Water is then added back, and the mixture is stored for maturation in naturally permeable, second-hand, oak barrels. The fermentation result - basically beer - is distilled to produce a clear-coloured, sharp distillate which is not suitable for drinking and which contains several hundred complex organic compounds. The germination is halted by heating, and yeast is added to ferment the sugary mixture. Scotch whisky is made from cereals which are allowed to begin germination, a process which releases enzymes that turn grain starch into sugar. * Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. Which whiskies can I buy on WhiskyInvestDirect? Together we profit through tackling this industry's greatest problem - the large working capital requirement of financing maturing stock. At sale, mature whisky bought back by the trade has realised an average annualised return of over 15% - after all costs*. Its safe storage there is evidenced every month by our published audit.Īs it matures, and when you decide to sell, via our trading exchange, you'll receive a transparently competitive price from other users and industry bidders. Accounts range in size from £700 to £3,500,000.Įconomies of scale mean your whisky will be stored - still in the barrel - at exceptionally low cost, in the original distiller's bonded warehouse. Already some 5,000 users own enough to fill over 75,000 casks, that's the equivalent of 36 million bottles of maturing Scotch. Launched in 2015, WhiskyInvestDirect changed that, by allowing private investors to buy quality whiskies at wholesale prices typically at 30% of the cost of cask investment programs. Private investing had become possible but only through purchasing whole casks.
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