I went ahead and removed the disconnect from this air handler and as you saw in the thumbnail I'm going to install a UV light but in order to do that I'm going to have to take all the panels off. So since this thing actually wires into the transformer gotta get to the top as well as the bottom in order to access everything and get it installed the way it's supposed to be. Be right back. So I'll get my five sixteenths here go ahead and start taking some panels off and I won't bore you with every one of these screws so if I skip ahead on it and something doesn't look right that's what happened. And this is what a five ton air handler looks like. That's a big old A coil and it's a monster for sure and it looks like it's seen better days with this rust and stuff in it but it's probably 20 something years old. I can already see I do have a problem in this unit where this insulation on the side is being sucked into the to the motor so I'm gonna have to figure out a way to get that to stay back. What we gotta do on this UV light is figure out where we're having kind of a mold and mildew issue the most. I can install this thing on the back panel and have it coming out where it kind of takes care of this area or what I can do is drill a hole with my step up bit or step down bit whatever you want to call it very a bit very bit and mount it right here and then mount all my wires straight up the panel come up through this hole and connect into my transformer low voltage wires which is what this UV light does it operates off of 24 volts so you can't get these things actually in 120 volt I don't know if it's 240 but I think you can get it in 120 volt as well so you can wire it into your line voltage half of it but this particular model that we've got it's a 24 volt install so it's pretty simple wires right into your 24 your 24 volts coming out of the transformer into those two wires and see somebody's done a really nice job of mounting that transformer you can see that rocking around in there anyway we'll go ahead and figure out a few fixes for the insulation figure out the best installation space for the UV light I'll show you all the pieces and parts that go along with that so let's get started on that so we'll go ahead and unpack this UV light it also comes with a label that you can put on your outer panel to kind of tell you what model of UV light you installed there's that z bracket I was telling you about right here bust into this this is all the trans the the transformer that goes with the UV light the wiring everything you need it's got all the wire nuts the wire connectors to connect into your low voltage wires and we're going to get to that in a second it's also got the screws for mounting this bracket and we're going to use just this section of it you can see the little studs on it right there and let me set this aside it's simple they tell you to just bend this back and forth till it snaps off and this is a pretty good powerful magnet right there hey multi-purpose you might find something to do with that so set that right there now this piece is actually got two screws that hold it onto the a coil and then these studs are for mounting your UV light and it's got some nuts that hold that UV light in there wire comes out you bring it on up into the air handler wiring section and then wire it in so best thing you do on this go ahead and and here's the good part about it the screws that come with it are self tapping so you just put them on your drill you self tap them into this metal plate and you can have this sit in there and then you get your step up bit and drill the hole for that glass tube to go through actually it's gonna go this way and of course like I said just studs are right here with the nuts that are gonna hold it on and that's it this is a plug and play kind of thing it lines up it's got a little keyway in there I don't know if you can see that but everything is going to be pretty simple pretty easy the hardest part about I think the whole job there's two parts of it for one making sure you get the hole drilled for that glass to go through here and two is connecting those wire connectors sort of like the old automotive ones that one wire goes in it the other one goes across it and it crimps down it can be a bugger I put three of these in already this is the fourth one and I wanted to save this one for you so yeah we'll get to that in a minute so anyway let me readjust you here count this right here on this coil I don't know if you can see that well that well and uh let me get it to where I can get these screws where I can get a drill in there without messing up these capillary tubes it's going to be a tight fit but I think we can make it work heck you can also go sideways with it up and down it doesn't have to be across this the mount screws don't have to be across this way they can be vertical as well whatever's going to be the easiest way to get that plate on there because you definitely got to support that UV light so that's what we'll do I'm gonna go ahead and mount it like that that way I can get to my screw holes so I'm gonna get my drill lined up we'll be right back okay as I said these are quarter inch self-tapping screws that I'm gonna put in here so it makes it pretty easy the only thing is I can't find my magnetic tip to put these on so I think what I'm gonna do is just cheap this so we'll go in here like so in place like this a little bit get it right that's one and see if we can get around these tubes here to get this other one and that's it your bracket is set so I'm gonna move over to another drill and use my very bit to drill out my hole big enough for that glass tube to go into change out my battery go to another drill here and lock it in center a little test fit like I said this is the easiest part of it right here that slides in nice and as you can see my bracket lines up good I'll go ahead and get the nuts for that and these you can put on thumb tight top one do the bottom one so this is probably like I said the easiest part of this installation drill that screw is nut is cross threaded and just thumb tight it on what's really weird about this as you come in here especially since my filter is just off to the left of this unit you come in here at nighttime and this light is going because it does run 24-7 which is fine that's what it's designed to do and you come in here at nighttime and all the lights are off and it's dark in the room you got this purplish haze coming off of the where the filter grill is because you know that light's gonna shine pretty good it's actually can be a little off-putting all right so now all we need to do is to get the transformer and the wiring for this and go ahead and position our wiring keep it out of the way of the coils you don't want that rubbing on here as little as possible and like this is the transformer it's a 24 volts this mounts up here in the top so we'll get all this taken apart let me go ahead and snip this strip at this point you want to make sure that you've got your power turned off to the unit if you hadn't already done that it doesn't really matter in the installation of this other than when you're drilling that that bigger hole you know you're getting a lot of metal