online Craft Distillers Course (mandatory)

All our customers are expected to at least follow iStill’s amazing online craft distillers course. The goal of this training is to teach you how to distill with the iStill, and how to make the best spirits possible. The course curriculum teaches you how the iStill is designed to support your craft distillery. You will also learn how to make rum, gin, vodka, whisky, and liqueurs to the best of your abilities. As such, you can see the training as a very good and very steep learning curve. And that’s why we expect everyone that purchases an iStill to do the online craft distillers course.

The online craft distillers course costs EUR 1.895,-. To register for the course, please reach out to Veronika@iStillmail.com.

Hands-on Master Distillers Course (voluntary)

As a follow-up to the online craft distillers course, we offer a 4-day practical master distillers course. Even though this course comes highly recommended, and most of our customers follow it, it is not mandatory.

The hands-on master distillers course costs EUR 2.495,-. If you want to purchase both the online and hands-on courses together, you are discounted EUR 1.500,- on the total sum. To learn more or to register, please reach out to Veronika@iStillmail.com.

iStill Facebook Group (voluntary)

As you have finished your online education, you too can become a member of the iStill Facebook Group. It is the place where all our customers connect and help each other out. Only customers that successfully graduated for the online craft distillers training are allowed access to the iStill Facebook Group. Do you now own a second hand iStill and is it upgraded? Did you finish the online course successfully? Then please reach out to Veronika@iStillmail.com and ask for the iStill Facebook Group membership.

iStill Support (voluntary)

When new customers of second hand iStills need support, they can purchase support hours. Four hours of support cost EUR 500,-. We use these first four hours of consultancy to check the assembly of the iStill, and to help you during your first mash, fermentation, and distillation runs. These support hours can be purchased via Finance@iStillmail.com.

Conclusion and follow-up

The above steps will help you become as successful an iStiller as our other customers, that purchased directly with us, are. With proper education and connection in place, we expect you to win just as many awards, that we’ll gladly and proudly add to the iStill Hall of Fame.

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March 14, 2024

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Adding New Leather Options to Your iStill!

With the first iStills being produced with the so-called Rawhide option, AKA leather upholstery, we are now expanding our offering. Instead of choosing the copper tan look, you can now also opt for dark brown and black. So, there you have it. If you opt to order your iStill with leather upholstery, you can now have three color choices:

  • Copper;
  • Dark brown;
  • Black.

The advantages of leather upholstery? An amazing, organic look, feel, and smell. And another 5% additional energy efficiency.

Here’s the iStill 1000 with copper color leather upholstery …

And here are the three color options: black, dark brown, and copper …

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