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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.
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.
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