shavings you don't want to be pushing that up into your coil as possible but if you've had this unit running now's the time you want to go ahead and shut everything down because we're gonna be wiring this black and this red wire into the low voltage end of the transformer and you don't want to do any shortages but this step right now what you want to do is go ahead and wire get your wires run get everything situated in place here there's a nice little hole right there that we can run this cord through and did you see that let me push this up a little bit found a hole here in the air hinder where it's for wiring actually so I'm gonna go ahead and fish my wire through there and just leave this stuff hanging for now now what I did on the other three units that I installed is I actually went ahead and wired this in now there's really no hard way or wrong way to do this it's pretty self-explanatory you got a little d shape inside of here and a d shape in there and they're going to go opposite of each other so and there's two lines right here on the case that show you how everything lines up so you want to go ahead and line up those and boom that's it they wire right together so at this point I would go ahead and figure out where I want to wire this or how I want to position my wires in here I want to get them tucked out of the way if you have to use zip ties you can do that and for now what I'm going to do is just go ahead and leave this kind of loose I actually didn't bring any zip ties with me I have to go back to the shop and get those and then when I'm wiring this up I'm going to roll this cord back up like it was then I'm going to zip tie this and I'm going to mount this on the inside of this box and this is your electrical box in here in the air handler and then all I'll have then is just two wires right here to wire in like I said I'll get these out of my way and then I'll wire these two to my 24 volts and since this transformer has already been replaced I'm actually not going to use my hang on let me show you these are like I don't know if you remember these connectors they're like automotive connectors and it's really weird you put one wire in here which would be like the wires coming off of this uv transformer and the other wire just goes straight through and then the spade right here you push it in and it makes contact and it breaks the insulation around it and you push it all the way in and then this little piece right here just folds over and locks right there now if you didn't already have a transformer replaced like I have here you want to go ahead and try to use this you can cut the wires wire not everything together and it worked just the same this is just an inline kind of connection that saves you from having to cut wires and skinning them back and wiring them all together it's a clean install I did it on the other three but like I said the other three had a transformer that hadn't been replaced yet uh one thing you want to remember on these things is that your transformer if you look at the at the voltage rating on the side of it you want to look at the amps if you have a 40 amp transformer inside of this unit you don't have to worry about anything this thing's going to work fine 40 amps is plenty enough to run the system and to run the uv light where you might get a little bit questionable as you're stepping down to a 30 amp transformer it may work but just be prepared that you may have an issue with that transformer overheating and it may burn out and in which case when you have to change it step up to a 40 amp 24 volt transformer but uh I put the other three in on the existing transformers and I think two of them were 30s one of them was a 40 because that was a five ton system and I haven't had any issues with them yet they're all still running and I've had them installed now for probably four months but now we're opening the clubhouse back up getting it all cleaned up we went ahead and replaced the compressor a couple of days ago and while we're at it we put a new condenser motor on it because when we pulled the top off of it water just flowed out of that motor like I said I'm not going to trust that let's go ahead and replace that motor so a five ton compressor and a condenser motor we got this air conditioner back up and running so I figure okay this is a perfect time for me to show you guys how to install this uv light and uh something you may want to consider it's supposed to help with the with the microbes in the the bad stuff that grows in your unit you know the molds and the mildews and the algae's it's supposed to help control that it cleans up your air yeah I'm gonna leave a link in the description area below on this light and you can look it up for yourself and from what I've read it's got some really nice benefits well sorry for that brief little interruption there but the battery died and my spare was dead as well so I had to do a quick charge for the last hour and a half two hours so I want to finish up the wiring on this uv light so you know where I left off was taking the wire nut off of one of the low voltage wires so what I'm gonna do now is to repeat that process so here we go taking one side off here and it's starting to get a little warm in here so I need to go ahead and hurry up and get this wrapped up I'm not gonna bother you people with buttoning all this back up I'm just gonna show you that once the installation of this is complete I can go ahead and turn the system back on and rock and roll so I'll show you the light when it comes on and then that'll be the end of the installation on this uv light and then I will button up the system turn it all back on again and we will be good to go so all right so I've got my low voltage wire in there and what I'm going to do is is attach this transformer box with some self tapping quarter inch screws to lock this down while I'm in here I'm going to go ahead and lock this transformer down in place as well I'm going to clean up all these wires and get this thing where it looks nice and neat and clean but we're wired up and it's ready to rock and roll what I'll do is go ahead and throw the panel back on real quick get these out of the way just for now like I said I'm going to clean this up I've also got to get some pins or something to lock this insulation in place so that it's not sucking into that fan motor and looks like we'll have to come back and do some cleaning on this unit there's a lot of dirt and debris built up on this insulation this is all stuff that's going to go out into your room you know it's going to come out of your registers it's going to dirty up your ceilings so but that's all stuff that I'll have my guys come in here Monday and clean this unit up tuck this all in place get it all good and cleaned up we want it to be presentable even if you can't see it it needs to be right nobody's going to see it but we see it we know it's not right and we're going to make it right so we're going to put this top panel back in place no I'm sorry the bottom panel but I don't want it to run the compressor without having this closed up the way it should be so I'm just going to zip a couple screws in just temporary hold it because there's a few things to button