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Engineer outlines off‑grid distillery plan with large water tank, anaerobic digester and phased storage buildings
Summary
Applicant described a craft distillery at 65 Lexington Road that will emphasize off‑grid systems, including a 216,000‑gallon tank, a cooling retention basin and an anaerobic digester for spent grain; initial work focuses on the distillery building while storage/warehouses are later phases.
Tyler Dixon, representing the applicant’s design team, presented a conceptual plan for a craft distillery project at 65 Lexington Road. Dixon said the owner’s vision is to rely as little as possible on grid water and electric service and that the team has identified a well producing what Dixon estimated as “about 35 gallons a minute” during recent testing.
Dixon described multiple water‑systems features: a cooling water retention basin used in a closed loop for process cooling, a separate fire‑water tank rather than combined storage, and a proposed 216,000‑gallon storage tank roughly 30–35 feet tall that will sit near an existing tree line for screening. He also said some parts of the distillery will be sprinkled for fire protection and that future phases include larger brick storage/warehouse buildings for distilled‑spirits inventory.
On environmental and waste‑management systems, Dixon said the project plans an anaerobic digester for spent grains to generate methane for heat and biochar as a residual product. He noted that the health department performed a septic evaluation and that soils appeared favorable in a recent site visit.
Commissioners and staff asked for more detail on tank siting, filtration/treatment and the location of evaporation/discharge points for the cooling pond. The transcript shows the applicant and staff agreed to revisit filtration and treatment design during engineering review.
