Everyone and everything has a story . This one begins in 1999 , when Pieter van Helden fell in love with the distillation process and started the production of hobby level fruit brandies .
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Anyone for a collaboration cocktail ? By Christine Storey , IWC
Everyone and everything has a story . This one begins in 1999 , when Pieter van Helden fell in love with the distillation process and started the production of hobby level fruit brandies .
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The Helden Distillery focuses on the art of whisky , brandy and gin production .
This love slowly grew into the founding of a whisky startup business in 2018 . Today the Helden Distillery focuses on the art of whisky , brandy and gin production .
Enter IWC , equally passionate about providing a solution to enhance the production of these handcrafted spirits . Through collaboration and consultation , we were able to provide Pieter with a solution that would best suit the distiller ’ s requirements and output required . The package cooling tower unit was placed outside the distillery and connected by both PVC and copper piping to the main distilling unit inside the building .
Van Helden comments “ I chose IWC as they offered a total solution , including
engineering expertise , which was far more than their competitors were offering . I am thrilled with the final outcome .”
The new unit completes the current still which has three main components , a boiler , a reflux column and a condenser . The water from the cooling tower is used to remove the heat in the condensers ensuring maximum processing efficiency .
We supplied the entire package cooling tower EWK064 , complete with pump , piping , installation and instrumentation for the still ’ s condenser cooling system . The EWK range of package cooling towers is ideally suited to smaller processing plants in the food and beverage industries , but is also used extensively in various other industries . CLA
The package cooling tower unit was placed outside the distillery and connected by both PVC and copper piping to the main distilling unit inside the building .
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