this up that we need to do put the disconnect back in because it's a digital thermostat it has a time delay so we'll wait for that I don't feel like going in there and bypassing the time delay all right I went ahead and took the filter out and the front grate you can see the inside of our plumb here for the return air is lit up and I'm going to show you what I'm seeing here that's the UV light on the inside of that air handler and yep we need to clean up those coils make them look a lot better than they are but imagine if you will coming here late at night when it's dark not that anybody would be but if you're doing this in your house this is something you need to be aware of you know there's a possibility that you're going to see this blue purplish light in your in your return air area so uh don't be alarmed by that that's going to be totally natural so there you go the installation of a UV light in an air conditioner you want to put it in this air handler like I said before you want to make sure that you're when you open the panels up you identify where your problems are where you see in some mold and mildew and the growth and the contaminants that you don't want in your air you know that's where you're going to place that UV light and like I said you don't have to drill the coil if your system doesn't have an a coil it's got a slant coil this is designed to magnetize to the back of the cabinet and what you would do is cut a square out of the insulation you would mount this on the z bracket where the light is going out and this just snaps into the back of your air handler and sits there it's all it is so you would cut out a square big enough for this bracket to sit in so that you're getting straight to the metal you know take that insulation off of the back panel you'll have your light already installed it'll be coming out this way and you'll just slip it in there boom slide it into the slot and then just wire it up simple wiring two wires on the 24 volt system we just came on when this light's doing its job which it's doing now because it's lit it's going to further the clean air that we want so ultraviolet light so what I'm going to do now drop on the floor this is a little sticking label that you put up on the panel and you write the information of what your model of it was the date that it was installed the lamp model replaced by and it's got four different slots on here so that you can kind of notate when things were done so I'll fill this out we'll slap it on that air handler and we're going to go hey I really appreciate you guys watching if you want to clean up the air and your air conditioner and in your home a UV light is the best and probably the cheapest way to do that and it's going to help the air quality for you and your family and in my case for my residents that are using this space I'm in the clubhouse this is the storage room that holds the HVAC and the water heater so you know people that are coming in here this air quality is going to be a lot better than it was by using a UV light that kills the bacterias and the growths and the microbes so it's an antimicrobial barrier added to a clean filter and clean coils when we get to that leave me a thumbs up if you like this video and if you don't like it leave me a thumbs up anyway you know it takes a little time to do this stuff you know dead batteries and setting up and all that and show me you appreciate it give me a thumbs up please it helps a lot it really does it helps so much it tells youtube 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Well, hello, welcome. I'm Erin Schneider. I am an administrative associate with the North Central Sustainable Ag Research and Education program. Hi, everyone. I'm Ray Flanagan, communications specialist for North Central Region, Sayer. I also farm in Southwest Wisconsin. I'm here today for our next episode of Farming Matters. And I am really excited and grateful to be joined by the Glazik brothers, Will Clay and Dallas, who will give them a chance to share about their Farmer Rancher Grant project and what they learned. Thanks for having us. I'm Will. I'm the oldest and obviously best looking brother out of us three. I do a lot of farm operations and on the distilling side of things, I'm kind of the building manager while we're remodeling. Hi, Dallas. I'm the youngest brother. And my roles are working on a farm and at the distillery, mainly just the catch all of anything else that needs done, and as well as making sure all the finances insurance and legal stuff is all all in order. I'm Clay. I'm the middle brother. I'm not as involved on the farming aspect, but I did grow up on Calgary organic farm. I currently work in advertising as well as having my own design and branding company. I'm also a certified bourbon professional, so I'm very involved in the flavor profiles that we create within our whiskey and our other alcohols. So back a year ago, roughly this time. We had a grant through Sarah the arson grain collaborative and working with the integrated biological research lab at the University of Illinois, to actually take a look at corn varieties and distill them into a corn whiskey and see how different varieties affect flavor themselves. So guys outside of our farming background in 2017 we started silver tree beer and spirits, which is a company where we make our own alcohol we've been making whiskey and vodka. Since then, and the reason why we got into it was that we're looking for ways to give more profit and value to the grants we grew on the farm so we started selling to different breweries and distilleries. Since 2017 got the opportunity to actually create our own company and start making our own products and getting them on the shelves. We've now expanded where we're our vodka is in 40 different states. We're in some of the large retailers throughout the city of Illinois, and we are coming out with whiskey that's been agents since 2017. So this fall, that would be a right and then looking for a bourbon to be released and hit in the shelves next year, as well as in some other experimental whiskies with we oats doing a different blends, and we'll also be doing some with the aging processes, and someone will be, you know, as young as four years and will be as old as 10 years we got a lot of exciting stuff coming down the pipeline as well as our own facility which we are working on currently impacts on the way, looking to get our final license and start producing out there here this year, then soon will be open to the public for tastings and different things along those lines. So with the study itself, we took a look at these different corner varieties, and we distilled them to see how the different corns, how the different flavors would change between the different varieties. So here is the still itself that the University of Illinois was able to purchase through the grant money. And here's Dallas and me, where we were sitting there actually distilling and making the cuts and help them understand the kind of whiskey. The team down there at the University of Illinois with the integrated biological research lab was fantastic but they have a background in industrial, industrial alcohols, whereas we obviously are not making