How Do You Bottle Your Whisky?
Many of the private owners in the business of whisky productions popularly called whisky distillers are always looking for a medium where they can read about the critical analysis of how whisky is being bottled for immediate supply to the consumers. However, this write-up aims at answering most of the teething questions that some private distillers might have on how best to bottler there products. Some useful advices are explained below:
It is always advisable for whisky distillers to always do the bottling based on the capacity of the distillery, this is the best way to minimise the quantities of bottles needed and there will be enough spaces for storing the finished product. Materials that are needed for simple malt production includes, a long clean round bottle, stopper cork, pure tin caps and outer covers or cartons. But a private distiller are advised not to involve all the items listed for a large producer, can always do with only black and white labels, then you can add all the details including the name of distillery and the other essential information that is required to prove the real authenticity in the finished product.
You might as well be thinking of printing your label, but you will need to know that labels that are printed by using colored printer is likely to get stained as a result if spillages from whisky bottle, but it is ideal for label production on short run. An ideal hogshead container will produce about 280 bottles of whisky at alcoholic strength of 60%, so in order to produce about 40% of a container contents; it means an addition of 120lts of water and around 171 bottles to accommodate the bulk volume.
Moreover, the whisky will also need to undergo filtration processes so that its final appearance will come out clear because as the alcoholic strength increases so it the ability of the whisky to get cloudy. Cold filtration also has another side effect on the whisky flavour, so it is always being avoided by retailers of blended malt scotch because bottling it under very high strength is still perfectly normal.
Furthermore, we also have options for reducing the production and idea is to form groups of whiskey distillers popularly called syndicates, this could be form among friends or family, it as way for reducing the cost associated with the refining of whisky but you are going to get less whisky, which should not pose any problem because a container of takes five years to finish at the rate one bottle in a week. So groups of whisky distillers can always be treated as an individual so the all excise duties and storage fee are automatically waived.
An expense that is involved in the whole whisky distilling processes appears in the form of Value added tax which must also be paid compulsorily on duty. So you have the options of storing your whisky in any bonded warehouse provided you have anyone within our locality, because they are always ready assist private whisky distillers. So, you can stock up the whisky under bonded and pay your VAT and excise duty anytime you are removing your good from the warehouse, however, a penny per week is being charged for storage under bond but you must confirm from your selected warehouse before storage.
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