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Front-end loaders at the plant feed biomass, like wood chips from nearby sawmills and rice hulls from rice production processing, into a series of machines, which direct the tiny biomass bits through a machine called a hammer mill, to reduce them down to a uniform particle size; through a rotary dryer about the length of a tractor trailer; and then into a briquettor to crush them into dense bricks.

Mike Lindell is what you might get if you took the political personalities of Donald Trump and Mike Pence, shred them down in a hammer mill, mixed the aggregate together, stuffed it in a linen case and sold the product between segments on Fox News.

“Ours was crushed by Shagbark Mill in Athens, although we have our own hammer mill on order to crush our own.”

It comes to the distillery in 2,000-pound bags, to be fed into the ominous-sounding hammer mill and ground in preparation for its alchemical wedding to the corn.

And outside the grainery, there’s a 75-year-old Montgomery Ward antique hammer mill.