ethanol, we wanted to make some this little more palatable to drink. So we came down there did a few work working sessions with them and really showed them how to do still. So in the process, there's really three cuts when you're looking at a pot still like they have there. There's the heads hearts and tails, and there are a lot of other cuts out there. But usually those, you know, those stories of the, you know, moonshiner and the appellations has gone blind through making the wrong cuts so we're not going to talk about those today. The heads are at a higher ABV so so is more volatile chemicals that burn off at lower temperatures. Those tend to be a little bit cleaner more alcoholic and ethanol type or rubbing alcohol type when you think about the flavors within actual spirits. The heads are kind of the middle ground and that's what the majority of the actual spirits you consume are, whereas the tails are those lower, higher of all or lower volatile chemical compounds take more heat to evaporate. There's a lot more flavors in there but with the more flavors you do get some really bad and unwanted flavors in those spirits. So in the actual distillations you want kind of a blend of them all. So this is the key areas we're going to get your best flavor and your most actual product, but you want to kind of lead a little bit into the heads and a little bit into the tails. But there's going to be a little bit that you put aside and run into different distillation batches that are just not good to consume for flavor. So within this actual study since we wanted everything to be consistent and not be based off actual distillation temperatures or by personal bias within flavors and pulling those cuts like most disorders do. We decided just to take the absolute middle key. So that middle bar there the darkest brown is what we use for the studies so if you're looking at these as consumer products, these samples will never actually hit the market because it's very just insufficient to be making these cuts and putting them into actual products that consumers would drink, but for specific purposes this is the best way to go about it. And we did a whole blind tasting panel. So we got 16 different food alcohol distillation research professionals and also just whiskey enthusiasts to come in and do a blind tasting. This was 100% corn whiskey so there was no aging blending or any other grains added to the spirit and we went in 100 proof to keep things consistent and minimize the variables within the different samples. A perfect score is 20 and we did that with five on the nose so breaking it down to nose flavor and finish five of the nose to know the palate and five on the overall finish.  And if you think about when you're sick if you're when you're all stuffed up and stuff tastes a little bit weird the same thing happens with in whiskey. So really what you're starting to pick up on the nose is influencing what you actually are able to taste on your palate so, and we like to call that kind of preheating the chimney. When you put it up there and let the alcohol flow through a little bit it warms the palate up and allows you to build a taste better palate which is the biggest area of score. That's how it actually taste.  That's going to give you an idea of what characteristics are within there, and really does like does that align with the smell. If what it tastes totally differently smell that's not going to be as consistent as a product as something that's very much aligned with those two working together. You know, the lastly finish which was also at a five.  Does it go down the, the suffocates, does it tingle on the way down, or is it kind of short and finish all those affect how good the alcohol is. So this is 100% corn whiskey. Want to just kind of go through and talk about some of the typical corn flavors, all most, most whiskies are blends of multiple different grains, bourbon being 51% corn on the minimum. Usually, you know, we malted barley, rye, or any other different grain variety in the mix to make their kind of the mash bill. And, and the actual whiskey itself. There's a lot of different factors and elements you get the grain water yeast and the oak and those all affect the different flavors and the conjures or the chemical elements that a symbol to create those sense and flavors within the whiskey. So we're going to just corn, we're actually we're taking away the, you know, oak which actually accommodates for up to 70% of the overall flavor within final store bought whiskey. And we use the same yeast and water across all the different corn samples again to minimize those variables and make everything consistent so there's no bias between the different samples. So corn, a great way to think about whiskey flavors is to think about different types of bread. So corn, think of it kind of that that sweet buttery corn bread, or, you know, a corn chip is going to have those sweet notes to it it's going to be very flavorful. It's going to be to be a little more harsh depending on the different profiles within it and the kind of the yield. So overall, you're looking for that sweetness of the overall corn. And again, we're not, this is not age this was just essentially moonshine or what I said so it's like to call white dog or just corn whiskey. 6 to 8% of that overall flavor can come from the barrels through the maturation process, while the kind of jerseys kind of evaporate into the barrel itself and contract based on the different seasons and pull those flavors back in. So we're looking at purely just the corn itself within the different samples. And a few of the kind of the calls within the study. We only use one grain grain sample from six different farms. They're all through the Great Lakes regions. But if we, you know, had a lot of time, probably more way to get more direct results would be to pull multiple samples from multiple different farms to make sure that you know, there wasn't one form that could come in season or no hail storm come through and hurt the old one, one strain. So it's something that maybe in the future we can look at to explain it out to we did use the same yeast and fermentation process on every single sample to keep that as a constant so we weren't adding more variables to the to the study itself because there were a lot of different variables within different corn varieties. The cuts were made by temperature, not flavor aroma. As a distiller, you're kind of going through and make those cuts based off how it smells or outtaste based on your own personal preferences is kind of the art behind distillation. But to keep that bias out of there we didn't make up the kind we took those center of the hearts cuts so everything's consistent. As far as the tasting goes tasting order we found does have a pretty high effect on how the scores are scored, because as alcohol tends to alter the power after long periods of usages, you know, as a day went on it was a long day of drinking, you know, it was very very tough work on everyone's part within the channel, but as alcohol does affect on the body and that can obviously alter how you score different products. So here's the overall scores that we have between the 16 different judges. So we took