damn! I hope you weren't at all serious. get something used on ebay if you don't want to build something.
Slightly, more of a daydream to have a real "lab" at home, but there are a lot of other things higher up on the list. It's because of this snippet here:
Whisky fermentation is quite similar to beer fermentation, but there are couple of important differences; the wort is not boiled, the distiller's yeast is usually propagated aerobically and the fermentations are usually not aeriated or temperature controlled (except the starting temperature).
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The amount of higher alcohols depends on the yeast growth; basically the more the yeast grows, the more higher alcohols are formed. Therefore aeriation of the wort, high nitrogen, and high temperature promote fusel alcohol production.
The pros seem to get "cream" yeast shipped in fresh, so they don't have to worry about propagation and can easily overpitch. Seems like if you want to do that a home you need to make huge starters, so I started looking at stir plates that could handle more than a gallon and found brands like the ones above.