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Since WOWGR abolition, March 2025

The warehousekeeper’s stock account is now the only record of who owns a cask.

Cask Manager turns that record into something every owner, broker and officer can independently verify — an append-only ledger, evidence-first documents, and title that only moves on the warehouse’s acknowledgement.

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authoritative record of ownership — yours

£80m

the cost of running that record in spreadsheets — the Cask 88 collapse

Mar 2025

WOWGR abolished — the stock account became the sole authoritative record

Who it's for

Built for the whole chain of custody

Warehousekeepers, cask owners, brokers and distilleries all work from the same record.

Warehousekeepers

Run the bond’s cask registry, intake, movements and stocktakes from one system of record.

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The platform

Ten areas, one system of record

Everything below reads and writes the same ledger — nothing is a separate spreadsheet bolted on afterwards.

For warehousekeepers

Warehouse operations

The cask registry and physical-custody workflow a bonded warehouse runs on — from intake to stocktake — anchored by a cask identity that cannot be duplicated.

  • Composite cask identity (distillery + fill year + cask number) with an anti-fraud plausibility check
  • Lineage tracked through re-racks, so a re-racked cask keeps its ownership history
  • Intake, movements between stows and warehouses, with hold interlocks
  • Regauges and measurement records capturing method and instrument, including flowmeter fills
  • A to-scale 3D warehouse map, camera/QR scanning and a live work inbox bring the physical bond floor into the same system
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Cask registry

Glenfarron 2015 · #4471

Warehouse A · Row 12
In bond

Aldbrig 2011 · #0892

Warehouse A · Row 3
On hold

Cairnmuir 2018 · #1156

Warehouse B · Row 27
In bond
For warehousekeepers

The warehouse floor

The physical daily-work layer over the same warehouse registry: a to-scale 3D map, camera and wedge-scanner cask lookup, and one live inbox for everything staff need to action today.

  • A to-scale 3D map with orbit and top-down cameras, coloured instantly by age, fill %, LPA, ABV or legal owner
  • Pulsing exception rings for uninvestigated loss outliers and holds, visible in every colour mode
  • Camera and wedge-scanner cask lookup, plus batch-printed A4 label sheets
  • My Day: nine work queues — bond requests, stocktakes, movements, sample draws, fill runs, vattings, DOs, KYC reviews, claims — in one live inbox
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My Day

DO awaiting acknowledgement

Delivery Order DO-2026-0143
Overdue

Stocktake variance review

Warehouse B · annual stocktake
Due today

Aldbrig 2011 · #0892

Stow A/3/12/2/L
On hold
For warehousekeepers and owners

Ownership and Delivery Orders

Ownership as a warehouse-anchored record, not a spreadsheet cell: an append-only ledger and a Delivery Order workflow where title only moves on acknowledgement.

  • Append-only ledger — nothing changes without the warehouse’s acknowledgement
  • One active legal owner per cask, enforced at the database level
  • Delivery Orders: drafted → signed by both parties → transmitted → acknowledged
  • Claims and duplicate-claim warnings surfaced before anyone confirms
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Delivery Order DO-2026-0143

Drafted

By the seller
Done

Signed by both parties

Buyer and seller
Done

Acknowledged

By the warehouse — title moves here
Pending
For warehousekeepers and compliance officers

HMRC compliance

Not just report templates — a duty engine, W1 returns, duty warrants that price and gate every home-use removal, and an EMCS movement lifecycle that runs the full eAD/ARC cycle on screen, with live HMRC filing switched off until sandbox credentials verify it.

  • Duty engine on effective-dated rates — rates move every Budget and are never hardcoded
  • W1 returns generated from live movements and account-takings, Section C cross-referencing the warehouse’s own undischarged eADs
  • Duty warrants: every removal priced at the rate in force the day it left bond, with a removal interlock that refuses completion until cover exists
  • EMCS: submit, dispatch, change destination, cancel and report of receipt, all live on screen — the live HMRC channel stays off until sandbox credentials verify it
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Duty engine — effective-dated rates

Duty rate lookup

Resolved as at the movement date
Effective-dated

W1 return

Generated from live stock
Ready

EMCS movement

Schema-tested · sandbox pending
Built
For cask owners

The owner portal

Owners self-serve their holdings, title status and documents — the questions Cask 88’s administrators spent months answering by email, answered continuously instead.

  • Every cask you own, with drill-down into its full history
  • A downloadable, timestamped ownership statement
  • Service requests for a sample draw, regauge, photo, re-rack or movement
  • Delivery Order tracking for transfers you’re buying or selling
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Your holdings

3 casks

Registered to your account
Up to date

Ownership statement

Timestamped 9 Aug 2026
Download

Service request

Sample draw requested
In progress
For brokers and merchants

Brokerage and sales

The commercial layer nobody else runs end to end: stock lists, offers, the single-cask brokerage pipeline, and bulk sales that hand off cleanly into the Delivery Order flow.