the average itself and took the standard deviation. So we, some pretty interesting things throughout the bat is that yellow dent actually had the average, the highest average score. So if you look at standard deviation so the closer the clusters, the fully only read and the blue hybrid score extremely well as far as consistently crosses 16 different judges. There's definitely a little bit surprising on our end where you know yellow dense sports so high is coolest in the Walsh Valley and also the red and the blue, being very close. The white did not score as well in the bloody butcher, who, you know, kind of send the pre study conversation we were having a lot of people thought that, or at least we're most intrigued by this corn variety and what it could bring to the table as far as flavor profiles. So looking at the actual breakdowns within the scores themselves there's some really interesting patterns we started to pick out. So we went through and marked all the yellow highlighted areas as a high score, being over a 17 so 17 to 20, the lowest scores were zero all to six, and then everything else is throughout. Because some of the patterns we pulled out we thought were extremely interesting was that 90% of the highest scores were done by the researchers. So that means that the people that were actually going through and distilling these different corn varieties were the scoring them based off. There might have been a little bit of bias within the score is because whether it was a complete blind test, but if there's some sort of sample that, you know, struck a know in their mind that you know that made it very recognizable, they might score that higher or lower based off their biases through the actual distillation process. And they also contributed to 50% of the low scores. So there's definitely a whether they knew it or not they add some, you know, unconscious biases within those samples. The next one was that 100% of the yellow dent high scores were scored by industry professionals and whiskey enthusiasts. So people that have made their entire career around making bourbon whiskey that are used to yellow dent being very corn thin on market bourbons. They tend to gravitate towards that because that's where they used to and people like consistency and change is something that kind of can be joined. And we also noticed that the standard deviation increased as the day prolonged and alcohol is consumed. So one of those last call it's that made no two slides ago is that the standard deviation was lower within the red and the blue varieties compared to, you know, as that was the order that the samples were consumed so as people started drinking their highs and lows, lows, we're getting more prevalent, opposed to kind of getting those medium ranges of scores where everything was low but more consistent. So I thought those are some really cool and interesting patterns, and I'll go back to the slide here is you can kind of see how those patterns were taken effect. As you know the researchers were up there at the top, they definitely had the highest amount of high scores and low scores, based on some of those, you know, unconscious biases of working with those grains and distilling them even though it was completely blind test. And then as you see the yellow dent, those four high scores all came down to professionals and a retailer and enthusiasts to, you know, have worked with the yellow dent corner and they made their careers around that specific corn variety. But really outside these scores, where we find the most interest or most value coming out of this test is a different flavor profiles are being created by these different corn varieties. One thing that we had all the 16 different judges do, as well as putting down the scores for each of their nose, their palate and their finish and then their overall was also right down what they're tasting and what they're smelling and what kind of flavors are getting. And we started seeing a lot of consistencies across these different judges with each sample of corn so we pulled out any of the different flavor profiles that had four or more people say the same thing. So with the with the red, a lot of people said was clean Chris has some meal fruity notes to it a little bit of kind of grassy or earthy notes and bring in that cornbread or sugary cereal which is very consistent with any sort of corn whiskey. Within the blue they said it was softer lighter so getting a better that fruity tones but it was a little more on the floral side. So think of like no blossoms. A little bit of Nanias and cracked pepper as well. The waltzy Valley, which had a very high average on there so it was like pretty high across the board. A little more earthiness to it know some cloves and baking spice but had a really creamy finish. And the rest of the white. This was after the most earthy out of all them you know people are picking up some tobacco or coffee, a little bit of muster clover in there. Yellow don't dent which even looking at the blind samples people are able to know these are pretty consistent across what people look for within actual yellow dent bourbon.   So we thought this was probably the most useful information coming out of the study itself because now we're able to take this and within our own products and also whoever can know if you're this distillery and looking to make something unique, you know that has a little more tobacco earthy tones. Maybe you might want to take a look at this study and say hey we should try to get some different white varieties. Or if you're looking for something as a little more floral look at those you know the red or the blue hybrids, but if you're looking for you know something that's a little more savory or creamy you know the wopsy value bloody butcher are good options to using that bourbon. So you can start really taking that and making something that's unique to you and what flavor profiles you're wanting to make as a distiller. There, I'm just, I'm really like blown away and, and like a lot of great ways here and just by hearing your share your story and I was thinking of all the different parts that had to line up and people along the whole from grain to glass so to speak. Oh, like for your grant project, how was that getting the grain part wasn't too bad. We just, I knew some people that had these different varieties that we're interested in, call them up and we're able to pick them up direct or ship them through the mail something like that. And we weren't working with a large amount just 100 pounds of each. And I think that overall like the university they did a great job of kind of spearheading and coordinated and a lot of the actual logistical sides of getting every all the different pieces to work together. Yes, AGC was a huge aspect as well. So really was some, we had some great partners going into it which made it a lot easier on the coordination side. What kind of happens with some of the, the end distillation of the mash part that you mentioned is that go back to the soil or get transformed and other other things to or as far as like the, the waste from the mash itself. That can actually go into make cattle feed or hog feed so you can take that and kind of strain it