Day 34:  First off my apologies for the tardiness on these last two posts.  My computer (only 6 weeks old) crapped out and had to be sent off for a repair.  thank goodness for warrantees, as the repair was more than half what I paid for this thing.  Don't know how that works.

The morning started out with the beginning of the stripping runs on the Covington project.  The first picture here is Jimbo getting a basic run down on how the stripping runs work as they watch the first mash filling into the 850L Carl.  We ran strips in both the 850L and 450L.  We did enough to fill each of them three times.  The whole day of stripping took from 8am to 7:30.  As was expected the first run took about 4.5 hours.  The other runs took quite a bit less as they the equipment was hot and ready when we pumped the subsequent mash charges.

Picture 2: A few execs. from the MGP, the current company operating LDI, stopped by to meet with Kris.  They spent quite a bit of time talking with all of us about what we were doing and what our future plans were.  It was refreshing to talk with top people who really are interested in what guys like me are doing.  One can never underestimate the power of a good contact.

Picture 3: Jimbo taking a photo of the early stripping runs.  We spent some time teaching them about heads, hearts, and tails.  We wanted to give them a heads up on what would happen tomorrow when we ran the spirit run through the big column still.

Picture 4: A big pow wow in the office to discuss all of the HPLC and GC results of the project.  This mystery product went through a speedy fermentation and presented some curious results.

Picture 5: Jimbo getting a little excited about the seeing the low wines piling up.