White paper on whisky storage

To guarantee better quality, clarity and excellent taste, each cask must be treated with the utmost care and, although palletisation has been a popular method of storage in the past, Link 51 believes bespoke racking provides many benefits, including improved accessibility for testing, enabling distillers to take better care of casks.

Link 51 also reveals that another benefit to bespoke racking solutions is the reduction in the Angels’ Share; the percentage of whisky lost over the 12 year maturation process through evaporation.

Each year, the Angels’ Share loss amounts to an average of 2% (5L per cask), which can be higher in warmer countries, losing around 40,000L per year for a racking system holding 8000 Hogs Heads.

Robert Scott, Link 51’s territory sales executive Scotland, commented: "Our experience working with the whisky industry has revealed that while pallets are popular, more customers are requesting bespoke solutions, as they can adapt to evolving market conditions and changing standards of compliance.

The whitepaper can be downloaded at: http://www.link51.com/sectors/food-and-drink/maturation-storage-solutions.