out get the foods out of there and have a very nutritious feed for livestock. So as far as the distillation with the, what you don't use within the heads and the tails, usually just throw that back into the next round. So, so the next batch of whiskey you make see if you can pull off some of those different flavors and get them inside the hearts, but a lot of other stories that aren't able to, you know, they keep getting in the same heads and hearts it'll take that and maybe add some flavoring to it. So it's a little bit more palatable than able to, you know, create a product similar to, you know, a peach vodka or something like that so it's not taking the best product but they're adding some flavor in there so they're able to reuse that not just throw that out. What would you recommend, like a piece of advice you would offer to another farmer or someone who was interested in, you know, whether it's whiskey or distillation or just introducing a new product that you're doing a lot of product like marketing and product testing along with like, you know, trying to figure out how to best grow the great different grains and stuff to you. I'd definitely say to jump into it and try it but, you know, if you can get some of these seeds are kind of hard to find. So get a small plot growing out a lot of the open pollinated heirloom varieties on on a farm scale can be kind of a pain. They're just, you know, they were grown before everything got mechanized, but they do offer some really unique flavors, and you can save your own seed and select for what attributes you're looking for. So it's a lot of fun to select and to build something that's truly your own. That's another thing. So like the bloody butcher that we grow might be totally different than John Webkin grows in Wisconsin and completely different than someone in New York State might be growing. Yeah, I guess another call would be from a farmer if they're looking to jump into growing these varieties, you know, have those conversations with the buyer, you know, figure out that you can actually have a market for it.  Your farmer is constantly talking to brewer figure out like what they want within their different beers and tailor towards them so we can open up those markets, guarantee those cells and make sure they're able to produce at the same level that they're looking to buy. Even outside of alcohol there's a lot of cool grain studies going on right now. It's very exciting time performing. When do we get to come down to your grand opening and we're hoping for around this time next year so 2023 but I'd say 24. It's been a long process. But you know if anyone would like to sample the products before we're open to the public you can go to spirit hub.com and they can deliver right to your door and we're in 40 different states on there.


Hi there, I'm Anthony Chung and I'm the head of market analysis here at Amplify Trading. Every weekday morning I'll deliver a fundamental rundown ahead of the European Open, but if you subscribe to the channel, you'll also get content from the rest of the team. So, let's begin. Okay, very good morning. Happy Friday, the 6th of November, I hope you're doing well. Just going to have a quick look at the markets this morning at the European Open, go over some of the major news stories and just what's in store for the session ahead. We do have things like obviously looking out to confirm whether or not Joe Biden becomes US president as soon as today, what are the mathematics behind that and the probabilities of that happening and then subsequent market reactions. Then also got non-farm payrolls out. We can talk about the Fed as well that came out last night and bit of an update on the COVID-19 situation particularly in the US. Just having a look at markets this morning and soon as Europe has come in, we've seen a little bit of a reversal actually of what we had in the Asia-Pacific sessions. Starting off in chronological order, we finished in positive territory on Wall Street. Gains have just shy of 2% in both the S&P and Dow and the NASDAQ was up 2.5%. So some really sharp gains that have been seen really since Tuesday night on the confirmation of, as we've discussed many times this week, the fact that a Biden win, but with a split Congress and what that means then for the inability to do any major tax hikes or regulatory changes. And so some of those sectors that were at risk of being impeded by that have outperformed generally on the week. So just having a look then at equities first, because I've still got some markups here from the various charts that I was talking to the guys in Amphi Live yesterday and our general expectations on markets were just given the fat and how quickly and how far we've risen since the election in itself. That a little bit of profit taking would probably be of the order from around these elevated levels, particularly as we go into the end of the trading week. And these rectangles here are unaltered from those discussions from yesterday afternoon. And basically we were just looking at areas of which if any pullback, we would find some decent levels of support and perhaps even lower down then a good level to re-initiate long positions. And the market already responding really in the overnight Asia-Pacific session in Europe just bumping the S&P future back above its pivot level. That being the high that we had on the late afternoon UK time on the fourth breakthrough in yesterday's session, we're just finding some support around that level. A really strong level further down if that was to be seen any time in the near future, 34, 28 and a quarter, as you can see here, prior resistance and support would be another area of interest as well for any of those more looking to follow the trend and just if any short-term profit taking look to re-enter into a long position. The NASDAQ is almost even more evident in terms of the acceleration. Of course, the mega cap tech stocks have really shot higher ever since the election results. So the likes of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, those familiar names, of course. And just looking here on the near-term chart, you can see these again, these levels we were marking up yesterday. So the previous breach and move higher that we saw in the overnight session on the fifth and then providing a bit of a platform before Europe came in and lifted it yesterday morning, now providing some support and we've just pushed back up to pivot. On the daily chart, the trend line, the master of all trend lines, Sam North, was looking at this obviously yesterday and just going back to where we were from the second of September, where we really were just steaming higher in US equities. We had a retest of that back in mid-October and then pretty much to the tick in yesterday's session before just backing off. So a nice kind of logical target there for the NASDAQ on what has been such an explosive move since really mid-week when you look at it, going back to the third. We've risen some 10% or so approximately in the NASDAQ. So again, just a nice technical target for many people just to take some off as we get to that point. So kind of similar issue to what we've been talking about over the last session also, the