  • Consolidated stock lists across every warehouse a book is approved into
  • Reservations with database-enforced double-sell prevention
  • Cask offers with per-cask agree/reject
  • The single-cask brokerage pipeline: offer list → samples → agreed bottling spec → quotation
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Cask offer list

Glenfarron 2015 · #4471

Offered at quoted price
Agreed

Aldbrig 2011 · #0892

Offered at quoted price
Rejected

Reservation held

Double-sell prevented at the database
Locked
For warehousekeepers

Billing & money

The storage-billing operating console: rate cards, billing runs, invoices and an arrears worklist, plus duty-disbursement recharges and a file bridge into your own accounting package.

  • Rate cards with per-cask-type overrides and an arrears/advance cadence — created ones stay on record, there is no delete
  • Billing runs turn a premises and period into draft invoices, issued in one action
  • Invoices with line items, full or partial payments, a deliberately separate void action, and downloadable real PDFs
  • Keeper-paid duty disbursements auto-raise an owner recharge, and a file bridge exports into Xero, Sage 50 or QuickBooks Online
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Invoices — Warehouse A

Invoice INV-2026-0512

Storage · Q3 2026
Paid

Invoice INV-2026-0498

32 days overdue
Overdue

Duty disbursement recharge

W5 paid on the owner’s behalf
Raised
For distilleries and production staff

Production and sampling

New-make receipt through to a filled cask, and the physical sampling workflow that follows it — both tied into the same warehouse ledger everything else runs on.

  • New-make batches recorded before any cask exists
  • Fill programmes spanning many filling days, and fill runs for one scheduled session
  • Rotation numbers and gauging-at-fill on every cask a fill produces
  • Sample draws tied to stock reduction and duty classification
  • Spirit can now be born in-system from your own distilling runs, not just received by tanker — the same new-make batch either way
  • Blend planning: versioned tolerance-band formulations and an allocation workbench with a hard interlock against double-committing a cask to a sale or another vatting
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Fill run — 12 Aug 2026

Rotation no. 2026-0417

New-make batch NM-2026-014
Recorded

Gauging at fill

198.4 litres of alcohol
Captured

Sample draw

Grading and despatch tracked
Tied to stock
For distilleries

Distilling

Everything upstream of new-make receipt: vessels and versioned recipes, the mash → fermentation → distillation run chain, raw materials, and the efficiency figures that fall out of ordinary capture.

  • Typed vessels with strapping tables, and versioned recipes that pre-fill targets without ever overwriting a measurement
  • The full run chain — mash, fermentation, wash and spirit distillation — with cuts and feints recycling
  • Completing a spirit run’s heart cut creates the same new-make batch a tanker receipt would
  • Raw materials: suppliers, a material catalogue, and lot-level intakes for malt, grain, yeast, botanicals and peat
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Run chain — 12 Aug 2026

Mash run MR-214

Charged to Washback 3
Complete

Spirit run DR-88

Heart cut · 412 LPA
In progress

New-make batch NM-2026-041

source=own_production
Created
For warehousekeepers and bottlers

Bottling & finished goods

A compliant bottling run from notice to despatch: the EWER stepper, outturn into traceable case lots, FIFO sales orders, and third-party bottling under a W8 record or a bottler’s own EMCS approval.

  • EWER reg 14(3)’s 24-hour prior-notice gate enforced server-side, with waiting time shown and an audited admin-only override
  • Two source routes: a completed vatting, or an agreed SCB bottling specification
  • Outturn becomes case lots with stock numbers, duty status and provenance back to every source cask
  • FIFO sales orders — confirm, allocate, despatch, complete — for platform owner accounts or external buyers
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Bottling run BR-2026-014

EWER reg 14(3) · 24h wait

Prior notice recorded
Notice recorded

Case lot CL-2026-0208

Glenfarron 12 · 70cl
84 cases

Sales order SO-2026-0071

FIFO allocated
Despatched
Why it's different

Built for how bonds actually work

Append-only ledger

Every change is evidenced and audit-logged. Nothing is overwritten — only ever added to.

Acknowledgement-based title transfer

Signing a Delivery Order doesn’t move legal ownership. Only the warehouse’s acknowledgement does that — matching how the law actually works.

Evidence-first, not database-first

A scanned letter or an old paper record is first-class evidence, not an afterthought bolted on to a database row.

The vanish-overnight test

If the operator of this software vanished overnight, every owner could still independently prove what they own, where it is, and its full history.

No lock-in, full export

Your record is yours. Export the full ledger and every document, in full, on demand — or reach the same data programmatically through a token-authenticated REST API, enabled per organisation by the platform.

Migration

From spreadsheet to live bond in a week

Step 1
Import

Send your existing spreadsheet or software export. It’s mapped to composite cask identities and the ownership ledger.

Step 2
Verify

Every cask and owner is checked before anything goes live — mismatches are flagged for review, never silently merged.

Step 3
Live

Warehousekeepers, owners and brokers all work from the same record from day one, inside a week of starting.

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