Case studies
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12th June, 2026
Financial reporting for spirits producers and warehousekeepers
12th June, 2026
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15th July, 2026
Digital foundations for Scotland’s newest whisky warehousing facility
No paper, no doubt: Scotland’s newest whisky warehousing facility shuns paper records from day one . Just outside Edinburgh, on a 150-acre former Royal Navy yard near the Forth Bridge in Dalmeny, a different kind of whisky business is taking shape. Royal Elizabeth Bond is an independent cask storage facility, holding casks on behalf of distillers, brokers and private cask owners from across the UK and Ireland. The site already has nine large warehouses in operation, and with planning consent for a further 800,000 square feet of new-build storage, it is set to become one of Scotland’s largest independent cask storage facilities with eventual capacity for around 1.1 million casks. But scale isn’t the only thing that sets Royal Elizabeth Bond apart. Where most warehouses inherit decades of paper delivery orders and spreadsheets, Royal Elizabeth Bond started with a blank sheet and used it to do things differently from the very first cask. The team chose to build on digital foundations from day one, giving every cask a Digital Deed via a QR code that captures its history and whereabouts and stays with it for life.
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.
28th May, 2026
Distillery Management Software: The Grain-to-Glass Buyer's Guide for Modern Distillers
. At most distilleries, if you were to ask how they track a single cask, the honest answer would still be either three or four spreadsheets, an inherited system and usually a paper delivery order. This works up until a point. Usually when a regauge was never typed up, an ownership certificate was duplicated and now exists in two places, or a compliance check turns into a week of reconciliation. Distillery management software exists to close that gap. To give one single, all-encompassing view of operations and help you retain control. This guide explains what distillery management software is, why generic inventory tools struggle with spirits, what to look for, and how to choose between spreadsheets, a patchwork of standalone tools, and a single integrated platform.
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