MacAllan

Yamazaki

Balvenie

Ardberg

GlennAllachie

Taxes

Storage fees

Regions and scarcity vs profit and sales price of rare regions

Ingredients

Brewing method copper of others

Individual bottlers

Trends

Most popular flavours

Customised flavours

Barrel wood

Smoke and peat

Barrel prices

Which distilleries are too large and saving too much whisky for 12 years from now?

Past sales and profits for investors

Historical price chards for all target whiskeys

How is Japanese whisky made and stored?

IS a distillery company going out of business, discontinuing or changing their name? this will mean
rarity

Different casks

Wood types

Recasking, cost and benefit

How climate, altitude, country can affect maturation and flavor

Cask size;

ASB: 190 to 200 litres. Most common. Generally American White Oak

American Standard Barrel. Bourban can only aged in America once in the barrel then the barrel is
sold cheaply to Scotland.

Hogshead: 225 to 250 litres. Second most common

Better for long term barrelling to mature for a long time.

Butt; 475 to 500. Common in Sherry industry. Generally made from Spanish oak but sometimes
American White Oak

Tun

Barrique

Gorda

Drum

British Barrel

Pipe

Tierce

Rundlet or Rundiet?

Puncheon/ Tertian

Quarter Cask

Firkin

All whiskey needs 3 years minimum

Single Cask means its come from only 1 cask instead of blended with all the other casks so it can
increase its value with single cask

Cask Ownership vs. Beneficial Title vs.

Bailment
Complete an external auditor to ensure you truly own the cask. Complete it over the next few years
to insure ownership is always clear.

Hearing Beneficial title or Bailment can ring alarm bells. If you can’t audit then at least contact the
Store manager with the barrel info in order to confirm you really own the barrel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-2p15y9PKg for legal terms.