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28th May, 2026
28th May, 2026
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12th June, 2026
The importance of getting the data right at source. Ask any spirits finance team how they spend their month and the answer usually involves pulling data out of systems that don’t talk to each other. Production records sit in one place. Inventory in another. Duty in a spreadsheet. And often, the figures aren’t kept up to date until the week a return is due. When producing and maturing spirits, the stakes are higher than elsewhere. The data accounted for and reported this year has to be accurate not only for today's return, it sets the baseline for every report after it. If one single figure is entered incorrectly, that error stays with a cask for its lifetime, reconciled wrong, month after month, year after year.

13th May, 2026
A paper delivery order can be replicated a thousand times. A Digital Deed can not. When a cask filled in 2005 has, in many cases, changed hands more often than the people now holding it can prove, there’s a tension. That tension, between an industry built on paper and an industry now operating at the scale of one million privately owned casks in Scotland alone, was the conversation at Worldwide Distilled Spirits Conference 2026 last week. The 2026 theme, Excellence in Science and Innovation: Delivering Tomorrow's Spirits , pulled distillers, scientists, warehousekeepers and regulators into the Edinburgh ICC for four days of talks on the operational reality we’re facing today. We were there as exhibitors, sponsors, and invited to speak on stage on our topic, “From Paper to Blockchain: Rethinking Cask Ownership in the Spirits Industry”

23rd April, 2026
A conversation with Jackton Distillery. The young Scottish distillery behind Raer Whisky, scaling craft with digital traceability. In South Lanarkshire, just outside Glasgow, one young Scottish distillery is part of a new generation turning to technology to meet the challenges of cask fraud in whisky today. Jackton Distillery, home to the award-winning Raer Scotch Whisky, is a family-owned, independently-run distillery that’s been in production since 2020. It is building towards a genuine farm-to-glass model, growing its own barley, running 164-hour fermentations and earning awards for its RAER Whisky range as a result.




