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28th May, 2026
Distillery Management Software: The Grain-to-Glass Buyer's Guide for Modern Distillers
28th May, 2026
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22nd June, 2026
TTB reporting explained
What is TTB reporting?. TTB reporting is one for our US customers and something every US distilled spirits producer knows about and must submit. They’re a set of federal filings which go to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau covering excise tax returns on the spirits you remove, plus monthly operational reports on what you produce, store and process. For a lot of distilleries, TTB reporting mostly means pulling numbers out of three or four spreadsheets at month-end, or from different systems, maybe cross-checking them against handwritten records, and then a wing and a prayer that the totals agree before the deadline. It works, up until the point a figure is keyed in wrong somewhere along the line.
12th June, 2026
Financial reporting for spirits producers and warehousekeepers
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
From paper delivery orders to Digital Deeds: what WDSC 2026 confirmed about cask ownership
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”
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