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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.
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.
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