idea that, you know, directionally don't really see too much reason for it not to change. We'll talk about the election side of things in a moment. As far as the Fed was concerned last night, there's really nothing to talk about, to be quite frank. Everything was in line with expectations. No change to the interest rate. No change to the asset purchases. The results of the election, congressional elections remain somewhat uncertain. Powell stressed the economy needs more fiscal and monetary policy support. Warned about the mounting coronavirus infections, rates that they're causing a significant risk to the economy. Nothing untoward. Let the price action be your guide. You can see from that initial release that there wasn't really any immediate reaction to it. That then leads us on to a couple of other things. But before I do that, quick look over the rest of the charts. The Dixie, just a softening up a touch as Europe has come in. That's just helped these major pairs here in Eurodollar and Cable. Just maybe worth putting a trend line there from those short term price highs that we've had. We're pretty much right out there at the moment. You can see in the Eurodollar pair and around that same proximity of that level starts to incorporate then the highs that we've seen and the prices rejected around one 1850 type area in the Euro futures. Sterling holding up Brexit really is a midpoint of this particular juncture. I don't think the market is particularly sensitive to what's going on there, despite the evident impasse at the moment. To be expected, just the way the negotiations have been playing out with that particular subject. Still very much, we'll be looking at these major pairs for really direction to come from the US dollar. And the Dixie is trading close to a double bottom at the moment at around the kind of 9250 type area. It's worth keeping an eye on that. With the dollar softening up, gold's moving higher. So that relationship remains pretty solid for the time being. Gold saw obviously a real punch higher in yesterday's session. We were looking on the one 20 minute candlestick chart. So again, that rectangle there, providing a nice area technically, because when we broke, we saw the acceleration to push on through really the high 40s all the way up to around 55. On the pullback that we've seen in the overnight Asia-Pacific session, that same area or zone providing another technical point of turn for the price action. And we've just started to push back up here as the dollar's just softening up again. If we come back up to retest yesterday's intro lay high, 54s, then technically not a great deal of obstacles till we get a bit further up to around 1963 on the upside. So we're just keeping an eye there as well. WCI crude, a little bit of a pickup as Europe has come in and just reversing really a bulk of the Asia-Pacific session. Doesn't look particularly too interesting at these levels at the moment, but kind of almost from that S2 bounce that we've seen was around the bottom end of the range that we've been trading for the last couple of days. A little bit more indirect move to comparative to what really has been, I'd say, more of investor focus, which has been the equity market, which has kind of saturated the attention and really dictated a lot of the intraday sentiment for the time being. Just having a look then at some of the stories and what's going on. So let me give you an update on what the latest is with Biden. We're still getting a few questions yesterday about what is the situation? Has Biden won? Can Trump still win this? So let me run you through some of the stats. Trump's lead in Georgia has dwindled to about 1,775 votes as of last night, while his lead in Pennsylvania was down to about 24,000 and Biden has expanded his lead in Nevada now to over 11,000. The idea being here is that the stuff that needs to be tabulated at this point in time tends to be male invotes and obviously those tend to favor Biden over Trump. So if anything, any leads that Trump had are diminishing and he gains like a Nevada that Biden has had are expanding. If Biden holds Arizona, any of Nevada, Pennsylvania or Georgia would put him over the threshold of victory and Pennsylvania would do so regardless of Arizona given how large an electoral college Pennsylvania is. Full unofficial results are expected in Pennsylvania and Georgia early today. So European afternoon time, so East Coast morning for Friday. It's not clear how long Arizona will take while Nevada said the bulk of its ballots will be processed by Sunday, but the final count won't come before November 12th. But remember, Nevada's pretty small. I think it's around six electoral college votes. So if Pennsylvania comes in and that flips against Trump, which he is at the moment in the lead, then that would be game over. So basically when you kind of mathematically calculate it, the probability of Trump pulling this off now is incredibly small. So it's pretty much all but done for Biden in terms of the legal side of things. I'd expect that to probably continue for the next week or so, perhaps even longer, but ultimately I don't really think there's much chance here for Trump to turn much around from a legal perspective. I was looking back to 2000 when we had obviously Bush and Al Gore. There are kind of different state rules, but generally speaking, when a vote is particularly close then it can go into automatic recount, it can then be contested through the courts to be recounted again and then it can be taken up to Supreme Court. This is what happened in Miami in 2000 for Bush. I think originally he was ahead by about 1800 votes, went to recount, it dropped to 900 and then it went to the US Supreme Court and they actually gave him victory by just under 600 votes in the end. But as you can tell from those numbers, way more closer than what currently would be the lead for Biden in a number of areas and the opposite in regards to Trump. So I really don't think this legal side of things is gonna carry much kind of weight and I think that's pretty evident from the way of which Mark has wrapped it in the last couple of days. If there was any credible substance to Mark it's thinking, well, even if Biden wins if Trump can flip it in the courts then I think you'd be seeing this play out a little bit more negative in what Mark is behaving at the moment and that's not been the case. So yeah, I'm sure he's not gonna go away quietly though as you would anticipate. So yeah, this is what it looks like. I mean, when I was just explaining through those areas so as you can see here in Nevada, yep, six. You've got Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia some of these still to be confirmed Pennsylvania obviously being the biggest of the bunch of those key swing states to keep an eye on and that could come in terms of those results Pennsylvania and Georgia in just a few hours time and that could then be a slam dunk for Biden. The Fed, as I said, yeah, really not a great deal for me to talk about the virus to weigh on economy poses considerable risks and more pressure on fiscal stimulus was all very much of the order. On the COVID side though, I did want to talk about this. This is the latest kind of