Aye, up for that, nice idea
Before any decision on brand how about a wee collective taster of the options sometime?
Clachaig Inn has a good selection, could meet there for a wee taster sometime (and rooms, bunkhouse nearby, campsite etc etc)
Yes, yesyesyesyesyeysyeys....yes...please. Count me in.
(EDIT) is there any warehousing charges to be added to the initial purchase?
(EDIT2) Wot about bottling charges? Anyway, it's still a bloody good idea. I'm coming up with a figure of about a tenner a bottle (inc customs) without bottling annd warehousing - if applicable.
SS Spirit.
God bless her and all that sail in her.
And don't forget that when you take it out of bond you also have to pay the excise duty, currently £22.64 per litre of pure alcohol = £2716.80 plus VAT on that which brings it up to £3192.24. Of course no matter how you buy your cask that will need paying.
According to the Tullibardine website, Duty and VAT at today's prices are £85 per 12 bottles (70cl). How does that compare with your info?
It's on their link if you don't believe me...
Hey guys, a nice idea but......
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....a 250 litre hogshead will contain around 160 Litres of pure alcohol for £1600. That's £10 per litre of alcohol and you tie up your money for 10 years before its matured to a reasonable level. You may need to add the cost of insurance and storage to that as well. Do not consider this to be in any way a sound investment buying at the prices originally mentioned. You'll get good whisky to enjoy at something like trade prices but that is about it.
The yield from that cask after 10 years will be around 120 litres of pure alcohol with the angels having swallied the balance during maturation. The strength at that point will be in the high 50's% so at cask strength will yield ~ 300 x 70cl bottles (based on 58%). These are all estimates as every cask is different but as it is what I do for a living believe me when I say that they are pretty reliable ones. The distilleries quote bottle yields at normal mass market strengths of 43%, chill filtered
Current trade prices for matured spirit are between £1 and £2.50 per litre of pure alcohol x the number of years its been matured. So a good malt, maybe not the most sought after Islays or Macallan, at £2 per litre of alcohol you could buy a 5 year old cask for the price you're talking about and only need to mature it for another 5 years.
Alternatively form a bigger syndicate and buy casks ready to bottle. I can supply lists with hundreds of casks ffrom most distilleries aged between 0 (new fills) and 30+ years old. We also have bottling losses that are among the lowest in in the industry.
Regards Packer, (specialist single cask whisky bottler and packer)
P.S. I'm off to Stockholm this month to talk to a couple of thousand whisky mad Swedes/Noresemen/Fins about this very subject. Which reminds me, I better learn a bit about it
I only read the first post
PM me an e-mail address and I'll mail you lists tomorrow. In my own stock stock I have Laphroaig, Arran, Tamdhu, Macallan, Aultmore, Speyside (Distlillery not region), Tobermory, Tullibardine.
I also have broker lists and lists of surplus casks from trade customers. I'll leave the prices on these lists as I'm not looking to profit from this. You can deal directly with the broker if you prefer although I'd need to ask permission of the customer prior to putting you in touch with them.
Just one more needed, count me in Ronno
as I'm knocking on a bit you know 
Subject to the managements consent [she's in bed with the FLU] count us in
would prefer it to be 5 years or so
The Cask is a sell oot
