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13th May, 2026
From paper delivery orders to Digital Deeds: what WDSC 2026 confirmed about cask ownership
13th May, 2026
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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.
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.
23rd April, 2026
New generation Scottish distillery tackles cask fraud with Digital Deeds
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.
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