heat map which reflects then where are the hotspots for COVID-19 confirmed cases. And this is looking at the average daily cases per 100,000 people in the last week and more red, obviously the more cases that have been happening. And so here you can see definitely the Midwest which has been of course the focal point of the last probably three weeks in terms of the outbreak of the virus and perhaps even played into then a lot of this election outcome given the balance of power very much on that area in the Midwest, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and so on that predominantly have gone against Trump but daily US cases edging toward 100,000 some numbers that I've read already above that figure Illinois, Ohio, Michigan among those states reporting record infections as of yesterday New York on the East Coast worth keeping an eye on as well. They're running at their highest level in six months now. Hospitalizations are also increasing approaching the peaks in April and in the summer but at this point the death toll does remain relatively low but the way that these numbers tend to play out then is that if these numbers continue to soar as they have been, hospitalizations continue to increase obviously maximum capacity levels there would be a concern and then subsequently death toll does tend to rise at some point or another. Obviously at this point there hasn't been much conversation about what is the US going to do in order to start to at least counteract this and that's because attention's just been so politically focused on the election all the meanwhile this is getting materially worse and so I definitely think that this is going to be something which markets will have to digest in the coming weeks when ultimately some course of action is going to need to take place just given the current situation that's happening in particularly in North America which the markets are most sensitive to. On the COVID side, a vaccine update AstraZeneca coronavirus shot could be ready for large-scale vaccinations as early as this year according to their CEO dismissing reports of delays in production snags. They say that the FDA may wait for US data to approve the shot. So yeah, it's a tough one to kind of interpret obviously the politicians are the least to be believed when it comes to timelines due to vaccines. The CEO of a major pharmaceutical company is a slightly different matter, Astra definitely one of the front runners with obviously Oxford University in terms of getting a COVID vaccine out there. On track for year end seems a little bit punchy and perhaps press agencies just jumping trying to make a sensational headline on what was actually said. So I don't think there's really too much to read into this at the moment but obviously just given what I've been saying I think first point of order is you've got to be keeping an eye on the COVID situation and then subsequent government action to control this whether that's in the US or mainland Europe and beyond and then the vaccine obviously comes to the secondary phase that's going to determine really the economic outlook going forward for the next six to 12 months. Quick look at the calendar and what's in store for today. We've already had the German figure come out earlier so industrial output, let me just get you up to speed that came in at 1.6% slightly by the expected 2.7. So German data at the moment kind of treading water but the understanding here is that things are likely to deteriorate in those kind of macro economic figures just going forward and hence the reason why market expectation is very much built in for the ECB to deliver more in a couple of weeks time at their end of year meeting topping up the pet by a 500 billion. Otherwise looking at the calendar what else is there? Obviously the main focal point of the day is going to be non-farm payrolls. Quick look at that then this is the normal trader kind of crib sheet I did share this in the Amphi live chat last night. I always do, I always like to prepare for these major data events but ultimately I think from a more top level what are markets focused on right now and what are markets most sensitive to and what can then dictate the overall general direction in markets today? I don't think it's non-farm payrolls kind of a similar situation to the Fed with payrolls. It's more than likely that the jobs basically is continuing to slow down in terms of job creation albeit there is a headline expectation of 700,000 jobs being created. The range of the low 500 to a high of one million the unemployment rate is expected to come in at 7.7% which is a slight decline on 7.9% previous but I think overall a lack of stimulus obviously is going to be problematic for this figure going forward. As I said the COVID situation is getting worse at this current point in time which will probably likely require some form of restrictions at some point and that's going to also impede the kind of economic recovery that had been in place. So yeah, non-farm payrolls definitely the guys myself will give you the full rundown near the time we'll go through, plan it out, what could happen the key levels of where we're training at that time but overall I don't think beyond then just the moment of its release it's a particularly big deal to be quite honest with you. Otherwise other than that there's not a great deal else. So obviously the election side of things looking out for confirmation on that just still keeping a half an eye on the COVID situation but I'd say still the dominating factor is just the way that markets have been behaving under the scenario of Biden with the split congress and what that means for policy going forward and then the type of equity reaction that we've seen. So I guess today the equity markets going to European Open have found a little bit of a flaw as I said in those technical levels the Euro on that trend line cables up here in the center top chart retesting up and around its highs as the Dixie sits right on quite a key level at the moment which would be a breach of the double bottom that really defined yesterday's price action. So again it wouldn't be too unsurprising to see a bit of a rerun if that dollar does break both pairs with the breaking cable on the high and that trend line in Euro in three yesterday's high we could see a bit of an extension on these moves and then really I guess we've got to wait for the North American entrance for the open on NISI to see if we can punch higher or not in this equity move having already faded it a little bit in the Asia Pacific session because that just give more reason for another push higher I guess we'll see. The final thing I just wanted to say is don't forget to subscribe to the YouTube channel if you're watching this video there. Tim Duggan one of our senior traders he did a really great video the first episode of a series of three that he's doing on trading psychology and he dropped the last one not this weekend on the one before but he's gonna put out episode two on Saturday it's being recorded today so don't forget to subscribe and check that out I'm sure you'll find it interesting otherwise take care, wrap up, keep warm stay out of harm's way and have a great weekend thanks guys